By Paula Pant
“So to me, this is not a money management question.”
That’s what I told a listener partway into this episode — right after she told me she’s 42, makes $140,000 a year, and has $686,000 saved.
She wasn’t asking if she could afford a family gap year. Her numbers already answered […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, I want to first talk about the elephant in the room.”
Before we get into any retirement math today, I need to talk about something personal: the disaster that just hit Nepal, my home country. My family is safe, but I’ve spent the last several days thinking, oddly enough, about why […]
By Paula Pant
Luke Burgis built his first company by stocking vending machines.
He was 23. He and his business partner put pita chips and granola bars in machines that had only ever held Snickers, and called it “food distribution” because it sounded better than what it was.
Years later, after selling that company and […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, if you had to choose between retiring as soon as possible or paying off a mortgage, what would you go for?”
I ask Joe that right at the top of this episode, and his answer ends up being more prophetic than either of us realized.
Joe and I help […]
By Paula Pant
Jack Raines liked his boss on Hinge.
It wasn’t reciprocal. A few months later, three beers deep at a bar, he told her he was quitting — then found a $250 plane ticket to Barcelona and left the country […]
By Paula Pant
“Joe, how much did you spend on your wedding?”
That’s how this episode kicks off, and it sets up the theme running through everything else.
Joe and I help a couple figure out if their plan to retire together in […]
By Paula Pant
Would you trust someone with your money if the “interview” for the job was a fifty-page pitch deck and a decade-long commitment?
That’s essentially what happens every time someone becomes a limited partner in a venture capital fund.
I sat […]
By Paula Pant
Why can’t you buy Vegemite in Philadelphia — and what does that have to do with building a wildly profitable online brand?
There are invisible forces shaping what you buy. Where you live. Who’s around you. What your local stores do — […]
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