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The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

230: How Doing DoorDash Helped Ayo Pay Off $45,000 In Student Loans

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8931 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast episode, Ayooluwa Ijarogbe shares her personal story of how she used DoorDash to pay off $45,000 in student loans. Ayooluwa is a chartered attorney who moved to the United States to obtain her master's degree. She was determined to pay off her $45,000 school loan in 12 months completely through her DoorDash earnings. While investing aggressively on her FI/RE journey, she also teaches women about financial literacy through her platform My Finance Center. WHAT AYOOLUWA DISCUSSED: 1. How lack of planning for her masters led to her first financial crisis 2. Her determination to pay off her $45,000 student loan through DoorDash food delivery service 3. Keeping her side hustle hidden from friends and family 4. Why she is on a FI/RE journey and aggressively investing for financial independence 5. The avenues she is using to build wealth AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH AYOOLUWA - On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myfinancecenter/ ❤ 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

0:15.6

for conversations around personal finance, business, life, and living. I'd love

0:22.2

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

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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.

0:39.7

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 I. Oh

1:15.6

welcome to the Clever Girls No podcast. Hi Bola it's so good to meet you. I know. I'm

1:22.1

big fan of clever good finance so it's a great privilege to be here talking to you today

1:28.8

Thank you and I'm so excited to have you here. We're actually namesake's. My middle name is also I.

1:34.0

Oh, for sure. That's so good to know. So we're going to talk about your story of paying off over $45,000 of your private student loans in one year by doing things like Dordash and more, right?

1:51.0

But before we dive in, I would love for you to tell everyone who you are and what you do.

1:56.7

Okay, so my name is I. First, thanks for having me sharing my story is something I like to do. I look for every opportunity to do that so that I'm able to at least influence someone or help someone out of the debt retreats, so to speak.

2:11.0

So my name is I. I am a chartered accountant. I worked in the

2:15.3

big four and presently I'm a finance controller in one of the oil and gas

2:19.2

companies. So I'm basically in the accounting finance function so that's what I do on a day to

2:25.4

day basis outside of the office house I teach financial literacy and I do this on

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