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Hi everybody, welcome to the Mad Finestist Financial Independence

Podcast, the podcast where I interview personal finance experts to find out the strategies

and tactics that they're using to achieve financial independence. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Paula from Afford Anything.com. Paula describes her site as the anti-Frugality blog and what she means by

this is that rather than focusing on frugality and limiting spending, you should instead focus on building wealth and then using

that wealth to live the life that you want to live.

Paula's primary method of building her own personal wealth is by investing in real estate.

Unlike Schopen from the previous episode of the podcast who invested in commercial real estate, specifically hotels,

Paula invests in residential real estate.

So I'm very excited to find out how she got started

and what advice she has to give others out there,

myself included, who would like to eventually start investing in real estate someday.

So without further delay, hey Paula, thanks a lot for being here.

I appreciate it.

Oh, thanks for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Oh, my pleasure. So before we get into the questions, I was hoping maybe you could just, you know, tell a little bit about your background and how you started writing about personal finance.

Sure. Well, I started my career. know how you started writing about personal finance

sure well i started my career as a journalist at one of those

print and paper newspapers

you remember those yeah yeah

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