How to Buy Back Your Freedom with FIRE | Jamila Souffrant of Journey To Launch
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
All of February, we are exclusively featuring Black creators in the personal finance and entrepreneurship space. In Episode 76, we hear from Jamila Souffrant of Journey To Launch!
Jamila Souffrant is the creator and host of Journey To Launch, a blog turned podcast that she began as a way to document her journey to financial independence. Jamila was pregnant with her first son and dealing with a 3-4 hour long commute. She knew right then that she needed to figure out a way to retire early and buy back her freedom. In 2018, she found herself packing up her cubicle and heading out the door for the last time. Why? Because she had finally achieved the financial freedom she needed to leave her job and become a full-time entrepreneur.
Two million downloads later, Jamila inspires listeners (known as journeyers) to eliminate debt, save more money and increase their net worth so that they can ultimately achieve Financial Freedom & Independence.
Episode Highlights:
- The trial-and-error of trying to find side hustles
- Her decision-making process when transitioning to a full-time entrepreneur
- Designing her life intentionally while reaching financial independence
- Getting your partner on board with FIRE
- Financial self-care
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If you’ve been feeling anxious as you embark on your money or entrepreneurial journey, this episode will reaffirm your decision-making. Nothing about this journey is easy, clear, or void of obstacles—especially when you’re a first-generation wealth-builder. Jamila paints it like it is with zero shame.
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| 0:00.0 | making the decision, I was okay with the financial independence journey taking longer because |
| 0:05.5 | I realized by starting that it wasn't about the money anymore. Like, why are we all on this |
| 0:10.7 | path to financial independence? It's because we want more options. We want security. We want |
| 0:15.3 | time to do the things we love. You're listening to Yo Quiero Dino, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host, Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert, speaker, writer, and business coach. |
| 0:30.4 | I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain financial independence through side hustles and investing. |
| 0:35.9 | On this show, we're serving up POC-friendly |
| 0:38.4 | personal finance knowledge, always with a side of SaaS. We're talking about how to make |
| 0:43.1 | Dineiro, how to keep it, and how to make it grow. If you're ready to become Poderosa with your |
| 0:48.3 | Dinero, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello, my gente. This is Janiceice and you're listening to Yo Quiro Dinoero Podcast, a personal finance podcast |
| 1:01.8 | for the modern Latina. |
| 1:03.5 | I am so incredibly excited to have you here and I know that this episode is going to be epic. The entire reason why I created this |
| 1:14.0 | podcast is because of the woman that you're going to hear from today. Today on the podcast, |
| 1:18.4 | we are hosting none other than Jamila Sufront, creator and host of the Journey to Launch |
| 1:24.3 | podcast. Jamila created this blog turned podcast as a way to document her |
| 1:29.5 | journey to financial independence. She was pregnant with her first child and after an excruciating |
| 1:35.0 | four-hour commute on a particular day, she decided right then and there that she needed to figure |
| 1:39.8 | out a way to retire early and buy back her freedom. In 2018, she found herself packing up her cubicle |
| 1:45.6 | and heading out that office door for the very last time because she had finally achieved the |
| 1:51.0 | financial freedom she needed to walk away from her nine to five and go into full-time entrepreneurship. |
| 1:57.4 | Two million downloads later, Jamila inspires listeners known as journeyers to eliminate debt, |
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