In this podcast Vicky Robin is interview. She's well known for us who have read "Your Money or Your Life", a great book (she and Joe Dominguez wrote a while ago..). We also get to know that she's working on an update of the book. :)
This is from Episode #34:
27:15 ”The population has been so confused by this fundamentally, this huge experiment and propaganda of like dirtying or minds with ideas that rationally doesn’t make any sense. That, the mind is confused.” – Vicky Robin
48:15 ”Money is simply the life energy, the hours you trade for it.
The transformational core.. So people become natural savers.
“It’s basically an experimental process of buying something and asking yourself is this worth the life energy? It’s a process of being conscious in your relation with the material world and I think that is another transformal step, you take your expenses and you put them into categories, tell yourself the truth about yourself you know yea, drug habit, I don’t know if it’s in the food category but you know a third of my money is going to my drug habit. You discover that, you stop telling yourself lies. Actually concretely thinking about where each of these expenses fits. In a pattern that is your life, it’s not a budget book pattern, it’s patterns derived from your life. And then for each of these steps you ask yourself does core questions, does it make me happy? Is it in service to anything that I think is important. And you know, would I be spending this money this way if I didn’t have to work for a living? That piece is if I could just deliver that piece in all its glory. I think that I trust that the rest works out.” - Author Vicki Robin
51:10 “Build your ark that will float your boat for the rest of your life and that there are basically I call it 4 pillows of wealth. One of which is involves money, but the other 3 I call it an ark because “A” is for your abilities so you take it out of the money economy and a do it yourself economy. There are also skills that you can sell or trade if you B, so basically building those skills whether it be website design or you know. Whatever those skills are you know coaching people on you know on success." - Vicky Robin
52:00 "Investing in those skills that would both make your life happier, less expensive and valuable to others, efficiency, it’s tradable or money. That’s a big part of if. I wanna live with people that can do stuff, who are competent and just don’t flap their arms when anything goes wrong. Try to figure out what person I should call to fix it for me. So your abilities is part of your kit. Part of your financial independence.
And then the “R” is for relationships, and you know loneliness is epidemic. And loneliness is expensive because there’s a range of things that you gonna do that cost you money. You know, your Yoga work shop, your therapy, to you know like your bar tab, hahah.” - Author Vicki Robin
53:00 “It’s like you know, it’s expensive to be lonely. And so I think consciously building and repairing your closest relationships, people who will take care of you over time.” - Author Vicki Robin
53:30 “Community as currency”“Your relationship with the intimate people who will show up for you in times of need , your friends indeed, otherwise you are going to have to use all kinds of insurance to survive because you’re gonna have old age insurance and you’re going to have your sickness care insurance and you know turn to the insurance industry to assure yourself to things that people used to provide for one and other.” – Vicky Robin
54:15 “And then the “K” is the hard C in community. I wished it worked better but it doesn’t so.. The Ark, and community is different from your relationships. Your relationship is the intimate people who show up to you. Community is “what is the social safety net”, “can I grow food”, “is there water”, you know it’s like your place on earth, you know, what grows here, what is the climate like, are there community organizations where people tend to one another. It’s choosing and building and participating in a real place on the planet. I think that’s important. And then as if for your stuff, you know, is it durable? Are you transforming things that are flows, like I gotta upgrade my computer every 2-years . To things that are your stockpile, you know, the things that will last longer than you will. That can be put in the grave with you, like the ancient did with their gold. And so basically that’s a piece, I wanna draw people’s attention to becoming a competent connected human is a piece of your security, and it’s maybe a bigger piece of your security than your final assets, which is your savings.” – Vicky Robin
56:55 “And I’m also redefining financial independence really is having choice in your life about where you put your life energy.” – Vicky Robin
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#34 – Your Money or Your Life – An Interview with Author Vicki Robin
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