Author: Erin @ Team Afford Anything

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    #230: How to Develop Emotional Agility, with Dr. Susan David

    ByErin @ Team Afford Anything
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    Dr. Susan David, a psychologist on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, joins us to talk about emotional agility.

    For the past 20 years, Dr. David has researched and refined the principals around this concept.

    A few years ago, she wrote about emotional agility for the Harvard Business Review. Her article became one of the most popular articles of the year, and the publishers heralded it as the Management Idea of the Year.

    Dr. David gave a TED talk on the same topic, which went viral, gaining over a million views. She then published a book, called Emotional Agility, which became a #1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller.

    The concept of emotional agility also won the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award. She’s provided consulting around this concept with clients that include the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the NASDAQ, Google, and Microsoft.

    She joins us today to explain how to define emotional agility, how to develop it in your life, and how it applies to any goal that you want to pursue – whether that’s financial independence, early retirement, career advancement, or greater success in your health and your relationships.

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    #228: What I Learned from Losing $170 Million, with Noah Kagan

    ByErin @ Team Afford Anything
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    In November 2005, when Noah Kagan was 24, he was hired as Employee #30 at Facebook.

    At the time, Facebook was a one-year-old company with only a few million users. The company was growing rapidly, adding 50,000 new users per day.

    Noah joined the team as product manager. He made a base salary of $60,000 plus 0.1 percent of ownership, equivalent to 20,000 shares.

    His stock options would have been worth $170 million if he’d cashed out in 2014, he says.

    But he didn’t see a dime.

    In June 2006, merely 9 months after he started working at Facebook, Noah got fired. Instead of making $170 million, he made zero.

    He fell into a deep depression for a year. Then he rescued himself by starting his own company.

    He became a serial entrepreneur. He tried his hand at a lot of things — including developing Facebook games, selling discount cards, creating a payment processor in the gaming space — but he’s best known for his two most successful companies.

    In 2010 he started a company, AppSumo, which offers daily deals on software for small businesses. It’s like Groupon for online entrepreneurs. By 2012, AppSumo was grossing $4 million per year in revenue, with annual net profits of $500,000.

    Yet Noah wasn’t fulfilled. So he pivoted. He offloaded the day-to-day management of the company to a colleague, and in 2015 he started a sister company, Sumo.com, which develops marketing tools for websites and online businesses.

    In today’s episode, Noah and I discuss reflections on business, money and life.

    Enjoy!

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    #226: How to Make Time for Things That Matter, with John Zeratsky

    ByErin @ Team Afford Anything
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    Feeling time-crunched? Today’s episode is for you.

    Today’s episode features productivity expert John Zeratsky, who shares specific, action-packed time management strategies, with a focus on email management. If the term inbox zero sounds laughable, these strategies are up your alley.

    John’s interest in productivity began one winter morning in 2008, when he realized that the past few months had been an eerie blur. He realized that time was slipping away. He knew he needed to figure out a better way to manage his time – and his life.

    He started deep-diving into time management strategies and eventually co-authored a book, Make Time.

    If you want to learn how to redesign your daily schedule, you’ll enjoy this episode.

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    #224: The Science of Rapid Learning, with Scott Young, author of Ultralearning

    ByErin @ Team Afford Anything
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    Today on the show we feature Scott Young, author of Wall Street Journal best-selling book Ultralearning.

    Scott finished a 4-year MIT computer science curriculum in one year, learned how to speak four languages fluently in one year, and learned how to draw portraits in 30 days. Scott is also a writer, programmer, traveler, and avid reader who, for the last ten years, has explored the question: what’s the best way to learn? Ultralearning answers that question.

    In today’s episode, we chat about the nine principles of Ultralearning, which can help you learn new skills, reinvent yourself, stay relevant, and adapt to whatever life throws at you. If you think you know the best way to learn something…think again. This book will challenge your assumptions.

    If you enjoyed my interviews with James Clear or Cal Newport, you’ll enjoy this one.

    Whether you want to develop hard skills to become more valuable at your job, soft skills for your journey to self-improvement, or you want to honor your love for learning, these nine principles will help you become more effective at developing new skills.

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    #222: Seven Ways to Escape the Rat Race, with Michael Robinson

    ByErin @ Team Afford Anything
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    Michael Robinson and his wife, Ellen, achieved financial independence at age 33. They ‘retired’ (they still enjoy working) three years later at age 36 on two five-figure incomes. Today, Michael and Ellen are raising their two children to be bilingual by slow traveling throughout Latin America.

    Michael and Ellen blog about their FIRE adventures at uncommondream.com. They believe that “the Uncommon Dream is the dream pursued – the dream met with planning, action, and sacrifice. With just a dream and those three tools, you can accomplish almost anything.”

    Today, Michael joins us on the show to talk about the seven ways that he and Ellen escaped the rat race and achieved FI at 33.