163- The Geometry of Wealth: How to Shape a Life of Money and Meaning with Brian Portnoy
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Journey to Launch Podcast, Brian Portnoy simplifies the complex world of money. Brian has over two decades of experience in the personal finance space, and he's also an investor, educator, writer, and entrepreneur. In his book, The Geometry of Wealth, he tackles the challenges of making better investment decisions and how money fits into a joyful life.
In this episode, we go beyond the numbers and talk about the behavioral science behind your relationship with money. Learn how your behavior impacts your ability to become wealthy and why your brain chooses survival over wealth.
In this episode you'll learn:
- The difference between wealthy and rich
- Why your brain is wired to make terrible money decisions
- The meaning of the Geometry of Wealth
- How to set goals to become wealthy (and not just rich)
- What a comprehensive financial plan looks like, and more
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1. What the elusive term of Financial Independence really means
2. The FIVE major stages you must move through on the journey to reaching Financial Independence and how to identify where you currently are on the journey
3. The barriers stopping you from reaching your goals and how to eliminate them
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, The Geometry of Wealth, How to Shape |
| 0:06.2 | A Life of Money and Meaning with Brian Portneoy. |
| 0:09.6 | T-minus. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, |
| 0:15.0 | Jamila Sufrant, as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:19.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt save invest and build real well. |
| 0:25.7 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three |
| 0:32.3 | two one Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.2 | Hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. If you are a returning |
| 0:44.3 | journeyer and listener, hey what's up if you are brand new, hopefully you will be a |
| 0:49.2 | returning journeyer. Now it is the anniversary month of the podcast. So I launched this podcast three years ago in |
| 0:56.0 | July and so this marks the three year anniversary month of the podcast and to help |
| 1:02.0 | celebrate I have an amazing sponsor |
| 1:03.9 | Wienab also known as You Need a Budget who's sponsoring the podcast all month to |
| 1:08.7 | help us really celebrate this momentous occasion for what we're doing here at Journey to |
| 1:13.7 | launch. Now I want to tell you a little bit more about what they do and why you |
| 1:17.2 | should check them out. Now you know I love to ask questions, hence why I love |
| 1:21.4 | interviewing people on the podcast. |
| 1:23.0 | It gives me an excuse to be nosy, |
| 1:25.0 | but to also see how people are accomplishing |
| 1:28.0 | the amazing things they're doing with their life and their money. |
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