In today’s episode, I chat with Jessica from The Fioneers, an award-winning blog that focuses on building financial freedom and designing a life you truly love.
Jessica is a full-time human being and a part-time writer and lifestyle design coach. We talk about how she recovered from burnout and how she had a transformative time with her relationship with money.
Learn how she manages her mental health today and uses money to design a new life.
“At that moment, I started to view money a lot differently as something that could improve my life today.” – Jessica
“No job is worth your mental health at all because if you don’t have mental health you don’t have anything else.” – Melanie
“One thing that was helpful for me was realizing that anxiety is actually a sub-emotion of fear.” – Jessica
“When I reached coast FI, instead of making decisions to constantly optimize for finances, I was then able to start optimizing for my quality of life.” – Jessica
“You deserve to actually feel better.” – Jessica
“You don’t need to stay in the difficult place that you’re in just because others might have it worse. We all deserve to thrive and a rising tide lifts all the boats.” – Jessica
What You Will Learn From This Episode
- Experiencing burnout from work and the steps that you can take to get sick leave, get paid, and deal with your mental health
- How dialectical behavioral therapy helps Jessica
- How self-care by subtraction, burnout recovery activities, and self-discovery work
- Getting back up again and starting entrepreneurship that supplements her mental health
- Ways to build financial freedom now to help you enjoy life and improve mental health before reaching FI (what is coast FI)
- What Jessica is doing now to help with her money and mental health
- Tips if you’re at a crisis point with your work and mental health
About Jessica:
Jessica is a full-time human being and a part-time writer and lifestyle design coach. She is a co-founder of the blog, The Fioneers, a globally recognized and award-winning resource focused on building financial freedom and designing a life you truly love. In her free time, you can find her spending time outdoors with her husband and dog, road tripping in her camper van, and playing complex board games.
Resources
- Paying Off Debt, Reaching FI, and Dealing with Online Hate: An Interview with Jillian Johnsrud
- Burnout Recovery: 6 Strategies I Found Super Helpful by Jessica
- You are Not Your Job: How to Reclaim your Identity by Jessica
- How to Set Boundaries at Work by Jessica
Connect with Jessica
Connect with Melanie
- mentalhealthandwealth.com
- melanielockert.com
- Support the podcast through Ko-Fi
- Buy Melanie’s book “Dear Debt”
- Contact: mentalhealthandwealthshow@gmail.com
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