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🗓️ 11 November 2025

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:11.6	Normal is broken, common sense is weird. So we're here to help you transform your life from the Ramsey Network here in the Fair Ones Credit Union Studio.
0:19.8	This is The Ramsey Show. All right, let's get it on and pop and talking about your life and your money. The number is easy. 8-8-825-5-2-25 gets you on the line. Here with Dr. John Deloney. My name's Jade Warshaw. Let's get into it. William is in Atlanta, Georgia. What's up, William? Will I am?
0:38.6	Hey, how are y'all?
0:39.3	Doing good.
0:40.2	How can we help today?
0:49.1	So, I've got, I am 22 years old, and I am engaged recently.
1:13.5	She has two children of her own that I've inherited I've inherited. And we are having, we have one on the way. Um, so I, with her, we've kind of, you know, plan, we're getting married. We are one, uh, as Dave likes to say. Uh, we're kind of thinking of the ballpark of what our debt would be together, and it's around $15,000 to $16,000. Okay. And we're really trying to figure out what the best way to pay
1:21.2	that off is with the income that we currently make. Right now or after you get married?
1:28.8	After we get married, we'll be getting married at the end of this year okay i first thing i want you to do is not ballpark anything
1:33.7	okay get an exact dollar amount it's uh 15,668 dollars okay so you got that way to go
1:43.7	all right and you're you're 22 and you're about to have three kids.
1:49.3	Yeah. All I got to say is dang, Gina. It's a lot of kids. Yeah, what kind of money are you guys making?
1:55.1	So, right now, I'm making right at $52,000. Mm-hmm. What about her?
2:00.4	And she is making...
2:01.8	I'm sorry.
2:03.4	Yeah, what will your soon-to-be-wife-be earning?
2:07.4	$42,000.
2:08.6	Okay, good.
2:09.8	Okay, and is she going to continue to work after this baby, or what's the plan?
2:15.9	Yeah, so she's actually got a really unique opportunity.
2:19.1	My mom does Medicare insurance policies and everything.
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