Did We Cheat the Baby Steps?

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Today's question comes from Isaac in Minnesota.
0:09.7	All right, Isaac writes, how do we promote the baby steps to the friends and family when it feels like we cheated the process?
0:18.3	A small inheritance propelled us into baby steps four, 5, and 6, and it feels like we
0:22.8	got to get out of jail free card. We've been hustling in Baby Step 2 for two years with our only
0:28.8	consumer debt being credit cards. We paid off 10K while cash flowing our first baby and some car repairs.
0:34.7	We budget every month, live below our means, and buy things at the speed of cash,
0:38.1	but it feels like we cheated.
0:39.9	Does an inheritance undermine the value of our financial testimony?
0:47.0	I don't think so.
0:51.0	The thing is this, you only have one story.
0:56.1	It's your story.
0:58.1	That's it.
1:00.0	And really nobody can take that away from you.
1:02.3	And this isn't like a catastrophe Olympics that whoever has the worst situation wins.
1:07.0	The goal is that people become free and y'all got free.
1:11.5	That's the story. Do you have to go through bankruptcy in order to learn the lessons that I'm going? Yeah. The goal is that people become free and y'all got free. Yeah.
1:11.8	That's the story.
1:12.3	Do you have to go through bankruptcy in order to learn the lessons that I learned going through bankruptcy?
1:16.7	No.
1:18.2	Do you have to go through drug rehab to figure out heroin's bad for you?
1:22.6	No.
1:24.0	Maybe the testimony is you were doing smart stuff and God blessed it.
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