Episode 453: Finding Clarity, Confidence & Community on Your FI Journey w/ Latoya Rowe
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, I sit down with longtime Journeyer and two-time Journey to FI program member Latoya Rowe. Latoya shares how she pivoted into a higher-earning career, discovered financial independence during her grad-school commute, and rebuilt her financial foundation while juggling motherhood, debt, and major life changes. She opens up about the emotional and financial impact of selling her rental properties, how community reignited her belief that FI is possible, and why mindset became the key that unlocked her momentum.
We also talk about the power of visualizing your ideal life, how Latoya is shifting into coaching while reducing stress in her clinical career, and what it really looks like to choose balance and flexibility on the FI journey. Her story is a beautiful reminder that progress isn't linear and that clarity, community, and courage can completely transform your financial path.
In this episode, Latoya and I discuss:
- How she changed careers and discovered the FI movement
- Why she sold her real estate and how it freed her financially
- The mindset and community support that helped her regain focus
- How visualizing her future inspired her coaching career shift
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| 0:00.0 | It's not just about having a whole lot of money, although that's nice to have, but that's not the actual main motivation. |
| 0:08.3 | It's about having the freedom to say, I don't have to ask about how I spend my time, where I go, when I do it. |
| 0:14.7 | My time is mine. It belongs to me, and I get to decide what I want to do with it. |
| 0:18.7 | And if I want to allocate it towards spending more time with my children, if I want to spend |
| 0:21.8 | it more time doing something that's a hobby or an interest of mine, I don't have to justify |
| 0:26.7 | it because it's productive or useful to somebody else. |
| 0:30.3 | It's because it just lights me up and gives me joy. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufron. |
| 0:39.3 | As a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:49.1 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:52.4 | Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, journeyers. I have something exciting to share with you. I am opening up doors to map your |
| 1:07.5 | path to FI. That is my signature course where you can map out how you are going to |
| 1:13.4 | reach financial independence from wherever you are today. I have distilled all the information |
| 1:18.5 | and steps that I took to take me from working in my 9 to 5 and my long commute to being able |
| 1:24.9 | to have this flexible lifestyle that I have into this course. |
| 1:29.1 | And so usually doors are not open. |
| 1:30.9 | I have a wait list, but I've decided I'm opening up the doors where you can purchase the |
| 1:35.3 | course now. |
| 1:36.7 | And so if you're interested in learning more, go to journey to launch.com slash fI course. |
| 1:42.3 | And on top of that, I'm actually offering a couple tiers in which you can interact with the |
| 1:47.0 | course because I do know that everyone needs something different or needs different levels of |
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