4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
0:06.7 | So I'm in a very, very, very bad spot, and I feel pretty much like nothing at this point. |
0:13.8 | I took out a, so basically my job, I work at the federal job. I guess I could say it, I work at the United States Postal Service, |
0:25.5 | and we lost a lot of our package volume, so I knew that I was going to have to come up with some more money somehow, |
0:32.0 | and stupidly I took on day trading, and I made like $120,000 in three months, but I took out a $60,000 |
0:41.1 | loan to get that. And, um, and, uh, long story short, I ended up losing the money and then I took |
0:47.9 | out another loan to try and make it back and lost it too. So now I owe like $6,200 a month in expenses and I make like $4,000 and I'm about |
0:56.7 | to lose my job because I can't afford a delivery vehicle to deliver out of because it's part of |
1:01.3 | the contract. And I'm freaking out. My girlfriend cheated on me. And I feel like I'm going to lose |
1:06.4 | her and I feel like a lame excuse for man. And I just don't know what to do anymore. |
1:12.2 | All right. |
1:12.8 | Well, first of all, take a deep breath. |
1:15.8 | I'm glad you called us, and I want to start with the fact that you're not a loser. |
1:21.5 | You've had some losses, and those losses sting. |
1:25.3 | But welcome to the human race. |
1:27.4 | You made some poor decisions. And |
1:29.4 | really what you did is you made one bad decision. Then you got panicked. And you made another |
1:34.8 | bad decision to try to bail yourself out. But I got to tell you you're not a loser. And I mean that |
1:38.9 | from the bottom of my heart. This isn't a pep talk. You're not a loser. Sorry about the girlfriend situation. You'll look back on this many years from now, |
1:47.9 | and you'll thank God that you didn't go the long haul with her. So you've got two massive |
1:54.6 | hurts, just absolute, a left hook and a right cross, and you're spinning. So I'm still with her. I'm trying |
2:03.9 | to figure everything out. Well, we're not going to talk about the relationship part right now. I want to, |
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