What does guacamole have to do with financial independence?

What's the distinction between financial independence versus financial freedom?

What costs do you truly need? Which ones are mandatory? Which ones are

discretionary? Which ones are fixed? Which ones are mandatory which ones are discretionary which ones are fixed which ones are variable

how do we wrap our heads around the complicated

notions of managing our money and ultimately reaching financial freedom.

Here to talk about all of that today is Jamila Sufrant,

the host of Journey to Launch, one of the most popular personal finance and financial

independence podcasts. She is also a certified financial education

instructor. Did I get that right?

You did.

Excellent. Certified Financial Education Instructor

and formerly worked at MetLife,

where she managed millions of dollars worth of real estate assets.

Welcome to the Afford Anything Podcast,

the show that understands 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 attention, your energy to 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

accordingly? Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice, and that's what this

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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