No lie: I used to think people truly meant saving cash when they said, “I’m saving for retirement.” I thought people had a vault with stacks of cash. Boy, was I wrong.
In this episode, I go through what saving for retirement actually means, why you need to get started NOW and the power of compound interest.
I also chat about different investing accounts, income limits and tax advantages, and where you can go online to start educating yourself about investing.
We planned to build our forever home and get old and gray on that property… until Covid hit and lumber prices skyrocketed. Our dream no longer aligned with what we needed, life happened, and we made a huge decision that changed everything.
Let me educate you all about why you need an emergency fund to begin with, how much to keep in it (hint: it’s personal to you and your situation), where the heck to keep it, and more!
Alyssa Davies, content creator and a published author, joins the podcast to talk about how she was able to approach her finances from a new perspective and remove the guilt and shame for the spending. We discuss financial trauma, how mental health is tied to personal finance and why internalized capitalism is something to fight against, not praise.
The nebulous idea of “enough” is the topic of conversation in the season 2 finale of A Sunny Side Up Life podcast. Most of us struggle with this concept very early in our lives, as we begin to understand complex topics and facts of life like class, race, and inequity. But how do we handle not being enough as adults when not reaching “enoughness” has real mental, physical and psychological ramifications? I also chat about different investing accounts, income limits and tax advantages, and where you can go online to start educating yourself about investing.