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Thanks so much for joining us today for a special mailbag only episode of her money, Catherine Tuggle and I have been going

through our inbox tackling all of your questions. We're having a good time aren't we?

Absolutely I love this. I do too and I'm especially

excited about the fact that today we are going to dive into some of the questions

that our listeners have submitted around college and student loans.

Today we know there are 45 million student loan borrowers out there and they owe a collective $1.5 trillion. That is just huge. The

average amount owed by recent college grads with debt is close to $30,000.

That is a huge, huge burden.

But the best way to face these debts,

to face these fears head on is with some knowledge and so we are

going to dig in and see if we can help.

I think this keeps so many parents up at night because they know that if they can help

their children avoid debt they want to do that?

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