Achieving Financial Success: Al Jones on Credit Repair, Debt Negotiation, and Financial Education

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Al Jones, a personal finance author, game publisher, and service-disabled veteran, brings a wealth of personal experience and insightful perspectives to the topic of financial literacy. His journey is one marked by overcoming significant challenges, many of which stemmed from his time in military service. Al reflects on how financial struggles, such as gambling and dealing with a low credit score, shaped his understanding of money and its importance in everyday life. Growing up in an environment where financial instability was a constant presence, he learned early on that financial knowledge was critical to achieving stability and success. Join us as we bring back this episode from Giving Kredit Podcast.

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0:00.0	Giving credit is a podcast giving those making a difference their credit.
0:07.0	On a weekly basis, we'll be interviewing parents, tech CEOs, financial experts, kid entrepreneurs, and others to learn about credit, education, financial literacy, and building wealth equity. Thanks for joining us.
0:25.5	I'm so thrilled today on this episode of giving credit to have as my guest, Al Jones. Al,
0:32.6	thank you for joining me today. It's truly a pleasure. Thank you for the opportunity.
0:37.2	Absolutely. So one of the things that
0:40.1	really attracted me to you and your story is your story, hearing about your financial journey.
0:48.0	And I know that you have a lot of thoughts and opinions and experience around military members and finances as well. So I do want to
0:56.6	dig into some of that. But before we get in all that, what is your credit and finance story?
1:01.5	What did you grow up understanding about money? And then how did that evolve over time?
1:06.8	Well, I'm a personal finance author and game publisher and a service-disabled veteran.
1:13.6	I'm a current resident and native of Phoenix, Arizona.
1:16.6	And after years of making poor financial decisions and thinking it was the norm, I decided to take action, make a change in my life, and document the process along the way. So I'm here
1:29.1	now with a perfect 850 FICO score and ready to share my story with you and your viewers.
1:36.7	Awesome. But yeah, growing up, it's a retired, as a retired government employee, but as a veteran, I was exposed to periods of
1:50.0	loneliness and sadness, especially when the first time I received my first act of duty
1:55.0	assignment in Korea. I was a momless boy, as they call it, and it was at home alive.
2:01.1	So this is the first time actually being away from old.
2:04.2	We're extended period of time.
2:06.6	So being away from the home, lone, foreign country, and trying to get a feel of the surroundings
2:16.2	and trying to gain an identity for yourself, that kind of weighs down
2:21.3	on, it's a bit for me. But the Lusperi, the loneliness, I find myself going to, found myself going to
2:29.2	the club, didn't drink, didn't smoke, but I had a gambling issue. And there wasn't much
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