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December 18, 2017By Paula Pant

#108: Ask Paula – I Don’t Know How to Invest

Former financial advisor Joe Saul-Sehy joins me to answer audience questions about investing strategies, early retirement, and tax planning.

Whitnee asks:

I’m 31, and my husband and I save half of our combined income. We’ve maxed out our H.S.A. accounts and we’re getting an employer match in our 401k. We have $80,000 stashed as cash […]

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December 11, 2017By Paula Pant

#107: How Scott Harrison Brought Clean Water to 7.3 Million People

Scott Harrison spent 10 years as a New York City nightclub promoter, partying until sunrise every morning and ingesting almost every substance imaginable.

But when he was 28, he realized his life lacked meaning.

“My tombstone might say, ‘here’s the guy who got thousands of people drunk,’” Harrison said.

Feeling lost, he decided to volunteer […]

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December 4, 2017By Paula Pant

#106: Ask Paula – How to Estimate Repair Costs, File Taxes on Rental Income, and More

How do you search for rental properties out-of-state? Should I offer a lease-option contract to my friends? How can I estimate repair and maintenance costs? And can you deep-dive into bookkeeping and taxes for rental real estate?

I tackle these four questions in this episode of Ask Paula – real estate edition.

Saul from Salt […]

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November 27, 2017By Paula Pant

#105: Living Life as an Experiment – with A.J. Jacobs

A.J. Jacobs is the Editor-at-Large of Esquire Magazine and the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books. His three TED Talks have collectively garnered more than three million views. He describes himself as “a father of three, husband of one, and cousin to millions.”

And he’s probably your cousin. Twice removed.

AJ joins me […]

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November 20, 2017By Paula Pant

#104: Ask Paula – How Can I Learn about Money from the People Around Me?

This week, I answer 4 questions about quitting a depressing job, learning how to ask probing questions, saving for a downpayment, and more.

Edward asks:
How can I learn from other people around me? I’m 28, and my wife and I have some money that we’d like to invest. We know people who’ve had […]

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November 13, 2017By Paula Pant

#103: Random Smattering of Lessons on Money, Work and Life — plus A Call for Radical Authenticity

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On today’s podcast, I’m sharing this random smattering of lessons on money and life.⠀

1) Simplify everything.⠀
2) Risk = Probability x Magnitude.⠀
3) Curate.⠀
4) Never delay gratification.⠀
5) Know your net worth, relative to your lifetime earnings.⠀
6) Don’t half-ass anything. (Whole-ass a few things.)⠀
 […]

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November 6, 2017By Paula Pant

#102: Ask Paula – Should I Sell My Rental Property & Invest the Proceeds in the Market?

This week, I’m back to answering questions posed by listeners of the podcast.

Wally asks:

Should we continue to rent out our home, or should we sell it? We bought a home in California but have since moved to New York and have been renting there. After all expenses on the rental are accounted for, […]

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October 30, 2017By Paula Pant

#101: The Code of Trust, with Robin Dreeke

Robin Dreeke is former head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.

His primary role, at the time, was to thwart foreign spies and recruit American spies. That’s not an easy task.

To accomplish this, Dreeke needed to gain people’s trust — even when they had no reason to trust him.

He spent years developing […]

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October 23, 2017By Paula Pant

#100: Life After Financial Freedom, with Brandon – the Mad FIentist

Over a year-and-a-half and two million plus downloads later, the Afford Anything podcast has hit another awesome milestone: the 100th episode!

To celebrate, I recorded this one live from Ecuador with my good friend Brandon, otherwise known as the Mad FIentist. (You can watch the video here.)

If you’ve been a listener since the […]

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October 16, 2017By Paula Pant

#99: How I Grew BiggerPockets From 0 to 870,000 Members – with Joshua Dorkin

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Thirteen years ago, Joshua Dorkin’s friends teased him about starting a website that seemed to have no future.

“I would get calls from my buddies who would literally call me on my cell phone [and say] ‘Hey Josh, we just walked past a penny on the ground. We were thinking about picking it […]

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