049- Bravely Tackle Debt & Take Control of Your Finances w/ Kara Perez
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Bringing in as much income as possible in order to reach your financial goals is key but that doesn't mean you can't get ahead if you don't make a lot of money. Kara Perez, the creator of Bravely Go, is living proof that is living proof that as long as you're willing to put the work in, achieving your financial goals with a low income is completely possible. After taking on more than $25,000 in student loan debt, Kara, extremely unhappy with her situation, started to research ways to quickly pay off her debt.
After becoming inspired by personal finance blogs such as Frugalwoods, Kara paid off $25,302 in loans on a salary of less than $30,000, the final $18,000 in just ten months. After becoming debt free in June 2015, Kara created Bravely to help other women take control of their financial lives.
In this episode we discuss:
- How a simple Google search inspired her to pay off $18,000 in student loan debt in 10 months
- How paying off her debt deepened her relationship with others
- How her personal finance blog, Bravely Go, came to fruition
- Why women have become her target audience
- Kara’s 10 financial commandments for women
- The significance of value-based spending and spending on the things that you love
- Kara’s next financial and life goals
At the end of the podcast, I also talk about the waitlist to the soft launch of my monthly membership program. Get monthly tips, tools, and classes to help you launch to Financial Freedom. Click here to sign up and be the first to be notified when the doors open in Summer/Fall 2018.
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
- Kara's 10 Financial Commandments All Women Should Live By
- My interview with Mrs. Frugalwoods of the Frugalwoods Financial Independence blog
- Jon Morrow's Interview about Making Significant Changes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 49 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:04.8 | bravely tackling your finances with Kara Perez, |
| 0:08.1 | how she paid off $25,000 in loans on a salary of less than $30,000. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast |
| 0:19.7 | with your host, Janila Sufrant |
| 0:21.8 | as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:24.0 | She helps brave journeys like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:31.0 | Join her on the journey to launch a financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, hey, hey, journeys. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Jamila Sufrant, for those of you who are new listeners. I am here to bring you wonderful conversations, |
| 0:56.0 | inspiration and education on how you can reach your financial goals, |
| 1:01.0 | specifically how you can reach financial independence. financial |
| 1:03.6 | independence. Today I have on someone very special, you know, I always say everyone's very |
| 1:08.6 | special. I'm always excited about every guest because I really take time to |
| 1:12.4 | curate who I bring on the |
| 1:15.0 | podcast to talk to you guys and I think you'll be happy with this guest too. Her |
| 1:19.2 | name is Kara Perez from Bravely Go. Kara has a really great relatable story so you know how we talk about paying off |
| 1:28.7 | debt and you know getting to your dreams and all these things right well Kara has a unique story or maybe I should say a relatable story in the sense that |
| 1:37.8 | Carra was able to pay off |
| 1:40.6 | $25,000 of loans on a salary less than $30,000 and we'll go through exactly how she did that in the episode. |
| 1:48.0 | That I think is relatable to a lot of people who are not high income earners, right? Like how do you get ahead of your debt? |
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