22/08/2026
No, I do not need diamonds, but I do want 6–8 weeks of paid vacation a year. Thank you 😂
Money is useful, but knowing what you actually want it for feels much more interesting to me than endlessly chasing MORE because that is what we have been taught success looks like.
I want enough money to support the life I actually want to live, care for myself and the people around me, and contribute to the kind of world I want to be part of.
For me, a rich life looks like:
🌿 Time to actually be present in my life, with the people I love and enough spaciousness that work does not consume everything else.
🌿 A care team around me, including therapy, acupuncture, health insurance, the gym and yoga.
🌿 Access to the outdoors, good gear, and the freedom to go surfing when the waves are good.
🌿 Quality food ingredients, because delicious, nourishing food matters to me. 😊
🌿 Enough capacity to participate in community, support people I care about, contribute to causes I believe in, and have some energy left after earning a living.
And the version of a rich world I want is bigger than my own life.
I want people to have homes. I want rest, healthcare, good food, time, nature, creativity and community to be ordinary parts of being human, rather than luxuries reserved for people who can afford them.
Money matters, and material security matters, but I am much more interested in asking: enough for what?
What do I want my money, work and time to make possible?
These are not the answers. They are my answers, and they will probably keep evolving.
But getting specific enough that “a rich life” stops being a vague idea and starts becoming something you can actually make decisions around feels pretty fu***ng useful.
💭 So, what does a rich life look like to you?
This is one of the questions we’ll spend time with inside ROOTED, because it is very hard to build a life around what matters to you if you have never had the space to work out what that actually looks like. 🌿