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Journey To Launch

Episode 468: A Money System That Works When Life Falls Apart with Sahirenys Pierce

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sahirenys Pierce joins the Journey to Launch Podcast to break down the money system that completely transformed her financial life: the High Five Banking Method.

In this powerful conversation, Sahirenys opens up about how navigating the 2008 recession, walking away from corporate finance, becoming a mom, and preparing for her son's open-heart surgery forced her to rethink everything she thought she knew about money. What emerged wasn't just a budgeting tweak, it was a structured banking system built to create clarity, stability, and peace of mind during life's most overwhelming seasons.

In this episode, we explore:

  • Why traditional budgeting often falls apart when life gets hard
  • How to build a simple but strategic banking structure
  • The role emotional security plays in financial decision-making
  • How to design a system that supports you in both calm and crisis + more.

This conversation is about more than managing money, it's about creating structure with purpose, reducing financial stress, and building systems that truly hold up under pressure. Sahirenys now shares this framework more broadly in her book, The High Five Banking Method: A Money System You Can Count On.

What's New in the Paperback Edition of Your Journey to Financial Freedom:

  • A bonus chapter: When Life Happens: Staying on the Path to Financial Freedom Through Setbacks, Shifts, and Uncertainty
  • A book club and discussion guide with prompts, exercises, and action steps
  • Updated corrections from the original hardcover
  • Exclusive bonuses when you purchase the paperback, including:
    • The Fire Starter Course
    • The Find Your FIRE Number Worksheet

Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:

Connect with Sahirenys:

Connect with me:

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, one of the most difficult things when it comes to even setting goals for people

0:05.9

is that they're holding on to their childhood dreams. And all the things that they wanted to do

0:11.4

and buy and go to, I want to travel the world, I want to go out to eat every single night or,

0:15.9

you know, at least a few times, my friends. And we hold on so tight to that vision of what we thought success was in our childhood

0:23.1

that we're not actually accounting for who we are right now and what season we're in.

0:28.0

And what goals we also want to achieve for ourselves.

0:32.7

Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast with your host, Jamila Sufran.

0:37.4

As a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.

0:47.2

Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in the episode show notes for this episode, go to journey to launch.com or click the description of wherever you're listening to this episode.

1:08.5

In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed version of

1:11.8

the conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more. Also, whether you are an OG journeyer

1:18.2

or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free Jumpstar guide to help you on your financial

1:24.0

freedom journey. It includes the top episodes to listen to stages to go through

1:28.3

to reach financial freedom, resources, and so much more. You can go to journey tolaunch.com

1:34.1

slash jumpstart to get your guide right now. Okay, let's hop into the episode.

1:40.8

Hey, hey, hey, journeyers. Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast. Today, we have special guest,

1:46.2

Cyrenees Pierce. She is the founder of poise, finance, and lifestyle, and creator of the

1:51.8

High Five banking method. She's a millennial Latina mom and financial wellness educator with

1:57.9

a background in finance and financial planning. She's held goals at numerous companies,

2:03.7

and now she is teaching us how to manage our cash flow, build wealth. She's also the author

2:11.3

of a brand new book called The High Five Banking Method, A Money System You Can Count on. Fun fact, she has been on the podcast before, but back in May 2020.

2:22.3

So I can't believe that's like almost six years ago.

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