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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

What I've Learned from 9 Years of Nonstop Travel, with Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

#77: “Have you ever tried to stop-peeing midstream? It’s like trying to put spray cheese back in the can. The damage has been done, and the only thing left to do is try to enjoy yourself.” That’s a quote from a deleted chapter in a book written by (in my opinion) one of the funniest bloggers on the internet, Geraldine DeRuiter. Geraldine is an ‘accidental’ travel writer. Nine years ago, she found herself laid-off from a copywriting job and decided, “screw it, I’m gonna travel.” She’s since visited around 30 countries, and her resulting travel blog, The Everywhereist, describes itself as “an award-winning cry for help.” For more, go to http://affordanything.com/episode77 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever tried to stop peeing midstream?

0:10.5

It's like trying to put spray cheese back in a can.

0:13.9

The damage has already been done.

0:15.9

And now, the only thing left to do is try to enjoy yourself.

0:19.8

That's a quote from a deleted chapter in a book that's written by today's guest, Geraldine.

0:24.1

You're listening, by the way, to the Afford Anything Podcast and I'm your host, Paula

0:27.8

Pant.

0:28.8

Afford Anything Podcast was started because I went and traveled for a couple of years and

0:32.9

as I traveled, the number one comment that I heard from my friends was, oh, I'd love

0:36.9

to travel, but I can't afford it.

0:39.2

And I started the blog and now the podcast and the YouTube channel in order to spread

0:43.5

the message that you can afford anything but not everything.

0:47.0

Every dollar that you spend on X is a dollar that you're implicitly not spending on Y.

0:51.5

And so, money management is really all about figuring out what your priorities are.

0:56.4

For me, back at the time, it was travel.

0:58.4

And yeah, it still is travel.

0:59.9

I've traveled quite a bit.

1:01.6

And the guest who I invited on the show today, Geraldine Deroiter, is an avid traveler.

1:07.3

She has traveled for the past nine years ever since she got laid off from her job.

1:12.6

She is also, and you're going to hear me kind of fan girl gush a little bit, she's also

1:17.0

the best travel writer I have ever read.

1:19.5

So admittedly, I brought her on the show because she's funny and she travels a lot and I thought

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