Rima Grace

Asking yourself that question, what brings me joy, is a luxury.

I think there's all of these podcasts and YouTube videos saying, follow your passion, follow your dreams.

Without wrapping it up into the reality that for a lot of people, there is no safety net.

You are your family's safety net.

And that's a really difficult place to be.

So for me, I'll be really honest.

I only started to reframe that question of how much is enough once I had the luxury of not, of living above, of being able to, right?

Of living above like a self-sustaining line.

One of my takeaways from Wendy is that when we ask how much is enough, we're often responding to fear and questions about our own worth.

But what happens if you take money out of the equation entirely?

That's after the break.

Welcome back to This is Uncomfortable.

You know, I ended up talking with a lot of people for this episode and how they thought of enough.

And right away, I noticed some patterns.

Like a lot of you all said, it really comes down to feeling like you have options.

Some of you all said enough shows up in the smaller things, like when you're standing in a grocery aisle and don't need to do the math in your head.

Julia says if she does lose her job, she'd move back into her van, a lifestyle she says she doesn't mind.

A lot of you all pointed that out, that the cost of healthcare changes the entire equation.

My name is Amy, and I live beneath my means and save up as much as I can.

But five years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer.