202- Losing $300,000 of Your Life Savings in an Investment Deal Gone Wrong w/ Kierra Asnauskas
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if overnight you lost over $300,000 of your life savings in an investment deal gone wrong? Unfortunately, that's what happened to this week's guest, Kierra Asnauskas. Kierra and her husband went from coming close to their goal of reaching Financial Independence to losing it all and having to start all over again. Tune in to what I hope to be a cautionary and inspirational story on taking risks and being resilient in the face of adversity.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How Kierra and her husband lost over $300,000
- What is forex trading
- Kierra's biggest takeaway from losing it all
- How Kierra is able to move on and rebuild and much more...
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
- Kierra was a guest on Episode 131, "From Broke and Living in a Car to Traveling the World w| Kierra"
- If you want to check out Teri's Trade & Travel Program, click here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | How Kiara lost $300,000 and is on her way to financial redemption. |
| 0:11.4 | Team Minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Jamila Sufrat, as a money expert |
| 0:19.7 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:21.3 | She helps brave juniors like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:28.4 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5 on 4, 3, 2, 1. |
| 0:38.4 | Hey, hey, hey, juniors. |
| 0:40.4 | Now, this episode of the podcast, wow, I sat down again with Episode Guest 131. |
| 0:47.9 | So Kiara, Miss Unconventional, was originally on the podcast Episode 131. |
| 0:53.4 | She shared her amazing story from going broke and living in her car to traveling the world |
| 1:00.2 | on a path to reach financial independence. |
| 1:02.9 | You don't have to necessarily listen to that episode before you listen to this one, |
| 1:06.2 | but it does give you good context. |
| 1:08.3 | But with this episode, Kiara told me she wanted to come back on the show |
| 1:12.2 | and give an update on where she was in her financial independence journey. |
| 1:15.8 | Now, typically when people come back on the show, they're sharing maybe that they reached |
| 1:20.6 | an amazing milestone, maybe they reach financial independence or something else. |
| 1:25.5 | Kiara has another type of story to tell. |
| 1:27.8 | She is sharing how she actually lost, was scammed out of $300,000. |
| 1:33.9 | Her, essentially, her and her husband's life savings, their investments. |
| 1:38.8 | And I wanted Kiara to share this story, she wanted to share this story |
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