142- How to Avoid Burnout On Your Financial Journey and Charging Your Worth with Sarah Li Cain
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Journey to Launch podcast, Sarah Li Cain of Beyond the Dollar shares how she became a six-figure freelance writer with a six-figure net worth. She went from teaching and living abroad, to a writer, mom, and wife, with more money and freedom to enjoy life.
Through her writing and podcast, Sarah blends practical tips and mindset strategies for those trying to change their financial life. She also integrates physical, spiritual, and mental wellness in her advice so you learn how to use money as a tool to enhance your life.
In this episode you will learn:
- What is geoarbitrage and how to use it to boost your net worth
- The pros of a teaching career and how to find a job teaching overseas
- Steps to building a successful freelance writing business
- How to achieve semi-retirement, a different form of financial independence
- Ways to find balance between work, family, and your self-care
- How to add value to a client so you can get paid your worth, and more
Special thanks to our podcast sponsor, Empower. Get $5 into your account when you download the Empower app and reach your savings goal. Enter code JOURNEY at signup here.
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
If you want to start your freelance writing career, check out the website Sarah used when she started. Sarah also recommends reading Happy Money by Ken Honda if you want to be more present in life.
Check out these other great episodes. Hear them again or for the first time if you're new to the podcast.
Episode 64 (Most Downloaded): Your Guide to Becoming a Minimalist with Joshua Becker
Episode 82 (2nd Most Downloaded): Your Guide to Financial Freedom and Having All the Money You'll Ever Need With Grant Sabatier
Episode 86 (Interview with a Fellow Journeyer): Real Estate & Having a Networth of $100K without a 6 Figure Salary with Ashley Copeland
Episode 2 (Best Throwback Ep): How My Husband and I Saved $85K
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast |
| 0:03.8 | How to Avoid Burn Out on your Financial Journey |
| 0:06.5 | and Charging Your Worth with Sarah Lee Kane. |
| 0:09.9 | T-minus. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:19.0 | She helps brave journeys like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:25.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:30.0 | Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. Welcome to another episode. Before we hop into the |
| 0:46.1 | episode I want to tell you about today's sponsor, Empower. One of the most asked |
| 0:51.0 | questions from listeners that I get is, |
| 0:53.2 | how can I save more and reach my goals? |
| 0:55.8 | And I usually reply with, you have to make it easy and automated |
| 0:59.4 | as much as possible. |
| 1:00.8 | So I'm always on the lookout for solutions for you to do just that. Make saving easy and automatic. |
| 1:06.3 | Today's sponsor Empower, that's E M-P-O-W-E-R, is an awesome mobile app that makes saving and managing your money the easiest thing you can do all day. |
| 1:17.0 | For starters, Empower has an automated savings feature. You can simply tell the app your weekly savings target and every day Empower Studies your income and spending and automatically knows when to move the right amount of money into your savings account where you're less likely to spend it. |
| 1:33.3 | It's called AutoSave. |
| 1:34.7 | Just set it and forget it. |
| 1:36.0 | You even get access to a human coach |
| 1:37.8 | that you can text for personalized finance questions. Download Empower, that's E-M-P-O-W-E-R-E-N-P-E-E-N-P-E-E-R-N-P-O-W-E-R in the App Store or Play Store. |
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