Living Not So Fabulously provides smart and honest financial content for the LGBTQAI+ audience by sharing the voices and stories of queer individuals navigating money and identity in a community with fewer role models and clear playbooks. From chosen family finances to side hustle culture, we spotlight the real-life strategies, setbacks, and successes that define what it means to live well, even when the budget says otherwise. It’s real talk about finance - with personality, purpose, and just the right amount of fabulousness.
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Living Not So Fabulously provides smart and honest financial content for the LGBTQAI+ audience by sharing the voices and stories of queer individuals navigating money and identity in a community with fewer role models and clear playbooks. From chosen family finances to side hustle culture, we spotlight the real-life strategies, setbacks, and successes that define what it means to live well, even when the budget says otherwise. It’s real talk about finance - with personality, purpose, and just the right amount of fabulousness.
Living Not So Fabulously airs every Wednesday at 5pm ET.
LISTEN AGAIN: Tim Gunn on money and how to 'make it work'
Living Not So Fabulously
24 minutes
4 months ago
LISTEN AGAIN: Tim Gunn on money and how to 'make it work'
Though the legendary "Project Runway" mentor Tim Gunn needs little introduction, his story does. Gunn wasn't always the celebrity we know him to be today; he was a career educator for 29 years. Gunn shared with Living Not So Fabulously hosts David & John Auten-Schneider that teaching is more of a calling than a job. He identified as a ‘pauper educator,’ with more of a focus on serving students than his own personal finances. Though that is surely noble, it left him living paycheck to paycheck. “I really did think if I lose my job, what am I going to do? Move in with my sister?” he said.Then came the ground-breaking "Project Runway," where this 'pauper educator' mindset stayed with him. Gunn wasn’t paid for the show's first two seasons; he loved mentoring the designers. Gunn didn’t even realize that wasn’t typical, with his first agent describing saying upon reviewing his TV contracts, “‘These are the worst contracts I have ever seen in my entire professional career. Wow. You just sign these things?’” to which Tim said, “what am I supposed to do? I don't know. I assumed that they're boilerplates, what people sign.”At the end of the day, it wasn’t about the money for Gunn. “It didn't bother me not to be paid.” Learning from his financial faux pas, Gunn recommends to his students that they seek help, as Gunn received from his lawyer, “because there may be someone who says this whole thing is completely out of whack and just unsustainable.” You simply don't know what you don't know. Read Gunn's story in his latest book, "Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work."
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Living Not So Fabulously
Living Not So Fabulously provides smart and honest financial content for the LGBTQAI+ audience by sharing the voices and stories of queer individuals navigating money and identity in a community with fewer role models and clear playbooks. From chosen family finances to side hustle culture, we spotlight the real-life strategies, setbacks, and successes that define what it means to live well, even when the budget says otherwise. It’s real talk about finance - with personality, purpose, and just the right amount of fabulousness.
Living Not So Fabulously airs every Wednesday at 5pm ET.
