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Created 10 years ago in Business / Financial Consulting

If you listen to the Q&A episodes on the Afford Anything podcast, you've heard me share advice on everything from asset allocation to retirement planning.
Many financial planning questions are essentially a variant of: "Here are my options. How do I choose between these?"
Maybe you're trying to decide to max out a 401k or use those funds to start a side hustle or small business.
Maybe you're trying to decide whether to pull money from your HSA, empty the principle from a Roth IRA, or harvest gains in a taxable brokerage account.
Maybe you're deciding how much to contribute to your child's 529 plan, as compared to the amount you'll save in an emergency fund.
Maybe you know how you're investing short-term funds (that you'll use in less than 2 years) and long-term funds (that you'll use in 10+ years), but you have questions about how to invest that murky middle.
Whatever your money management questions, I can coach you through it.
PLEASE NOTE I am not a licensed certified financial planner, nor do I hold any other professional financial planning designation.
I am a financial journalist and educator, not an advisor. I provide educational material only. Nothing that I say constitutes professional advice.
Please listen to the Q&A episodes on my podcast, which will give you a good sense of the type of educational content that I provide.
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Paula Pant
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Paula Pant is the founder of Afford Anything, a platform and podcast that covers financial psychology, increasing income, investing, real estate, and entrepreneurship — the five pillars of "Double-ii FiiRE." Her podcast has more than 35 million downloads and is often ranked by Apple as a Top 100 Business podcast, with The New York Times hailing it as one of "7 Podcasts Your Wallet Will Love." Her newsletter, First Principles, reaches 75,000 subscribers. As an educator and course creator, Pant has developed "Your First Rental Property" and "Your Next Raise," teaching more than 2,500 students. She gained broader recognition through her role as both cast member and consulting producer in the Netflix documentary "Get Smart with Money." A sought-after speaker, Pant presents on personal finance at major events including Talks at Google, Morningstar, Bogleheads, White Coat Investor, and World Domination Summit, and has guest lectured at Georgetown University. Her expertise is widely recognized in major media outlets, with citations in Forbes, Fortune, Kiplinger, NPR, Yahoo! Finance, Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, and many others. She has contributed articles to prestigious publications including MSN Money, AARP Bulletin, Motley Fool, Bankrate, and The Huffington Post; she also served as the About.com Expert in Budgeting & Personal Finance. Pant holds a masters in business and economic journalism from Columbia University, where she was awarded a prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economic Journalism.
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Source: Clarity Jared Johnson Sep 5, 2018Paula took in tons of details about my life and then put them through that calculator brain of hers. We sketched out a fairly simple action plan for me for the next 6 years, while my daughter finishes high school and I save for her college education. Thank you so much, Paula!
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