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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

How Dave Ramsey Taught His Kids About Money -- with Rachel Cruze

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

#115: Rachel Cruze was born the year her father, Dave Ramsey, filed for bankruptcy. During her childhood, she watched her parents transition from struggling and rebuilding from their bankruptcy, to becoming debt-free multimillionaires. Her dad went on to become the host of The Dave Ramsey Show, a money management radio show and podcast that reaches more than 12 million people per week. It’s central message is to budget carefully and avoid debt. Despite their success, the Ramseys committed to raising money-smart kids. They didn’t want their children to become lazy or entitled. Rachel paid for toys as a child. She partially paid for her car as a teenager. She worked throughout college. Rachel, now in her late 20’s, grew up to become an accomplished speaker and New York Times bestselling author. She and her father co-authored the book Smart Money, Smart Kids, which reached the number one spot on the NYTimes bestseller list. Her latest book, Love Your Life, Not Theirs, is also a mega-bestseller. In this episode, Rachel describes the lessons she learned about saving, spending, budgeting, debt and giving as the daughter of Dave Ramsey. We discuss “Instagram envy” -- the act of comparing your life to someone elses’ -- and how to avoid the traps of consumerism and materialism. Read the full show notes -- and download a FREE gratitude worksheet -- at http://affordanything.com/episode115 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can afford anything but not everything.

0:11.2

Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else.

0:14.1

And that's true not just of your money, but also your time, your focus, your energy.

0:18.8

Anything in your life that's a scarce resource, and I don't say that to promote a scarcity

0:21.8

mindset, I believe in abundance, but the fact of the matter is, there are trade-offs that

0:26.2

you make with every decision.

0:27.8

And so the question's become too forward.

0:29.6

Number one, what's most important to you?

0:32.2

And number two, how do you align your day-to-day decisions and actions with those values?

0:39.0

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

0:42.1

And that's what this podcast is here to explore.

0:44.5

My name is Paula Pant.

0:45.7

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

0:48.2

And today we have an incredibly exciting episode.

0:50.8

We have Rachel Cruz, the daughter of Dave Ramsey, on the show with us today.

0:56.2

Now Rachel Cruz was born the year that her father, Dave and her mom, Sharon, filed for

1:01.9

bankruptcy.

1:02.9

If probably most of you are familiar with Dave Ramsey, but if you're not, when Dave Ramsey

1:07.3

was in his early 20s, he was a very successful real estate investor, but he was highly, highly

1:12.2

leveraged.

1:13.2

One day, when he was in his late 20s, the banks called his loans, and he wasn't able to

1:19.4

pay them back so he had to file bankruptcy.

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