Worthy Wednesdays: Wealth

Issue #33 - Wealth Is What You Carry, Not Just What You Count. Some inherit capital. Others inherit clarity, community, and the capacity to dream. Let’s widen the frame.

💡 What if wealth is what you’re able to carry, hold, and imagine—not just what you accumulate or control?

We've been trained to ask, “How much do I have?”
But real wealth lives in other questions:

– How much time do you have that belongs to no one else?
– How many places can you be fully yourself, unperformed and unedited?
– How many stories live in your lineage that refused to be forgotten?

Maybe wealth isn’t what you’ve earned but maybe it’s what hasn’t been taken.

🔄 Some of the richest people on Earth don’t feel safe enough to rest.

Let that land.

We’ve made wealth synonymous with money and money synonymous with freedom. But that logic fractures fast under pressure.

• What good is a seven-figure balance if your nervous system is bankrupt?
• What good is ownership if you never inherited the belief that you deserve to take up space?
• What if your relationship to time, tenderness, and trust is a more accurate wealth indicator than your net worth?

Wealth isn’t just financial, it’s relational, ancestral, ecological, spiritual, temporal, and somatic. It’s the invisible architecture that makes the visible possible.

When we stop reducing wealth to currency, we start restoring our capacity to actually feel rich, in the ways that matter most.​​​​​​​​

🪞 Ask Yourself:

• What forms of wealth did your family or culture pass down that have never been acknowledged as such?​
  (Was it resourcefulness? Reciprocity? Grief literacy? The ability to read a room before it reads you?)
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• Where have you internalised the belief that you're only “wealthy” if someone else validates it?
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• If your wealth couldn’t be extracted, quantified, or sold, what would it look like?

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🚶‍♀️Step Forward

🛠️ TOOL: The Uncounted Ledger

Draw a two-column list this week.

Column 1: Counted Wealth​
Everything you’ve been taught to measure - money, assets, followers, career milestones.

Column 2: Uncounted Wealth​
Everything you hold that doesn’t show up on a spreadsheet - time freedom, intuition, chosen family, cross-cultural fluency, adaptability, joy, rage-as-compass, ability to pause without panic.

Then ask:
– Which column has built more of your life’s meaning?​
– Which one has made you feel safest in your own skin?

Don’t just reflect. Let it rewire how you define value moving forward.

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🌱 Small Challenge

⚡ This week’s Wealth Move: Reclaim a form of wealth you were taught to downplay.

Maybe it’s your ability to say no.
Maybe it’s your cultural intelligence.
Maybe it’s your creativity that doesn’t “scale.”
Maybe it’s your devotion to care, ritual, or non-linear growth.

Choose one and let it lead this week.

Name it. Use it. Design with it. Refuse to explain it.

This is value reclamation, not for applause, but for integration.

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​WISDOM WHISPERER​
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Why this whisper? Redefining wealth asks more than a mindset shift or new behaviours. It asks for a radical rethinking of what you've been trained to count as valuable - how we think and perceive value.

Foucault reminds us: if we never question our definitions or what we're conditioned to measure, we never truly evolve them.​
We remain bound to the systems that framed those measurements in the first place.

This is your invitation: To not just accumulate differently, but to see differently. To look through the lens of offered beliefs, cultural inheritance, and unseen currencies and then imagine otherwise.