Lesson 2.8: Getting Started on Reducing Spending, with Emma Dotta

Emma Dotta is the youngest person to have ever taken FF1, which means that she was able to pick up financial ideas and habits very early on in her life. In this episode she talks about how she reduced the major slices of a personal budget: housing, transportation, and groceries and in that creativity, lives in nature, surrounded by community, eating the best food in the world. Emma talks about spending in ways that make her happy: choosing high quality items that continue to give her happiness. She talks about right-sizing her farming business, not trying to grow more in order to meet other people's sense of success. This is a great episode for anyone in their 20s trying to find a sense of contentment and enoughness in their own lives. “It is not the one who has too little, but the one who craves more, that is poor.”― Seneca the Younger