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Journey To Launch

029- How To Become A Money Nerd With Whitney Hansen

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Finances, Business, Realestateinvesting, Entrepreneurship, Earlyretirement, Investing, Budgeting, Wealth

5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Paying off debt is essential to getting back on track with your finances. Not only will you remove a large expense every month, but the mental freedom is priceless. That’s exactly what Whitney did by working two jobs and sticking to a tight budget. By being intentional and mindful of her spending, she was able to pay off all her debt and now owns a personal finance business. Her business now makes more money than her full-time job, which means she now gets to live on her terms and work on her business.

Whitney’s hacks to paying off debt are unique and insightful, a huge help to anyone working towards paying back their debt.

Here are the main topics we talked about in the episode:

  • Whitney’s background
    • Her journey to managing money
    • How she paid off her $30,000 in debt in 10 months
    • Her online business
  • Her journey to paying off debt
    • How she was working 2 jobs
    • Her different tricks to paying off debt
    • How she set her goals
  • How to be intentional about your finances
    • Using a holistic overview
    • The importance of keystone habits
    • How to set SMART goals
  • Investing when in debt
    • How it differs from case to case
    • Starting an emergency fund
    • Why it depends on how long you’ll be paying off debt
  • Her personal finance goals
    • Why she’s leaving her full-time job
    • Her business goals
    • Getting started with real estate investing

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to episode 29 of the Journey to Launch Podcast

0:04.8

How to Become a Money Nerd with Whitney Hanson.

0:08.0

T-minus.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who

0:16.4

walks her talk. She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.

0:24.8

Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one.

0:35.0

Hey, hey, everyone.

0:37.0

Hi, welcome back to another episode of the Journey's Launch Podcast.

0:43.0

Question, it's funny because you know how I have this whole rocket launch and it's all like a build-up like five, four, three, two, one, and then I come on like, hey, like, am I not exciting enough? I had a feedback, not recently,

0:59.3

when I first first started that I should be way more energetic because the whole rocket launch is like such a big

1:05.5

build up and then like I get on like hey guys what do you think I think I still sound energetic

1:12.2

so okay let's hop into what this point of the episode is about.

1:17.4

So I have a special treat for you. I have a guest Whitney Hanson, who is a fellow podcaster and money nerd and I'll talk a

1:27.0

little bit about who Whitney is and why you should care and why you need to listen

1:31.0

to this episode but I think you'll enjoy it.

1:33.4

You'll enjoy hearing her story about paying off debt, what she did to do that.

1:37.8

Starting her business, WhitneyHanson.com and the Money Nurse Podcast

1:42.6

and how she is basically on her way to financial freedom

1:46.8

through her efforts and we'll get into more of that

1:49.1

in her interview.

1:50.4

Before we get started,

1:51.6

want to say if you are enjoying this podcast please don't forget to rate review and

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