Getting Out of Debt
Three Rules
Matt D'Avella
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I graduated college in 2010 with $95,000 in student loan debt and did the smartest thing I could think of at the time. I bought a brand new car.
Back then I was living in my parent's basement in New Jersey while trying to make it as a filmmaker. At my lowest point I had $13 in the bank. Then I plugged my finances into a net-worth calculator online and realized I actually had negative money. I was worse than "worthless".
In this podcast episode I talk about my story with money and how it's evolved over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listeners and watchers. This is the ground up show, and I'm doing something special now. |
| 0:06.6 | If you haven't heard, I'm releasing the producer interviews for my series Making Minimalism. |
| 0:13.9 | So I have a series called Making Minimalism where I deconstructed what it took to make our documentary minimalism. |
| 0:20.2 | It was an insane road. It was one of the hardest |
| 0:22.9 | things I'd done, but also one of the most fulfilling. And I did interviews with Josh and Ryan from |
| 0:28.2 | the minimalist.com, Jeff Marla and Dave from Spire. That's a media company. They do some |
| 0:33.9 | pretty amazing stuff over there. So I kind of had these conversations with them, pretty informal. |
| 0:39.8 | And I just wanted to get to the bottom and figure out how the hell we were able to do this |
| 0:44.7 | and how the hell we were able to get on Netflix. |
| 0:46.7 | Because it's not something any of us had ever done before. |
| 0:49.7 | It's not something any of us ever expected to, you know, get any success out of. So I wanted to deconstruct |
| 0:58.4 | and figure out how this was possible. So I'm releasing the full interviews, the extended interviews, |
| 1:05.5 | it's about two hours or so of content with all my producers to people who review this podcast on iTunes. |
| 1:14.0 | Reviews on the podcast are a really important way to get the word out about the show, |
| 1:19.1 | to hopefully get it to a place where other people can hear from me and learn about my message |
| 1:25.4 | and also learn from the people that I'm sitting down with |
| 1:28.2 | and talking to. So leave a review, take a screenshot and send it to hello at mat-diavella.com. |
| 1:37.2 | That's hello at M-A-T-T-D-A-V-E-L-A dot com. |
| 1:43.4 | And I really appreciate your support. |
| 1:45.7 | It would be a huge help. |
| 1:47.2 | And without further ado, this is episode 14 of The Ground Up Show. |
| 2:06.6 | Today, I want to talk about money. |
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