Just over a month ago, a fellow artist named Eli Trier invited me to participate in a community project she was calling Naked Money.
Most of us are pretty tight-lipped about money — I think we’re more likely to talk about our sex lives than the reality of our financial lives — and so we’re all walking around in the dark.
We see these images of flashy success all around us, stories of six-figure product launches and four-minute work weeks, but nobody’s really talking about what’s going on behind the curtain.
As Eli wrote in this blog post, “We are doing EVERYONE a disservice (including ourselves) by hiding our money stuff.In particular the secret side of it – the shame and the failures and the months where we aren’t quite able to make ends meet – but also the practical side of it.”
So she decided to stop hiding, and invited a handful of her artist friends to [Read more…]
