Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast.

This is the podcast that understands that you can afford anything, but not everything.

So our job is to be incredibly deliberate about how we spend our most limited resources,

our time, our money, and our life.

I'm your host, Paula Pant, and today is the first Monday of the month, which means we're

going to do an Ask Paula episode where I answer questions that you've sent in.

If anyone listening wants to send in a question for a future episode, you can do so at

AffordAnything.com slash voicemail.

Our first question comes from David.

Hey, Paula P. Steve.

I haven't had my coffee yet, but I wanted to kind of keep it real because I know that's

what you like to do, Paula, on your website.

Let me give you some details about my life.

I'm in medical field, and it's a very stressful job.

I'd like to retire as soon as I can because I don't know how much longer I can keep doing

what I'm doing.

In 2007, I inherited $120,000 when my mom passed away.

And all that money was invested in Edward Jones stocks.

So far, that stock portfolio has not been performing as well as I'd like.

It took a big dive in 2008, and to this date, I've only made $30,000.

So I'm contemplating about selling that stock and getting into real estate.

So far, what I have is two real estate properties that I love.

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