212: How Ashley Paid Off Over $84,000 In 17 Months

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Meet Ashley, a meal planning, money managing, motivating mommy on a mission to help inspire millennials and moms like herself to build a solid financial footing while dumping consumer and student loan debt! MORE ABOUT ASHLEY She has a career in construction project management where she leads multi-million dollar projects and has also scaled into her passion of personal finance and advocacy. As the founder of "Talk Cash With Ash", a finance brand, her mission is to inspire and motivate others to organize their money, tackle debt, and gain financial freedom all while having fun! Since starting "Talk Cash with Ash" her fun approach to money has helped numerous families including her own get started on their debt-free journeys. Over 17 months, through the pandemic, and after leveraging my assets, she has paid off over $84,000 of debt! WHAT ASHLEY DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE: 1. What her "enough is enough" moment was 2. The specific things she did to pay down her debt 3. How she kept herself motivated 4. How she managed the days where she just wanted to go out and spend money 5. The steps she's taking to ensure her debt freedom is permanent 6. Her goals for the next five years AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH ASHLEY Follow Ashley on Instagram: @talkcashwithash ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Boila Schokumbi. I'm the founder and CEO of Clever
0:10.1	Girl Finance. The Clever Girls No Podcast is a podcast for women offering a space for conversations around
0:16.9	personal finance, business, life, and living.
0:21.9	I'd love for you to subscribe to this podcast and you can do that everywhere
0:25.0	you listen to your podcast episodes. And if you love what you listen to, head on over to iTunes
0:30.0	and leave a review so that other amazing women just like you can find this
0:34.2	podcast as well. I'd also love for you to stop by clevergirl finance.com.
0:40.6	We have new content on the blog multiple times a week. We have over 30 plus free courses.
0:46.0	Plus when you sign up for a course, you can talk to a clever girl finance mentor for free to get encouragement, motivation, or if you just want to have an open, no shame, no judgment, girl talk.
0:59.0	Finally, check out our YouTube channel.
1:02.0	Just search Clever Girl Finance on YouTube. And if you don't
1:06.4	already follow us on Instagram you can find us at Clever Girl Finance. Okay so let's get into today's episode. Hey Ashley. Hi
1:16.7	Bola how are you? I'm doing great how are you doing well this morning doing well. Well thank you for making time to join me here on the
1:26.8	Clever Girls No podcast and I am excited to share your incredible success story about how you paid off over $84,000 of debt in 17 months during this crazy pandemic.
1:42.0	But before we deep dive into your story, I'd love for you to tell everyone who you are.
1:47.0	Sure, yes, I am a millennial mom. I am a corporate office, babe. I am a corporate office, babe, I am so many other things, but I'm most proud of being a mother, a single mother, and just working in a male-dominated field.
2:03.4	I'm a construction manager.
2:04.9	So I've been doing that since college
2:07.4	and didn't really know that I would be in construction.
2:10.3	So that's an interesting story in itself. Also didn't know that it would cost me like almost
2:15.8	$70,000 to do so and that was the bulk of my debt actually so yeah.
2:22.3	Oh wow so you had about $70,000 in student loans and then what was the other
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