The core tenets of my work as a personal money coach: approach each client with unconditional positive regard, andreject the notion that everyone secretly yearns for (and should yearn for) a white, upper-middle class lifestyle. My experience of the Personal Finance world and of Personal Finance “professionals” is that they generally assume that second point — that everyone yearns for the same image of financial independence: a mortgage-free home in a solid upper-middle-class neighborhood, … [Read more...] about The American Dream: the normative personal finance bias
