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Now, throughout the entire process, we'll need to grow the gap between our income and our expenses,

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Welcome to the Marriage Kids and Money podcast, everybody.

This is Andy Hill.

And today, we're going to do two things.

First, I'm going to walk you through how to create your financial independence plan.

And second, we are back with our mortgage-free segment. This month, we are

featuring Deacon Hayes from Well-kept Wallet, who recently paid off his mortgage early. And he has

some tips for us about how to make this complete debt freedom a possibility for all of us.

All right, let's jump into today's show.

You've heard about financial independence, the personal freedom, the new options, the relaxed

lifestyle. It all sounds amazing, right? But you don't know where to start. Well, it's time for us to create

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