Category Archives: Livelihood+Financial Liberation

Three creative ways to make your work more meaningful. This doesn’t necessarily mean you have to quit your job and start a business. (But it might!)

Creating a personal mission statement is the first step toward crafting your own liberation-based livelihood. Here’s how to do it.

Some personal reflections on my long and winding career road… and how it’s helped me to discover work that is truly meaningful. The takeaway: a liberation-based livelihood is one in which your work becomes an expression of your deepest intention.

A little more than a year ago, I launched the Liberated Life Project. At the time, I was inspired by bloggers like Chris Guillebeau and Danielle LaPorte who have a gift for changing people’s lives with their words while at the same time running a sustainable business model in the form of their websites. I’ve […]

This week, I want to tap into the collective wisdom of you, my wonderful readers. One dimension of liberated living that we explore here is how to create work that matters, “right livelihood.” And how to do so in a way that sustains and nourishes us, that doesn’t drain our energy. One of the most […]

The Liberated Life Project is dedicated to helping you develop the inner tools to make outer changes in your life (and on the planet). That’s why you see me going back and forth between posts about the inner dimensions of change and then on to some of its outer manifestations. One of those manifestations is […]

Guest Post by Shana Montesol Johnson I’ve written several posts about creating your own work, but what if liberation for you means finding a better relationship with the job you’ve got? I’m happy to share this guest post by Shana Montesol Johnson on just that subject. This is a very action-oriented post, and I encourage […]

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. —Louisa May Alcott _________________________ For three years, I was the executive director of a small nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had never made “being an executive director” one of my career goals…it just kind of happened upon me […]

This guest post from Aysha Griffin of “Inhabit Your Dreams” helps to debunk one of the myths that can keep us trapped in a job situation that no longer works for us. You might think that starting your own business will take lots of cash. As Aysha points out, this doesn’t have to be the […]