138- Can Anyone Really Reach Financial Independence? My Answer May Surprise You Plus, It's My Birthday!
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Journey to Launch podcast episode, I answer the question, "Can you really reach financial independence?" Plus, I am celebrating because it's my birthday!
As I reflect on the past year, I am sharing my personal goals for 2020, which include taking better care of me. Listen to this episode to find out how I plan to focus on myself and prioritize what really matters in life. I am also sharing ways on how you can create a life you love.
In this episode you will learn:
- Tips that will make you resilient on your FIRE journey
- Examples of ways to take care of yourself in 2020
- Why it's important to focus on your journey and not the outcomes
- How to make more time for things that really matter
- All about setting moon goals, and more
Also, to help celebrate my birthday week, I'm opening doors to the Money Launch again this week. The Money Launch Club is the online membership that can help you reach your financial goals of saving more, paying off debt so that you can reach Financial Freedom. Join us while you can here.
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
Just in case you missed it, check out my powerful conversation with Shawn Rochester about The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America.
If you want to learn more about my financial journey and why I delayed Financial Independence to be my own boss, check out my story in Forbes.
Go to Journeytolaunch.com/freedomsummit to join me at the Financial Freedom Summit in May.
I use Michael Hyatt's Full Focus Planner to keep me focused so I get things done. If you are looking for a planner consider using this one.
Check out the other tools that help me with my finances and business here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast. I'm answering the question, can anyone really |
| 0:07.3 | reach complete financial independence? Plus, it's my birthday! |
| 0:12.1 | T-minous 10 seconds. Plus it's my birthday. money expert who walks her talk. She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:29.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:39.4 | hey hey journeys it's a very special episode. If I don't say so myself, it's my birthday. So technically, this |
| 0:49.7 | episode comes out on Wednesday, February 5th. My birthday is the 6th. And so I decided, like I usually do every year just to basically record a more solo episode where I'm sharing more behind the scenes stuff and then I'm going to actually share my |
| 1:03.8 | thoughts on a couple things I've been thinking about so if you are new to this |
| 1:08.2 | podcast and you're like literally just finding out about me you're just like I don't |
| 1:12.4 | really care about her birthday I don't you're just like I don't really care about her |
| 1:12.9 | birthday I don't know her yet like I need some personal finance topics okay I get it I |
| 1:17.9 | get it you can keep listening but you may want to check out the podcast |
| 1:22.1 | index by going to Journeyto Launch.com |
| 1:24.6 | slash podcast index that way you can see a bunch of all the episodes that we |
| 1:29.9 | recorded over the past two and a half going on three years sorted by category or wherever |
| 1:36.0 | you're listening to this you just scroll and find another episode on a topic that is about |
| 1:40.3 | personal finance but this one is going to be more relaxed talking about behind the |
| 1:45.0 | behind the scene stuff with me and so yeah it's basically my birthday and I'm not really big like huge on birthdays meaning like I don't really make a big deal out of it but you know it's kind of like crazy because I am turning I don't know if I should tell you guys this but I'm 37 and it's still mind-boggling to me because I feel like I just |
| 2:07.1 | was 21 and 24 and I'm like kind of you know I'm happy that I'm alive God you know God bless the life I live and all that stuff but it's kind of surreal to like get older and it's funny I know people who are older than me right now are |
| 2:23.6 | probably rolling their eyes just like I roll my eyes at my little sister when she |
| 2:27.7 | complains about getting older and she's like 22 give me a break and I |
| 2:32.0 | know I have so much more ahead of me but you know sometimes when give me, |
| 2:34.0 | sometimes when you just think about how fast time moves. |
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