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The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

238: How Cassidy Paid Off $18,000 In 10 Months & Then Went On To Triple Her Income

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8931 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast episode: Cassidy Horton is a personal finance copywriter and money nerd. She first became interested in finance after paying off $18,000 in debt within 10 months of graduating college. She later went on to triple her salary in two years by ditching her 8-to-5 to write for a living. Cassidy earned her MBA and bachelor's in public relations from Georgia Southern University. Today, she's passionate about helping personal finance brands reach *their* people through content marketing. WHAT CASSIDY DISCUSSED: 1. Where her $18,000 of debt came from and how she got motivated to pay it off 2. What her income at the time was and the specific steps she took to pay off her debt 3. How tripled her income by working for herself including how she transitioned from her 9 to 5 job to full-time entrepreneurship AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH CASSIDY - On her website: www.cassidyhorton.com - On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidybhorton/ ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Transcript

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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

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.

0:40.4

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

1:06.1

don't already follow us on Instagram you can find us at Clever Girl Finance.

1:10.6

Okay so let's get into today's episode.

1:16.0

Welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast, Cassidy. I am so excited to have you here.

1:20.0

Thank you, Bola. I'm so excited to be chatting with you.

1:23.0

And we're going to be talking about how you paid off $18,000 of debt within 10 months of graduating college, which is such a great accomplishment.

1:33.8

Before we dive into how you did it

1:35.8

and what you're doing now,

1:37.2

please tell us who you are and what you do.

1:40.1

Okay, so professionally, I am a freelance personal finance copywriter. So pretty much what that means is I create a lot of blog posts, articles, email sequences and other pieces of content for personal finance platforms.

1:55.8

And fun fact, I'm actually a writer for Clever Girl Finance.

2:00.0

So Boa and I connected about a year ago and I have been creating a few blog posts a month for the platform ever since.

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