Jen Baxter Creative

Once a month I try to take a Monday off and go somewhere new in Austin... and just be.
📚Quiet time.

So this week I was finishing up 's memoir- I know I'm late to the game on this one, but I'm a big believer books find you at the right time...

🧡 And this one solidified that belief. I'm not going though a painful divorce, but I am processing such a painful family estrangement.

What I loved about this book is how she told her story. The short vignettes so intimate and beautifully written that touched my heart. Without being a "tell all."
🫶It was skilled craft with heart & soul.

Thank you for bringing that into the world Maggie. WOW.

📣 I’m going live again on Substack this Monday with Dana Miranda!

💵 We’re talking about her journey from journalism to publishing You Don’t Need a Budget—and how her newsletter Healthy Rich helped shape it all.

We’ll be talking about how her career evolved from finance journalism to writing You Don’t Need a Budget—a book that began with a viral essay for Anne Helen Petersen’s Substack Culture Study, called “*Budget Culture and the Dave Ramseyfication of Money,” led to both an agent and an editor reaching out to her separately. And she ended up working with both of them to write her book which was released by Little Brown and Company in December 2024.

We’ll get into how her newsletter, Healthy Rich, became a space to explore money through the lens of identity, class, and lived experience—and how that work helped shape both the book and the community she’s built around it.

🎙 LIVE CHAT: Dana Miranda on writing + money

📚 From journalist to author of You Don’t Need a Budget

👀 Replay + transcript for subscribers

🔗 Link to join us in Stories