100 Q&A Episode: Debt Consolidation, Telling Family No, Emergency Savings + More
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This is the 100th episode of the Journey to Launch podcast and I am so excited about getting this far thanks to all of you who listen every week. So for this episode, I’m answering listener questions about debt consolidation, online savings accounts and so much more.
Questions in this episode:
- Is a debt consolidation loan ever a good idea?
- Should you place your emergency savings in an high yield online savings account?
- What is a Thrift Savings Accounts, how do they work and compare to other employer retirement savings and investment plans?
- What to do with the money after refinancing your house?
- How to deal w/ family members who want you to spend money on events when it will set you back financially? + more
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| 0:14.9 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast. I'm doing a Q&A episode guys, so answering things like should you consolidate your credit card debt, pay off your mortgage early, or invest your emergency savings funds. I'm answering those questions and more. |
| 0:16.3 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, |
| 0:22.2 | Janila Sufrantzrant as a money expert who wants her |
| 0:25.4 | talk. She helps brave journeys like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build |
| 0:31.6 | real well. |
| 0:33.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. 2.1. 1. |
| 0:53.8 | Hey, Jerniers. I am back. And I'm back with a Q&A episode, a question and answer episode. It's been such a long time since I've been able to really do one of these. |
| 0:58.5 | And the reason is, it really takes me a little bit of time |
| 1:01.6 | to source the questions and get the answers together, but I feel like I owe you this. I owe you more episodes where it's just me talking to you. And so I'm going to get into it. So this is episode 100. So if you want any of the episode |
| 1:18.4 | show notes you can go to journey to launch.com slash episode 100 and also follow me on social media I say this every week |
| 1:27.3 | because I want to keep in touch with you I want to see what's going on I want you to see what's |
| 1:30.8 | happening with journey to Launch in between episodes. |
| 1:34.0 | So I'm at Journey to Launch on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. |
| 1:38.9 | Now we're going to get into a variety of questions and the first few questions I'm taking from members of the launch club. |
| 1:46.6 | And so the launch club is my membership community for Juniors |
| 1:49.6 | who really are taking their finances to the next level. |
| 1:53.3 | So you love the content of this podcast, |
| 1:55.7 | you love the community and the resources provided |
| 1:59.0 | in the membership in the Launch Club |
| 2:00.6 | to help you reach your goals. |
| 2:02.2 | And so I'm taking a couple questions from there. |
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