Shannon Hayes - Redefining Rich

Funny, humble and wise, Redefining Rich is the distillation of more than twenty years of hard-won farming wisdom. In this quick and entertaining read, Hayes encourages us to live more simply, think more courageously, and perhaps most important, recognize we can begin right now.

Forrest Pritchard, New York Times bestselling author of Gaining Ground and Start Your Farm

Redefining Rich offers a new, more holistic view of income and security. When you add up how much it costs you to work, is it really worth it, or could you be spending your time contributing to your familys prosperity in a more productive and more meaningful way? Shannon Hayes has learned the hard way how to build a successful and abundant life by accessing wealth with a different lens.

Diana Rodgers, coauthor of Sacred Cow

We live in a world of side hustles, passion projects, and calls to do what you love. But for too many of us, the result isnt wealth, but overworking, burnout, and lives that are ever-harder to hold together. As Redefining Rich argues, we can build lives that focus on what matters, combine diversity and unity, and give us back time. In an era when were all rethinking work, Shannon Hayes can show you how to work smarter and live better.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, founder of Strategy + Rest and author of Shorter and Rest

Redefining Rich is a treasure map to remaking our idea of fulfillment from the purely financial to a principled and ultimately more sane pursuit of quality of life. In that journey, Shannon Hayes is a generous, candid guide. But this slim book is something else: a manifesto about how to save the planet, one small business at a time.

Dan Charnas, author of Everything in Its Place: The Power of Mise-En-Place to Organize Your Life, Work, and Mind

What does it really mean to be rich? Shannon Hayes encourages us to pause on the question, and then to consider a new definition: We can redefine rich to mean a work life that is profitable while also keeping us connected to the people and world we care about. Redefining Rich offers readers a detailed guide for building richer, more rewarding lives.

Yael Schonbrun, PhD, assistant professor at Brown University and cohost of the Psychologists Off the Clock podcast

Radical Homemakers author Shannon Hayes is back with an insightful guide to building a life outside of the mainstream economy. RedefiningRich offers a road map to rejecting consumerism and carving out a more satisfying lifestylethrough thrift, entrepreneurialism, creativity, and conscious living (plus naps!). Hayes is that rare author who manages to be both inspirational and deeply pragmatic. And, as always, shes great company on the page, serving up sparkling prose thats energetic, engaging, humorous and relatable. Required reading for anyone looking for achievable alternatives to the insanity of our current culture.

Tara Henley, author of Lean Out

In Redefining Rich, Shannon Hayes strikes just the right balance between pragmatism, honesty, and inspiration as she offers an actionable roadmap toward creating a livelihoodand equally important, liferooted in an abundance of wealth that transcends mere numbers.

Ben Hewitt, author of The Town That Food Saved and Home Grown

This is exactly the book I needed to read right now. Shannon unfailingly writes about the exact things Ive been turning over in my mind, and in conversations with friends and family. Her writing is not only a hopeful balm about the life-serving economy; she actually provides readers with the tools (and even the math!) to increase their non-monetary wealth. I wish this book was required reading for everyone!

Erica Frenay, owner/operator of Shelterbelt Farm and The Meadow at Shelterbelt LLC

Shannon Hayes shares her personal experience with the harsh realities of what it takes to succeed at a family friendly community serving business in the midst of an extractive economy. And explains how she made it work.

David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth

Shannon Hayes is a master teacher of sustainable living and generative economics. In this timely read, we benefit from the examined life and hard-earned insight of a luminary, savvy farmer, businesswoman, family and community member, as she offers an honest and conscious-raising invitation to reimagine, redefine and redesign sustainable, soulful living. Shannon offers a practical guide to moving from an extractive, non-generative living system, to one that is holistic, dynamic and productive it will inspire each of us to transform our thinking and practices in a way that is healing for self, community and planet.

Vivian Williams-Kurutz, social visionary, founder and E.D. of Harlem Wellness Center, health activist, community organizer, writer, speaker, and yoga/meditation teacher

Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture

Homespun Mom Comes Unraveled: And Other Adventures from the Radical Homemaking Frontier

Long Way on a Little: An Earth Lovers Companion for Enjoying Meat, Pinching Pennies, and Living Deliciously

Free Range Farm Girl: Cooking Grassfed BeefHealthy Recipes from Nose to Tail

The Farmer and the Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat

The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook: Healthy Eating and Good Living with Pasture-Raised Foods

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First E-Book Edition: May 2021

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