Redefining Rich, Shannon Hayes
Redefining Rich, Shannon Hayes
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Redefining Rich
Achieving True Wealth with Small Business, Side Hustles, and Smart Living

Author: Shannon Hayes

Narrator: Stacey Glemboski

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/10/2021


Synopsis

In our dysfunctional economy, “success” often comes at great personal cost … we’re tired, we’re stressed out, and we have no time for family and friends. It’s time to redefine “rich.”From a third-generation farmer and successful entrepreneur, Redefining Rich is an entrepreneur’s guide to balancing work and family with the pleasures of the good life, with simple exercises and important lessons to serve everyone from the new sole proprietor to a seasoned CEO.Shannon Hayes was in the final months of her PhD program, recently engaged, and beginning to plan her future. Having grown up on a northern Appalachian sheep farm, she had two advantages: a hard-won education and hillbilly pragmatism. But when it came time to enter the job market, Hayes made a tough discovery: the economy just doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for women, for free thinkers, for the working class, or for white-collar professionals. It doesn’t work in rural America, much less in the cities and the suburbs. It forces us to choose between career and family, profit and creativity.So, Hayes and her husband walked away from their career paths and chose to forge a life on her family’s frost-plagued mountain farm, starting up a small café in town. Together, they found their sweet spot: a place where the Appalachian farm culture and sensibilities she and her community have lived by helped them thrive, even in a tough economic environment. Against the odds, the Hayes family built a business that lets them live abundantly, spend time with family, and enjoy the gifts of nature. And the business even helped reinvigorate their chronically economically depressed town.

About Shannon Hayes

Shannon Hayes is the chef and CFO of Sap Bush Hollow Farm, LLC. She and three generations of her family raise grass-fed and pastured meats, operate Sap Bush Café (a farm-to-table and neighbor-to-neighbor experience in the Catskill mountains), as well as vacation rentals, long-term rentals, and an online general store. Hayes is the author of several books, including The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, Long Way on a Little, and Radical Homemakers. She is the host of The Hearth of Sap Bush Hollow podcast, which chronicles and lessons from a life tied to family, community, and the land. Hayes holds a PhD in sustainable agriculture and community development from Cornell University and makes it a life goal to spend a few hours in the woods each day doing nothing except pondering the mysteries of the universe. Hayes lives and works in West Fulton, NY, in the Northern Catskills, where she grew up.

About Stacey Glemboski

Stacey Glemboski is a talented audiobook narrator, tennis player, and copywriter. Previously an English teacher, she currently works out of her home studio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on January 22, 2022

Really happy I read this when I did, and I’ll definitely be rereading it! I’m sort of allergic to business advice literature but this is a horse of a different colour. It was emotional and liberating to hear someone in the farming/cafe/hospitality universe say that overwork is performative and short......more

Goodreads review by Karel on June 11, 2022

An inspirational, practical manual for entrepreneurs looking to start a local business in the sustainable economy. Could help many find courage to start, and start now, so deserves an audience. Chapter 4 on "Income" is especially suscinct with baseline financial wisdom for everyone, an update and up......more

Goodreads review by Mwalkes on July 06, 2023

Shannon Hayes' first book, "Radical Homemaker" was memorable. It had surprised me that this author, who had a PhD, questioned whether she would even encourage a university experience for her children. My hope in purchasing this book was that she would expound on those thoughts that would now be in l......more


Quotes

“Redefining Rich offers a new, more holistic view of income and security…Shannon Hayes has learned the hard way how to build a successful and abundant life by accessing wealth with a different lens.” Diana Rodgers, coauthor of Sacred Cow