Be Prepared: Math Doesn’t Care About Your Life Situations

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey guys, if you're ready to get ahead with money and start building wealth this year,
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0:20.4	Music From the Ramsey Network, it's The Ramsey Show. I'm Jade Warshaw next to me, my good buddy, Dr. John Deloney.
0:36.8	What up?
0:38.6	We're taking your calls all hour long, your life, your money, your relationships, your career, all of it. We'll talk about it.
0:44.0	The call is a free call. Triple-8-8-25-2-2-25 is what gets you on. Remember, this is a live show,
0:50.2	and we want to hear from you. All right, John, let's go straight to the phone lines. We got Nicholas, Boston, Massachusetts. What's going on, Nick?
0:57.9	How are you? Doing good. How can we help?
1:01.2	So, yeah, I just wanted, you know, first I appreciate you guys, you know, putting me on,
1:06.8	but I wanted to just kind of, you know, put my situation out there. In 2020, I'm a small business
1:13.9	owner. In 2020, we had a great year. We're a fence installation company. Now, we were doing really,
1:21.2	really great around the time 2020 into 2021. At that time, my wife had an affair. I was working probably 50 to 60 hours a week
1:30.0	just because I had to keep up with the demand for the business at the time. After that,
1:35.7	you know, that hit me mentally and going into a divorce process, it killed me financially.
1:40.6	And I've just not been able to recover. It's just been a tough few years. The business
1:45.9	since that, it was kind of like almost like a peak in 2020 and the 2021 with the work. The business
1:52.4	slowed down after. I don't know if it's partially due to the economy or just my state in general
1:58.2	of, you know, pushing forward, lack of funds for the business and so on.
2:02.6	But just been a struggle since that time.
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