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Tanja Hester is the author of WALLET ACTIVISM: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change and WORK OPTIONAL: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way. After spending most of her career as a consultant to Democratic politics and progressive issue campaigns, and before that as a public radio journalist, Tanja retired early at the age of thirty-eight. She documented the process on her award-winning financial independence/retire early (FIRE) blog, Our Next Life. She’s been an outspoken voice in the personal finance media community to consider systemic barriers and opportunity gaps, rather than simply pushing people with lots of advantages already to accumulate more wealth, part of why the New York Times called her “t ...more

Choosing an Offline Life

The story of how I came to step away from my public presence on the internet (and stop participating in social media entirely), an update on what life looks like now and a few words on what's next. (Maybe it's goodbye? It could be!)
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“The question of whether we wanted all this waste and pollution was never put up for a vote. No one has ever run for office on a platform of disposable clothing. Make no mistake: our votes matter. But changing the way things are won’t happen through our votes alone. How we spend our money matters, too.”
Tanja Hester, Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change

“In every choice we make, there are pros and cons. Our task is to do the best we can knowing that every choice we make is imperfect.”
Tanja Hester, Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change

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“The question of whether we wanted all this waste and pollution was never put up for a vote. No one has ever run for office on a platform of disposable clothing. Make no mistake: our votes matter. But changing the way things are won’t happen through our votes alone. How we spend our money matters, too.”
Tanja Hester, Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change

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