Episode 381: Life After Becoming Debt Free With Josie Espinoza REWIND

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Finances, Business, Realestateinvesting, Entrepreneurship, Earlyretirement, Investing, Budgeting, Wealth

5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are rewinding to Journeyer, Josie Espinoza’s episode who shares her debt free story. She was the first in her family to go to college, but then found herself in $50K of debt which included student loans, credit cards, and auto loan debt. She discovered a passion for financial freedom and independence; and through listening to podcasts, she was able to learn what was needed to become debt free. Once debt free, Josie and her husband became focused on financial planning, saving, and securing their family’s future.

In this episode, Josie shares:

Her story coming from Mexico at the age 8, helping her parents on the farm and being the youngest of 9 and the first one to get a college degree
How the money mindset, “Money is made to be spent” led her to accumulate $50K of debt and how 3 weeks without money was her rock bottom
How she was able to resign from her job that was affecting her mental health
Why she feels that anyone can change their finances with a little effort & more

Transcript

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0:00.0	I didn't find my job because I was working in an environment that was affecting my mental health and thanks to the finance and knowledge that I have been, I was able to comfortably
0:15.0	resigned because I knew that there was things I could fall back to if things didn't work out.
0:20.0	I think right now I feel like freedom like I almost made it to even though it's not my
0:27.1	ultimate goal I am thankful that I was able to do that thanks to all your health. the money expert who walks her talk. She helps brave journeys like you,
0:44.7	get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth.
0:49.6	Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three two one.
1:05.0	Hey hey hey, hey, journeyers. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast.
1:08.0	I'm your host, Jamila Sufrant.
1:11.0	I hope you've been enjoying these episodes I've been toying around in basically
1:17.0	doing a summer rewind episode so these were episodes that were previously aired on the podcast but that were mentioned as case studies or references in my book
1:27.8	Your journey to financial freedom. We had episodes based on debt payoff
1:36.5	Financial Independence and now I'm just going to sprinkle in some fan favorite episodes and some of my personal faves. So you're going to hear some of those episodes for the next couple
1:41.1	weeks. I really hope you've been enjoying what you've been
1:43.8	listening to. If you want to check out my book, which I hope you've already gotten, but if not,
1:48.3	that's fine, you can pick it up now. Head over to your journey to Financial freedom.com to see where you can find it.
1:55.4	It's available everywhere.
1:56.9	Amazon, Walmart, Target, Barnes and Noble,
2:00.3	your local bookstore store basically everywhere.
2:04.0	head over to your journey to financial freedom.com to pick up the book.
2:07.0	Now happy listening and I hope you enjoy these episodes.
2:11.0	If you want the episode show notes for this episode go to journey to launch.com or
2:16.0	click the description of wherever you're listening to this episode in the show
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