March 22, 2025 • 37 mins
Welcome to another inspiring episode of the Leap to Success podcast! Join host Mary Gaul as she chats with the dynamic JaRee Bowers, LEAP community member and owner of My Freedom First. JaRee is passionate about empowering women to take control of their financial futures and create lives filled with freedom, purpose, and joy.
Dive into JaRee’s entrepreneurial story, from owning multiple businesses to discovering her true calling in financial education. Get inspired by her actionable advice on overcoming fear, building confidence, and creating a financial roadmap that aligns with your vision for life.
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Hello and welcome to the Leap to Successpodcast where we highlight incredible women
entrepreneurs who are taking bold leaps inbusiness and life.
I'm your host, Mary Gahl, and I believe thatsuccess is built through connection,
contribution, and celebration.
In each episode, we bring you inspiringstories, expert insights, and actionable
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strategies to help you grow and thrive as asolopreneur or an entrepreneur.
Let's dive into today's conversation.
I am so excited to introduce our global podcastlisteners to LEAP Community member Jari Bowers,
and she is the owner of My Freedom First.
Welcome to the show, Jari.
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Hi, Mary.
It's so great to be here.
I absolutely love everything that you do.
So thank you for me.
I'm so excited to share more about you with ourlisteners.
You've been a LEAP member for a long time.
We've gotten to know each other through thecommunity.
And I just love your passion for helpingsupport women, to learn more about their
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finances.
And so that's what we are going to learn abouttoday.
So tell our listeners, our listening audiencetoday, a little bit about your story and what
makes you so awesome.
Okay.
Well, a little bit about my story is I am anentrepreneur at heart.
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I have owned multiple businesses and been verysuccessful and I failed my way to success as
well.
And I come to a place of understanding thatpeople don't understand what's going on with
money and they don't know how to use it as atool for their future.
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And so when I started really hearing that withall the conversations that I was having with
multiple people, walk of life, I decided I wasgoing to do something about it.
And that's why I have my freedom first, becauseit is about your freedom first.
It's very important to focus on ourselves andpay ourselves first and understand what it all
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looks like and get that broad overview of thateducation so we can be empowered to make
decisions for us.
And on the other side, I am a Gigi.
I love being that Gigi because I have two grandchildren that just float my boat, of course,
and I want to spend every moment with them.
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Nice, nice.
So, this business affords that.
I get to own my life and own my time.
And I think it's vital for women because wewear 25 hats in everything we do and probably
every single day.
And we seem to leave ourselves out untilsomeday in the future, take care of that later
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and later doesn't get here until it's too latesometimes.
So that's really what My Freedom First is allabout.
It's just like, the scenario when you get inairplane and the stewardess says, put on your
mask before you try to help someone else.
Yes.
That's what we're talking about today.
And that's what My Freedom First is about.
I love that.
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I love that.
So going back to when you just started tellingyour story, right?
You said you have been a multiple entrepreneur,an entrepreneur multiple times, right?
And failed your way to success.
I love that phrase as well, right?
Because sometimes we feel like failure is justa failure, right?
But that's really just a stepping stone to thenext thing and to moving forward.
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I told somebody the other day, they weretalking about wins and failures, and I was
like, Well failures are just wins that haven'thappened yet, right?
You haven't learned the lesson from thefailure.
And she's like, I love that!
So love that.
So tell us a little bit about that and how youhad maybe some failures in business that led
you to saying and recognizing, Hey, there's aneed here that I need to fill about this
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financial knowledge.
Okay, so some of it was, again, I've ownedmultiple businesses, so it was in kind of a
compilation of all the things, taking a stepback and saying, I need to figure this out.
So the failures of just jumping in and notknowing exactly what I was going to do.
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So I did not take the time to visualize whatthat future played out as in one of a couple of
those businesses.
And I just went for it because I like to dothat.
And I learned in that lesson that I probablyought to just literally write out a little bit
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of a business plan.
I'm not talking about being so analytical thatyou never start.
At
least writing out that business plan andsaying, you know what, is this something that
is going to give people purpose and joy?
And is this heartfelt for me?
And does this give me purpose?
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In those discoveries of, you know, maybe thatdidn't line out with exactly what I should be
doing.
I took a step back and said, okay, this isdefinitely not the way I'm supposed to be
going.
And I need to transition right now.
So I need to figure out something else.
And in all of that time, I listened to otherentrepreneurs, other business owners, my
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colleagues, different people that I have beenfriends with forever and their stories.
And, you know, I really love to ask questions.
I love to get to know people and find out whattheir success is and what they learned in their
journey.
Cause this is just a journey.
It's an experience.
And so that's really what brought me to a placeof saying, okay, every time I ask financial
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questions about what's going on in your life,what do you invest in?
What helps you sleep well at night, knowingeverything's taken care of and all those
things, there was like, looking at me.
Yeah, crickets.
Yeah.
It's like, what do you mean?
Is that possible?
Right?
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Or I don't know yet.
I haven't figured that out yet, you know, kindof thing.
And then I thought, wow, okay, I'm talking tomultimillionaires right now.
And then I put that together with, wow, I'mtalking to people who don't have hardly any
money to come up with, you know, food.
Yeah.
And the answers are similar.
And so what's happening here?
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Like, wait a minute.
And that's really what made me take a step backand say, okay, things have to shift.
And I have to find a way to be a huge blessingin this field.
For people to know that, no matter what yourfaith is, it's not bad to have money.
And it's not bad to put yourself first in thatso that you know you're taken care of for your
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future.
Yeah, then you can take care of others like theoxygen mask, If you take care of yourself, you
can take care of others.
That's right.
Yeah.
So I learned in that scenario that there's twothings that people do.
They either put all their money in a safe placein the bank or they throw it at the wall out
there in the market and hope it sticks.
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I just hope that we figure it out.
And we just, we smoke out like, oh, okay.
That's just a big fat no no, in my opinion.
Yes.
And that's the message that we get delivered sooften is yes, the stock market's crazy and who
knows what's going to happen and nobody canpredict it, but just put it in there and trust
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us, right?
Over the long term it's going to be fine.
And so it's like that's just such a scary thingto do, especially if you're on limited
resources and you've been putting, you know,trying to sock away money and that kind of
thing.
Really just, you know, like you said, throwingit against the wall and hoping something sticks
and hoping that there's not a big detrimentalcrash or something that's going to devastate
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you.
Well, more like in 02/2008.
You don't want a 02/2008 to happen again.
Those people really had a hardship.
Yes.
And they work so hard to put that moneytogether.
Right?
So that's why I think, again, just talking tosomebody like you with your expertise and just
getting an education about what is a better wayfor me to look at my finances.
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And I loved that you said you were talking topeople who are multimillionaires and people who
are struggling to pay their rent or whatever.
They all have that same lack of knowledgearound how their money can work for them,
right?
So and that, it's universal and it's sodisappointing.
Well, you know, the bottom line is we've allgone to school for twelve to sixteen years, but
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we were not taught money how it works and whatwe should do.
And, you know, we weren't given all the optionsthat we have at our fingertips.
And that is what I love to do.
Like, this is something that you can do aswell.
And Oh, did you know?
Yeah.
Instead of just crossing your fingers becausewhy is it okay?
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Literally why I want you to ask yourself andeverybody listening.
Is it okay to work your tail off your wholelife, spending time away from your family, and
the joyous things that you love to do, to thenjust cross your fingers and hope it's okay.
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No, stop that.
Like, no.
Or not even think about it at all, right?
Like, going to think about it because I don'tknow what to think about it, so I'm just going
to bury it down and not even pay attention.
Which is even worse, I think, than trying to dosomething.
I wanted to go back to a couple of things thatyou said.
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So when you said you own your life, right, thatis such a big statement.
And many people out there, especially ifthey're in kind of a corporate America or W-two
job, they think of entrepreneurship as thisfreedom.
Like, I'm gonna have all this freedom.
I'm gonna run my own business.
Right?
And any entrepreneur that has their businessunderstands that that's not always the case.
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You tend to work harder in your own businessthan you did for somebody else.
But you get to own how you work and what youget to do with your money and how much money
you make.
There's just so much more control that you haverunning your own business or potentially,
right, if you set it up correctly.
And then as a business coach, so I love helpingpeople build the business that supports their
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life.
But then they also experts like you that say,Okay, now that the business is making money,
what do we do with that money?
So I can help them manage the money in theirbusiness, but then they also need expertise
outside of that and say, Okay, what's the lifethat I want to build?
And how do I own my life?
What does that mean to somebody, to own theirlife?
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When you say you own your life, how does thatimpact you?
Or what does that look like in your case?
Well, for me, that means I dictate what I getto do when I get to do it and who I spend my
time with.
Nice.
And so in my business, I get to decide how manyhours I'm going to put in every day and
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schedule my time around what brings me joy.
Because after all, we only get one life.
We only get to be here to make an impact or toenjoy what we do in one form.
So, if my lifespan is shorter than yours, whathave I done with every day?
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And owning my life means I get to decide what Iwant to do every single day.
And yeah, that comes along with, you know,well, how much money do I need to make?
How much money do I visualize that I'm going tomake every single month?
And that changes how you own your life.
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If you visualize every single day, what it isthat you want in your life, and then you feel
that and you walk that out in your vision,fifteen minutes, you will find out that you
have more time freedom to do the things thatyou enjoy.
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So that's where I'm like, okay, I've got anextra two hours right now.
What am I gonna do?
Well, first thing I'm gonna do is go to theocean.
That's what looks for me.
That would be joy for me too, but it's a littlebit more than two hour commute for me to get to
an ocean from Colorado.
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Right, but that's what I mean by, I mean, Youthen you can decide, you know what, I'm gonna
sit in my comfy chair and I'm going to readthat book that I needed to read like the twelve
week year or whatever.
I'm going to decide what I get to do right now.
And that's the freedom of owning your life.
If you were at a job, you don't get to do that.
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Somebody else tells you what you've got to dowith your time.
And time is non renewable resource.
We can't get it back.
So a lot of people too, and fall into the habitof being an entrepreneur is work, work, work,
work, work fifty hours, you know, just do, do,do all the time.
In reality, if you'll take the time to justwalk outside and put your feet in the grass, to
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just breathe fresh air and listen to the birdsfor five minutes, It changes everything.
You go back into your office, and now you havenew ideas.
And you have, you know, a refreshed look atwhatever you were doing.
And it changes everything.
So you
decide those tiny moments and the big thingsthat you want to do.
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You can block out two weeks if that's what youfeel like you're going to do and go to Mexico
or Dominican or whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
Spend time with your grandchildren if you haveone.
Spend time with your grandchildren.
Call up and say, Hey, I'm coming over.
I've got to see my neighbors.
I'm gonna hang out with y'all.
Okay.
I love it.
I love that.
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Yeah.
And for people that are in that struggle, I'mbarely paying my bills, and so this sounds
wonderful, but how do I move from barely payingmy bills to having some more time freedom?
I think what you just said is so important.
Some of these things that give us thisownership of our life don't cost anything.
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Going and sitting outside in the sunshine andputting your feet in the grass or walking to a
park.
You can go to a public park and do that if youdon't have a yard, you live in an apartment.
There's all kinds of ways you can start livingthat life of time freedom in these small
incremental ways, it builds upon each otherjust like compound interest, right?
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So it builds upon each other.
So I love that you mentioned that because Ithink sometimes people think, well that's in
the future.
I won't be able to do that until I have my ownbusiness or whatever.
But you can start now and that's the importantthing is start today by doing some of those
little things.
Well, and I think that's priceless informationfor women because we do put everybody else
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first.
Yes.
Everything else happens before we take care ofus most of the time.
And we don't understand that we cannot pourfrom an empty cup.
Right.
You can't do that.
So, if you will give yourself five minutes hereand there, if you'll give yourself fifteen
minutes early in the morning before anybodyelse wakes up, if you've got a household of
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people, that is going to fill your cup.
And everything that multimillionaireentrepreneurs do, according to a lot of
different ones I've talked to, is they givegratitude first everything.
And I don't care if it's just the breath you'rebreathing, because it's the only thing you can
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think of that's positive.
And then they go and set in their vision andreally feel it and know it.
And if you don't have the things that you want,or you don't have the life, the ownership of
the life that you want, visualize it.
What's it going to feel like when you do,That's what's so important.
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And none of that costs any money.
Time
with you and your soul and spirit andunderstanding with the father, if you believe I
do, you know, then that is time that is justlike, okay, yes, I can do this.
I can do Yes.
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I love it.
I love it.
And part of that belief in yourself and thatconfidence is that taking a leap, right?
Absolutely.
I looked at the beginning you said maybeleaping into some of your businesses you might
have been better served had you taken a momentand made a business plan, those kind of things.
I love action takers, So we just have an idea,it's like let me act on that.
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And then there's the polar opposite of peoplewho have an idea and then they just have to
overanalyze every piece of it and they nevertake action.
So whichever one you find yourself in, the factthat you did take a leap and said, Okay,
there's this gap here of this knowledge and I'mgoing to take a leap and say, I can teach
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people this.
So how did you go about learning what you needto teach people and taking that leap to say,
Yes, I'm going to raise my hand and I'm goingto be the impact that people need to have in
their financial lives?
Well, as I said in the very beginning, I waslistening.
I do a whole lot of question asking todifferent people to find out what really brings
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them joy and what they're doing with theirmoney to give them that financial legacy and
that future that they want.
You know, in my, in my focus with all of thatwas to find out what is the differences?
Why is there such a stark difference betweenpeople who don't have anything and people who
have a whole lot more?
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And what is it that they're doing differentlyor similar that how they're living their life?
And so I started really listening to a lot ofthe people that I've been talking to my whole
life.
And I love making friends.
I don't know a stranger.
Can talk to anybody in the grocery store aboutanything.
I mean I love it.
Because I love living life and I believe youshould smile for goodness sake.
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Yes.
Make eye contact, it doesn't hurt.
It doesn't It doesn't hurt to smile.
And I actually, I've done my own little surveyon that sometimes.
That's kind of a side note, but you can go intoa place smile and you'll just receive so much
good energy.
And you'll just, you'll see all the people thatjust smile back and they're going to have a
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good day.
Then you can go in and you can be like, Andthen it's terrible.
Your whole energy is just, boom, it's sodifferent anyway.
But what I did was I said, all right, I'm goingto apply this.
So I need to find an avenue because I was notso aligned with the businesses that I was doing
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with some of them in the end of thosebusinesses.
I was bringing it up, but I just decided thatthis needed to be something that I need to do.
And I started asking the Father, the Creator,what is next for my life?
And I kept hearing, you need to be educatingabout money and what is going on and close that
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gap.
And so, I found this company called Five RingsFinancial, which I am, My Freedom First is an
agency of Five Rings And their missionstatement is incredible.
And it lines out with mine.
And it's all about giving first, So, sowinggood seeds and reaping the harvest however the
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Father chooses.
That's up to him, not me.
I did my part.
And so, in that I was literally finding thatalignment, what company is going to be best for
what I want to bring to the population and howI want to impact people's lives.
And that this is where I'm at.
And I absolutely love locking arms with thembecause their purpose is to try to impact
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everyone and let them know there's options.
And the fun part is 65% of the agencies, theagents in that company is women.
And I'm
like, This
is breaking the traditional mold of sweaterboys and men.
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So
I'm like, okay, I fit in here.
I can do something.
This is a man that owns, Mike Wilk owns thecompany.
And he's just like, there's no limits onsuccess and the diversification of people,
there's no limit.
And so that's when I decided my freedom firstcan attach to that company and literally move
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forward in leaps and bounds.
And that's where I took the leap into thisposition in my life.
And I believe it's the last business that Iwill own now, obviously the father can say, Oh
really?
Take that.
Make a plan and let me see.
But that's really what it was.
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I needed to find something, a company thatwould line out with what my values are.
And I believe in giving first.
That's why the classes and events that I do areall free.
Yeah, so tell people a little bit about that.
Tell our listeners about that because ourpodcast listeners will be all across The United
States and Canada, so you can work with peopleeven though you're based in Florida.
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You can work with people in different states,You offer some of these events that are online.
How do people find some additional educationfrom you if they wanted to?
Well they can go to my website, which ismyfreedomfirst.live to live your life, live
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your way, right?
But they can come to Wine Women and Wealthevents online and they can come to Money one
hundred one online, They can come to infinitebanking classes online and you can contact me
through my phone number, my email, imagine thata phone, can actually call me on the phone.
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I think that's so funny because you can callsomebody and they don't answer and ten seconds
later they answer your text message.
Yes, I know.
I
think that's hilarious, but yeah, you can callme on my phone.
You can email me, you can go to my website,book appointments.
You can do any of that and come for free.
It's so interesting.
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It's like come for free, get the knowledge,gain that empowerment to be confident with your
money.
And then
take those questions that you've learned to askto that financial advisor that you may have
right now and ask.
And they look at you like a deer in theheadlights, you might consider to adjust some
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things.
At the same time, maybe you've got somebodythat's really doing a great thing, but you
still want to know what you aren't being taughtor shown by them, come hang out, learn, educate
yourself.
If we are learning, we are always improving andwe are living our life our way.
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Learning is important.
I don't think anybody should ever just say, Oh,I got it all figured out.
If you hear yourself saying, Oh, my husbandtakes care of that.
Stop right there.
And I'm not saying husbands are not amazing.
I don't have one and I'm grateful, but I'mtelling you, that's good for me.
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Here's the thing.
If you're saying that to yourself, then youneed to say, I need to be on the same page with
him.
I need to be empowered to understand becausehere's the thing.
Women, majority of the women outlive the men.
And you don't know what's going on in yourfinancial future and you don't know the account
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information and all of the things, then you'regoing to be hit with some major challenges when
your husband's no longer with you.
Life can change at a drop of the hat.
So, it's important for us to come together andlearn.
And that's another, that's why I have Money 101because men and women can come together.
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Your children can come and learn what we needto know to change our financial future and at
least know what the options are that we have.
Yes, I love that.
I love that.
So what is one of the one of the key lessonsfrom Money 101 that you can share with our
listeners today?
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The compounding effect of your money isextremely powerful and most people do not think
of the negative compounding.
Okay.
So we talk some about if you've got a whole lotof credit card debt or debt, that interest is
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compounding against you.
And you need to learn how to, how to knock thatout, how to literally cut the time in half to
pay your debt off.
And you can also understand how compoundinterest works with small amounts of interest
that you earn.
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So, you can go from 4% to 12% and change yourlife You do not have to go from 4% or 1% in the
bank to 40% or 50% in the market to hope thatyou can get there sometimes.
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What we teach is a lot about smaller incrementsand how you can step that up and make a big
difference in your life to go from 1% to 12 to15 to 20.
And what that looks like and how compoundinterest actually works and the rules behind
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it.
The things that we don't normally learnanything
about.
It gives
you some homework to sit down with your spouseat the Money one hundred one and say, oh my
gosh, wow, I didn't know this and this andthis.
Now, how does this apply to our future?
Love And do build our future our way?
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Not what the traditional people are going totell you.
But figure it out for yourself.
And that's what I love about what I do.
I am empowering you to literally decide whatyou want.
It's your money.
It's your family.
It's your life.
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It's your future, not mine.
And not something else's that's going to tellyou something, Fully understanding how to make
those choices.
And that's what you're going to learn at Moneyone hundred one and Wine Women and Wealth and
all the other classes that I do.
Yes.
I love that.
I love that education really is key.
Sometimes going to a class, I love you call itMoney 101, right?
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And going down to the basics because we haven'tlearned this or maybe we learned it forty years
ago in one semester class we took in highschool, accounting or something like that,
right?
If you don't live it and it's not yourexpertise, and then maybe you talk to a
financial advisor or somebody and they justtalked over your head, right?
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And don't really explain things.
There's a lot of acronyms in the financialworld, right?
And this, do this.
And if you don't know the terminology, it'seasy to get lost.
That's why I think taking us back to thebeginning and helping us really understand the
concepts behind how many works is so powerful.
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So if you're listening to this, I encourage youto check out Jaree's website and sign up for
the next class because you'll learn so much.
And then you have the options.
Once we have the knowledge, then we can decidehow to apply that knowledge in our lives.
So whether you work with Jiri or you work withsomebody else or you have enough knowledge to
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take the next step on your own wherever you'reat in your journey, you can make an educated
step instead of just guessing and hoping.
And that's
something.
Yeah.
And you know, a lot of times, Mary, like goingback to the women and how we feel about things.
A lot of times that whole, they talk over yourhead or they make you feel like a penny waiting
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for change or, well where's my Bedford Spouse?
That inferiority or that, Oh, I don't want togo have this conversation because I always feel
icky and I don't have enough and all of thosethings just remove it all by getting educated.
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And then you're going to be like, okay, now Iunderstand more.
I understand how that works.
And I can ask good questions.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's if we don't know the questions to ask,that's why we feel like it's going over our
head.
Right.
Right.
Yes.
I love it.
I love it.
So again, I highly encourage you to reach outand talk to Jeri on the phone.
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You can talk to her on the phone if you wantto, show up to one of her classes.
So, Jaree, if there are our listeners are outthere and they're on the edge of taking a big
leap, whether that be in their personal life,they're starting a business, in their business,
or even with their financial, you know,education, what would you, what's your best
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piece of advice for them to take some actionwith confidence?
That would be, do a tiny bit of research.
Again, no, not so analytical that you neverstart, but do a little bit of research on the
other people that are already successful inwhat you are looking into.
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Literally look at what's going on and how didthey start?
What did they do?
And then trust yourself to take that action andmove forward.
And finding the people that are going to lineup with you, like Mary, like you, who are going
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to say, you know what, I know exactly how toget you started and what you should be looking
for.
But leaping forward is vital because it, youknow, it's just, it's just, if you don't take
action and trust yourself, then you may nottake that action to change your life.
And a lot of times we'll come up with an ideaand we'll think that's really, really great.
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And then you'll get fear.
And I'm just going to challenge you to removethe fear because if that come up in your mind,
then something in your subconscious is tellingyou that you need to do this.
Right, right.
You need to experience it.
And even if you fail, you fail your way forwardbecause you've learned something that you
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didn't know.
And that's okay.
You need to live in that.
So, take that chance, Literally step up foryourself and say, I heard this for a reason,
and I'm going to take action.
And now again, do a little tiny bit ofresearch, but I'm talking, you know, fifteen
minutes, Nauseam, go into this two weekanalytical, whatever, and draw out all these
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charts and all this stuff.
No, you don't have to
do that.
Right.
You know, trust your intuition.
Trust your subconscious because yoursubconscious doesn't sleep.
Connected to the Father.
It is your soul.
And guess what?
We are soul spirit beings having a humanexperience.
That means we get to make our own decisions.
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We
get to take a leap forward.
And even if you do go through that failure,okay, just dust your feet off and go again.
I mean, Thomas Edison, how many times did hefail?
He failed a whole lot, but guess what?
Because of him, we have lights right now.
Right, right.
Yes.
Yeah.
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I love so much of what you just said, Jeri.
It's just such a wonderful piece of advice.
Especially if you heard this message for areason, so pay attention and take an action on
that message that you're hearing.
Whether that message is I need to get to amoney one on one class or I need to start my
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first business, or I need to take some kind ofaction.
You have that thought for a reason, payattention to it.
Instead of eliminating the fear, put the fearon If I don't do this, what's my life going to
look like?
If I don't take this action I'm going to bestuck in the same place for the next year or
two.
So instead of the fear of the action itself putthe fear on if I don't take action what's going
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to happen?
It's almost more scary to think I'm going to bestagnant like this the rest of my life or I'm
never going to know about money or I'm nevergoing to have a business or whatever it is.
That's even more scary to me than staying inthe comfort zone is it can be worse, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And here's the thing, if you're ready to takethat lead, if you're hearing it and you take
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the lead, guess what?
There's a whole lot of tax benefits too.
Yes.
If you have fear, have fear that's trying tohold you back to say, okay, wait a minute, but
there's so many tax benefits if I own my ownbusiness.
So let's just do it anyway.
There's so much that you can learn.
And besides, we're here to learn.
Right, right.
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Yeah.
Yes, I love it.
We're on the same page as always.
Love it, I love it.
All right, well that I think is a wrap for ourtime today.
So thank you again, Jaree, for being a guest.
If you are listening or watching on YouTube, Ihope you found inspiration, motivation, and a
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your successes.
Thank you again for being our guest, Jeri.
It's been such a pleasure having you on theshow.
And thank you for having me, Mary.
I loved it.
I had so much fun.
Great, great.
Me too.
I always love your energy.
It's such fun to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
Hello and welcome to the Leap to Successpodcast where we highlight incredible women
entrepreneurs who are taking bold leaps inbusiness and life.
I'm your host, Mary Gahl, and I believe thatsuccess is built through connection,
contribution, and celebration.
In each episode, we bring you inspiringstories, expert insights, and actionable
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strategies to help you grow and thrive as asolopreneur or an entrepreneur.
Let's dive into today's conversation.
I am so excited to introduce our global podcastlisteners to LEAP Community member Jari Bowers,
and she is the owner of My Freedom First.
Welcome to the show, Jari.
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Hi, Mary.
It's so great to be here.
I absolutely love everything that you do.
So thank you for me.
I'm so excited to share more about you with ourlisteners.
You've been a LEAP member for a long time.
We've gotten to know each other through thecommunity.
And I just love your passion for helpingsupport women, to learn more about their
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finances.
And so that's what we are going to learn abouttoday.
So tell our listeners, our listening audiencetoday, a little bit about your story and what
makes you so awesome.
Okay.
Well, a little bit about my story is I am anentrepreneur at heart.
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I have owned multiple businesses and been verysuccessful and I failed my way to success as
well.
And I come to a place of understanding thatpeople don't understand what's going on with
money and they don't know how to use it as atool for their future.
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And so when I started really hearing that withall the conversations that I was having with
multiple people, walk of life, I decided I wasgoing to do something about it.
And that's why I have my freedom first, becauseit is about your freedom first.
It's very important to focus on ourselves andpay ourselves first and understand what it all
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looks like and get that broad overview of thateducation so we can be empowered to make
decisions for us.
And on the other side, I am a Gigi.
I love being that Gigi because I have two grandchildren that just float my boat, of course,
and I want to spend every moment with them.
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Nice, nice.
So, this business affords that.
I get to own my life and own my time.
And I think it's vital for women because wewear 25 hats in everything we do and probably
every single day.
And we seem to leave ourselves out untilsomeday in the future, take care of that later
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and later doesn't get here until it's too latesometimes.
So that's really what My Freedom First is allabout.
It's just like, the scenario when you get inairplane and the stewardess says, put on your
mask before you try to help someone else.
Yes.
That's what we're talking about today.
And that's what My Freedom First is about.
I love that.
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I love that.
So going back to when you just started tellingyour story, right?
You said you have been a multiple entrepreneur,an entrepreneur multiple times, right?
And failed your way to success.
I love that phrase as well, right?
Because sometimes we feel like failure is justa failure, right?
But that's really just a stepping stone to thenext thing and to moving forward.
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I told somebody the other day, they weretalking about wins and failures, and I was
like, Well failures are just wins that haven'thappened yet, right?
You haven't learned the lesson from thefailure.
And she's like, I love that!
So love that.
So tell us a little bit about that and how youhad maybe some failures in business that led
you to saying and recognizing, Hey, there's aneed here that I need to fill about this
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financial knowledge.
Okay, so some of it was, again, I've ownedmultiple businesses, so it was in kind of a
compilation of all the things, taking a stepback and saying, I need to figure this out.
So the failures of just jumping in and notknowing exactly what I was going to do.
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So I did not take the time to visualize whatthat future played out as in one of a couple of
those businesses.
And I just went for it because I like to dothat.
And I learned in that lesson that I probablyought to just literally write out a little bit
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of a business plan.
I'm not talking about being so analytical thatyou never start.
At
least writing out that business plan andsaying, you know what, is this something that
is going to give people purpose and joy?
And is this heartfelt for me?
And does this give me purpose?
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In those discoveries of, you know, maybe thatdidn't line out with exactly what I should be
doing.
I took a step back and said, okay, this isdefinitely not the way I'm supposed to be
going.
And I need to transition right now.
So I need to figure out something else.
And in all of that time, I listened to otherentrepreneurs, other business owners, my
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colleagues, different people that I have beenfriends with forever and their stories.
And, you know, I really love to ask questions.
I love to get to know people and find out whattheir success is and what they learned in their
journey.
Cause this is just a journey.
It's an experience.
And so that's really what brought me to a placeof saying, okay, every time I ask financial
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questions about what's going on in your life,what do you invest in?
What helps you sleep well at night, knowingeverything's taken care of and all those
things, there was like, looking at me.
Yeah, crickets.
Yeah.
It's like, what do you mean?
Is that possible?
Right?
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Or I don't know yet.
I haven't figured that out yet, you know, kindof thing.
And then I thought, wow, okay, I'm talking tomultimillionaires right now.
And then I put that together with, wow, I'mtalking to people who don't have hardly any
money to come up with, you know, food.
Yeah.
And the answers are similar.
And so what's happening here?
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Like, wait a minute.
And that's really what made me take a step backand say, okay, things have to shift.
And I have to find a way to be a huge blessingin this field.
For people to know that, no matter what yourfaith is, it's not bad to have money.
And it's not bad to put yourself first in thatso that you know you're taken care of for your
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future.
Yeah, then you can take care of others like theoxygen mask, If you take care of yourself, you
can take care of others.
That's right.
Yeah.
So I learned in that scenario that there's twothings that people do.
They either put all their money in a safe placein the bank or they throw it at the wall out
there in the market and hope it sticks.
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I just hope that we figure it out.
And we just, we smoke out like, oh, okay.
That's just a big fat no no, in my opinion.
Yes.
And that's the message that we get delivered sooften is yes, the stock market's crazy and who
knows what's going to happen and nobody canpredict it, but just put it in there and trust
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us, right?
Over the long term it's going to be fine.
And so it's like that's just such a scary thingto do, especially if you're on limited
resources and you've been putting, you know,trying to sock away money and that kind of
thing.
Really just, you know, like you said, throwingit against the wall and hoping something sticks
and hoping that there's not a big detrimentalcrash or something that's going to devastate
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you.
Well, more like in 02/2008.
You don't want a 02/2008 to happen again.
Those people really had a hardship.
Yes.
And they work so hard to put that moneytogether.
Right?
So that's why I think, again, just talking tosomebody like you with your expertise and just
getting an education about what is a better wayfor me to look at my finances.
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And I loved that you said you were talking topeople who are multimillionaires and people who
are struggling to pay their rent or whatever.
They all have that same lack of knowledgearound how their money can work for them,
right?
So and that, it's universal and it's sodisappointing.
Well, you know, the bottom line is we've allgone to school for twelve to sixteen years, but
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we were not taught money how it works and whatwe should do.
And, you know, we weren't given all the optionsthat we have at our fingertips.
And that is what I love to do.
Like, this is something that you can do aswell.
And Oh, did you know?
Yeah.
Instead of just crossing your fingers becausewhy is it okay?
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Literally why I want you to ask yourself andeverybody listening.
Is it okay to work your tail off your wholelife, spending time away from your family, and
the joyous things that you love to do, to thenjust cross your fingers and hope it's okay.
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No, stop that.
Like, no.
Or not even think about it at all, right?
Like, going to think about it because I don'tknow what to think about it, so I'm just going
to bury it down and not even pay attention.
Which is even worse, I think, than trying to dosomething.
I wanted to go back to a couple of things thatyou said.
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So when you said you own your life, right, thatis such a big statement.
And many people out there, especially ifthey're in kind of a corporate America or W-two
job, they think of entrepreneurship as thisfreedom.
Like, I'm gonna have all this freedom.
I'm gonna run my own business.
Right?
And any entrepreneur that has their businessunderstands that that's not always the case.
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You tend to work harder in your own businessthan you did for somebody else.
But you get to own how you work and what youget to do with your money and how much money
you make.
There's just so much more control that you haverunning your own business or potentially,
right, if you set it up correctly.
And then as a business coach, so I love helpingpeople build the business that supports their
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life.
But then they also experts like you that say,Okay, now that the business is making money,
what do we do with that money?
So I can help them manage the money in theirbusiness, but then they also need expertise
outside of that and say, Okay, what's the lifethat I want to build?
And how do I own my life?
What does that mean to somebody, to own theirlife?
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When you say you own your life, how does thatimpact you?
Or what does that look like in your case?
Well, for me, that means I dictate what I getto do when I get to do it and who I spend my
time with.
Nice.
And so in my business, I get to decide how manyhours I'm going to put in every day and
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schedule my time around what brings me joy.
Because after all, we only get one life.
We only get to be here to make an impact or toenjoy what we do in one form.
So, if my lifespan is shorter than yours, whathave I done with every day?
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And owning my life means I get to decide what Iwant to do every single day.
And yeah, that comes along with, you know,well, how much money do I need to make?
How much money do I visualize that I'm going tomake every single month?
And that changes how you own your life.
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If you visualize every single day, what it isthat you want in your life, and then you feel
that and you walk that out in your vision,fifteen minutes, you will find out that you
have more time freedom to do the things thatyou enjoy.
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So that's where I'm like, okay, I've got anextra two hours right now.
What am I gonna do?
Well, first thing I'm gonna do is go to theocean.
That's what looks for me.
That would be joy for me too, but it's a littlebit more than two hour commute for me to get to
an ocean from Colorado.
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Right, but that's what I mean by, I mean, Youthen you can decide, you know what, I'm gonna
sit in my comfy chair and I'm going to readthat book that I needed to read like the twelve
week year or whatever.
I'm going to decide what I get to do right now.
And that's the freedom of owning your life.
If you were at a job, you don't get to do that.
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Somebody else tells you what you've got to dowith your time.
And time is non renewable resource.
We can't get it back.
So a lot of people too, and fall into the habitof being an entrepreneur is work, work, work,
work, work fifty hours, you know, just do, do,do all the time.
In reality, if you'll take the time to justwalk outside and put your feet in the grass, to
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just breathe fresh air and listen to the birdsfor five minutes, It changes everything.
You go back into your office, and now you havenew ideas.
And you have, you know, a refreshed look atwhatever you were doing.
And it changes everything.
So you
decide those tiny moments and the big thingsthat you want to do.
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You can block out two weeks if that's what youfeel like you're going to do and go to Mexico
or Dominican or whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
Spend time with your grandchildren if you haveone.
Spend time with your grandchildren.
Call up and say, Hey, I'm coming over.
I've got to see my neighbors.
I'm gonna hang out with y'all.
Okay.
I love it.
I love that.
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Yeah.
And for people that are in that struggle, I'mbarely paying my bills, and so this sounds
wonderful, but how do I move from barely payingmy bills to having some more time freedom?
I think what you just said is so important.
Some of these things that give us thisownership of our life don't cost anything.
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Going and sitting outside in the sunshine andputting your feet in the grass or walking to a
park.
You can go to a public park and do that if youdon't have a yard, you live in an apartment.
There's all kinds of ways you can start livingthat life of time freedom in these small
incremental ways, it builds upon each otherjust like compound interest, right?
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So it builds upon each other.
So I love that you mentioned that because Ithink sometimes people think, well that's in
the future.
I won't be able to do that until I have my ownbusiness or whatever.
But you can start now and that's the importantthing is start today by doing some of those
little things.
Well, and I think that's priceless informationfor women because we do put everybody else
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first.
Yes.
Everything else happens before we take care ofus most of the time.
And we don't understand that we cannot pourfrom an empty cup.
Right.
You can't do that.
So, if you will give yourself five minutes hereand there, if you'll give yourself fifteen
minutes early in the morning before anybodyelse wakes up, if you've got a household of
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people, that is going to fill your cup.
And everything that multimillionaireentrepreneurs do, according to a lot of
different ones I've talked to, is they givegratitude first everything.
And I don't care if it's just the breath you'rebreathing, because it's the only thing you can
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think of that's positive.
And then they go and set in their vision andreally feel it and know it.
And if you don't have the things that you want,or you don't have the life, the ownership of
the life that you want, visualize it.
What's it going to feel like when you do,That's what's so important.
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And none of that costs any money.
Time
with you and your soul and spirit andunderstanding with the father, if you believe I
do, you know, then that is time that is justlike, okay, yes, I can do this.
I can do Yes.
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I love it.
I love it.
And part of that belief in yourself and thatconfidence is that taking a leap, right?
Absolutely.
I looked at the beginning you said maybeleaping into some of your businesses you might
have been better served had you taken a momentand made a business plan, those kind of things.
I love action takers, So we just have an idea,it's like let me act on that.
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And then there's the polar opposite of peoplewho have an idea and then they just have to
overanalyze every piece of it and they nevertake action.
So whichever one you find yourself in, the factthat you did take a leap and said, Okay,
there's this gap here of this knowledge and I'mgoing to take a leap and say, I can teach
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people this.
So how did you go about learning what you needto teach people and taking that leap to say,
Yes, I'm going to raise my hand and I'm goingto be the impact that people need to have in
their financial lives?
Well, as I said in the very beginning, I waslistening.
I do a whole lot of question asking todifferent people to find out what really brings
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them joy and what they're doing with theirmoney to give them that financial legacy and
that future that they want.
You know, in my, in my focus with all of thatwas to find out what is the differences?
Why is there such a stark difference betweenpeople who don't have anything and people who
have a whole lot more?
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And what is it that they're doing differentlyor similar that how they're living their life?
And so I started really listening to a lot ofthe people that I've been talking to my whole
life.
And I love making friends.
I don't know a stranger.
Can talk to anybody in the grocery store aboutanything.
I mean I love it.
Because I love living life and I believe youshould smile for goodness sake.
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Yes.
Make eye contact, it doesn't hurt.
It doesn't It doesn't hurt to smile.
And I actually, I've done my own little surveyon that sometimes.
That's kind of a side note, but you can go intoa place smile and you'll just receive so much
good energy.
And you'll just, you'll see all the people thatjust smile back and they're going to have a
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good day.
Then you can go in and you can be like, Andthen it's terrible.
Your whole energy is just, boom, it's sodifferent anyway.
But what I did was I said, all right, I'm goingto apply this.
So I need to find an avenue because I was notso aligned with the businesses that I was doing
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with some of them in the end of thosebusinesses.
I was bringing it up, but I just decided thatthis needed to be something that I need to do.
And I started asking the Father, the Creator,what is next for my life?
And I kept hearing, you need to be educatingabout money and what is going on and close that
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gap.
And so, I found this company called Five RingsFinancial, which I am, My Freedom First is an
agency of Five Rings And their missionstatement is incredible.
And it lines out with mine.
And it's all about giving first, So, sowinggood seeds and reaping the harvest however the
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Father chooses.
That's up to him, not me.
I did my part.
And so, in that I was literally finding thatalignment, what company is going to be best for
what I want to bring to the population and howI want to impact people's lives.
And that this is where I'm at.
And I absolutely love locking arms with thembecause their purpose is to try to impact
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everyone and let them know there's options.
And the fun part is 65% of the agencies, theagents in that company is women.
And I'm
like, This
is breaking the traditional mold of sweaterboys and men.
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So
I'm like, okay, I fit in here.
I can do something.
This is a man that owns, Mike Wilk owns thecompany.
And he's just like, there's no limits onsuccess and the diversification of people,
there's no limit.
And so that's when I decided my freedom firstcan attach to that company and literally move
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forward in leaps and bounds.
And that's where I took the leap into thisposition in my life.
And I believe it's the last business that Iwill own now, obviously the father can say, Oh
really?
Take that.
Make a plan and let me see.
But that's really what it was.
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I needed to find something, a company thatwould line out with what my values are.
And I believe in giving first.
That's why the classes and events that I do areall free.
Yeah, so tell people a little bit about that.
Tell our listeners about that because ourpodcast listeners will be all across The United
States and Canada, so you can work with peopleeven though you're based in Florida.
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You can work with people in different states,You offer some of these events that are online.
How do people find some additional educationfrom you if they wanted to?
Well they can go to my website, which ismyfreedomfirst.live to live your life, live
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your way, right?
But they can come to Wine Women and Wealthevents online and they can come to Money one
hundred one online, They can come to infinitebanking classes online and you can contact me
through my phone number, my email, imagine thata phone, can actually call me on the phone.
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I think that's so funny because you can callsomebody and they don't answer and ten seconds
later they answer your text message.
Yes, I know.
I
think that's hilarious, but yeah, you can callme on my phone.
You can email me, you can go to my website,book appointments.
You can do any of that and come for free.
It's so interesting.
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It's like come for free, get the knowledge,gain that empowerment to be confident with your
money.
And then
take those questions that you've learned to askto that financial advisor that you may have
right now and ask.
And they look at you like a deer in theheadlights, you might consider to adjust some
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things.
At the same time, maybe you've got somebodythat's really doing a great thing, but you
still want to know what you aren't being taughtor shown by them, come hang out, learn, educate
yourself.
If we are learning, we are always improving andwe are living our life our way.
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Learning is important.
I don't think anybody should ever just say, Oh,I got it all figured out.
If you hear yourself saying, Oh, my husbandtakes care of that.
Stop right there.
And I'm not saying husbands are not amazing.
I don't have one and I'm grateful, but I'mtelling you, that's good for me.
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Here's the thing.
If you're saying that to yourself, then youneed to say, I need to be on the same page with
him.
I need to be empowered to understand becausehere's the thing.
Women, majority of the women outlive the men.
And you don't know what's going on in yourfinancial future and you don't know the account
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information and all of the things, then you'regoing to be hit with some major challenges when
your husband's no longer with you.
Life can change at a drop of the hat.
So, it's important for us to come together andlearn.
And that's another, that's why I have Money 101because men and women can come together.
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Your children can come and learn what we needto know to change our financial future and at
least know what the options are that we have.
Yes, I love that.
I love that.
So what is one of the one of the key lessonsfrom Money 101 that you can share with our
listeners today?
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The compounding effect of your money isextremely powerful and most people do not think
of the negative compounding.
Okay.
So we talk some about if you've got a whole lotof credit card debt or debt, that interest is
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compounding against you.
And you need to learn how to, how to knock thatout, how to literally cut the time in half to
pay your debt off.
And you can also understand how compoundinterest works with small amounts of interest
that you earn.
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So, you can go from 4% to 12% and change yourlife You do not have to go from 4% or 1% in the
bank to 40% or 50% in the market to hope thatyou can get there sometimes.
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What we teach is a lot about smaller incrementsand how you can step that up and make a big
difference in your life to go from 1% to 12 to15 to 20.
And what that looks like and how compoundinterest actually works and the rules behind
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it.
The things that we don't normally learnanything
about.
It gives
you some homework to sit down with your spouseat the Money one hundred one and say, oh my
gosh, wow, I didn't know this and this andthis.
Now, how does this apply to our future?
Love And do build our future our way?
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Not what the traditional people are going totell you.
But figure it out for yourself.
And that's what I love about what I do.
I am empowering you to literally decide whatyou want.
It's your money.
It's your family.
It's your life.
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It's your future, not mine.
And not something else's that's going to tellyou something, Fully understanding how to make
those choices.
And that's what you're going to learn at Moneyone hundred one and Wine Women and Wealth and
all the other classes that I do.
Yes.
I love that.
I love that education really is key.
Sometimes going to a class, I love you call itMoney 101, right?
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And going down to the basics because we haven'tlearned this or maybe we learned it forty years
ago in one semester class we took in highschool, accounting or something like that,
right?
If you don't live it and it's not yourexpertise, and then maybe you talk to a
financial advisor or somebody and they justtalked over your head, right?
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And don't really explain things.
There's a lot of acronyms in the financialworld, right?
And this, do this.
And if you don't know the terminology, it'seasy to get lost.
That's why I think taking us back to thebeginning and helping us really understand the
concepts behind how many works is so powerful.
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So if you're listening to this, I encourage youto check out Jaree's website and sign up for
the next class because you'll learn so much.
And then you have the options.
Once we have the knowledge, then we can decidehow to apply that knowledge in our lives.
So whether you work with Jiri or you work withsomebody else or you have enough knowledge to
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take the next step on your own wherever you'reat in your journey, you can make an educated
step instead of just guessing and hoping.
And that's
something.
Yeah.
And you know, a lot of times, Mary, like goingback to the women and how we feel about things.
A lot of times that whole, they talk over yourhead or they make you feel like a penny waiting
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for change or, well where's my Bedford Spouse?
That inferiority or that, Oh, I don't want togo have this conversation because I always feel
icky and I don't have enough and all of thosethings just remove it all by getting educated.
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And then you're going to be like, okay, now Iunderstand more.
I understand how that works.
And I can ask good questions.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's if we don't know the questions to ask,that's why we feel like it's going over our
head.
Right.
Right.
Yes.
I love it.
I love it.
So again, I highly encourage you to reach outand talk to Jeri on the phone.
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You can talk to her on the phone if you wantto, show up to one of her classes.
So, Jaree, if there are our listeners are outthere and they're on the edge of taking a big
leap, whether that be in their personal life,they're starting a business, in their business,
or even with their financial, you know,education, what would you, what's your best
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piece of advice for them to take some actionwith confidence?
That would be, do a tiny bit of research.
Again, no, not so analytical that you neverstart, but do a little bit of research on the
other people that are already successful inwhat you are looking into.
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Literally look at what's going on and how didthey start?
What did they do?
And then trust yourself to take that action andmove forward.
And finding the people that are going to lineup with you, like Mary, like you, who are going
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to say, you know what, I know exactly how toget you started and what you should be looking
for.
But leaping forward is vital because it, youknow, it's just, it's just, if you don't take
action and trust yourself, then you may nottake that action to change your life.
And a lot of times we'll come up with an ideaand we'll think that's really, really great.
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And then you'll get fear.
And I'm just going to challenge you to removethe fear because if that come up in your mind,
then something in your subconscious is tellingyou that you need to do this.
Right, right.
You need to experience it.
And even if you fail, you fail your way forwardbecause you've learned something that you
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didn't know.
And that's okay.
You need to live in that.
So, take that chance, Literally step up foryourself and say, I heard this for a reason,
and I'm going to take action.
And now again, do a little tiny bit ofresearch, but I'm talking, you know, fifteen
minutes, Nauseam, go into this two weekanalytical, whatever, and draw out all these
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charts and all this stuff.
No, you don't have to
do that.
Right.
You know, trust your intuition.
Trust your subconscious because yoursubconscious doesn't sleep.
Connected to the Father.
It is your soul.
And guess what?
We are soul spirit beings having a humanexperience.
That means we get to make our own decisions.
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We
get to take a leap forward.
And even if you do go through that failure,okay, just dust your feet off and go again.
I mean, Thomas Edison, how many times did hefail?
He failed a whole lot, but guess what?
Because of him, we have lights right now.
Right, right.
Yes.
Yeah.
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I love so much of what you just said, Jeri.
It's just such a wonderful piece of advice.
Especially if you heard this message for areason, so pay attention and take an action on
that message that you're hearing.
Whether that message is I need to get to amoney one on one class or I need to start my
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first business, or I need to take some kind ofaction.
You have that thought for a reason, payattention to it.
Instead of eliminating the fear, put the fearon If I don't do this, what's my life going to
look like?
If I don't take this action I'm going to bestuck in the same place for the next year or
two.
So instead of the fear of the action itself putthe fear on if I don't take action what's going
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to happen?
It's almost more scary to think I'm going to bestagnant like this the rest of my life or I'm
never going to know about money or I'm nevergoing to have a business or whatever it is.
That's even more scary to me than staying inthe comfort zone is it can be worse, right?
Oh, absolutely.
And here's the thing, if you're ready to takethat lead, if you're hearing it and you take
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the lead, guess what?
There's a whole lot of tax benefits too.
Yes.
If you have fear, have fear that's trying tohold you back to say, okay, wait a minute, but
there's so many tax benefits if I own my ownbusiness.
So let's just do it anyway.
There's so much that you can learn.
And besides, we're here to learn.
Right, right.
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Yeah.
Yes, I love it.
We're on the same page as always.
Love it, I love it.
All right, well that I think is a wrap for ourtime today.
So thank you again, Jaree, for being a guest.
If you are listening or watching on YouTube, Ihope you found inspiration, motivation, and a
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few golden nuggets or more than a few goldennuggets to take with you on your journey.
If you love this conversation, be sure tosubscribe on whatever streaming channel you're
listening to us or on YouTube so that you nevermiss an episode of the Leap to Success podcast.
If the message that Jaree shared with us todayreally resonated with you, be sure and show her
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some love by sharing this podcast with yourcommunity and making sure that you are going
out and reaching out to her for this educationthat she's offering you for free.
All of that information again is in our shownotes, so make sure whether you're listening or
watching that you go and grab those show notesinformation so that you can connect with Jari.
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If you want to go deeper inside the Leap forLadies community, we would love to have you,
and you will find even more resources,connections, and opportunities to show up and
grow.
You can visitsuccessmagnified.com/leapforladies to learn
more about our community.
And until next time, keep taking those boldleaps, contributing your gifts, and celebrating
(37:02):
your successes.
Thank you again for being our guest, Jeri.
It's been such a pleasure having you on theshow.
And thank you for having me, Mary.
I loved it.
I had so much fun.
Great, great.
Me too.
I always love your energy.
It's such fun to talk to you.
Thank you so much.
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