Hello, Wienabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham, and this is a special

podcast episode for Wienab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop

living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. Today I'm talking

with Mitchell Burton, who is somewhat of a Wienab legend. save more than a hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt in

he paid off more than a hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt in just five years

with why now Dave Ramsey and a unique breed of intense focus that I can personally really appreciate.

Mitchell is one of the success stories I've featured in my new book, You Need a Budget.

And he's just one of the many reasons I think you'll find

the book an inspiration. Pull what you will from this crazy story. Let's cut over to Mitchell.

Okay, so I'm here with Mitchell and Mitchell you were featured in the upcoming book,

You Need a Budget, and I wanted to give podcast listeners a chance to hear a little bit of your story and then and kind of yeah

a then and now I guess so let me let me have you just give people a quick like before view of, you know, kind of where your story starts.

Oh man, those were dire times, my friend. The dire times. friend dire times so yeah to try to give the shorter version of it the

major thing was that I had tons and tons of student loan debt. So that was my main big thing that I struggled with when I graduated. I graduated back in 2011.

And when I kind of took my head out of the sand, kind of my my ignorant college self back then,

I looked up and I had a total of 104104,766 in student loan debt.

And like literally the first time I saw that,

my heart like skipped the meet and like was jumping out of my

chest I was like oh God what have I done so I was like I said I was totally

ignorant to it while I was in school I was like oh yeah I'll just keep

taking out whatever student loans I can just like treating it like monopoly money

almost yeah yeah you and a bunch of other college kids that do the same thing you

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