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This week, in keeping with this season's theme of talking to real people who are dealing

with real actual financial struggles in addition to financial triumphs, jobs that are not

social media influencer or best-selling author, and just generally all angles of financial relatability.

We are speaking to someone today who checks quite a lot of boxes in terms with dealing

with things that a lot of people in life end up dealing with financially, professionally,

etc.

She's someone who has navigated these situations with Grace.

She even has a podcast where she talks really candidly about these subjects.

But she is someone who in the span of just a few years paid off $40,000 in debt, got divorced, and lost her job.

So talk about the peaks and valleys of financial living. She has definitely been through,

if not at all, quite a bit of it and is gracious enough to speak with us really openly about

all of those subjects and the implications they have financial and otherwise. My guest today is

one, Ms. Alex O'4. Hi. Well, I just want to say, first of all, I feel like this is a total pinch me moment.

Well, first let me introduce myself.

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