Don’t Let Panic Derail Your Plan

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.3	Normals broke and common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life. From the Ramsey Network in the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio.
0:23.6	This is the Ramsey Show.
0:25.8	I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Ken Coleman, Ramsey personality, number one bestselling author
0:29.9	and host of the front row seat on Ramsey Network is my co-host today.
0:35.0	Open phones here at AAA 8255-2-2-25.
0:39.0	Shea is in Nashville.
0:40.6	Hi, Shay, how are you?
0:42.4	Hey, there.
0:42.9	I'm so well.
0:43.5	How are you?
0:44.2	Better than I deserve.
0:45.7	What's up?
0:47.4	So I'm just in an interesting situation right now.
0:51.3	I just found out I'm expecting.
0:53.3	Yay!
0:57.4	Is that your first? It's with my husband, of course. What was that? Is that your first baby? Yes. Cool. How old are you?
1:03.8	I'm 23. Awesomeness. Cool. Okay. Wonderful news. Yeah. So the thing is it's not planned so we don't have our finances fully in
1:15.8	order. And with me out of work, when the time comes, we will be short of our budget. So if I
1:26.7	could just get any advice on anything else we're missing on what else we
1:31.6	could do. Yeah, it just got real. Why are you out of work? Well, she's saying when she has the
1:39.7	baby, right? Yes, I'm in work right now. Oh, you are? Okay. I'm misunderstood.
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