Lisa Sakai
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90 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
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Because I could decide that my bucket list is to stop doing this and move to Fiji and you're stuck with a plan that you don't understand. And it doesn't mean you have to understand it 100%, but you have to be involved in it. You have to be willing to ask questions. And so that's my mission is to get women to just recognize that it's okay that we don't know some of this stuff.
And it's not a personal reflection. It's a societal thing. I call it financial dysmorphia almost. Like we think everybody else gets it and we don't get it. Everybody else is set. And we're a mess when it comes to finance. I hear that all the time. I'm a financial mess. That's what everybody says when they first start talking to me. That's not necessarily true.
A lot of times people have a really good foundation or really good parts of their foundation in place. They just have to do some tweaks and just get some education and knowledge. But that mindset is really, really harmful. There's actually a really interesting study out into it, put it out this year, where Gen Z is not saving at all. They're young, right?
They're 25 and under, but they're still not saving anything because what they see in social media, they think they'll never be able to retire or they'll never get to that kind of wealth. So why even try? That's bad. That's really bad that we have this in our society.
For me, it's the impact in the world that I want to make. That story about when I was in Hollywood and wanting to make the impact, to me, that's what legacy is. How many people have I helped? How much have I made a positive impact? How many people have a better financial journey and financial outcome because I helped them with it? That's for me what my legacy is.
Like I said, I don't have kids, so it's not necessarily a monetary one. It's more of a personal mission to try to do that. And, you know, I probably should put a number of how many women I want to help educate on finance and not just educate, but enjoy finance.
I agree. And money is a great way of doing that. I think people think of money as something materialistic or bad. We still have that money is bad kind of thing. But with money, as long as you have control and you know what you're trying to accomplish and you have you know, your core values set and you understand things.
Money is such a great tool to make the influence that you want to make in this world for good. And I think people don't think about it that way enough.
It's funny you just said that because I was thinking, I wonder if he wants to know about the personal side. So personally, you know, it's funny. We just redid our estate plan because we moved to Arizona from California a couple of years ago. So we got our estate plan redone.
I would say for me, I think finding some organizations that we can join up with in terms of some community stuff and giving back, that would be something I would be interested in looking into more than I have in the past, especially for like... grants and things like that for kids who are trying to go to college without a huge amount of debt and go through that.
My husband was a benefit of a lot of grants, and I think that's really important. But yeah, so I think we're still trying to figure out what we want our legacy to be. But I know for me, my major goal is for financial independence or financial freedom by a
That doesn't mean I'm going to stop working or doing what I'm doing, but I just want that ability to not have to have money be a controlling factor, but that we're controlling it. But I think we're still trying to figure out what we want our legacy to be. I know for me, for my husband, I don't ever want to leave him with anything to worry about. And I know for him, that's the same thing.
We want to make sure everything's taken care of.
The first one is to really think about your life mission. What are we trying to do? Are we trying to, like I said, are we trying to retire early? Are we trying to take as many vacations and have as much time with family as possible? Are we trying to just live a happy, healthy life, work till 65? We need to kind of know what we're trying to accomplish. It's really hard.
Most of us are, and this is another one that you've probably heard a million times, we There's no journey, right? Because you don't know where you're going. We go through life just kind of not having a vision of what we want. So having a vision, even if it changes, let's say you get to 50 and you go, I'm good, actually, I don't want to retire. That's okay.
But you have to have something we're going for in order to put some strategies in place so that you can kind of envision what your life will look like, right? So having a why of what you're trying to accomplish on your financial journey is really important.
The other thing I would say is to really start to look, make yourself accountable for your money, because nobody is going to do that for you, unfortunately. I can't look at your credit card every month and go, You didn't spend your money properly, like nobody's going to respond well.
But so unfortunately, when it comes to your spending and what you're spending your money on, you do have to make yourself accountable. So I always say the first little habit.
that you should stack onto something else to borrow from James Clear, essentially is to find a time that you can just look at your credit card once a week, five minutes, maybe when you're drinking coffee on Thursday after a run or whatever it is that you're stacking that habit because you don't have to sit there and make yourself miserable at what you spent your money on.
Just making yourself aware of what you're spending your money on is life-changing.
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