How you can write $1,000 angel checks

Hi Sheconomist Insider 👋 It’s Thamina, Founder of The Sheconomist. This is your bi-weekly dose of celebrating the female economy where I help ambitious, purpose-driven women like yourself flip the script on money, career & wellbeing conventions so you can live life on your own terms.

TLDR:

• 📅 What the ideal work week would look like

• 🎙️ Girlboss launched a new podcast and I’m obsessed

• 💰 I invested in a cool company - this is how and how you can do it too

• 💜 Meet Carrie Sporer, Co-Founder of SWAIR

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🧪 Freedom Formulas

I have a rather unorthodox & utopian wish for how I’d love my ideal work week to look like.

Sorry not sorry but the traditional 9-5, 40-hour work week just isn’t it.

We lose so much of our joy, creativity, health and potential to learn new things by checking our emails and Slack all day.

Here’s my proposal:

(no more Sunday scaries - ever)

1️⃣ Pay it forward Mondays

• send genuine thank you notes to people who have had an impact on your career & life (teachers, mentors, sponsors, managers)

• spoil a loved one with a generous gift

• listen to pitches & write angel checks

• donate to a cause you care about

• mentor a student

👉 studies show that paying it forward significantly boosts our well-being

2️⃣ Creative Tuesdays

• write that book you’ve always been wanting to write

• create social media content

• write & record a podcast episode

• draw, paint, craft something

• just sit down and give yourself a few hours to just “think”, that’s when the creative juices start flowing

👉 Being creative is said to reduce depression and anxiety and boost our immune system

3️⃣ Learning Wednesdays

• finally finish that course you bought 2 years ago

• test out that new AI tool your friend recommended

• splurge on tennis lessons

• enroll in a new language class

• learn how to cook a new recipe

👉 learning a new skill helps improve our memory and prevent cognitive decline

4️⃣ Community Thursdays

• reaching out to people in that membership community you’re a part of to schedule virtual coffee dates

• monthly “Inner Circle” calls

• actually catching up with that new connection you met at an event

• accountability calls

• calling family & friends

👉 fosters a greater sense of belonging and purpose

5️⃣ Reflection Fridays

• journaling

• somatic experiences

• goal tracking

• coaching sessions

• vision boarding

👉 improved decision making and emotional intelligence

Yes, this schedule looks very unrealistic.

And I bet every single parent, especially mothers, are laughing as they’re reading this.

But I think we should all be challenging the status quo of how we’re currently spending our time and energy.

What day & theme would you add? I’d love to hear your thoughts - just DM me.

❣️ Thamina’s Top Picks

🎙️ Girlboss launched a new podcast and you HAVE to tune in - the host is someone I deeply admire who explores the raw, unfiltered tension between ambition and contentment - what it really costs to 'have it all' in work, family, identity, and self.

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👼Applications for Girl Math Capital’s third cohort are officially LIVE - this is how I made my 3rd angel investment and another 2 investments I’m currently considering - make sure to list me as your referrer on the application form

💄 I might have found my new favorite lipstick - now that I’m transitioning to clean makeup brands

✨ This week’s Moodboard

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