The Boldin Your Money Podcast You Can Afford Anything, but Not Everything” with Paula Pant
Dec 18, 2025
In this conversation, Paula Pant, the founder of Afford Anything, shares insights from her journey in personal finance. She emphasizes the rising importance of human soft skills in an AI-dominated world and discusses the challenges of economic uncertainty affecting housing choices. Paula introduces her 'Double-I FIRE' framework, advocating for financial psychology and real estate investments. She also highlights the effects of salary transparency and the balance between remote work and geo-arbitrage, all while urging listeners to prioritize healthy money conversations.
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Layer Macro Economics Into Personal Finance
- Paula Pant combined economic journalism training with personal finance to add macroeconomic context to her advice.
- She now integrates inflation and unemployment into podcast episodes to help listeners apply finance in a broader economy.
Score Goals By Timeline, Cost, Importance
- Many listeners juggle multiple high-priority financial goals like eldercare, kids, and housing simultaneously.
- Mapping each goal by timeline, cost, and importance reveals which goals to extend, reduce, or defer.
Use Three Vectors To Make Trade-Offs
- Unpack each goal's timeline, estimated cost, and importance before deciding what to cut or delay.
- Then extend the timeline, reduce cost, or eliminate/ defer goals to match reality.