Ask Paula: How Should I Invest $5,000 Per Month?
Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices
Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network
4.7 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You can afford anything, but not everything. |
| 0:11.3 | Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else, and that doesn't just |
| 0:14.7 | apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention. |
| 0:19.9 | Anything in your life that is a scarce or limited resource. |
| 0:23.3 | And that opens up two questions. |
| 0:24.9 | First, what matters most to you, not what the society say should matter most. |
| 0:29.6 | But what genuinely matters most in your life? |
| 0:32.7 | That's the first question. |
| 0:33.7 | The second question is, how do you align your daily, weekly, monthly annual decision-making |
| 0:38.0 | to reflect that which matters most? |
| 0:40.7 | Now answering those two questions is a lifetime practice. |
| 0:44.1 | And that is what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate. |
| 0:47.6 | My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation. |
| 0:51.0 | Every other episode we answer questions that come from you, the community. |
| 0:54.5 | And today, former financial planner, Joe Salcihi, joins me to answer these questions. |
| 0:59.4 | What's up, Joe? |
| 1:00.4 | Do you ever watch The Simpsons? |
| 1:01.8 | I love The Simpsons. |
| 1:03.5 | You know how at the beginning of every episode, Bart writes something different on the board? |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.6 | You kind of look for the different thing. |
| 1:09.6 | Now that I've been here a few weeks, I always listen for the subtle differences in the |
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