Death, Sex & Money - Our Student Loan Secrets, Part 2
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds of you told us about feeling duped, overwhelmed, and ashamed of your student debt. But we also heard stories about how some of you took back control. Here's how you did it.
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| 0:00.0 | And before we go to the episode, just a heads up, this is the second in our two-part series about student debt and how it's affecting your lives. |
| 0:07.5 | If you haven't heard part one, stop this episode and go back to the first one, where you'll be missing some key details and might get confused. |
| 0:14.8 | And student loans are already confusing enough. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello? |
| 0:23.8 | Hi, Jordan. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, this is she. |
| 0:26.3 | Hey, it's Anna Sale from Death, Sex, and Money. |
| 0:29.2 | Oh, hi. How are you? Let me grab a room. Just one second. |
| 0:32.2 | Sure. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi. |
| 0:36.7 | Do you know why I'm calling? Yes, and I did it, by the way. You did? Yeah, I did. |
| 0:47.4 | This is death, sex, and money. Get rid of student loans, and then I can actually enjoy life. |
| 0:53.7 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:57.2 | At the end of the day, I know it's my responsibility. |
| 1:00.0 | I need to talk about more. |
| 1:02.0 | I might just get to zero. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm on a sale. |
| 1:07.6 | When we talked in 2017, Jordan Gibbs had been out of school for three years and owed more than $50,000 in federal student loans. |
| 1:16.2 | She had never made a payment on those loans until a few weeks after our first conversation. |
| 1:21.2 | I said a freaking calendar reminder, and I just bit the bullet, and I put down a hefty payment so that like my monthly |
| 1:30.4 | payments are going to be crazy expensive like I thought they were going to be. |
| 1:34.8 | But yeah, I paid like four grand on the first one and now I think I have like a $500 a month |
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