Episode 257- How to Have a Fun Relationship with Money With Emily Guy Birken and Joe Saul-Sehy
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week we welcome two guests: finance writer and author, Emily Guy Birken and host of the award-winning personal finance podcast, Stacking Benjamins, Joe Saul-Sehy. Emily and Joe join the podcast to discuss how to approach your money in a fun but effective way.
We discuss the first steps you can take to begin your financial independence journey, being proactive instead of reactive when it comes to your overall money goals and how letting your inner kid out can actually improve your financial life.
Emily Guy Birken is an award-winning freelance writer in the financial sphere. Emily is the author of five books and her work has appeared in HuffPo, Business Insider, Kiplinger, MSN Money, and The Washington Post.
Joe Saul-Sehy learned about money the hard way and much of it as he was telling other people how to manage their money, as a financial advisor. After 16 years in the industry he created the award-winning podcast, Stacking Benjamins, one of the most listened to podcasts in the personal finance sphere.
If you're ready to get super-serious about your money management (just kidding), this episode is for you!
In the episode we discuss:
🚀 Why playfulness and humor are important for improving your finances
🚀 The revolutionary act of drawing your dreams on a timeline
🚀 What to look for when it's time to hire a financial advisor in your Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) journey
🚀 Mitigating risk management by asking, "What's my biggest risk and how do I handle it?" + more
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| 0:00.0 | The place to start is not in finding a better lottery ticket, the place to start is actually |
| 0:08.0 | in learning how to save more money, like what in my budget needs to change. |
| 0:12.6 | And if we start with the values in the end of mine, budgeting and changing our budget |
| 0:17.4 | isn't a pain in the butt, like people think it is, it's freeing because the things I'm |
| 0:22.0 | going to jettison are not those things that are important to me, I'm going to build a |
| 0:24.9 | moat around those. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm going to protect those things, I'm going to start getting rid of some of the things |
| 0:29.1 | that aren't as important because I know on my vision board, on my timeline, this is |
| 0:33.1 | important, this is important, this is important, I'm going to jettison some of those things |
| 0:35.7 | that aren't as important. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast, with your host, Jamila Sufragz, as a money expert |
| 0:45.8 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:47.3 | She helps brave juniors like you, get out of debt, save, invest and build real well. |
| 0:54.5 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5 on 4, 3, 2, 1. |
| 1:07.1 | If you love the Journey to Launch Podcast, you are going to love this podcast called |
| 1:12.3 | Frugal Living. |
| 1:14.0 | You can tune into the Frugal Living Podcast every Tuesday for relevant topics from industry |
| 1:18.9 | experts on saving hacks, your financial well-being, and of course, a little inspiration. |
| 1:24.6 | Series 4 is all about helping you in 2022 with consumer advice, decluttering your life, |
| 1:30.7 | and answers to questions you're thinking about like, what's the state of travel? |
| 1:34.6 | Or one you may not be thinking about like, why do we even have credit scores? |
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