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 any limited resource that you need to manage.

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

means that you are turning away all other alternatives, and that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most?

What's most important to you, to your family, to the life that you want to build?

And second, how do you align your decision making to reflect that which matters most?

Now answering those two questions is a lifetime practice, and that's what this podcast is

here to explore and to facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation podcast, and today's

guests need no introduction.

Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonza, the hosts of the Choose F.I. podcast, join me for a very

deep conversation, philosophical and practical, about what we learned from 2020, how 2020

was a line in the sand, and what this experience of going through a pandemic has taught us

about finance, about work, and about life, what have we learned about the importance of

being mentally and logistically nimble and flexible and portable?

What have we learned when it comes to the distinction between directionality and methodology?

What have we learned when it comes to how to get a job, what type of education to get,

what to do with the rest of our lives?

And how do we assess whether we're leaning into our confirmation biases or whether we're

really onto something?

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