169: How Jen & Her Husband Paid Off $78k In 2 Years Despite Facing Unemployment Twice

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today my guest on the podcast is Jen Smith, founder of modernfrugality.com and co-host of the Frugal Friends podcast.  Jen and her husband paid off $78K of debt in two years but when they started, they had a five-year plan! Jen shares what they did that resulted in them cutting their debt payoff in half without windfalls, being unemployed twice, and buying a house during that time! KEEP UP WITH JEN - On her website: modernfrugality.com - Download her free resource: modernfrugality.com/debtfree - Listen to her podcast: Frugal Friends Podcast ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Boila Schokumbi and the
0:08.0	founder and CEO of Clever Girl Finance. The Clever Girls No Podcast is a podcast for women offering a space for conversations around
0:16.8	personal finance, business, life, and living.
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1:06.1	don't already follow us on Instagram you can find us at Clever Girl Finance.
1:11.8	Okay so let's get into today's episode.
1:16.0	Hey Jen, welcome to clever girl finance. I am so excited to have you joining me here today to share your debt payoff story so you and your husband paid off over $78,000 of debt. You thought you were going to do it in five years, but you did it in less time. and what's really incredible about this story is that you guys face
1:36.2	unemployment twice in addition to a slew of other challenges so I'm super excited to have you join me and share your story with the
1:44.4	clever of finance audience. I'm going to have you introduce yourself and tell us
1:47.8	who you are and what you do. Well thank you so much for having me. My name is Jen Smith. I'm the co-host of Frugal Friends
1:56.4	podcast and I am the chief financial educator at modern fragality.com.
2:03.5	I'm super excited to share my story
2:05.1	because I truly believe if we can do it,
2:08.0	I think anybody can.
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