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Podcast: The InvestHER Podcast
Episode: Too Busy? Too Broke? How You Can Afford Anything with Paula Pant
Description: Can you really afford anything? Paula Pant quit her 9-to-5 job in 2008, long before she'd heard of financial independence. She just couldn't stand the cubicle life anymore. Her starting salary was $21,000 per year in 2005, and her highest salary was $31,000 per year in 2008. Despite her lower income, she managed to save $25,000 during her short career. She lived on these savings after she quit her 9-to-5 job, and spent two years backpacking across the world. When she returned to the U.S. in 2010, she started a self-employed career as a freelance writer. She and her partner scraped together enough money to buy...