Buy the Damn Guac, with Jamila Souffrant

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

#478: Ever skipped that extra drink, pricey cheese, or a night out for the sake of your wallet? If this feels familiar, then you’ll appreciate today’s episode with Jamila Souffrant. Jamila is a Certified Financial Education Instructor, podcast host, and author, guiding us on making savvy choices to save while still having fun. Jamila explores the power of understanding our ""why not,"" staying motivated on our financial paths, shaping a success-bound mindset, and posing THREE crucial self-assessment questions for goal alignment. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode478 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What does guacamole have to do with financial independence?
0:03.3	What's the distinction between financial independence versus financial freedom?
0:07.2	What costs do you truly need? Which ones are mandatory? Which ones are
0:11.9	discretionary? Which ones are fixed? Which ones are mandatory which ones are discretionary which ones are fixed which ones are variable
0:14.4	how do we wrap our heads around the complicated
0:18.4	notions of managing our money and ultimately reaching financial freedom.
0:24.9	Here to talk about all of that today is Jamila Sufrant,
0:29.7	the host of Journey to Launch, one of the most popular personal finance and financial
0:34.8	independence podcasts. She is also a certified financial education
0:40.8	instructor. Did I get that right?
0:43.0	You did.
0:44.0	Excellent. Certified Financial Education Instructor
0:46.0	and formerly worked at MetLife,
0:48.0	where she managed millions of dollars worth of real estate assets.
0:53.0	Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast,
0:55.0	the show that understands you can afford anything but not everything.
0:58.0	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else,
1:01.0	and that doesn't just apply to your money.
1:03.6	That applies to your time, your focus, your attention, your energy to any limited resource that you need to
1:08.8	manage and that opens up two questions. First, what matters most? And second, how do you make decisions
1:15.9	accordingly? Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice, and that's what this
1:20.4	podcast is here to explore and facilitate. I'm Paula Pan, the host of this show, and we will dive right in with this conversation.
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