Episode 281-Lessons About Living From the Dying and Finding Balance Between YOLO & Protecting Your Financial Future w/ Jordan Grumet
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Grumet, award winning podcast host and author, joins the podcast to discuss how his experience with death and the dying pushes him to living a regret-free life where money isn't "the" ultimate end goal.
Jordan chats with us about how the Financial Independence community has shifted, why you should consider a YOLO (You Only Live Once) stance with your money, and how to find balance in your life.
In this episode we discuss:
- Exercises to find your purpose and identity in life before you get to the end of it
- Finding a balance between YOLO + protecting your financial future
- Why financial independence shouldn't be "the" goal
- Money lessons from working with the dying
- The flattening of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the parable of the three brothers, + more
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| 0:00.0 | The hypothesis of my book and what I've come to learn especially from dealing with the |
| 0:06.8 | dying is we wait too long to think about meaning and purpose and go for the lower hanging |
| 0:12.4 | fruit of figuring out a finance is first. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Jamila Sufrock, as a money expert |
| 0:23.4 | who walks her top. |
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