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Winberry
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I’m not great at basic math, I don’t have a background in finance, and numbers shit doesn’t come easy to me. In fact, I was one of those kids who came from a financially illiterate blue collar family that struggled on many levels. They created magic for us despite the anvil of un-payable bills and APRs and hospital tabs above their heads. It wasn’t until I was about to turn thirty—newly married and somehow buying my first home—that I started to take financial literacy into my own hands. I made it a priority, started engaging with what felt foreign to me, and asked the right people a lot of questions. I let go of the idea that money and stability were only meant for people who grew up with both. [continued 👇]
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Winberry
@winberry
I made goals and sometimes I failed at them. When I was thirty-five, I didn’t fail at one of those goals: clean out the money-pit that was our childhood home, get it market-ready, sell it, pay off my parents’ reservoir of debt, move them—now in their seventies—cross country, secure them a safe apartment in the town where I live. In other words, give them a new life. 👇
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Winberry
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When I was 38, my husband and I were able to buy a house for my parents—another long-term goal of mine—giving them stable housing where rent couldn’t be raised, eviction was off the table, and they wouldn’t be on the hook for any of the expenses of home ownership. From clean-out to sell to move to rent to buy—it was a lot of work and good people helped along the way. I’ll never forget any of it. 👇
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Winberry
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Why am I sharing all of this? What does it have to do with Babe? Well, I started writing about Babe and this story spilled out instead. Maybe it’s because both are about the same thing—appearances, limiting beliefs, engaging with what feels hard. Because that’s really what Babe is about—engaging with concepts and subject matter that feel hard to me, in public. All so that I can keep learning and failing and learning, and others can glean from the mess of that. All so that more people can feel less intimidated by new/hard things—in this case, web3. 👇
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