057- Money Lessons from 4x Olympian Lauryn Williams

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

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

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🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Finding the perfect resource for sound financial advice can be a challenge for people from all walks of life. 4-time Olympian, 3-time Olympic medalist, Lauryn Williams understands this challenge completely. As the first American woman to medal in both the summer and winter games, she possessed the skills that led her to be a top class world class athlete but she didn't always know how to manage her money and made some mistakes along the way. She sought the financial advice of loved ones and financial advisors but they were unable to provide the help that she needed.

In true Olympian fashion, Lauryn took matters into her own hands and worked hard to gain control of her finances. Using the skills and knowledge that she gained from earning her Finance degree and MBA, Lauryn decided to use her talents to help other athletes and young professionals.

Today, Lauryn has a Certified Financial Planning certification and has founded Worth Winning, a financial planning resource for young adults. Worth Winning offers virtual services to help young professionals get the answers to the financial questions that matter most to them.

This episode was recorded live at Podcast Movement 2018. At the end of the podcast, I give you a little of the behind-the-scenes of how I ended up speaking at Podcast Movement 2018 and my overall experience at the conference.

In this episode we discuss:

Lauryn’s background
How she became an Olympian at 20 years old
Her not so good experience working with financial advisors in her pro athlete career
The steps she took to get back in control of her finances
Why she decided to start her own financial planning firm plus so much more

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:

Worth Winning
Listen to Lauryn's podcast Worth Winning
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to episode 57 of the Journey to Launch Podcast.
0:05.0	Money Lessons from four-time Olympian, Lauren Williams. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Janila Sufrant as a money expert who
0:17.8	walks her talk.
0:19.3	She helps brave journeys like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.
0:25.6	Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in...
0:29.6	Five, four, three three two one
0:39.0	hey journeys welcome back to another episode of the Journey to Launch Podcast.
0:44.1	This is going to be a little special, a little different.
0:48.2	I am coming to you live, well, the interview itself
0:52.4	was brought to you live from podcast movement that's what you're going to hear with my guest
0:58.0	Lauren Williams who is a four-time Olympic athlete she's a three-time Olympic medalist and the first
1:05.2	American woman to medal in both the summer and winter Olympic Games. So I mean this
1:12.4	woman is tough, she has a mental fortitude, she has a
1:16.4	discipline and now she's applying that to finances. She's a CFP and a financial advisor who is now helping millennials and
1:27.0	professionals get their money together and she didn't have a great experience
1:30.6	throughout her Olympic career with money. Well she didn't have a good
1:35.7	experience with people who were hired to help her with money and she wants to
1:39.6	change that for others and I'm excited about this again because it's live recorded at
1:44.1	podcast movement and if you stick around until the end of the episode I'll talk a
1:49.6	little bit about the behind the scenes of podcast movement. I gave a speech my first kind of
1:55.8	major speech I'd say about podcasting and it went really well so I'm going to
2:00.5	dive deep into that a little bit at the end of the episode.
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