139- Love & Money: How They Got On The Same Page To Pay Off $32,000 of Debt w/ LeDo & Shameka McDowell
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Love is in the air and we are talking about love and money in this week's episode. LeDo and Shameka McDowell talk about their relationship and how they paid off $32,000 in debt and built $100,000 in net worth. Once they got on the same financial page, they were unstoppable.
LeDo and Shameka are creators of the podcast The Marital Mission, a podcast about married life for young couples. In this episode, we have an honest conversation about how to get your partner on board with your financial goals, the struggles that come with becoming debt-free, how to have the money talk with your partner, and more.
In this episode, you will learn:
- Practical ways to get on the same financial page with your partner
- How to cut your expenses and reach your financial goals
- The importance of putting communication first
- The difference between the avalanche and the debt snowball debt payoff methods and more
Special thanks to our podcast sponsor, Empower. Get $5 into your account when you download the Empower app and reach your savings goal. Enter code JOURNEY at signup here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, The Love and Money episode, |
| 0:06.0 | How One Couple got on the same financial page to pay off $32,000 of debt. |
| 0:11.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. Welcome to the Journal. dollars of debt. The money to launch podcast with your host Janila Sufrauts as a money expert who |
| 0:19.7 | walks her talk. She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:27.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:31.0 | Five, four, three, three, two... financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:37.0 | Hey hey hey journeys welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. If you're completely new to the |
| 0:46.0 | podcast, welcome, take a seat, buckle up because we are about to blast off to financial freedom. |
| 0:53.3 | And if you are a returning journeyer and listener, thank you so much for coming back. |
| 0:57.8 | Obviously you must like something that's happening here, so that's awesome. |
| 1:00.7 | Okay, before we hop into the episode, I want to tell you about today's sponsor, Empower. |
| 1:06.3 | One of the most asked questions from listeners that I get is, how can I save more and reach my goals? |
| 1:12.1 | And I usually reply with, you have to make it easy and |
| 1:14.8 | automated as much as possible so I'm always on the lookout for solutions for you to do |
| 1:19.5 | just that make saving easy and automatic Today's sponsor Empower that's E M-P-O-W-E-R is an awesome mobile app that makes saving and managing your money the easiest thing you can do all day. For starters, Empower has an your Every Day, Empower Studies Your Income and Spending, |
| 1:43.2 | and automatically knows when to move the right amount of money |
| 1:46.1 | into your savings account where you're less likely to spend it. |
| 1:49.4 | It's called Auto Save. |
| 1:50.9 | Just set it and forget it. |
| 1:52.2 | You even get access to a human coach that you can text |
| 1:54.8 | for personalized finance questions. Download Empower, that's E M P-O-W-E-R in the App Store or Play Store. I download the app myself because you know that I have to give things a try before I recommend them and I really like it. It's super simple and easy to get started. |
| 2:10.0 | And for journeys, that's you, you get $5 when you use the offer code journey and reach your savings goals. |
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