187 - Interview - Balancing Saving and Paying off debt to find IMMEDIATE PEACE
How to Buy a Home: The #1 First Time Home Buyer Podcast
David Sidoni
4.8 • 891 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It might seem daunting, but, yes, you can purchase a home while you’re in graduate school. Even though you’re stressed about money and depending on your credit card, there are ways you can organize your finances to prepare for this additional big achievement. Today, David is talking with Kendall who achieved her doctorate in psychology AND managed to purchase her first home amidst it all!
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| 0:00.0 | How do we even think about buying a home when you're entering grad school and doctorate programs |
| 0:10.3 | and you realize that you're going to be one of those starving academics? How are you supposed to save? |
| 0:16.2 | You're living on your credit cards for anything that comes up in your life. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, I've got someone really |
| 0:23.5 | exciting today on the podcast. I just finished this interview and I never do this. I just turn |
| 0:29.5 | the camera right back on. I'm just going to go off the cuff because I had such an incredible |
| 0:35.0 | conversation with Kendall. So those of you out there thinking, you can't do this, |
| 0:39.9 | my favorite thing she said in this interview, |
| 0:42.6 | someone who worked 10 years in school, |
| 0:46.1 | struggled because she believed in what she's doing now with her doctor degree. |
| 0:51.0 | Once she purchased the home that she admitted, |
| 0:57.4 | she over-researched, she said she felt immediate peace. Play that music. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm not here. Hey everybody. |
| 1:17.8 | Okay, so here's a little behind the curtain on these interviews. |
| 1:20.6 | Sometimes I talk to the people ahead of time, but I try not to talk to them too much |
| 1:24.5 | because I just want to hear it live and for real. |
| 1:27.7 | So I talked with Kendall for about 30 seconds and I found out something really cool. |
| 1:32.4 | I am not the smartest person on the interview today. |
| 1:35.4 | So ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Kendall, who has a doctorate, bought her first home. |
| 1:41.3 | Congratulations. |
| 1:42.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:42.7 | Thank you. |
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