Episode 341: How Fear Can Be Your Superpower In Building Wealth, Crushing Your Career & Winning At Life With Farnoosh Torabi
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Farnoosh Torabi, author and host of the award-winning podcast So Money, joins the Journey to Launch podcast to talk about her new book, "A Healthy State Of Panic: Follow Your Fears To Build Wealth, Crush Your Career And Win At Life."
Farnoosh is America's leading personal finance expert, hooked on helping you live your richest, most fulfilling life. She has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Good Morning America, and more. So Money, her podcast of 9 years, has over 30 million downloads.
We chat about how Farnoosh's parents raised her to have a healthy state of panic and how it informs her perception of personal finance today, how fear can be a signal to move forward with your big goals, FOMO, and more.
In this episode you'll learn more about:
- Why we need to embrace fear instead of aim for the unrealistic characteristic of "fearless"
- The power of asking yourself, "What's the worst that can happen?" + moving through the consequences of not acting on those fears
- How identifying, in detail, what your fear is, can give you clear steps to change it
- What FOMO is, why it matters to your money, how the comparison game accelerates this feeling, Farnoosh's stand-up comedy career + more
Other Links Mentioned in episode:
- Listen to episode 71: The Business Of Money W/ Farnoosh Torabi
- Check out Farnoosh's book, A Healthy State of Panic
- Get The Budget Bootcamp for FREE
- Pre-order my new book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom and get access to FIRE STARTER Course for FREE
- Check out my personal website here.
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| 0:00.0 | When you're experiencing FOMO, think about what it is ultimately that you're after. |
| 0:09.6 | It's not the shiny object always, right? |
| 0:11.8 | It's the experience, it's the benefit, it's the payoff that you want, and you can create |
| 0:18.0 | that in your own way. |
| 0:19.7 | You don't have to do it like everybody else is doing. |
| 0:23.1 | And I only got to this point because I listened to my FOMO. |
| 0:26.7 | She minors 10 seconds. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast, with your host, Jamila Sufront, as a money expert |
| 0:34.9 | who rocks her top. |
| 0:36.4 | She helps brave juniors like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:43.5 | Join her on the Journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in 5-on-4-3-2-1. |
| 0:55.8 | Financial independence is not having to work for money anymore, but financial freedom |
| 1:00.4 | is about having options. |
| 1:02.4 | You can have financial freedom while on the Journey to Financial Independence, and my brand |
| 1:06.7 | new book, Your Journey to Financial Freedom, a step-by-step guide to achieving wealth and |
| 1:11.5 | happiness will show you exactly how to achieve that. |
| 1:15.1 | Your Journey to Financial Freedom comes out December 5th, but you can pre-order today |
| 1:20.1 | and get my brand new course, Firestarter, the Financial Independence Blueprint for free |
| 1:25.7 | to get started on how to chart your course to more money, less debt, and more freedom |
| 1:30.7 | today. |
| 1:31.7 | Discover how to define FI and financial freedom for yourself, work on the FI component, |
| 1:37.4 | and the FI formula, calculate your FI number, and more with this brand new course. |
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