Tanja Hester | she/her

Main: 👉 @our_nextlife 👈 | Author: Work Optional (2019), Wallet Activism (2021) | Early retired Dem consultant & journo | hEDS/POTS/PI ♿️ | dual 🇩🇪🇺🇸

[Tanja Hester | she/her @TanjaHester]

Today @nytimes ran the words, “If the FIRE women have a matriarch, it’s Tanja Hester, 39, who retired from her job as a political consultant at 38. She wrote a book about her experience, ‘Work Optional,’” and I am officially deceased. https://t.co/l6DccyaO0x by @CharlotteCowles

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Writing a blog with open comments for many years, writing for Marketwatch, and writing two books are apparently really good ways to grow a thicker skin.

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I had a post blow up over the weekend, and I’m pleased to report that I’m tougher than I used to be. 😂

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On this 3rd of September, here's a hifi version of The Temptations' incredible Papa Was a Rolling Stone on @tidal.

https://t.co/lKE9roy8aq

It's a great day to practice a little wallet activism and reconsider how you stream your music and what that means for artist $. 🧵...

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Maybe while people are trapped at Burning Man is a good time to share some of the disturbingly capitalist hellscape stuff I witness each year from the supposedly non-consumption-based event.

Short 🧵 from a Tahoe local/Reno shopper who has seen some things…

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Taylor Swift needs to read Wallet Activism by @our_nextlife

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On the invented “Prime Day,” it’s a great time to review the 4 Qs I offer to make ethical financial decisions in Wallet Activism, especially:

Is it too cheap?

… for the people who made it to have been fairly paid? … for it to be made sustainably?

Let the answer guide you. 💜

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Come chat on 🧵s!

I’m Tanja Hester, author of the atypical personal finance books Work Optional and Wallet Activism... https://t.co/Kp0SkRKmcL

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Tanja believes aligning your work to your values can be more authentic, satisfying, & profitable. @our_nextlife will cover applying a values lens to your biz, compromising (or not), saying "no," creating a compass for decision-making, and more.

https://t.co/sLwojFrypG

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No you’re crying over that Kalush Orchestra/Ukraine opening to the #Eurovision final. 😭🇺🇦

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In addition to being hygiene theater and bad environmentally, turns out many wipes also harm us.

Common disinfectant wipes expose people to dangerous chemicals, research reveals https://t.co/eUDcGRUVDg via @guardian

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I just bought this book and am eager to start reading. (I tried the library, but was 443rd on the hold list, which at least means there is a lot of interest in learning about American poverty, a good and necessary thing.)

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I'm excited to share that I'll be speaking at the inaugural @finconexpo women's event, west coast edition (there's also a great east coast edition), for writers, journalists and content creators. Is the event for you? Learn more at https://t.co/agi09K4wKF

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When Money told me they were naming me one of their 50 people changing finance, I did not expect to be named alongside incredible folks like McKenzie Scott, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Lil Nas X, Bad Bunny and many more. But I'll take it!

https://t.co/JRoykF7cIy

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Glad I got my last Evusheld 💉10 days ago. 😂 (We knew it was mostly worthless but said why not.)

A reminder that COVID is not over, and is actually getting worse in the absence of monoclonal antibodies, for millions of us immunocompromised folks. 😷 https://t.co/NvcFXntvfY

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This snow is all in our yard. But hard to forget just last year when we had a record snowpack in January followed by no snow the rest of the season, and drought continued. Still, I never complain about precipitation in any form. Very happy to be buried.

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Right about this time on this day five years ago, I was wrapping up the final tasks on my final day of employment.

The last five years have not been what I expected, largely thanks to the pandemic, but I am so grateful for all the stars that aligned to make this life possible.

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I know it’s cool to say you won’t miss Twitter, but I will. I already miss it, and hope that it survives this maelstrom. That actually means I miss the people who used to be more active here.

Anyway, I’m still here, and if you are too, say hi.

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Good day to repost this: https://t.co/YYJzUg8bO7

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@aliner If Nabokov had stuck to his one true language, we wouldn’t have Lolita, one of the most poetic novels ever written. 🤷‍♀️

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@AlastMorrison @jnmaurer @BurlHorniachek @aliner Nabokov also wrote in French and possibly German! And was masterful in all of them.