Episode 95: Susan Taylor Part 2 on Security and Money: Tending a Heart Able to Say "Enough. I&#
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A 3-part series on Simple Living Works! Podcast and The Common Good Podcast with co-hosts Lee Van Ham and Jerry Iversen.
** In episode 111 for mid-April, 2018, of SLW! we featured part 1 of our conversation with Susan Taylor of Just Money Advisors about her book “What About Our Money: A Faith Response” — Wrestling with Systems Where Money Is Boss.
** In early May, TCGP #95 features Susan part 2 on Matters of the Heart.
** In mid-May, SLW! #112 features Susan part 3 on Giving and Investing. PREVIEW NOW
Security and Money.—Just how tightly is your security connected to the amount of money you are making? Or how much money you’ve saved? Are you anxious every day about money? Do you worry that you’ll never be able to retire because you will need more money? Money has great power to surface our fears, anxieties, and insecurity. Did I say “insecurity?” Yes, isn’t it interesting that a major overseer of Wall Street is named the Securities and Exchange Commission, confirming further that money and security are tightly connected? In this episode, Susan Taylor does a great job of getting us to think about where we anchor our security. Clue: It’s not just a matter of your pocketbook. Do listen.
A riff on how I got acquainted with Susan.— I (Lee) met Susan through two common interests: (1) how we relate to money. Deepening our understanding of the role we give to money in our lives is a core work of Faith and Money Network, in D.C. Susan is vice-president of the board. I have gone to many Faith and Money Network events over the years and served on the leadership team of several of them. I urge you to get in contact with them. The director, Mike Little, is a friend and will be glad you contacted him. Tell him how you learned about Faith and Money Network. That, too, will interest him. And (2) our interest in promoting the economic teachings that go with the sabbath and jubilee holy days in the Bible.
