It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show, where our mission is to serve

you and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.

Yesterday, Michael in Montana, I always find this kind of embarrassing, asked me how I got

to where I am in life, what's my backstory, how I end up doing what I do today, and I'm

going to share that story with you on the podcast.

Later, repent your budgets all over the place, and one of the places you can have the greatest

impact, particularly as a family, is to rip that current cell phone plan apart that you

have and get those costs down.

I want to talk about who we found is the best combination of a much lower price and decent

customer service for you to look at.

And why do I get embarrassed talking about my story?

I've always been told to be quiet about yourself and your accomplishments to walk humbly.

And at the same time, Christa has always said, it's important that you share your story

regularly with people because it is unusual, and there are things in it that people can

learn from.

And so I'm going to give you the short version of it.

What Christa has been after me to write a book about for autobiography for, I don't

know, 20 years she's been trying to get me to do it.

And I just feel funny doing it, I feel funny talking about my life right now too, but

here we go.

So I grew up in a very easy life.

I grew up in what seemed like a privileged household.

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