How To! | Outsmart Your Student Loans
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
At nearly 40, Valerie is itching to pay off her student loans and finally become debt-free. But… how? On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings on Yanely Espinal, financial educator, author of Mind Your Money, and host of the Marketplace podcast Financially Inclined. Yanely breaks down the best ways to pay off your education debt without putting the rest of your life on hiatus.
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| 1:33.9 | I was like, wait a minute. |
| 1:35.8 | How was I, the top student, all from kindergarten through 12th grade, I went to a really |
| 1:40.9 | great university on a full where I got my master's degree, accomplished all these things, right? |
| 1:45.4 | But I have never once understood these basic concepts around banking, budgeting, interest rates, comparing loans. |
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