Vicki Robin: Financial Independence—A Redefinition
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Tami Simon speaks with Vicki Robin, coauthor of the national bestseller Your Money or Your Life. Called the prophet of “consumption downsizers” by the New York Times, Vicki has lectured worldwide on achieving financial independence. Vicki discusses how spending limits relate to freedom, what constitutes genuine fulfillment, and what financial independence really means. Visit www.yourmoneyoryourlife.info. (60 minutes)
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Thank you Vicki and Tami!
Our “land of plenty” is indeed a land of many despairing souls living in fear. That very fact should be our wake-up call to higher consciousness.
Society’s financial trends have gotten all of us into deep trouble. This undermines our collective pursuit of happiness and delivers just the opposite.
It’s time to define financial independence with the internal yardstick to which you refer in this interview. You offer a brilliant vision for us that is deeply spiritual as well.
Thank you so much!
Comment by Jo-Ann Triner — November 17, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
Since discovering your site/podcasts/blog probably less than two weeks ago I have been devouring the information you so generously provide.
I’ve listened to 11 of the podcast interviews so far and feel like I have discovered a buried chest of treasures here! Just this afternoon I found the four free online guides and don’t even know where to start.
I just received your catalog and had to laugh when I read your letter to the listeners on the inside cover in which you quote the Zen saying about seeking the truth “like our hair is on fire” and mention your own feeling about not having time to waste when it comes to learning. Exactly the feeling I am having lately.
Thank you for everything!
Comment by anna maria — November 20, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
How refreshing is to listen to a true religious
person in the complete sense of the word. True change and quality of life resides in each one of us. We must find our own soul and the balance
that best fit the esence of living. Change is vital to be experienced at an individual level, then it would be possible to arrive to universal change and wellbeing. Quality of live is not a label, but a delicate passage of energy from a second to another….thank you for your message.
Comment by Hidalgo Batista — March 7, 2010 @ 1:10 pm