Afford Anything · Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Joe brings up the movie 'Brewster's Millions' as an anecdote about learning to manage money, suggesting that making mistakes with a small portion of funds can provide valuable lessons for handling larger sums. Paula Pant agrees, noting that many in the personal finance community became adept at money management after initially mismanaging it.
“Brewster's millions is a story of a middle class baseball player who inherits $300 million with the stipulation Paula”
“But the point is you take a small amount of the money and you do the wrong thing and you learn how to handle the bigger emotions”
“Anecdotally I I have a lot of people in the personal finance community in the afford anything community who became really good at money because they went through a period of time in their life in which they were quote unquote bad at money”