Jen Sincero says she used to be a "grouchy broke person"

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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#75: In her early 40's, Jen lived in a converted garage, buried in credit card debt and scrounging for spare change. She was the type of person who'd join her friends at a restaurant for dinner , order nothing except tap water, and fill up on the complimentary bread basket. She used duct-tape to repair her shoes. Her "splurges" consisted of buying new windshield wipers. Despite her struggles, Jen believed that pursuing wealth was icky. She'd internalized negative social attitudes towards money, such as: Money isn't important. People are. Rich people are lucky / gross / shallow. You can't make money doing [insert your-dream-here]. You have to attend a good college to make money. Money is out of my reach. It's lonely at the top. Who has that kind of money? He/she is only about the money. Those negative attitudes, Jen says, were holding her back. So she created a more positive script -- such as "I'm good at making money," and "Money is a tool that helps me live my best life." This attitude shift made all the difference. In today's interview, Jen describes her journey from broke to badass, and she explains how everyone can become more of a maverick at making money. Enjoy! Resources mentioned in this episode can be found at http://affordanything.com/episode75 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything. First and foremost, get that embedded into your mind. You can
0:14.5	afford anything, not everything, but anything. My name is Paula Pan. I'm the host of the
0:20.6	Affordable Care Podcast where we talk about how to make decisions, about how to spend
0:25.6	your money, your time, energy, focus, attention, all of those valuable, limited resources in
0:31.4	your life that can propel you towards greater and greater things. And today on the show,
0:36.8	we have number one, New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero. Jen wrote a book,
0:44.0	by the way, I'm going to have to cuss because there is a profanity in the title of her
0:49.2	book. So if there are kids around, I literally cannot say the title of her book without
0:55.1	profanity. So this, this episode is marked E for explicit. This is my disclaimer. Consider
1:00.8	yourself warned. So Jen wrote a book called You Are Badass. She released it in 2013 and
1:07.0	it went on to become a mega bestseller. It sold more than one million copies. And it
1:12.8	continues even now, four years later, it continues to be number one on the New York Times
1:18.5	bestseller list. That's freaking amazing. I brought Jen onto the show because she is publishing
1:25.1	a follow up called You Are Badass At Making Money. This conversation that we have is all
1:32.0	about deciding that you're going to make money, deciding that you're going to be a bad
1:36.2	asset making money, and then having the inner drive to do it. So she shares the story
1:42.7	of how even into her forties, she was broke in debt, living in a garage, then just one
1:48.9	day decided that she was going to change. And she talks about how making that decision
1:53.8	was incredibly powerful. So without any further delay, bestselling author Jen Sincero,
2:02.6	someone who sold more than a million copies of her last book on the topic of You Are Bad
2:08.3	ass At Making Money. Hey Jen. Hey, how's it going? Excellent. How are you doing? I'm good.
2:18.9	Awesome. Awesome. Before we get into your philosophy about money, which I think is rockstar,
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