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Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Frozen by Analysis Paralysis

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

With some extra money on hand, I’m having a hard time deciding what to do. Save it or pay down debt?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It is Tuesday, September 5th, or back to school day,

0:09.0

or back to work day for the rest of the world. Yes, it's been a lovely summer, but the

0:13.8

unofficial close to summer is Labor Day. And if you have to be working, why not start

0:19.4

your day with us? This is the program that takes the mystery out of your financial life.

0:24.8

And if you would like to come on the air or ask us a question via email, just go to Jill

0:29.2

on Money.com and click the contact us button. If it's an email, just give us a bunch of

0:35.6

details. If you want to join us, check the box. Mark does everything else. Don't forget,

0:40.2

we've got a lot of free stuff on the website. So you hear me plugging my book in our subscription

0:45.0

service, but we have a free weekly newsletter comes out every Friday. We have a blog section,

0:50.3

there are videos, there's resources, a lot of stuff. So check it out. Right now, let's talk

0:56.7

to Jennifer, who's on the line from Florida. Welcome to the program. Tell us what we can do for you,

1:02.1

ma'am. Well, Jill, thank you so much. I'm super excited to be here. I've been listening to you for

1:07.0

quite a while. I have a situation to where I'm in this analysis paralysis. I can't figure out

1:13.2

what to do with some extra money, whether we should be paying off debt or aggressively saving.

1:18.8

Okay. Well, tell me about the us. Tell me about yourselves, what's going on. And we'll talk about

1:25.4

the assets and also the debt, the liabilities. What do you got out there? All right. So I'm 46,

1:32.2

and my husband is 55. I work full time and my grow salaries around 80K per year. But my husband

1:40.2

is actually on workers compensation right now. He hasn't worked for the last three years, but he's

1:44.9

generating some income with workers comp. And he was recently awarded Social Security Disability.

1:51.1

Oh, I mean, I mean, I'm glad you got that, but that means he really is not well. So I'm sorry

1:56.5

about that. That sucks. Thank you. Thank you. But the good news is, I mean, we have some income now

2:02.6

that we know will be around no matter what happens with the workers compensation.

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