EP. 54 From $42K a Year to Financial Freedom w/ Meghann Reilly
We're not here on Earth just to pay bills. In this episode, Naz sits down with Meghann Reilly, a wealth, investment and life optimization coach she met this summer when they both led workshops at a women's retreat, to talk about using money as a tool to build the life you actually want.
Meghann shares her path from a $24,000-a-year job at a New York beauty magazine to a marketing role at an investment firm, where she started investing on a $42,000 salary and stayed the course through the 2008 financial crisis. After a layoff in 2018, she took a year off to travel, and came home to find her investments had grown by about $150,000 while she was away.
Together, Naz and Meghann explore:
- Why you don't need a lot of money to start investing, and why time in the market matters more than the amount
- The power of compound growth (remember the doubling penny?)
- Meghann's "Rule of 25" for figuring out how much you'd need invested to live off your portfolio
- Why simple, broad-market index funds can do the heavy lifting
- The visualization exercise she uses with clients: stepping into your 85-year-old self to see what really matters
- Why taking action, even investing $10 to $20 a month, can heal money shame faster than waiting to feel "ready"
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