153- An Updated Conversation w/ Carmen Perez on Losing Her Income, Staying Positive & Finding the Opportunities in the Obstacles
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Check out this week's bonus episode of the podcast where I talk to Carmen Perez to update us on how she's been dealing with the pandemic & the economic uncertainty. In the previous episode, Carmen shared how she was sued over her student loan, paid off $57,000 of debt in 2 ½ years and switch careers from corporate finance to coding. Today, Carmen comes back on the show to share how she's dealt with the loss of her income and how's she's finding opportunity in this crisis by using this time to sharpen her skills and remaining positive about the future.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, an updated conversation with |
| 0:05.3 | Carmen Perez on losing her income, but how she's still staying positive and |
| 0:09.7 | seeing the opportunities in the obstacles. |
| 0:12.6 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, |
| 0:18.7 | Janila Sufrant, as a money expert who walks her top, 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 Hey, Hey journeyers. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, so I just had to bring you another bonus episode this week. |
| 0:50.0 | So I've been doing these for episodes that I recorded with guests in the past before the |
| 0:55.0 | pandemic hit before this craziness because I wanted updated conversations. So |
| 0:59.2 | this week on the podcast I had Carmen Perez come on. She was on episode 152. So that's the episode right before this one and you can either listen to that one first or this one it really doesn't matter. But when I spoke to Carmen a few months ago, it was before everything happened, before the pandemic, before the coronavirus, and her job situation, her income was completely different at that time. |
| 1:21.0 | And while everything she shared was completely and still |
| 1:24.6 | relevant, I thought it was important to bring her back on the show so that she |
| 1:29.2 | can give us an update because her life has changed so much she's been directly impacted income wise by everything that's been happening. |
| 1:36.7 | So her giving us real-time updates on how she's been dealing with it, how she's been reframing, you know, her current situation and turning it into an opportunity. |
| 1:46.1 | I wanted you to hear that from her in the hopes that it can also help inspire you and keep |
| 1:51.2 | you going. So this is episode number 153 if you want the episode show notes go to journey to launch |
| 1:57.7 | dot com |
| 1:58.8 | slash episode 153 and if you hear something that you like that stands out don't forget you can |
| 2:04.8 | always tag me on social media I always love when I see you posting the |
| 2:08.5 | podcast and what you loved about it on social media so tag me at Journey to Launch and Carmen's |
| 2:14.8 | Instagram and social media is at make real sense. So tag both of us, take a |
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