Personal Reflections: Lindsay wonders how different her life might've been if she hadn't been introduced to Bitcoin 18 months ago after a unique dating experience.

HODLing and DCA: Lindsay talks about the concept of "hodling."

Women and the Moon: A unique take on Bitcoin for women – drawing parallels between female hormonal cycles and the moon cycles, and how they might influence our perspectives, even on concepts like Bitcoin.

Learning Sources: Lindsay's emphasis on finding credible sources to learn about Bitcoin and her personal experience with cold storage.

The Sun and the Moon: Highlighting the complementary roles and strengths of men and women in the world of finance and Bitcoin.

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Hi everyone.

Welcome to Orange Chatter.

Today you're listening to part three of my conversation with Lindsay.

I think just really understanding this idea of sound money and what it

means for my future has been, has been what's like drawn me into Bitcoin.

So if we play a game and we go back in time to a year ago or a year and a half

ago, and the person who said opposite you on your first date, was not that person,

it was somebody else, and he wasn't buying a house with Bitcoin ... can you go back

to that moment and then think forward and see how differently your life or maybe

just your mentality or your, your mental state would be different over the the last

18 months and then also going forward.

We're just doing pretend here.

Super interesting thought experiment.

Wow.

There's no telling where I would be.

I don't think that I would have found Bitcoin like on my own.

Maybe I would have, but there's no telling when that would've happened.

So even though that relationship didn't, you know, work out romantically, I'm

still so grateful that it introduced me to sound money and put it on my

radar, because I was, when we met, I was just still in a big transition

from travel nursing to, you know, returning to Nashville to put down roots.

I had just gotten out of a relationship, a long-term relationship that didn't

work out, and so I was just kind of recalibrating everything in

my, my whole world of like, okay, I'm, I'm in my mid thirties, I'm

starting over, I'm back in Nashville.

You know what?

Just trying to put the pieces back together and so I really don't know.

I don't know what my life would look like, but I'm, I'm glad

that I don't have to know that.

So it sounds like Bitcoin has changed a lot of things for you.

Looking forward, what will you do differently now that you are

fully convinced that Bitcoin is a thing and Bitcoin is hope?

Yeah, so number one, it's still on my to-do list to consolidate

all of my different, like retirement accounts from all of my different

employers throughout my nursing career.

But, so I, I need to do that.

But I think just putting every dollar that I can into Bitcoin, you know, once I get

all the monthly bills paid and, you know, get things in a little bit better order.

I've heard people at the meetups talk about just buying Bitcoin,

doing dollar cost average.

And like I, I bought some Bitcoin a while back and shortly after that it went down

quite a bit and that was discouraging.

Not gonna lie about that.

And I was like, oh, if I had only waited, you know, a couple weeks to buy.

But Bitcoin has recovered and you know, that feels good, but

the whole time, you know, I'd be talking to other people about my...

you know, it is hard not to feel a little bit discouraged about that.

But the point was that I, I'm a hodler, I'm not in it for like the short term.

And so like this dip that's happening is like inconsequential.

It feels like it is consequential, but it's really not.

So I think just...

it, well, and then like when Bitcoin started coming back up, I was like,

oh, I should have bought more when it was at the, the lowest point.

And so just basically whether, whenever I don't buy Bitcoin, I always regret it.

So I think just continuing to try to stack SATs.

As they say, stay humble stack SATs.

So that's kind of what's next for me.

Just continuing to like put my money where my mouth is, literally.

Yeah, definitely it's, it's if we're a hodler, and for those of you

out there who don't know what that means, it's just sort of a, it's a fun

Bitcoin term, which just means holding.

So you're holding the Bitcoin, you're not trading Bitcoin, you're

buying it to preserve wealth, and not to trade it, to try to gain

the, the, the market price change.

I mean, dollar cost averaging, that's, that's the most, I would say, emotionally

neutral way to go because then you, you don't have to try to catch it when it's

low and try to, you know, benefit from when it's high, you're just looking

really long term, so that's really cool.

Any last recommendations for women who are still sitting on the fence?

Maybe you can reference your love of the moon.

Yes, I do love the moon.

It's a full moon today, actually as we are recording this podcast, so

there is, there's like a, a phrase in the Bitcoin community, like it has

to do with Bitcoin going to the moon.

And basically that just is referring to the price of Bitcoin in dollars,

just going to infinity basically.

And that's, that's kind of when all of us, like hodlers will

be like vindicated or whatever.

My, my thoughts for women who are on the fence, I would just encourage

you to, to listen to someone that's smarter than you are about it.

And there's so many people out there that are so generous with their

knowledge and, you know, I don't know if this approach is for everyone, but

I think there's something to be said for having like a childlike faith.

You know, I, I trusted what I was learning about Bitcoin because I had

already, you know, vetted this person I was talking to and I trusted their,

their intelligence and knowledge.

And so it was, that's kind of what made it easier for me to,

to open my mind to Bitcoin.

That was just my experience, and that's, that's not, that's not how I've learned,

you know, everything that I know.

It hasn't been from that type of process.

But that's how it was for me in Bitcoin is just that, okay, I'm hearing these

people who I can tell are smarter than me talk about why Bitcoin makes sense

and why it solves X, Y, Z problem and why it is really, especially what it

means for people in developing countries.

Like it was, it was easier for me to, to accept like what I was learning

about Bitcoin because I, I could just tell that what the information

that I was hearing was like credible.

So find some credible sources, I guess, to learn about Bitcoin and just

have the conversations, buy some and then put it in cold storage, which

is something that I recently did.

So...

yeah.

And, and even just that experience made it more tangible, actually,

you know, transacting with it.

Even just bringing it into conversations.

Like, I had a guy come to my house to do some pressure washing for

me, and at the end I'm like, you know, okay, I'm, how can I pay you?

And he was like, like we were talking about like Venmo or something, and

it was like, I was like, well, or I can, I can pay you in Bitcoin.

And this guy was, he was really surprised.

I don't think he expected that to come out of my mouth.

But we had a little conversation about, about cryptocurrency that day.

But yeah, just I would say just spend some time.

Learning about it.

It's not too late.

It might feel like it's too late, but I really, I really think it's a, a

worthwhile investment of your time to learn about it, to learn about, you

know, why the dollar is maybe not what you think it is, and see what happens.

What was that thing you were talking about?

The hormonal cycles?

I would like to go down that rabbit hole a little bit.

Yes.

Well, I guess just briefly, I'll just say, yeah, the, the female hormone cycle

is really closely mirrors the moon cycle.

We've got, you know, four distinct phases.

And they all, they all cause us to express ourselves differently

and to process things differently.

And there's, there's a rhythm to it all.

And yeah, I'm really passionate about like women's health and just being our

freest feminine selves that we can be.

So to follow that train of thought, are you saying that how I

feel maybe as a precoiner, like I don't know anything about Bitcoin, how I

feel about Bitcoin might change during different times of the month, just as

any other new concepts might seem to me?

I think that's definitely possible.

Yeah, I think, I think that's possible.

Like, I can only speak for my own experience, but I, I just have

different perspectives on things in my life at different points

in my cycle, being honest here.

You know, it's generally better to either make or not make certain decisions at

different points throughout the month.

So, yeah, I think definitely taking a stab at learning about Bitcoin in, in all

four phases of your cycle could, could help you have a more well-rounded journey.

I love that because I know some days like same, same subject,

I will feel really hopeful and then I'll feel like I hate it and I am

like, why am I bothering with it?

And then maybe it's not so bad.

Like for sure I can feel myself, like the conversation in my head

being different during different times of the cycle, as you said.

I mean that, and that's our biology.

And I think that we do ourselves a favor when we kind of surrender to

that biology and stop like fighting it.

I know my life got a lot better when I started paying attention and you know,

really like caring for my future self by either scheduling or not scheduling

certain activities or workouts or meetings, like depending on where I

would be in my cycle for those occasions.

See, our conversation can go anywhere.

And it's, and it's okay!

We have to be women.

Women have to be women.

We, we have, we have a unique experience in the world.

I think that we were created to just process information differently and

I, I think that that's a strength and I, I think we need men too.

I think they have, you know, their perspective on economics.

I think someone that you interviewed recently was kind of talking

about how traditionally men were more financially literate.

And, um, that's, that's still the case in our society, like the

finance industry, banking, even the Bitcoin meetups is predominantly men.

And so I think we can learn a lot from them, and I think they

can learn things from us, too.

That is so true.

I think we need both.

And one isn't better than the other.

We're just different and we compliment.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Sun and moon.

I love it.

The sun and the moon.

There you go.

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