April Receipts
plant something
Our monthly Receipts Series is a thoughtful curation of what’s been in our orbit lately — ideas we’re sitting with, conversations that are shaping us, and small moments from our money lives that feel worth naming.
Spring has sprung at Wealthkind! We’re traveling, teaching, and doing all the things we love. We spent the end of April together in Asheville, and most of the month deep in recruitment mode for our May cohort of Financial Foundations — which we're now officially one week into! The money moves have already begun, and as usual, we already love this group of women so much. The deep conversations have just gotten started. It’s so inspiring watching women confront their fears + get intimate with their numbers.
On Our Shelves + On Our Screens
📱On Our Screens: Noah Kahan: Out of Body Documentary
I (Lexi) love Noah Kahan. I love his music, I love his energy, I love the way he braids his hair during his tour. And now, after watching this documentary, I especially love the conversation he’s bringing to life around mental health.
In his documentary, he shares a lot of stories behind his music and some of the life events that have shaped it: his complicated relationship with his dad after a brain injury changed their dynamic when Noah was young, his struggles with OCD and body dysmorphia, what fame actually felt like when it arrived and the pressure he feels since. He shares all of it so openly, so gently, so vulnerably. Yes, I sobbed, and yes, I have not shut up about it, or listened to any other album, since.
A part that I felt especially fascinating was hearing his wife share about the small life they had (and loved), that she didn’t need much more... and then everything got so big, so fast. You can tell they’re so grateful, AND to me, it also seems like they’re craving a smaller life, that they’d like to move back to Vermont. More money, more fame, and the thing he actually really values most is the thing he started with.
Watch it if you love his music. Watch it even if you don’t.
📚 On Our Shelves: Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
My (Delana) mama's book club recently read this book, and it shifted something in how I think about parenting and money. Hunt, Gather, Parent draws on research from indigenous communities around the world to make a case that child-centered parenting (the constant activities, the structured entertainment, the scramble to keep kids stimulated) is a pretty recent Western invention, and not necessarily a better one.
What landed for me was the permission it gives to stop performing parenthood and start just... living it. I don't need to be activity director for my child. I am now inviting her into the texture of daily life — the cooking, the errands, the ordinary rhythm of a household. My daughter feels more capable, more part of the team, and I feel less like I need to fill every hour with something intentional and expensive.
If you've ever felt guilty for not signing your kid up for one more thing, this book is a gentle exhale.
A Gentle Practice
Spring is the season of planting new seeds, and your finances are no different. This month, we’re inviting you to plant one small, intentional seed.
Open a high-yield savings account and set up a small automation into it monthly — could be as low as $10/month to begin. Now name the account after something you want. A summer trip to Japan. A piece of art you’ve had your eye on. A course or retreat that’s calling. Research shows that naming a savings account after a specific goal dramatically increases the likelihood that you’ll follow through — because it shifts the energy from restriction to intention. From discipline to devotion.
You’re not saving because you have to. You’re saving — through automation, and without willpower — because there’s something personal to you worth saving for.
On a Personal Note
From D
Harry and I bought a piece of land in the mountains of Oaxaca back in 2022, right after we got married. About 80% of land in Oaxaca is communal — ejido land, held collectively — so we searched carefully to find a piece of private property, thinking that distinction would give us cleaner legal footing. We worked with a reputable notary. We did it right, and still, there’s grey area. And even beyond the legal grey area, I've been sitting with the bigger question of what it means to own land in a place like Oaxaca as a foreigner.
Now I’m wrestling with whether to sell it. The more I sit with it, the more I notice the warning flags I’ve been trying to talk myself out of. There’s a key contact there who is 88 years old and deeply connected in the local community. We bought the land from him and he would be instrumental in getting building permits through. I feel the pull to move quickly because of that.
That urgency is exactly what’s making me pause.
One of the clearest things I learned from our CDMX renovation is that a tight timeline and a thin buffer are a dangerous combination. I want a big buffer if I’m going to build, especially for a completely off-grid property. Right now, I don’t have the certainty I need to feel good about this investment. Selling won’t be simple either; this isn’t a transaction you hand off to Zillow. So I’m in research mode: talking to a notary, asking hard questions, and trying not to let someone else’s timeline force mine.
From L
I turned 30 this month, and with a new decade here, I felt called to challenge myself. So instead of avoiding my birthday in hopes that someone else plans it, or throwing something together the day before, I planned an intentional gathering and asked some of my very favorite people to show up, to travel, to take a weekend from their busy lives to come celebrate.. and it was better than I could’ve imagined.
I rented an Airbnb in Asheville (near + dear to my heart) and brought together friends from every city I’ve called home over the last decade. The weekend was essentially a mood board of all my favorite things; time in nature with constant bird sounds, natural wine + home-made tiramisu, hot tub hangs + tarot pulls, and a very competitive late-night game of fishbowl that I will not be elaborating on.
I covered the house, a private tasting menu with a local chef, a tea ceremony with an herbal gardener where my closest people wished me blessings for my 30s, all the groceries for the weekend. It was really important to me that nobody felt financially stressed about showing up, I wanted the only ask to be their presence.
I had a travel savings account I’d been underutilizing for two years so instead of reallocating it to investments, I redirected it toward this. A trip that will provide memory dividends for years to come. Die With Zero has really shifted how I think about money and life. Most of us only have all our favorite people in one room twice: our wedding and our funeral. I refuse to fit in that ‘most.’ My dad taught me that tomorrow isn’t promised, so I’ll be bringing my people together any chance I get!
An excerpt from the weekend guide I sent to the group:
If you’re reading this, you are someone I love deeply... I want to create more moments like this one. More reasons to gather, more memories to make, more presence + laughter with the ones I truly love most.
Turning 30 feels like permission. To take up more space, to live the way I actually want to live — not someday, not when things settle, now.
The money systems I’ve built aren’t just for security. They’re for this too.
Sometimes there’s a quiet whisper when spring arrives, that more should be done... more planted, more planned, more decided. But the seeds that take root are rarely the ones thrown in a hurry. They're the ones chosen slowly, named carefully, tended with intention. Whatever you're growing right now, in your finances, your life, your sense of what's next, it's enough to plant one thing at a time.
If you feel called, we truly love hearing from some of you!
→ What would you name your savings account right now and what are you saving toward?
→ Are there any areas in your life where someone else’s timeline is influencing yours?
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love hearing all these updates! very inspiring, you two! happy belated birthday, lexi! 💝
Inspiring and renewing! Happy spring!