Ask Paula - The Early Retirement Episode

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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#94: Early retirement? Yes please. This week, I answer questions from the audience community around early retirement planning, health savings and debt pay-off. I'm interested in early retirement. How can I avoid early withdrawal penalties? How does early retirement impact the 4 Percent Rule? Should I use an HRA or an HSA? How do I open a Roth IRA? If you’re into early retirement, don’t miss today’s episode. For complete resources and show notes, go to http://affordanything.com/episode94 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.
0:13.2	And that's true, not just to read your money, but your time, focus, energy, attention.
0:17.6	Any hour that you spend doing something is an hour that you're not spending doing
0:20.6	something else.
0:21.6	So the questions are too fold.
0:22.9	What matters most to you?
0:24.3	And how do you align your day-to-day decisions around that?
0:27.6	If you think that you've always wanted to travel, for example, but you think that you
0:31.3	can't afford it, is it really that you can't afford it or is it that you can't afford
0:35.7	to travel AND have a particular car AND live in a particular place AND wear particular
0:41.3	clothes AND go out to eat all the time.
0:43.8	I believe in abundance as much as an ex-person, but life is not an endless series of
0:47.3	ANDs.
0:48.6	This podcast explores how to make better decisions, how to decide what those trade-offs and
0:53.3	those choices are going to be.
0:55.4	Because managing your money is just a proxy for managing your life.
0:59.6	My name is Paula Pat.
1:00.6	This is the Afford Anything Podcast.
1:02.3	Every other week I answer questions that come from you, the listeners.
1:06.4	And this week our first question comes from Cristiana.
1:09.0	Hey Paula, it's Cristiana Colleen from Sacramento, California.
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