Alyssa: Stop Arguing With Reality

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Alyssa Elliott has always prided herself on being a responsible, by-the-book kind of person. And it was exactly those qualities that were taken advantage of when Alyssa’s parents came to her for help, putting her on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars. A twenty-something just trying to make her own way in the world, she was suddenly drowning in debt and, she’d eventually learn, a lifetime of deep anxiety. Alyssa tells Stephanie how severe financial insecurity has impacted her feelings of safety, her relationship with her parents, and her perspective on being a parent herself.

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0:18.6	Welcome to the dough. We're cash is queen and we hardly know her but we're still here figuring her out together because
0:25.0	y'all season two is here hosted every week by me ex-Maya remember me I'm going to be
0:31.6	talking to all types of people about their relationship to money.
0:34.8	I'm talking to reality stars, entrepreneurs, financial experts, and even some of my own friends.
0:41.2	Basically anyone who will get real with me about their dollars, how they make money, how they spend it, and how they save it because I'm trying to retire early people.
0:50.0	Season 2 of the dough is out now wherever you get your podcast.
0:55.0	Lemonade. When that reality hit it was like being dunked in ice water with a brick on top of your head.
1:12.3	It's 2009. water with a brick on top of your head.
1:13.0	It's 2009.
1:15.0	Alyssa Elliot is sitting at her desk at work,
1:18.0	absolutely drowning in anxiety.
1:22.0	The mortgage company has been calling and calling. The debts and
1:26.0	bills are piling up. And this isn't like Alyssa, who has always done everything by
1:31.6	the book. But that doesn't matter to the debt collectors, the courts,
1:36.3	even the people she's confiding in. Someone has to be held responsible, even if that person only had the best intentions.
1:47.1	You say things like, I couldn't have foreseen that this would happen, but like I really couldn't
1:51.2	at the time. I was in my early 20s. I was young. I didn't host Stephanie Whittles Wax. Today the story of a decision that became
2:17.2	a hundred thousand dollar mistake and how to make peace with that once you're finally able to come up for air. Melissa grew up in Boise, Idaho with her mom, dad, and sister, and for all of you non- Midwesterners,
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