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466 | Journey to Financial Freedom | Jamila Souffrant

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

Financialindependence, Investing, Firemovement, Passiveincome, Frugalliving, Personalfinancepodcast, Daveramsey, Careers, Business, Earlyretirement, Habits

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: finding a sustainable path to FI, adjusting your lifestyle, guac levels, mindset, and finding what you want.

Jamila Souffrant makes her long awaited return to the podcast to discuss building a sustainable path to FI, the importance of readjusting, financial freedom versus financial independence, as well as other topics detailed in her new book "Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness." While you may begin your FI journey with a set plan in mind, that doesn’t mean the actions you take along the trail of your journey won't serve you at different stages. On this journey, you should never feel like you are depriving or overindulging, but rather finding a balance that works for you and brings you happiness in the present. Remember, reaching your FI goal should never be at the cost of your happiness, and while making necessary changes is part of FI, you shouldn’t be sacrificing your happiness in order to reach your goal quicker. Being mindful and willing to change your plans just as life can change will not only bring you more freedom, but allow you to make the necessary mindset changes that will serve you in ways well beyond your financial journey!

Jamila Souffrant:

Timestamps:

  • 0:49 - Introduction/Update From Jamila
  • 5:02 - Finding Your Sustainable Path to FI
  • 11:55 - The Perks of Pursuing FI/Adjusting Your Lifestyle Levels
  • 17:17 - Diagnosing Your True Area of Need
  • 22:39 - Gaining Stability/Having Power From Your Money
  • 27:23 - The Importance of Mindset/Believing it's Possible
  • 31:10 - Finding What You Want
  • 38:59 - Setting Financial Goals
  • 41:18 - Conclusion

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Choose A5 today on the show we have a good friend

0:03.7

Jamilisu front back on the podcast it's actually been over five and a half years

0:07.6

since she last joined us and she is the author of the brand new book Your Journey to Financial Freedom and is the host of the

0:15.4

Journey to Launch Podcast.

0:17.4

She just has a remarkable story and I'm so curious to catch up with her to learn how her Fai journey has been going since, again,

0:25.8

the early days when she had just made a massive change when we last spoke with her to leave

0:32.0

her full-time career. So it should be a great catch-up and I really

0:35.6

want to dive into her book because it's absolutely phenomenal so with that welcome to

0:40.2

choose that pie. to Chooza-Fi. Jamela, welcome back to Chooza, it is so good to see you.

0:51.8

Hi Brad, thank you for having me.

0:54.0

Yeah, this should be fun.

0:55.0

So, okay, the last we chatted with you was incredibly,

0:58.0

or obviously on the podcast,

1:00.0

the last time I chatted with you is episode 73,

1:02.0

which came out in April of 2018.

1:05.2

Obviously, can't expect you to catch us up on your entire life in 30 minutes, but let's go back to where

1:12.2

we were then, which was, I think you had just maybe made the decision to leave your job, but you hadn't quite done it yet?

1:20.6

Yeah, so if it aired in April of 2018, that was just before I gave birth to my third child

1:26.4

in May, and I was on maternity leave after that, but I had already planned to not return to work

1:31.7

after my maternity leave, and so I left and exited the

1:34.9

workforce in the fall of 2018 so it wasn't public by the time we probably spoke

1:39.7

but we may have spoke offline about my plans.

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