Ep 19 of A Day in the Life: Cacao, Ancestors, and the New Meaning of Income Sovereignty

About this episode

Raquel Sands shares her personal journey of evolving work and income sovereignty through various roles and experiences.

Welcome back. And if you’re new here — hi, I’m Raquel Sands. Welcome to A Day in the Life , a series I didn’t plan so much as stumble into. It started about a year ago, or maybe longer, depending on how you count these things, and it evolved the way most true things do: organically, without a content calendar or a launch strategy, just a desire to be honest and share what it actually looks and feels like to pivot in work, in business, in meaning-making, in income. To live out sovereignty — whatever that word holds — across every season. So, here’s where I am now. From Library Shelves to Cacao Blends: The Full Arc I’ve been a professional job-offer-hopper since, officially, 2008 — my first part-time job at a library. Before that, I was helping my dad run his business in middle school, which would put us somewhere around 2005. Unofficial secretary. Since 2008, I’ve been a graphic designer, a writer and editor, a website designer, a dog walker, a yoga teacher, a front desk person at a physical therapy clinic, and a yoga studio manager. I’ve worked for nonprofits, for-profits, and for the government. Most recently, for the past few years, I’ve been primarily a contractor. A…

People in this episode

Host: Raquel Sands

Topics covered

• cacao
• income sovereignty
• personal journey
• work pivot
• business evolution

Keywords

• cacao
• income sovereignty
• work pivot
• business
• personal journey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Library, nonprofits, for-profits, government, Cacao

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