127- Saving 50% of Your Income on $60,000 While Navigating a Health Condition with Zero
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast episode, Zero shares her amazing story of adversity and triumphs. She saved half her income when she made $60,000 a year in New York while also navigating health challenges. In her twenties, she had brain surgery and doctors told her she may not be able to work or live independently. Instead of surrendering to her prognosis, she got through her recovery and moved to New York City.
Not only did Zero find a job, but she went from making $37,000 a year to $75,000 in a short period. Zero maximized her income when she was making less, so she was able to max out her retirement savings when she earned more money. Zero saved $100,000 by 30 and recently quit her job to become a full-time entrepreneur. She continues to navigate her health challenges but has never allowed them to limit her abilities or accomplishments on her journey to financial freedom.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to boost your income so you can max out your savings
- Ways to save on taxes and medical expenses
- The power of a positive perspective and money mindset
- How to save, invest, and survive on less in New York City and so much more
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If you liked this interview with Zero, you may also enjoy episodes 52 and 84 with Tanja Hester from Our Next Life.
Finding Adventure and Happiness on Your Journey to Financial Independence with Tanja from Our Next Life--Episode 52
How To Achieve A Work-Optional Life & Retire Early with Tanja Hester--Episode 84
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, saving 50% of your income on $60,000 |
| 0:10.2 | while navigating a health condition with zero. |
| 0:15.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:20.0 | with your host, Janila Sufrant, |
| 0:22.0 | as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:24.4 | She helps brave journeys like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:31.2 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, hey, hey, journeyers. Welcome to another episode of the Journey to Launch |
| 0:49.0 | podcast. I'm really excited as I always am to bring you valuable content that's going to not only |
| 0:56.8 | inspire you. Like let's get it real. I want you to be inspired, but I also want you to take action, take action, take the inspiration ride that way and take action. |
| 1:08.6 | So before we begin to this amazing episode with Zero, I'm going to call her Zero. Zero is anonymous so |
| 1:15.9 | we're going to keep most of the details like details where you can like |
| 1:19.7 | figure out who she is under wraps but you'll still get tons of information and I want to |
| 1:26.8 | share like why I was so excited to talk to Zero because Zero has a very |
| 1:32.0 | interesting story. |
| 1:33.1 | So I first found out about Zero on, I think it was Twitter |
| 1:36.3 | is where I first saw her. |
| 1:37.9 | And her profile picture, and she talks about it |
| 1:41.0 | a little bit is that it's one, it's like a sketch of someone in a wheelchair |
| 1:44.7 | of a woman in a wheelchair. So Zero has some some health issues or some health conditions that have really impacted her journey to |
| 1:54.8 | financial freedom and independence and you'll hear it. |
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