Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. Financial freedom often involves figuring out how to

integrate the finances and the family life and today I've invited Dr. Marilyn Broderon

she is the founder of the Infant Dental Center and she is going to share with us a little

about her journey to that business. Welcome Maryland to Radical Personal Finance.

Hey Joshua, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. So you reached out to me after a show that I did a

Q&A show in which a listener called in and said that she was conflicted over whether or not she should

continue her professional education at the master's level

or whether she should put that on hold in order to be able to spend more time with her child.

And you had some great commentary on that and had, you know, you worked through that same challenge of decision yourself so I

wanted to invite you on to share your story so share with us a little bit

about your story especially as it relates to finances and your family.

Yeah, yeah, you know when you were doing that Q&A I was writing and I was driving in my car and I was literally screaming out loud

at the girl like I was so I was so I felt so passionate about this so yeah to answer to answer your about you know

to answer to answer your question about you know finances and family I don't feel

like those need to be mutually mutually exclusive entities like you need to you can only choose one or the other or you have to

sacrifice a lot of family time to have decent finances like that that doesn't need to be the case

So what did I say what did I say that got you so upset? It wasn't anything that you said it was just her her way of her way of thinking and I totally see where she's coming from

where she was thinking you know it has to be a one or the other. The Q&A was about a girl who's living in Hawaii and she

didn't know and she couldn't finish her master's program and I was thinking in my head you have

a small child and you live in Hawaii like go just live in Hawaii and be with your child

and enjoy that time you and it's okay to push pause on things and then start

back up again. So I actually thought you gave you gave really really

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