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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Demystifying Financial Aid :: Kristi Steele [Ep 440]

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What do you think of when you hear the phrase “college tuition”? Does your heart rate speed up? 

Sending a child to college is the culmination of a lot of effort. It’s emotional and there are a lot of logistics to manage. In this hands-on, information-packed conversation Kristi and I cover the basics of applying for financial aid for college. We talk through deadlines and how-to’s to help relieve some of the logistical stress of sending a child to college.  

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0:14.7

Hey y'all welcome back to the don't mom alone podcast I'm your host Heather Mcphadion and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

0:20.0

And in this episode number 440 I'm welcoming back to the show a past guest

0:25.0

Christie Steele.

0:27.0

Have found a group that can really help sort of kind of what you talked about in a

0:31.8

previous episode take that overwhelm which is based from like fear of I don't know

0:37.0

To a little bit less overwhelm and understanding and kind of getting a better picture of how that fits into your family, you know?

0:44.0

If we're going to talk about college, what will that cost?

0:47.0

So, Christie came on the show, episode 39.

0:52.0

That's right. Four hundred E-E-B-C-C-C-C at the time. She was the CEO of Work of Worth International where she was connecting artisans with consumers to help bring freedom to women who had been in sex trafficking, children of injustice, and those in poverty. Well now she's doing some more freedom work. She is helping

1:16.5

parents of particularly international students, whether they're there because of missions or diplomats, connecting them with the American

1:27.6

college education system, universities, and how they can apply for financial aid and just the whole process of applying to

1:36.4

college and today she is helping us she has so much wisdom so many practical

1:41.0

tips and if you are in this stage I hope this is helpful I

1:45.4

understand that not a lot of you are in the college application process once

1:50.8

again this is where my selfishness comes out, but I do think that this is going to be helpful.

1:56.6

So tell your friends, if you have mentors, if you have other friends that are in this stage,

2:01.9

to come and listen and get connected with

2:03.6

Christie we are going to talk about all the things all the things about

2:07.6

applying all the changes to FAFSA this year coming up what you need to know, how to take advantage of what you can do now

2:17.2

so that there is more peace so that we can be good stewards of our finances and so that we don't discount an educational journey for our kids just because of the cost.

2:27.3

So let's get right to it. Here we go.

2:31.2

Christie, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. I don't know if you know, we

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