Molly Graham

And I mean, the inverse is also true, which is that you can

design a career where you're never going to make money.

I mean, you're an artist on some level, and you've seen a lot of friends, I'm sure, struggle with the relationship between what they feel like they've been put on earth to do and what they can make money doing.

So.

I think like, why do we work?

The first answer is to have enough money to support ourselves and our family and to live a life that we want.

So I always say that the true sort of like version of your craft is like

And for a lot of people, that is the first and primary answer.

The things that you love doing, the things that you're great at, and then the things people will pay you a bunch of money to do.

There is like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right?

That's the happiest Venn diagram in the world.

Like, I got to make sure I have food and, you know, work.

But I think that money is a real factor.

is a huge piece of that for a lot of people.

And until you feel financially taken care of or financially safe, money can often be the sort of big red light that's stopping you from taking risks and things like that.

But I do think that I've just seen a lot of friends sort of blindly follow that motivator, right?

Money.

The trap for me is I've really watched a lot of people and friends let that guide every decision without asking questions, right?

And I mean, the inverse is also true, which is that you can

design a career where you're never going to make money.