Journey To Launch

Was recently introduced to this podcast and since then have binged on most of the content. So many great guests and life changing information. I’ve been learning so much about personal finance including investing, saving and paying down debt. Jamilla always asks great questions and introduces her Journeyers to knew ways of thinking. I now look forward to each week’s podcast.

Like Jamila, I’ve moved from pursuing FIRE into using the tools behind it to craft a life I love & can sustain for a long time. But as someone who’s been listening since 2018, I come to this podcast for more than that. Journey to Launch has become a kind of touchpoint of humanity, a place where people from all tracks of life—including a fair amount of former teachers, which I am!—come to share their stories with a remarkable human who is both a great interviewer and gifted at drawing out unique truths and at encapsulating principles and ideas that are sometimes hard to state clearly—but she does! She’s a teacher herself in so many ways, and I’m embarrassed that it took me this long to write a review. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your transparency, honesty and for holding space and showing the way for so many of us who never had that example. You are loved, and what you provide here (& in your book!) are invaluable.

It’s been a few months since I listened to to a JTL episode, it never disappoints. It. doesn’t matter who Jamila is interviewing, be it an NFL player who redefines what wealth is for a professional athlete by investing in his future instead of showing out, or a mom who started a business with $5 to get her family out of almost-poverty. It does not matter what the topic is, she is the best interviewer in all media, hands down! Jamila knows how to let her guests speak, knows the exact questions to ask, and asks the best follow up questions. In a world where Everyone has a podcast and Everyone is interviewing people and talking over them and not asking the right questions… I find myself yelling out loud for a question that never seems to be asked. In contrast, Jamila gets the raw truth from her guests, the nitty gritty, and these answers help other people who are listening who may be at the same place. Regardless of where you are in life financially, this podcast has something for everyone in the finance spectrum, from broke to those building generational wealth. And it’s not just finance, there are life nuggets in every episode. Move over Oprah, Jamila, imo, is a much better interviewer. She is. I said it first ;).

I started listening to Jamila around November 2023 when I was trying to get started in listening to podcasts rather than listening to music during my shifts. I found the show looking for something in finance as I am an accountant and wanted something I felt would also teach me. I heard Jamila talking about her new book that was coming out early December 2023 and tbh I was thinking “is this another one of those…” hearing a lot of other podcasters on my main homepage talking up their recent books. But then I kept listening and learning about Jamila’s view of FI and I HAD to get it ! As a black female in finance, I’m so glad to have found Jamila to be relatable & inspiring. Especially her 6 year goal because I was just turning 25 setting a 5 year goal. I did slow down on podcasts for a few weeks, still reading my book, but I’ve been listening to the more recent new episodes and was just feeling so inspired by hearing everyone’s stories & Jamila saying how far she’s come, & referencing old episodes - so last week I decided to go allll the way back to see where Jamila started to give myself more confidence IT IS POSSIBLE. I can see my mindset has changed a lot in the last 6 months, not only from listening to Jamila but also executive some of the things I’ve learned. Thank you for bringing us on your Journey Jamila !!!