A WARRIOR'S DAUGHTER By Zitkála-Šá (1876 – 1938)
The story's main message is that your environment helps to shape your identity. The book is about a woman who takes on a traditionally male role, rescuing her lover instead of playing the maiden-in-distress. The story becomes one of her strength, intelligence, and bravery instead of the prowess of the young man. The story of the young woman rescuing her male lover through strength and bravery appears occasionally in traditional storytelling across other cultures, but it is rare.
This book shares a different perspective than the male, white and middle-class view of the world.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
We’re not in Kansas anymore.
The Wizard of Oz film starts with Dorothy lost and confused at what to do next and goes on an adventure for a solution to find home.
The first step on this Hero’s Journey is often the hardest to take.
We are living busier more complex lives than we have ever done before. Like Dorothy entering a different world after the tornado.
Today things are very different than the world before the financial crisis.
There is a path you can follow to get you home. You will need to have three companions with you on your journey, the scarecrow (land) the Tinman (business) and a Lion (reserves of cash and bonds). The scarecrow needs a brain, the tinman needs a heart and the lion needs courage (explained more in the full book Millennial Money Mindset)