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Marriage Kids and Money: Personal Finance for Families

How I Won $500k in College Scholarships [w/ Kristina Ellis]

Marriage Kids and Money: Personal Finance for Families

Andy Hill

Investing, Business, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9604 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

College is not getting any cheaper. By some estimates, the cost of college is rising at a rate of 8% per year. To combat this rising cost of hiring education, parents and teens need to look to college scholarships. This is what Kristina Ellis did when she was in high school. Through hard work, dedication, and creating some systems that kept the process easy, Kristina earned $500,000 in college scholarships! Kristina shares the details of how she got it done and dispels some myths about scholarships as well. RESOURCES: **Sponsor + Partners + Deals: https://www.marriagekidsandmoney.com/sponsors Tello: Cell phone bill too high? Find a plan with Tello for around $10 per month on the T-Mobile Network! Firstly: Smart budgeting tools and real-life advice to get you on the path to family financial wellness. Learn more today! MKM Instagram: Connect with me on social media and say hello! MKM Voicemail: Got a question? Leave me a voicemail.  Kristina Ellis (Website) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:26.4

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0:32.6

Now they're sitting on, you know, $100,000 in debt or $200,000 in debt and nobody had talked to them

0:38.7

about scholarships. They're like, I just wish somebody would have taken the time to sit me down

0:42.5

and explain to me that I can actually win these scholarships. So just hearing their stories,

0:46.6

I realized kind of the contrast of what my life could have been like if I hadn't applied

0:51.0

for scholarships. And it just makes me all the more thankful that I don't have to deal with debt.

1:01.2

This show is dedicated to helping you, strengthen your family tree, and live financially free.

1:06.9

Welcome to the Marriage Kids and Money podcast, everybody.

1:09.0

This is Andy Hill, and today we're talking about scholarships for college.

1:15.1

As a young parent, I am doing my best to save up for my two kids to go to college in the 2030s. But based on the calculators I'm using, we're going to fall about $100,000 short of our goal for each kid.

1:31.0

One area we are interested in exploring more to assist with our shortfall is college scholarships.

1:37.5

So in my quest to learn more and hopefully help other parents out there listening, I've invited

1:42.6

Christina Ellis on the show today.

1:44.6

After winning a half a million dollars in scholarships and getting into her dream school, Vanderbilt

1:51.3

University, Christina set out on a quest to help students have similar or even greater success.

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