You can afford anything but not everything. Every choice that you make is a trade-off

against something else and that doesn't just apply to your money, that applies to your

time, your focus, your energy, your attention, any limited resource that you need to manage.

And that opens up two questions. First, what matters most? And second, how do you make decisions

that align with your highest priorities? Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

And that's what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate. My name is Paula Pant, I'm

the host of the Affordable Care Foundation. Every other episode we answer questions that

come from you, the community, and my buddy, former financial planner and former Detroit

television money guy, Joe Salcihi, joins me to answer these questions. What's up, Joe?

Why do we add that in this week? Yeah, you know, just I feel like a lot of people don't

know that about you. Once upon a time, you were the Detroit TV money, dude.

I was for nine years. I was. And it was a great time. You know, it's funny. Well, I think

it's funny. Your results may vary. But I moved back to Detroit and I thought, oh, I'll

go get my old gig back because I still know a bunch of the producers there. Talk to Tim,

the executive producer. He's like, yeah, we have a new news director. I'll start talking

to him. And the two years I was there, I did some segments on Detroit TV to help them

with their new stuff, but I didn't have my old go back, go on, sit on set with the

anchors and chat about money twice a week role that I had before. I moved back to Texarkana.

The week I get here, Paula, the week I get here, Tim writes to me and said, Hey, we need

you back. We'd like you to come back and be the money man twice a week again. I'm like,

I moved away. You moved to Texas. Yeah. I can do it on Skype and guess what the end?

Yeah. We want somebody local. Yeah. Well, it makes sense. Well, the good news is you get

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