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Hi friends, welcome to Balanced Black Girl.

My name is Les, I'm your host.

I really appreciate you joining me today.

So today's episode, one has been a long time coming

for me personally, but two, I'm hoping can be timely and helpful.

And that is talking about student loan debt.

So like many millennials, I had a lot of student loan debt.

I actually paid off just over $100,000 of student loan debt

that I finished paying off last year in 2022.

And I've been meaning to do an episode about it,

but what I didn't expect from paying that off is how much,

kind of mentally and emotionally that was going to stir up for me.

And so it's taken me a little while to be able to actually talk about it

and process it.

And a lot of that is because my college experience was really traumatic.

It, I think, was not to the best four years of my life.

I know for a lot of people that is, and it did have some really beautiful parts,

but overall was really, really tough.

And after I graduated, I think I buried a lot of that,

a lot of just the trauma that I'd experienced both socially and financially

from experiencing, trying to pay for it.

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