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Discover practical strategies and inspiring stories to achieve resilience through an unconventional life. From money tips to side hustles and mindset shifts, we provide actionable advice to live unconventionally.
Live Unconventionally
Escape Lifestyle Creep: How Tiny Living Can Help You Reach Financial Freedom Sooner
In today's competitive and complex world, many of us feel trapped in a cycle where rising expenses outpace income growth, making slowing down like an impossibility. A significant contributor to this predicament is "lifestyle creep," a phenomenon where increased earnings lead to higher spending on non-essential items, gradually elevating one's standard of living without enhancing overall happiness or financial security.
Breaking Free: Why Alternative Living Is the Escape Route You’ve Been Dreaming Of
Ever feel like you’re stuck on a treadmill, working long hours just to keep up with mounting bills, a mortgage, or skyrocketing rent? If you’ve fantasied about quitting your corporate job and reclaiming your life, you’re not alone. Thousands of people are turning to alternative living as a way to break free from the grind—and spoiler alert: it’s not just about saving money; it’s about living better.
Diversified Resilience for Multi-dimensional risk
So many parts of our lives involve risk: career pivots, taking on debt, growing a family, driving to the grocery store, being online.
Why Alternative Living Requires a New Perspective on Life’s Systems
Sitting still isn’t a skill I have ever cultivated. But in systems thinking, pausing to observe is essential. Why? Because we can’t identify “what’s not working” in our lives unless we step back and see the full picture.
Finding the True Exit from the American Dream Superhighway
Perhaps you, like me, have tried to exit your unsatisfying path before.
How Your DISC Personality Shapes Your Alternative Living Journey
Making the huge shift from the American Dream to tiny or alternative living is shaped by our DISC style profile.
Why Are We Storing So Much? Rethinking Possessions for a Financially Free Future
Why Are We Storing So Much? Rethinking Possessions for a Financially Free Future
Storage units are booming. So much so that comprehensive statistics are readily available for investors and business owners looking to capitalize on America’s growing need for extra space. But have you ever stopped to ask: why are we storing so much?
Gen X Mortality Moments
Mid-life seems the time for grappling with your own mortality. I am guessing it is not just me experiencing more frequent occasions to consider the brevity of our human experience.
🏠Putting the big house on the market
Letting go of a previous dream to pursue a new dream puts us in a spot of reconciling with our own inconsistency.
Can a Median Expectation set you free?
Finding financial confidence to make smart and values-based decisions for your unique life is a gift of freedom.
Downsizing my kitchen as re-framing value
I want to tell the story of a woman who gave away the need to be fully kitchen capable in order to be simplified, debt free and to impact others on the same path.
I would... but I have to stay for the health insurance.
Health insurance keeping you stuck?
Long-term financial security doesn’t have to be so fiercely independent.
A shift from communal to individual financial security
What would you take on if you had more time freedom?
What would you take on if you had more time freedom?
You may have to take a risk but you don’t have to do it alone 🏠
This blog offers personal insights and advice on transitioning to a tiny house lifestyle.
Unconventional Life may also be Messy Life
Perhaps the messiness of living a bit outside of convention allows us to build a deeper trust of both the people and our resources.
Blank Page Opportunities
The page on the book is turning, and a blank page of an unwritten future lies waiting.