How Maria Fought Through Unemployment to Pay Off $88,000 of Debt
The His and Her Money Show
Talaat and Tai McNeely
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of The His & Her Money Show, you will be inspired to follow Maria Rosa's footsteps to debt freedom. She is a “Modern Budget Curl”, ex-military, and currently does financial coaching. Maria shares her awesome debt free story, her battles from unemployment and mental health struggles to finally pay off $88,000 in only two years!
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
- What gave her the idea to get out of debt.
- The transition she made to make her goal happen.
- How she stayed on track and was not affected by anyone around her.
- The steps she incorporated to achieve debt freedom.
- Tips to be a standout babysitter among others.
- Words of encouragement for people who have a mental health situation
like she did. - The biggest lesson she learned throughout her journey.
- Words of encouragement for people who also want to be debt free.
RESOURCES
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
- Love Your Life Not Theirs by Rachel Cruze
- The Financial Diet by Chelsea Fagan
Transcript
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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, |
| 0:13.0 | Tallit and Ty McNeely. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back to an all-new edition of the His and Her Money Show |
| 0:19.0 | with America's Number One Money Couple, |
| 0:21.0 | Tallit and Ty McNeely, where we are helping you to manage your money, |
| 0:26.0 | your marriage, and everything in between. |
| 0:30.0 | We are grateful to have you with us for another edition of the show. |
| 0:34.3 | We don't take it for granted that you take time out of your schedule to listen to us, |
| 0:38.9 | to be encouraged, inspired by us, and we truly appreciate you for continuing to do that. We hope that today's |
| 0:45.8 | episode also encourages you even the more. We have an awesome debt-free story lined up just for you. |
| 0:54.0 | We're going to be talking with a young lady by the name of Maria, |
| 0:57.6 | and she has an incredible story of paying off a bunch of debt, |
| 1:01.1 | and she fought through a lot to become debt-free everything from |
| 1:05.6 | unemployment to mental health struggles and through it all she maintained the |
| 1:11.0 | course she didn't give up and she accomplished her goal. |
| 1:14.8 | So let's get Maria on so she can share her incredible journey to debt freedom. Hey Maria, welcome to the His and Her Money Show. |
| 1:30.0 | Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:32.0 | Glad to have you here because you have done something that lots and lots and lots of people would really like to do. |
| 1:40.0 | And that is you paid off a bunch of debt. |
| 1:42.8 | And so we're glad that you are willing to come and share your story |
| 1:46.1 | to inspire others to follow in your footsteps. |
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