131- From Broke & Living In A Car to Traveling the World With Kierra Asnauskas
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week's Journey to Launch podcast episode features, Kierra Asnauskas, who shares her amazing story on how she went from broke and homeless to a six-figure salary and living abroad. On her journey, Kierra taught English overseas, boosted her salary from $31,000 to $182,000 a year, and received free housing and healthcare. With fewer expenses, Kierra knocked out $49,000 in debt and started investing.
Today, Kierra and her husband are living overseas while she takes her first mini-retirement. Listen to the full episode to learn how you can live your best life abroad and build wealth too.
In this episode you will learn:
- How Kierra went from broke and homeless to a six-figure salary
- Opportunities overseas where you can get free rent, healthcare, and more
- All about mini-retirements and how you can take one now
- How to minimize taxes when living and working overseas
- What is geoarbitrage and how you can use it to get an affordable degree
- The difference between lazy investing and value investing, and much more
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
Kierra mentioned so many good reads in her interview. Check out the list below.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
How to Build Wealth Teaching English Overseas by Ben Stout
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
Want to take your own mini-retirement and enjoy life now? Hear how it's done in episode 54 with Carl Seidman. Carl took his first mini-retirement at age 32.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, how Kiara went from broke and living in her car to building a six-figure portfolio and living internationally so she could pay off debt and live her best life. |
| 0:13.7 | T minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Janila Sufrant, as a money expert who |
| 0:22.2 | 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 5 4 3 2 1. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey hey, hey journeyers. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. I am always |
| 0:49.4 | excited to talk to you every single week, every Wednesday morning we drop a new episode and I |
| 0:55.5 | especially love bringing you episodes like this and you'll hear more about it so I |
| 1:00.9 | don't want to give too much away but I was contacted by |
| 1:04.6 | Kiera who you'll hear obviously in the conversation that will have she emailed |
| 1:08.9 | me and you'll hear when I talk to her that you know I get a lot of emails now |
| 1:12.4 | people who want to be on the |
| 1:13.3 | podcast, and for me it's not just as simple as just paying off debt, because I think that's |
| 1:20.1 | amazing, obviously that's what I want all of us to do is get out of debt, make more money and all the things. |
| 1:25.0 | But it takes a lot more for me to want to extend an invitation to the platform, to journey to launch, to other journeys is than just like a debt payoff story. |
| 1:35.0 | Like I'm always looking for more. I'm looking for those nuggets or those things that I'm like, |
| 1:40.0 | wow, like this, it's like not just a debt payoff story this is a story of |
| 1:44.2 | redemption this is a story of grit and you'll hear why I am like I just immediately |
| 1:50.3 | after a couple emails back and forth I was like yeah I'd love to have you |
| 1:53.6 | on the show Kiaro because her story is absolutely amazing and fascinating and I |
| 1:59.3 | need more people to hear about how she did what she did, how she went from literally being broke, not earning much |
| 2:06.3 | money at all, living in her car at one point, having her car repossessed to where she is now, which is earning a lot more money than she |
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