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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Ask Paula: How to Think About Finances at the 30,000-Foot Level

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

#318: Joe is a new real estate agent and he’s looking for ways to save. Is opening a SEP IRA a good account when you’re no longer a W2 employee? Grace has a similar concern: she’s a tutor, but she’s paid as a contractor. Should she forget about her Vanguard brokerage account and open a SEP IRA or Solo 401k? Kim is newly divorced and celebrating the freedom to make her own financial decisions. She’s struggling to make a living -- also as a new realtor -- and wants to get started with real estate...but how can she do that on limited funds? Kim also wants to know: should she move her funds from an actively managed Fidelity IRA to a Vanguard Roth IRA? Chaz is 22 and has $2,100 - $2,500 left each month to put toward savings. Where should he keep this money if he’d like to move out-of-state in the near future? Anonymous just got a raise, and while awesome, it might push her income to a level that prohibits her from making full Roth IRA contributions. Should she make a partial contribution this year, or start adding money to a Traditional IRA to do a backdoor conversion? My friend and former financial planner, Joe Saul-Sehy, joins me to tackle these questions. Let’s dive in! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode318 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can afford anything but not everything.

0:10.9

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

0:13.8

apply to your money.

0:14.8

That applies to your time, your energy, your focus, your attention, anything in your life

0:19.5

that's a scarce or limited resource.

0:21.8

And that opens up two questions.

0:23.5

First, what matters most?

0:25.5

Second, how do you make daily decisions that reflect?

0:29.9

Which matters most?

0:32.1

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

0:34.6

And that's what this podcast is here to explore.

0:36.8

My name is Paula Pat.

0:37.8

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

0:40.3

Every other episode, my buddy, former financial planner, Joe Sawsihai, joins me on this podcast

0:46.1

to answer questions that come from you, the community.

0:49.6

What's up, Joe?

0:50.6

What up, Paula?

0:51.6

How are you doing?

0:53.2

I'm great, now that I'm here.

0:56.2

And we've got five awesome questions.

0:58.9

So you, me, questions, what could be better?

1:03.2

Exactly.

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