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"I'm in my early 30s trying hard to save money between contributing to my retirement account, future house down payment, travel funds, and emergency savings. That doesn't leave much left over to buy fancy clothes, shoes or cars. My question is... how do you fight the urge to keep up with the Joneses?"
"I started my own company because I was fed up with the industry of financial planners... I got sick of my bosses telling me, "You have to work with a 55 year old, white couple that's looking to retire tomorrow with a million dollars." Because that's not my life, right? That's not who I connect with."
"I asked my friend, "Hey! Can I take over the front part of your mosaic tile studio? I see an opportunity here to sell art." And she said, "Yes!" So, I started having exhibitions and reaching out to artists that I love, to say, "Hey! would you like to join my portfolio? I don't really know what I'm doing yet, but would you like to?" And, over the last 3 years I've amassed a beautiful collection of emerging artists."
"With the Equifax hack I was wondering what steps you're taking to protect yourself? I'm reading a lot of information online about signing up for credit monitoring vs. credit freezing. There's a lot of confusing information."
"These days you can be the best in your field, but you still might not really be able to make a living from what you do. You have to get smart about how to monetize it because that is often a completely different skill set than whatever your profession is."
"I'm pushing myself every day to try to think more about what are the things and stories that I really care about? Like building the community of people who are really into building business, being entrepreneurial and taking chances and risks. I'm trying every single day to be closer and closer to that...The closer I am to being fulfilled, the more successful I feel."
"My husband and I have $30K in credit card debt from when he was sick and unable to work. We have about $300K in retirement and $50K in cash savings. Should we use the cash to pay off the credit card debt even though not having the cash savings gives me a bit of an anxiety attack?"
"I went through a period of pain where I had no fulfillment at work. I hated my job. I didn’t want to wake up and do it the next day. It was the process of trying to rediscover my passion that I discovered this thing called the why."
"I had this vision that like, “Once we hit this benchmark, everything is going to be great.” A lot of other people have that idea too, where you earn a million dollars, get a promotion at work or get to date this person who you think is awesome and you think that everything is just going to be fantastic. Then you’ll be happy. But I started to realize that the more I chased money and the more I chased more and more money, it wasn’t fulfilling to me."
