You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

Anything in your life that is a limited resource is something that you need to manage because

saying yes to something means that you are implicitly saying no to other opportunities.

Anything has a trade-off.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what do you want to focus on?

What matters most?

And second, how do you focus on that?

How do you align your daily decisions in order to reflect that?

The what and the how?

And really, the core of both of those questions is the why.

And that's what this podcast is here to explore.

My name is Paula Pan.

I am the host of the Afford Anything podcast.

And today we're going to talk about how to have awkward money conversations with friends,

with family members, with significant others, with co-workers.

These types of conversations are unavoidable and most of us dread having these conversations.

They're awkward, heated, or draining, or all of the above.

Erin Lowry is the author of the Broke Millennial Book Series.

In her third book in this series, Broke Millennial talks money, she shares tips and scripts

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