Financial Peace Starts With Personal Honesty

The Ramsey Show

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Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:14.3	Normal is broken. Common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:20.7	From the Ramsey Network and the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio, this is is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:25.8	From the Ramsey Network and the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio, this is the Ramsey Show.
0:27.6	I'm your host Dave Ramsey.
0:31.5	Rachel Cruz, Ramsey Personality, number one best-selling author, co-host of the Smart Money Happy Hour on Ramsey Networks, and my daughter is my co-host today.
0:36.3	Open phones here at AAA 825-5-225.
0:41.1	The call is free and some say the advice is worth exactly what you pay for it.
0:46.2	Logan is in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
0:48.5	Hey, Logan, what's up?
0:50.4	Hey, how are you doing today?
0:51.9	Better than I deserve.
0:53.0	How can we help, sir?
0:58.0	I started a business 18 months ago. I've been working 70 to 100 hours a week.
1:02.0	Right now we're barely breaking even.
1:04.0	I have two full-time jobs, and I have a seven-week-old at home.
1:08.0	So I'm wondering at what point do you decide when to exit the business,
1:13.8	and if there's a good workflow for that, I guess just kind of a general question around
1:20.9	that, what's what you thought would be. Okay. Well, you exit a business not when it's hard because 100% of the time you run a business is hard.
1:35.7	Okay.
1:36.7	You exit a business when you lose hope that in a reasonable period of time, this is going to be profitable.
1:46.0	And all of my effort is going to be worth the trouble.
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