Joe, before you started your first business, did you had limiting beliefs?

I was 16 years old and I was starting a disc jockey company with my brother.

While I was very confident that we could be better than the DJ at the wedding I had recently attended,

which was why we wanted to start it because this DJ sucks so bad.

I was like, I could do that better.

Then my dad's like, well, maybe you guys should start a business. And, you so bad. I was like, I could do that better. Then my dad's like,

well, maybe you guys should start a business. And, you know, immediately, you're like, I'm 16 years old. How can I do that? So yeah, tons of limiting beliefs. I'm too young. I'm too an experience. I don't have any money. I don't know what I'm doing. Don't know anybody who'd run their own business. so everything from imposter syndrome to lack of experience. Wow. Well, we are going to talk today to someone who is

wondering if we can elaborate a little bit on limiting beliefs, but this is someone who has just

had a big victory. We're also going to talk about community bonds and how to merge the way that you invest your money with your desire to support the community.

And we are going to talk about ESOPs, employee stock ownership plans.

All that in one episode?

All in one episode.

Welcome to the Afford Anything podcast, the show that knows you can afford anything, not everything.

This show covers five pillars.

Financial Psychology, increasing your income, investing, real estate, and entrepreneurship.

It's double-eye fire.

I'm your host, Paula Pant.

I trained in economic reporting at Columbia.

Every other episode-ish, I answer questions from you, and I do so with my buddy, the former financial planner,

Joe Salci.

I just got back from a run and feeling a little beat up, but ready to sit on my butt and answer some questions.

You're training for a marathon, yeah?

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