Ask Paula: How Should I Plan a Mini-Retirement?

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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#181: Imagine that you’re going to take a 6-month to 9-month mini-retirement. How should you plan? What should you do? Sure, you’ll need to have enough savings to cover your expenses. You might want to find some part-time work. You may need to sell off a few investment. And of course, you’ll need to think about health insurance. But what else should you consider? And how will your first taste of voluntary unemployment impact your mental and emotional health? Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I discuss this in today’s podcast episode. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode181 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:10.7	Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:13.6	apply to your money.
0:14.6	It applies to your time, focus, energy, attention, anything in your life that's a scarce or
0:19.1	limited resource.
0:20.1	When this leads to two questions, number one, what matters most to you?
0:24.9	What are your highest priorities?
0:26.6	Number two, how do you align your daily decisions in a way that reflects that?
0:32.1	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is here
0:35.7	to explore.
0:36.7	My name is Paula Pant on the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.
0:40.2	Every other week we interview a guest and on the weeks in between we answer questions
0:44.3	that come from you, the community.
0:46.2	Now of these episodes in which we answer audience questions, half of them are general
0:52.3	personal finance topics.
0:54.6	And that is one of today's episodes.
0:57.1	Today we're answering a smattering of questions about general personal finance topics and with
1:01.8	me is former financial advisor Joe Saul Seahye.
1:06.0	What's up, Joe?
1:07.0	Hey Paula, I am caffeinated and excited about the next hour-ish that we get to spend with
1:13.4	our afford anything friends.
1:15.1	I am super caffeinated as well.
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