Episode 439: Life Planning for Fulfillment Beyond Finances & 3 Questions To Help You Live a Meaningful Life w/ George Kinder REWIND
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
George Kinder is an author, international thought leader, and founder of Kinder Institute of Life Planning with more than 35 years of experience as a financial planner and tax advisor. George is dedicated to guiding individuals in uncovering their deepest values and leading more fulfilling lives. His ultimate aim is to promote greater freedom in every aspect of existence.
In this conversation we discuss:
- The importance of living in the present moment and mastering one's life.
- George's three questions to help identify goals and priorities and how the answer to the "having 24 hrs left" question helps you realize what you've missed in life.
- The balance between short-term pleasure and long-term financial planning.
- How to find a trust-worthy financial planner who will help with your life plan
- George's approach to parenting is being a good listener & showing empathy, rather than being overly restrictive or reactive + more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Civilization is ours. |
| 0:04.0 | And if we don't claim it is ours, if we let it go in some way, let democracy go, |
| 0:11.0 | let whatever it is, our rights go, what happens is that we can also lose the personal finance freedom. |
| 0:18.0 | We can also lose so many freedoms, the basic rights that we have. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron, as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:32.5 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:39.7 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey, journeyer, a quick note, you will be listening to a rewind episode. That means this episode was previously aired months or years ago. I have hundreds and hundreds of episodes of the podcast. And so I will be sometimes replaying my favorite, favorite conversations for you to maybe listen to the first time or re-listen to again. So enjoy. If you want the episode |
| 1:13.9 | show notes for this episode, go to journey to launch.com or click the description of wherever |
| 1:19.5 | you're listening to this episode. In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of the |
| 1:24.8 | conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more. |
| 1:28.8 | Also, whether you are an OG journeyer or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free |
| 1:34.1 | jumpstart guide to help you on your financial freedom journey. |
| 1:38.0 | It includes the top episodes to listen to stages to go through to reach financial freedom, |
| 1:42.8 | resources, and so much more. |
| 1:44.3 | You can go to Journey tolaunch.com slash Jumpstart to get your guide right now. |
| 1:50.2 | Okay, let's hop into the episode. |
| 1:54.1 | Hey, hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 1:55.8 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm very pleased to have today's guests on the show. |
| 2:02.4 | George Kinder will be joining us. He is an author, international thought leader and life planning pioneer. He's been at the |
| 2:08.2 | forefront of the financial services industry for more than 35 years, spearheading a movement |
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