How This Couple Regained Focus and Motivation During the Most Trying Times with Julien and Kiersten Saunders

Plutus Awards Podcast

How do you manage during the difficult times in life? Through this past year, it has been hard to balance the realities of everyday life with the arduous situations that are impacting our society.

Julien and Kiersten speak with our host, Sarah Li Cain, about their coping mechanisms at the beginning of the pandemic. They share the different tools they utilized to create better strategies, boundaries, and systems so they can flourish in business and family.

- How they moved from unhealthy to healthy coping mechanisms - The importance of bringing in help when pressure is building up - Their goals of using their brand to impact their community and drive social change - The creative ways they set systems and boundaries in how they communicate

Julien and Kiersten are the couple behind the award-winning blog and forthcoming book, rich & REGULAR ® . They are also producers of the original series, Money on the Table which blends their passion for food with conversations about money. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, their mission is to inspire the African American community to consider and adopt the FIRE lifestyle as a path to building generational wealth.

The couple has used frugal living, real estate, index fund investing and their online business to set themselves on a path to achieving financial independence by 2021.

They’ve paid off $200,000 in five years and their story has been featured in The NY Times, Forbes, CBS This Morning, Marketwatch and more. When they're not sharing stories about their experiences with money, they are parents to their son Beau, traveling the world or searching for their next great meal.