How the Nerds Do It: How a Student Loans Nerd Paid Off Her Debt

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Paying off student debt isn’t easy — even for a Nerd who writes about it. In this episode of our “How the Nerds Do It” series, student loans Nerd Anna Helhoski talks about how she paid off her debt, the challenges she faced along the way and how you can find the fastest and most affordable way to resolve your student loans. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.8	Welcome to the NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast.
0:37.3	I'm NerdWallet Investing writer Alana Benson.
0:39.6	This episode, we're continuing our series called How the Nerds Do It, where we talk with our
0:43.6	nerds about how they personally tackled the issues they write about every day. This week, we're
0:48.0	talking with Anna Helhowski, a nerd who writes about student loans who actually managed to pay
0:52.2	off her loans. She's going to talk us through how she managed to do it and some important details that non-nerds may not think to look
0:58.4	into. Hey, Anna. Hey, Alana. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. So I'm really excited to talk to you
1:04.9	about this because it's such an important topic. So I just want to dive right in. Can you give us a brief overview of how you
1:13.0	manage to accomplish this huge task of paying off your student loans? Absolutely. And it felt
1:19.0	really huge at the time and just continued getting bigger along the way, which is really kind
1:24.2	of the frightening piece about it. It took me just under 10 years to repay
1:28.6	$40,000 in federal student loans and the interest that accumulated at the time. I graduated from
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