Episode 280- Saving $30k To Quit Corporate America & Pivot To Teaching Women How To Invest With Amanda Holden
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Holden, award-winning money writer, speaker, and educator, joins the podcast to discuss all things investing through her business, Invested Development, she educates women about investing and other money topics — because Amanda believes that the world needs more women with financial power.
Using a unique and effective mix of deep industry knowledge and humor, Amanda has taught tens of thousands of women how to invest.
In this episode we discuss:
- What Amanda's quitting corporate America process looked like + how she saved $30,000
- Why Amanda turned away from her lucrative Investment Management career
- The importance of emergency funds + how to turbo-charge yours
- Handling the emotions of investing in uncertain times
- Index Funds as a long-term investment strategy, retirement account taxation, capital gains, + the risk and reward of investing + more
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| 0:00.0 | All we're doing when we're investing, it's not about Roth IRAs, it's not about ETFs, |
| 0:08.8 | it's about you, and it's about one very specific version of you, it's about future you, |
| 0:13.7 | and you really just have to keep that face on the process as you navigate some of this |
| 0:17.7 | again, kind of boring stuff that you have to learn in order to be an investor. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast, with your host, Jamila Sufront, as a money expert |
| 0:31.8 | who rocks her top. She helps brave juniors like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and |
| 0:38.5 | build real well. Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-4-3-2-1. |
| 0:52.5 | If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journeytolaunch.com or click |
| 0:57.8 | the description of wherever you're listening to this episode. In the show notes, you'll |
| 1:02.0 | get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much |
| 1:07.6 | more. Also, whether you are an OG, Jr. or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free |
| 1:13.7 | Jump Start Guide to help you on your financial freedom journey. It includes the top episodes, |
| 1:19.0 | so listen to stages to go through to reach financial freedom, resources, and so much more. |
| 1:24.4 | You can go to journeytolaunch.com slash Jump Start to get your guide right now. Okay, |
| 1:30.4 | let's hop into the episode. Hey, journeyers, I'm excited to be speaking with this week's |
| 1:38.5 | guest. I know I say I'm excited each time, but I truly am. And this week's guest has |
| 1:42.8 | never been on the show, even though I do know her personally. She has such a great energy, |
| 1:48.3 | such a vibrant character. When it comes to talking about money, she has such a great |
| 1:52.1 | way in which she puts things. So I do think you'll love this episode. Her name is Amanda |
| 1:56.9 | Holden. She is the award-winning money writer, speaker, and educator. She's also known |
| 2:02.1 | as dumpster doggy on social media. And so we're going to talk about her name because when |
| 2:06.8 | I first saw your name, Amanda, I was like, who calls themselves dumpster doggy? But after |
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