Adrienne Dorison: The Transformational Power of Hard Stories
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Adrienne Dorison came out of college nearly $50,000 in debt, and the only way she knew how to pay off her debt was by taking a passionless corporate job. Yet she continued to struggle with money and had an unhealthy relationship with it. But one day she decided to quit her corporate job and embrace entrepreneurship, and in just 6 months, she had paid off her debt and was climbing the ladder of success extremely quickly. See how Adrienne turned her hard stories into success by taking a listen to our latest episode!
Adrienne Dorison is a success strategist, speaker, and podcast host. She starter her own business (that is now a six-figure business) and runs her own website for those wanting to follow in her footsteps.
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| 0:00.0 | I definitely like was not smart with money like I just took out more than I needed to and I remember my brother telling me at the time he's like you don't have to take out everything they give you and I'm like oh I don't like I don't have to take it all I can give some of it back right like when they |
| 0:14.8 | told me I can have $10,000 for the year I don't have to take all of that and I didn't |
| 0:19.6 | even didn't even register at that time just because it was the first time in my life that I had some of my own money that it like it felt good to be honest so I was using it and I was spending it and I wasn't budgeting I wasn't keeping track of anything I didn't really even know how to do that like I had |
| 0:34.9 | never been taught that in school which is why it's such a big passion of mine to teach that to other |
| 0:40.4 | people and to to not bring all this like embarrassment and shame and emotion along with it because that's |
| 0:48.8 | what I felt like when I left school and I had 50,000000 of debt. I immediately knew I needed to get a job. I needed to start |
| 0:56.8 | paying that. So I got my corporate job, was being paid pretty well in that corporate job. |
| 1:03.7 | And again, first time in my life |
| 1:05.8 | that I have my own money. |
| 1:07.1 | And I'm like, I don't want to pay off this debt. |
| 1:11.3 | I want to be able to buy the almond butter if I want it. |
| 1:14.3 | This is the first time in my life that I can spend $7 on |
| 1:16.8 | almond butter and actually afford it. |
| 1:18.9 | Or to have the gym membership that I really wanted to have. |
| 1:22.0 | And so I wasn't really tracking my money I was just |
| 1:25.1 | kind of spending what I had I was paying the minimum payments on my student loan |
| 1:29.2 | which put me at about a 28 year repayment plan, which I thought was normal. |
| 1:35.8 | I was like, oh, okay, I'm just gonna like graduate with all of this debt. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm gonna pay this off for the rest of my life. I'll probably still have this when my kids go to school. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Sreeney Rao and this is the unmistakable Creative |
| 1:55.2 | podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most |
| 1:58.6 | innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving |
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