Episode 270- Retiring Early, Paying Off The Mortgage, & Having Space To Focus On Joy With Journeyer Leilani Reed-Logan

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Leilani Reed-Logan, Journeyer and financial independence (FI) enthusiast, joins the podcast to discuss how Journey To Launch changed her life and why she is choosing happiness above all else, thanks to her newfound financial freedom at age 45.

We talk about why Leilani decided to set out on the path to FI, despite being "older," the lessons she learned from listening to this podcast, and how COVID became the catalyst for her to walk away from corporate America forever.

In this episode we discuss:

Why Leilani stepped away from a $200,000 per year salary job
Choosing what sparks joy in your life over everything else
The ways financial independence changed Leilani's life
Steps Leilani took to pay off her mortgage early
How you can increase your career income + more

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https://www.journeytolaunch.com/episode141
https://www.journeytolaunch.com/episode40
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0:00.0	Even if I wasn't able to retire at 30, because I had long passed that road, maybe I could
0:11.9	do certain things that weren't going to kill me, but may also allow me to retire earlier
0:17.8	than I had planned.
0:19.2	So definitely was skeptical, absolutely, when I first started listening to you.
0:24.1	And my friends thought I was a little crazy too, with this idea of, you know, there are
0:28.1	people out there that, like, stop working at 30, and they don't go back to work, and
0:32.2	it's like, here, right?
0:33.2	No one does that.
0:35.2	Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast.
0:40.7	With your host, Jamila Sufra, as a money expert who rocks her top, she helps braid juniors
0:46.8	like you.
0:47.8	Get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.
0:52.6	Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-0-4.
0:58.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by the Side Hustle Pro podcast.
1:10.1	Side Hustle Pro is the first and only podcast to spotlight bold, black women entrepreneurs
1:16.3	who have scaled from side hustle to profitable business.
1:20.2	Host, Michaela Matthewsacome, highlights the journey of black women business owners,
1:24.6	and shares how they got started, how they marketed their businesses,
1:28.0	how they keep their businesses growing, and so much more.
1:32.0	From figuring out what your side hustle should even be, to learning how to turn it into
1:36.3	a business, Side Hustle Pro will breed life into the multi-passionate side hustle
1:41.5	learn in you.
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