#742: Q&A: I Reached Financial Independence Three Years Early … Now What?
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant18 Aug 2026
I ask Joe that right at the top of this episode, and his answer ends up being more prophetic than either of us realized.
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top 97%#741: You Can’t Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant16 Aug 2026
Jack Raines liked his boss on Hinge. It wasn’t reciprocal. A few months later, three beers deep at a bar, he told her he was quitting — then found a $250 plane ticket to Barcelona and left the...
#739: First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant7 Aug 2026
Why did I just buy my first bond ever, after years of being 100% invested in stocks? It comes down to a single number: 5.2%.
#738: Hackers Waited 3 Months for This Couple’s $1.2 Million Deal, with Dr. Eric Cole [GREATEST HITS]
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant5 Aug 2026
Hackers broke into a real estate closing company’s servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and stole $1.2 million from a couple who did everything right, right...
#737: She’s Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant31 Jul 2026
The stock market is near record highs. Unemployment is low. So why does it feel like young people have never been more pessimistic about money?
#736: Q&A: Would You Spend $60,000 on a Wedding Knowing It Could Be $800,000 Someday?
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant29 Jul 2026
“Joe, how much did you spend on your wedding?” That’s how this episode kicks off, and it sets up the theme running through everything else.
#735: He Tried 30+ Side Hustles Before 3 Actually Paid Off, with Cody Berman
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant26 Jul 2026
Cody Berman was 19 when he learned about financial independence, and 25 when he reached it. There’s no trust fund here, no lucky exit.
#734: Q&A: Her Brother Owns 3 Houses — Is That Why We Have a ‘Housing Shortage’?
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant21 Jul 2026
Is there really a housing shortage — or do we just have a lot of wealthy people buying up all the good stuff? That’s the question kicking off this episode.
#733: The Hidden Math Behind Every Venture Capital Fund, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant19 Jul 2026
Would you trust someone with your money if the “interview” for the job was a fifty-page pitch deck and a decade-long commitment?
#732: Why The Customers Nobody Wants Are the Best Ones to Sell To, with David Bell
Afford Anything®by Paula Pant14 Jul 2026
Why can’t you buy Vegemite in Philadelphia — and what does that have to do with building a wildly profitable online brand? There are invisible forces shaping what you buy. Where you live.