Everything I Learned About Money Came from My Grandmother - with Michelle Singletary of the Washington Post

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Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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#166: Michelle Singletary learned everything she knows about money from her grandmother. Well, okay, I shouldn't say "everything" that she knows. After all, Michelle also has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. She writes about personal finance for the Washington Post. Her nationally-syndicated personal finance column, The Color of Money, is published in more than 100 newspapers nationwide. She's written three financial books. Michelle has been learning, thinking, writing, researching and speaking about money management for decades. Yet the most important education she received, she says, came from the lessons her grandmother taught her. Today, Michelle joins us on the Afford Anything podcast to talk about what she learned about financial independence, and her views on the FIRE movement. For more information, visit the show notes at http://affordanything.com/episode166 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:11.0	Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just
0:14.4	apply to your money, it applies to anything in your life that's a limited resource, such
0:19.4	as your time, your energy, your focus, your attention.
0:23.6	So what matters most?
0:26.5	And how do you align your daily behaviors to reflect that?
0:30.4	Those two questions are what this podcast exists to explore.
0:34.6	My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and the founder of
0:38.0	AffordAnything.com.
0:39.8	Today Michelle Singletary joins us and this, to be perfectly honest, is one of my favorite
0:47.2	recent interviews and you will see why when you listen to this episode.
0:53.0	Michelle writes a nationally syndicated personal finance column for the Washington Post.
0:59.0	Her column, which has called the color of money, appears not only in the Washington Post
1:03.6	but in dozens of other newspapers nationwide.
1:08.2	She also frequently contributes to NPR and she's appeared on Oprah, the Today Show, and CNN.
1:14.4	She has an MBA from John Hopkins where she has received the Distinguished Alumni Award.
1:19.6	Michelle has been writing about personal finance for the Washington Post for decades and
1:25.7	we talked today about financial principles as well as the financial independence early
1:32.4	retirement movement.
1:34.4	She has amazing insights and I'm very excited to introduce her to you.
1:38.3	Here she is, Michelle Singletary.
1:42.3	Hi Michelle, thank you for coming on the show.
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