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Journey To Launch

034- Trade in Your 9-5 and Reach Financial Independence Through Stock Investing w/ Tela Holcomb

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Investing in stock can seem very intimidating but Tela Holcomb, the renowned stock investor has used swing trading as a vessel to help her create financial independence. More than 9 years ago, as a servicemember and single mom, a conversation about trading and early retirement inspired Tela to teach herself the skills necessary to replace her 9-5.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • The difference between trading and long-term investing
  • How practice trading accounts prepare for real life stock trading
  • Tela's 3 trading account system
  • How to buy stock
  • How to make a trading plan to manage gains and losses
  • How to manage the emotions that come with stock trading
  • Tela's definitions of financial independence and financial freedom
  • Why you don't have to be perfect to find success in stock trading.

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0:00.0

You're listening to episode 34 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, how one woman traded in her 9 to 5

0:09.0

and learned stock investing to reach financial independence.

0:14.0

T-minous 10 seconds.

0:16.0

Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host,

0:19.0

Janila Sufrant, as a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.

0:30.0

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

0:37.0

Hey, hey, hey everyone. Welcome back if you're listening again to another episode of the Journey to

0:48.4

Launch Podcast, if you're a new listener. Hello, thanks for joining us. We have a really, really good episode, great

0:55.8

guest on for you today. Her name is Tila Hokkon and she traded in her 9 to five to reach financial independence by learning stock investing.

1:07.2

How exciting is that. I know you guys love to hear how other people are reaching financial independence and then of course picking up skills and techniques that perhaps you can use on your own journey.

1:20.0

So this episode will really, really be helpful for that.

1:23.0

Today's guest, Tila-Hocomb, basically breaks down what is very intimidating, the stock market,

1:30.0

and helps teach it in basic, basic forms.

1:33.2

And so as a renowned stock investor,

1:35.9

she uses swing trading as a vessel to help her create

1:39.5

financial independence for herself,

1:41.2

and now she's teaching others how to do the same.

1:43.0

And more than nine years ago as a service member and single mom, a conversation about

1:48.6

trading in early retirement inspired Tila to teach herself the skills necessary to replace her 9 to 5.

1:57.0

In this episode we talk about the difference between trading and long-term investing,

2:02.0

how practicing trading in practice accounts prepares for real life stock trading, how to buy stock, how to create a trading plan to manage gains and losses, how to manage the emotions that come

2:16.9

along with stock trading, and just her definition of what financial independence is, what

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