060 - No More Harvard Debt! How One Guy Paid of $90k of Debt in Seven Months

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🗓️ 10 December 2012

⏱️ 21 minutes

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My interview with Joe Mihalic, who paid off $90,000 of debt in 7 months, because he got intense, got focused, and made it happen. You can catch Joe's book on Amazon (for $2.99) called Destroy Student Debt - a Combat Guide to Freedom.

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0:00.0	Hello, whinevers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 60 for
0:17.0	You Need a Budget, where we teach you four rules to help you stop looking paycheck to
0:21.0	paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. Today I will be interviewing
0:26.9	Joe Mahalek. He is the author of No More Harvard Debt and I am just pleased to have him on. He basically saw that he had
0:35.8	90 grand in student loan debt and decided to tackle it, beat it in seven months. He was
0:42.2	intense, insanely intense about it.
0:45.6	He basically passed on everything, sold a lot of stuff.
0:49.6	And we kind of get into the philosophical
0:52.2	around consumption and your wants and
0:54.4	happiness things like that. He has a great book on Amazon it's 299 and it's
1:00.8	it's called Destroy Student Dead a Combat Guide to Freedom.
1:04.0	And I highly recommend it. It reviews well.
1:06.0	And Joe, as you'll see in the interview, is a smart guy
1:09.0	with a lot of insights when it comes to psychology and debt pay down. So without further ado, here is my interview with Joe.
1:20.0	All right, I'm here on the phone with Joe Moholic.
1:23.4	Thanks Joe for coming on the podcast.
1:25.1	You bet, Jesse.
1:26.1	I'm very glad to be here today.
1:27.8	All right, Joe, so you are an average Joe, right? Yeah.
1:33.0	But you did something pretty crazy back in 2000, what was it, 2010 or so?
1:41.0	So I wanted to... What's that?
1:44.0	When I took on a bunch of dad or?
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