You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just apply to your money.

That applies to any limited resource you need to manage.

Like your time, your focus, your energy, your attention, saying yes to something implicitly

means, saying no to all other options and that is terrifying and it opens up to questions.

First, what matters most?

Second, how do you align your choices around that which matters most?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is here

to help you facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and this week marks

the one-year anniversary of the Reddit Take Down of Wall Street.

I'm using that phrase a little tongue in cheeky, you'll hear about it in the upcoming interview,

but you remember a year ago when a bunch of people in a subreddit called Wall Street

Bets decided to pile into a bunch of meme stocks, most notably GameStop but also AMC

theaters, Nokia, Blackberry and a few others, they decided to all pile into these meme stocks,

drive up the prices and squeeze out the short sellers which were these major hedge funds

that had taken short positions, meaning they made money if the stock went down.

It was heralded as the triumph of the average investor, meaning some 25-year-old and his

mom's basement, over the hedge funds who long have marshalled their data, their research,

their troves of information to be able to know things that the rest of us don't.

And so in the standoff between individual investors versus institutional investors,

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