Find Your Freedom

#48: You can travel with a full time job, even if you have debt. Danielle Desir talks to me about strategies for affording travel and traveling with a full time job in this episode. Danielle is an author, speaker, podcaster, and founder of The Thought Card, an award-winning affordable travel finance blog and podcast empowering financially savvy travelers to make informed financial decisions - travel more, pay off debt and build wealth. Danielle paid off $63,000 of student loan debt in 4 years and purchased her first home at the age of 27. She has traveled to 27 countries and 4 continents, and strongly believes in not letting your financial responsibilities hold you back from pursuing your dreams.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Using the emotional side of money to your advantage
• Balancing paying off debt, saving for travel & investing
• Building a travel fund with just $25 per paycheck
• Important mindset shifts to save more for travel

If you want to learn more about affording travel, take a listen to this episode. If you enjoy it, please subscribe and share with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, I’d really appreciate it.

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#17: Stuck in Cambodia and quarantined in Australia - these are the stories of two nomads who were abroad when Coronavirus became a global health pandemic. I checked back in with Alicia Walter from The Passport Couple (Episode 8) and Michelle from Frugality and Freedom (Episode 6), who were both previously interviewed on the podcast. Alicia and her boyfriend Nate, full time travel bloggers who had left to Southeast Asia just 2 months earlier, decided to stay in Cambodia when the Coronavirus started to spread. Michelle, a semi-retired nomad working a temporary contract in events management, made the decision to leave New Zealand and head back to her home base in Australia to wait out the virus.

We chat about:

• What factored into their decisions to return home or shelter-in-place
• The financial impacts of the COVID crisis on travelers
• How they’re staying safe and healthy while abroad
• What 14-day post-travel quarantine looks like

If you are curious about how Coronavirus is affecting full-time travelers and nomads, take a listen to this episode. If you enjoy it, please subscribe and share with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, I’d really appreciate it.

**Check out our previous episode with Michelle from Frugality and Freedom, Episode 6. **

**Check out our previous episode with Alicia Walter from The Passport Couple, Episode 8. **

Today’s sponsor is one-on-one coaching with Becky Blake from twentyfree.co and host of this podcast. As a money coach and lifestyle design expert, Becky helps people reach their biggest money goals, like paying off debt, building up savings and using their money to create their ideal life. She provides the proven tools to improve your finances, and accountability to make sure you take the action needed to change your life. Want to take the concepts you are learning on this podcast to the next level? Schedule your free 10-minute coaching call with Becky today!

Need someone to talk with about recent changes in your finances due to COVID19? Connect with Becky on a free 10-minute coaching call and discuss how she can help.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://www.twentyfree.co/episode17/

This is not a normal podcast episode. This is a protest.

Black lives matter.

Find resources at https://www.twentyfree.co/blm

#2: Former Olympic athlete Sunitha Rao dropped out of school in 6th grade. Now, she’s a real estate investor and corporate finance professional. We discuss how she went from professional athlete to corporate professional, how her childhood experiences with financial abuse shaped her money mindset, and more – so have a listen!

10 years ago, Sunitha retired from nearly a decade of playing tennis professionally. She was 23, and had a sixth-grade education, quite literally no money, and very little knowledge of how the world worked outside of her sport.

Fast forward to today - she has earned a bachelors in business and finance from Babson College and an MBA from Villanova University (with no student debt!) and has a successful career in corporate finance. She also has a budding real estate business with six doors in her portfolio.

Take a listen to this episode, and if you enjoy it, please subscribe and share with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, I’d really appreciate it.

Today’s sponsor is the Find Your Freedom Group Coaching Program, taught by Becky from twentyfree.co and host of this podcast. As a money coach and lifestyle design expert, I am offering an exclusive small-group coaching program this spring. As your coach, I help you gain clarity about what freedom looks like for you, develop a strategy to get there, and overcome your money roadblocks on the path to financial and lifestyle freedom. I offer both the proven tools that will clarify your vision and path, as well as intense accountability to make sure you take the action needed to change your life. Want to make a change in your life but don’t know where to start? Apply today and get on a free 10-minute coaching call with Becky to see if the group coaching program is right for you.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://www.twentyfree.co/episode2/

#38: How do you raise kids to be good with money? Teaching kids about money at a young age is so important. Carol Pittner co-authored the new book “Raising Your Money-Savvy Family For Next Generation Financial Independence” with her father Doug Nordman. In the book, they share how to educate your child about money from both the parent and the child’s perspective. In this interview, Carol shares what her early-retiree parents taught her to put her on the path to reaching LeanFIRE at the age of 27. We discuss how old she was when her parents taught different financial concepts, the money mistakes she made as a kid (instead of as an adult), and how her parents created different opportunities for her to gain the money confidence that she brought into adulthood.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The #1 thing parents can do to teach their kids about money
• How to leverage allowances as learning tools
• What age to start teaching your kids about money
• Allowing kids to learn from their money mistakes
• How to teach about compound interest

If you want to learn more about teaching kids about money, take a listen to this episode. If you enjoy it, please subscribe and share with a friend. Also, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, I’d really appreciate it.

Sponsor - Money Coaching with Becky

It’s time for you to reach your biggest money goals, like paying off debt, starting to invest, and using your money to create your ideal life! With one-one-one money coaching, Becky will help you gain clarity about what freedom looks like for you, develop a strategy to get there, and overcome your money roadblocks on the path to financial and lifestyle freedom.

Start with a free 15-minute clarity call, where she’ll help you develop a vision for your ideal life, and how your finances fit in. Not only are you going to get MASSIVE CLARITY, you’re also going to get a FREE budgeting spreadsheet, just for booking a call.

For more information, visit the show notes at https://www.twentyfree.co/episode38/