How Shannon Brown Eliminated $22,000 of Student Loans in Just 9 Months
The His and Her Money Show
Talaat and Tai McNeely
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2014
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Student loan debt has a firm stranglehold on many people's financial futures. We know that many of you feel a great sense of hopelessness and despair, whenever the topic of student loan debt is even mentioned.
With that thought in mind, on this episode of The His and Her Money Show we speak with a special guest by the name of Shannon Brown from GrowingSlower.com, who successfully eliminated all of her student loan debt. The best part is, that she did it just 9 months!
What You Will Learn
- How just adding $39 a month to their debt payment fueled them to financial freedom.
- How her family became debt-free despite only having one income.
- Creative ways they were able to save money during the process.
Resources Mentioned
- 77 Easy Ways to Save Money ~ by Shannon Brown
- How to Use the Debt Snowball Calculator ~ by Shannon Brown
- The Total Money Makeover ~ by Dave Ramsey
- IRS Withholding Calculator
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey is Talent and this is Thai. This is the his and her money show episode 19. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the his and her money show where we talk about managing money, |
| 0:10.7 | marriage and everything in between. |
| 0:14.4 | Now here are your hosts, Talent and Ty Macmealy. |
| 0:19.2 | We're back with another edition of the His and Her Money show brought to you by His and Her Money. |
| 0:25.0 | Today's show is going to be one that everybody, or at least a lot of you all can identify |
| 0:31.0 | with. We have a special guest on the line who successfully eliminated |
| 0:35.2 | all a l of her student loan debt and this story serves as a testament that anybody at any income level can make this happen. |
| 0:45.6 | That's right, her and her husband paid this debt off in just nine months. |
| 0:49.4 | How long? Nine months? |
| 0:51.4 | That's less than a year. Well, let's listen and get all the details. Let's less than a year. |
| 0:52.5 | Well, let's listen and get all the details. |
| 0:54.1 | Let's jump right into it. |
| 0:55.1 | Live on the line this week, we're joined by a special guest. |
| 0:58.9 | We're joined by none other than Shannon Brown from Growing Slower.com and she has an incredible story to share with us and we can't wait to get into it. |
| 1:08.0 | Hi Shannon. Hi, how are you guys doing? We are great, great. Now you went through quite a journey where you had to pay |
| 1:16.1 | off a bunch of student loan debt but you didn't have the highest of income so I think |
| 1:21.4 | your story is an incredible testament to the fact that this can be done by |
| 1:26.8 | absolutely anybody but before we jump into the story can you introduce yourselves and |
| 1:32.3 | tell us a little bit about you? |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, I'd love to. I'm Shannon Brown and I blog over at growing slower.com and I also have a series of |
| 1:41.4 | e-books and courses called The Real Moms Guide. |
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