PHOTOGRAPHED BY TAYLER SMITH.
I’m a fairly healthy person — I do what I can to feel good, while still enjoying my life. I wake up at the crack of dawn for yoga and eat a fairly balanced diet, but I’ll also snag that last slice of pizza if you don’t get to it first. But one thing I’ve been told over and over again is that I don’t drink enough water.
During my checkups, my doctors would tell me the horrible migraines that left me incapacitated for days might have to do with dehydration. My derm said that my acne would likely improve if I drank more water. And every aesthetician I’ve ever been to would tsk-tsk when I told them how little water I imbibed on a daily basis. …
I graduated from college with $30,000 worth of debt.
Yet within a couple of months, I had paid this debt off and three years later my net worth has risen to $400,000.
Getting here hasn’t meant living under a bridge.
I don’t skip meals and, yes, I change my underwear daily.
I’ve traveled to Italy and Argentina. I’ve been to Portland and Vancouver and Yellowstone and Zion.
But there are things I’ve done differently over these past few years from many of the people I know.
And, through living differently, there are a few things I’ve learned along the…