How Carmen Paid Off $57K, Quit Her Job & Transformed Her Life | Carmen Perez of Make Real Cents
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Carmen Perez is a Personal Finance Content Creator and Founder of Make Real Cents, a personal finance platform dedicated to helping people achieve financial independence and avoid the mistakes she made early on.
In 2016, Carmen started a journey towards becoming debt free- she had terrible credit, no money saved, and was sued for her student loan.
She has since completely transformed her finances and has paid off approximately $57,000 of debt in two and a half years. Carmen officially became debt free in September 2018 and in August of 2019, after saving up, Carmen quit her job in finance to learn how to code.
Carmen has been featured in Forbes, The Skimm, and is currently a member of Business Insider's Money Council for 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Yo Quiero Dino, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert, speaker, writer, and business coach. |
| 0:13.6 | I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain financial independence through side hustles and investing. |
| 0:19.1 | On this show, we're serving up POC-friendly personal finance |
| 0:22.4 | knowledge, always with a side of SaaS. We're talking about how to make Dineiro, how to keep it, |
| 0:28.0 | and how to make it grow. If you're ready to become Foderoza with your Dinero, you've come to the right |
| 0:33.2 | place. |
| 0:39.1 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:41.9 | Welcome back to another episode of Yo Kiro Dinerro the podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | This is your host, Janice. |
| 0:50.5 | And oh my God, can I tell you that when this next guest replied to my email and agreed to be on the podcast, I legit fan girl. |
| 0:53.7 | Like, oh oh my God. |
| 0:56.5 | So Carmen Perez, if you don't know who she is, like first of all, get your life together |
| 1:01.8 | because she's fucking amazing. |
| 1:04.4 | She's also a content creator and the founder of Make Real Sense. |
| 1:10.0 | Carmen has found a very unique way to talk about money, like in the most approachable way |
| 1:16.7 | ever. |
| 1:17.2 | She is hilarious. |
| 1:18.2 | Like the way that she uses social media, it's just hashtag goals for real. |
| 1:25.0 | She has managed to make personal finance, like something that I actually want to learn |
| 1:29.7 | about because it's her. |
| 1:31.2 | It's all her personality. |
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