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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

How Jay Became a Half-a-Millionaire -- and Why He Wants You to Track Your Net Worth

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

#8: J. Money is a HALF-MILLY! He loves to share his journey to growing net worth on his blog, as well as the net worth of 180 other financial bloggers. See the short list and find links to resources by visiting the blog at https://affordanything.com/episode8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, Paula. Hey, Jay, what's up? Talking to you. What are you doing? Oh, talking to you.

0:05.8

That's far like the nerdy intro, but I always wanted to say it. Actually, I'm recording a podcast right now. That's true.

0:12.2

After that, I might send some emails.

0:13.8

I see.

0:18.0

You were listening to the Paula and Jay money show. We'd rather be at a bar with you right now,

0:22.2

but this is the next best thing. It's financial freedom time with Paula Pant and Jay money.

0:30.0

So, all right. What are we going to talk about today, Jay?

0:32.9

You were telling me that you wanted to pick my brain on net worth stuff.

0:36.6

And I, net worth is my favorite topic in the world, so I'm ready for you.

0:41.1

Cool. So, yeah, I've been curious about this. So, for people who are listening, Jay is famous.

0:47.4

Absolutely famous for publicly disclosing his net worth every month.

0:52.3

It's fun.

0:53.0

Tell me about that. So, when did you start tracking? First of all, let's just jump right into the juice of it.

0:58.1

Sure. As of the time of this recording, how much are you worth?

1:02.0

My net worth right now is 493,000 in chains.

1:08.4

So, real close to the half a million mark.

1:11.6

You're a half a millionaire. Half a millionaire.

1:15.1

I had no, now that it sounds sexy, yes.

1:19.5

You are Elis-Taken half a million years.

1:22.6

Yeah, you know, it's funny. When I first stumbled across blogs or money online,

1:27.0

like I didn't know what blogging was like seven or eight years ago.

1:31.3

So, when I first started typing in, you know, need a budget,

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