Episode 295- Life After Debt, Achieving Financial Freedom & Quitting Law For Full-Time Entrepreneurship With Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez, Esq., founder of Zero-Based Budget and new author of "Overcoming Debt, Achieving Financial Freedom Book: 8 Pillars to Build Wealth," joins the Journey To Launch podcast to discuss her upcoming book and quitting law to pursue entrepreneurship.
We talk about how she was able to achieve Coast FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), leave her law firm to run her business full-time, and the importance of being transparent about your money and your vision with those you love and value.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Cindy took a balanced approach when paying off her $200k law school degree in 4 years
- The difficult decision Cindy had to make between practicing law and running her business + money transparency when choosing to be self-employed
- Why you need "back up" funds to mitigate risk + take worst case scenarios into consideration if you're deciding to leave a secure job
- Budgeting strategies and techniques you can use to transform your finances (even if you don't like budgeting)
- What a career-shift conversation needs to look like with your partner and loved ones + more
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There are very practical things that happen and that have to change when you're making |
| 0:07.5 | a shift like this. |
| 0:08.5 | And you have to talk about that with your partner very clearly. |
| 0:13.0 | So what is my portion of the retina going to be? |
| 0:16.2 | What are my financial obligations going to be? |
| 0:19.9 | How are we going to handle certain expenses that come up? |
| 0:23.2 | You know, if one of us wants to take an expensive trip, so you need to have that conversation. |
| 0:28.6 | And I actually think you need to have it before you make the move. |
| 0:31.8 | Team Minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron, as a money expert |
| 0:39.8 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:41.3 | She helps brave juniors like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:48.4 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-on-4-3-2-1. |
| 0:58.6 | Exciting news. |
| 1:02.9 | We are giving away a copy of today's guest book. |
| 1:06.4 | So if you want your chance to win a copy, go to journeytalanche.com slash win for more |
| 1:13.3 | details. |
| 1:14.3 | Also make sure you're following me at Journey to Launch on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook |
| 1:19.8 | to get the details. |
| 1:21.7 | If you want the episode show notes for this episode, go to journeytalanche.com or click the |
| 1:27.2 | description of wherever you're listening to this episode. |
| 1:30.3 | In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the conversation, the links that |
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