Ep 01 Debt Story: Meet Angela
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Angela's family slowly sipped their way through to-go coffees until they'd reached a staggering $85,000 in debt. Just kidding, they bought a house and a pink Toyota, too. Find out how they paid it all off.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. This is episode one of a new Wineb podcast series, |
| 0:08.4 | debt stories, real people beating debt and winning financially. I am super excited to get this out there. |
| 0:14.7 | I want you to hear these stories of real people overcoming obstacles large and small to |
| 0:19.8 | get rid of their debt so their money can start doing what they really wanted to do. |
| 0:24.4 | We hear these stories every day and they are powerful. |
| 0:29.1 | Each one uniquely their own. |
| 0:30.9 | We're always looking for ways to keep you, the listener, motivated in your budgeting |
| 0:34.4 | journey, and we thought simply sharing these stories could be very impactful. |
| 0:39.2 | They are. |
| 0:40.2 | Wherever you find yourself on your own financial journey, you are not alone. |
| 0:44.0 | And there is power in that and how we can relate and learn from one another. |
| 0:48.0 | One key thing about hearing his story is just to pull from it. |
| 0:52.0 | Don't judge it. Don't say it's not you. Of course it's not you. |
| 0:55.0 | Don't try and explain away the how or the how you couldn't. Just listen and pull learning from it. |
| 1:01.0 | Whatever that learning may be. I am especially excited about |
| 1:05.3 | our first episode because Angela is one of our early hires. She's been with us |
| 1:09.4 | since 2011. After she and her husband found Wineb, I just didn't know the details of their story |
| 1:16.6 | until now. |
| 1:19.2 | Peter and I got married really young. |
| 1:21.1 | We were still in university when we got married and we actually made |
| 1:26.0 | some pretty smart decisions when we first got married. We didn't pay a lot for |
| 1:29.1 | our wedding which I thought was smart. We didn't end up with any debt from that and we also worked while we were in |
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