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Elizabeth Ayoola

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5640 total appearances

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

So I'm sure there's something that drew you to CoastFi.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And I'm going to assume it was the possibility of what you could do with all that extra money that you're putting towards retirement right now.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

So talk to us a bit about that.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

Those sound like really exciting things that you can do.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And maybe something to start with once you're sure about your numbers is instead of blowing all of the extra money that's going towards retirement and putting it towards those goals, maybe just taking a little bit at a time out and setting yourself some short and medium term goals that you can redirect those funds to.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

Is that something that you've thought about?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And then how would you like retirement to look for you?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

So would it look like how you're living now?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

Would it look a little bit more bougie?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

What do you envision?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And then now that you mentioned inflation, I'm also curious about how diverse your investments are.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

So can you talk to us a bit about that?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

Do you feel that your investments are diversified?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And if not, why?

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

I think the possibilities are endless and that's one thing I like about FIRE.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

It gives you or empowers you to dream and to believe and to think about all the different things that you can do if you have a lot more money or if you're able to retire early and just have a lot more flexibility.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

So I think for you, it might be important to just do some daydreaming, to sit down and think about what your life would actually look like if you stop saving.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

And also to remember as much as we are here for planning, we cannot control the future.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

We don't know what the stock market is going to do in 20 years.

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
Understanding 2026 Housing Pressure Points and Finding Your “Enough” Number for Retirement

We can only plan for it and you're doing all the right things to plan.