"I was sitting in my fishing boat with my pole in the water and I had no bait on my hook."
Following up with Lynette Reed from February 2022.
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My February 2022 interview with Lynette Reed is one of my favourites. Not just because she’s so inspiring. Or because she’s been both bankrupt and a millionaire. Or because she’s the only interviewee (so far) to say the words “I love money”. But because of this:
I hope to transition from working to art full time by the end of 2023. I only need about $150k year from art if I continue to live in Italy to have all I need.
Read the original interview here:
Whenever I would check on old interviews to see if it was time for an update, I would wonder if Lynette had hit her target.
When eventually I emailed her to ask, she said she was super busy and I said there was no rush and after a couple of months she said it would be quicker if she could record it and I said fine and then one day last week I was sitting by the beach, waiting for my 15yo and listening to a podcast, and Lynette’s email, with audio, popped into my inbox.
I already had my headphones in, so I hit play…