Episode 385: Retiring Early, Paying Off The Mortgage, & Having Space To Focus On Joy With Journeyer Leilani Reed-Logan
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 53 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/episode40
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| 0:00.0 | Even if I wasn't able to retire 30 because I had long past that road, |
| 0:07.0 | maybe I could do certain things that weren't going to kill me, |
| 0:11.0 | but may also allow me to retire earlier than I had |
| 0:14.2 | claimed. So definitely was skeptical absolutely when I first started listening to you. |
| 0:19.4 | And my friends thought I was a little crazy too with this idea of, you know, there are people out there that like stopped working at 30 and they don't go back to work and it's like, here, right? No one does that. |
| 0:32.0 | T minus 10 seconds. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host |
| 0:37.0 | Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:41.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:48.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:52.0 | Five, four, three... launch to financial freedom in five four three two one. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay journey. Okay, Jerniers, what if I told you that there was an AI tool that could help you get out of debt? |
| 1:10.0 | Yep, it's true. Fortress is a revolutionary AI tool designed to get you out of debt swiftly and effectively. |
| 1:18.0 | I've tried it myself and I must say I am very impressed. |
| 1:22.0 | Fortress gives you custom strategies and solutions to help you get |
| 1:25.9 | on track with your debt. You put in some details about your debt and |
| 1:29.1 | circumstances like your debt balances, goals, and more, |
| 1:32.6 | and then it gives you solutions to help you get on track. |
| 1:35.7 | My favorite part of this tool |
| 1:37.4 | is being able to ask questions that are specific to your situation. |
| 1:41.6 | You can ask it to explain financial concepts and it will |
| 1:44.5 | suggest strategies you may not have thought about. After helping you understand |
| 1:48.4 | your best options it continues to support you, ensuring you know exactly what to do next. This |
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