How Kara Paid off $25,000 of Debt with a $15,000 Income
The His and Her Money Show
Talaat and Tai McNeely
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Your level of income does not have to hinder you from becoming debt-free. Kara Perez was able to successfully pay of $25,000 of debt despite only having a $15,000 annual income at the time.
That should let you know that no matter what your current income maybe today, there is still hope for you to create a bright financial tomorrow. Kara chose not to make excuses for herself, instead she chose to make sacrifices that ultimately led to her debt freedom.
This is a story that is going to be so inspirational for you on your journey to debt freedom. If Kara had the ability to do what it takes to become debt-free, then so can you!
Kara is the founder of Bravely Go where she writes about living an adventurous and frugal life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the His and Her Money Show, where we talk about managing money, marriage, and everything in between. |
| 0:08.0 | Now here are your hosts. America's number one money couple, Talent and Time McNeely. We're so glad you're with us for another episode of the show. We love doing shows like this where we get to profile people who have paid the price to become |
| 0:36.4 | debt free. Why? Because we know that if we continue to bring these stories to you guys, you |
| 0:42.3 | all are going to catch a fire and you all are going to do what it takes to become |
| 0:46.3 | debt free as well. |
| 0:47.8 | And today's no different. |
| 0:48.6 | We're going to be talking with Kara Perez and she has a wonderful website called from frugal to free.com and she has an incredible |
| 0:56.2 | story of paying off a bunch of student loans and becoming debt free. |
| 1:01.2 | Yes and what's so remarkable also about her story was she |
| 1:04.3 | didn't make a lot of money. So I am so excited to learn what it was that she |
| 1:09.3 | did in order to knock this debt out. That's right. At the end of this show you all are not going to have any |
| 1:14.0 | excuse for not being able to make it happen because if Kara was able to make it happen you are able to make it happen. |
| 1:20.0 | So let's not delay any further. Let's get Kara on the line and hear her incredible story of debt freedom |
| 1:26.3 | Hey Kara welcome to the his and her money show. Hey Kara |
| 1:30.0 | Hello, thank you so much for having me. We're excited to have you on because you have an incredible story, a journey of getting out of debt and we know our audience is going to be totally inspired by it and want to follow in your footsteps. But before we get into the details of your story, can you go ahead and introduce yourself to our audience and let them know what you're all about? |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, hi, my name is Kara Perez. |
| 1:53.8 | I live in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:55.6 | I'm 27, and I'm all about living well on a budget. |
| 2:00.4 | We get told that you have to spend an arm and a leg to live the good life and that's just not true. |
| 2:05.0 | Love that. |
| 2:06.0 | No, she just spoke my language. |
| 2:08.0 | So now let's talk about your debt. |
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