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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
It was written for women of color; the author felt that the women's movement should have focused more on financial freedom. She felt the term "entrepreneur" wasn't far-reaching enough for women, and "self-made" better captured the continuous process of self-improvement and financial independence.
I wrote self-made for women of color because I felt like, you know, I was looking at how we were all raised and at least, you know, sort of in the white woman world, the women's movement had happened...
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It was written for women of color; the author felt that the women's movement should have focused more on financial freedom. She felt the term "entrepreneur" wasn't far-reaching enough for women, and "self-made" better captured the continuous process of self-improvement and financial independence.
I wrote self-made for women of color because I felt like, you know, I was looking at how we were all raised and at least, you know, sort of in the white woman world, the women's movement had happened and there was the beginning of a conversation about money.
if I had to do it all over again, I realized like the women's movement should have talked about money because without money, without personal financial freedom, you're not liberated and you're certainly not empowered.
So to me, I felt like the word entrepreneur, I talked to a lot of women. It felt like very kind of not far reaching for women, right? And I realized self-made had a different connotation, right?
It's not just an entrepreneurial connotation, but it's this idea that to make it to the end of your life, you're going to have to DIY yourself from the inside out over and over again.
Self-made is your lifetime journey that includes, and at the top of that list is your finances, right? And your health.