Welcome everyone to another episode of debt stories real people beating debt and winning financially.

Today we meet Chivan who lives in Jacksonville Florida with her two kids ages 8 and 15.

Like so many other wine

Ambers, Chavan realized that she needed a budget

when it was time to face her student debt.

After I finished my MBA was just kind of shocked at the amount of student loan debt I had gotten myself

I was I was totally terrified of looking to see what the final amount was.

And then I saw it and it was ended up being just over

between 60 and 70,000 just in London.

Almost done with I'm not completely done with just in 2001 debt.

Almost done with that, I'm not completely done with that, but I've got about 30,000 left of that.

It should be wrapped up next year, but I also had credit card debt too. So and that was about 1617,000 and that's all gone now. And I've only been with Wienab since February of 2017. So it's been a little over a year.

More than $46,000 of debt repaid in a little over a year?

Amazing.

But how does someone so driven, end up in so much debt to begin with?

It was mainly from after my divorce the things that would just pop up, like car insurance

that you might forget about and then just trying to fit

having the two kids with one income. I'm in my later 30s now but I had never had

credit card debt I always shied away from it so it kind of piled on pretty fast. It was really kind of scary.

Big life changes often lead to big financial changes and it can be tough to find your new baseline

even if you're paying attention like Chivon.

To be honest it's kind of sad that it's I can't even tell you exactly what it all was.

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