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The Ramsey Show Highlights

I Feel Like We’ll Never Be Millionaires

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The Ramsey Call of the Day is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, George Kamel & Jade Warshaw. Part of the Ramsey Network. Delivered to you five days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

0:10.9

Joining me today is Ramsey personality, Ken Coleman.

0:15.8

Allison is with us in Seattle.

0:17.5

Hi, Allison.

0:18.2

Welcome to the Ramsey show.

0:19.8

Hi, Dave.

0:20.3

Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.

0:22.4

Sure. What's up? I just have a question for you. I'm a long-time listener. We've listened for about 10 years.

0:31.1

And I just am curious about your own personal story when you went through bankruptcy. It seems like, if I understand correctly, you became a millionaire pretty quickly after that.

0:43.6

Or if I'm incorrect, maybe I'm incorrect on that.

0:46.0

But I just am wondering, how did you do that?

0:49.6

It just, it seems so slow to pay off our mortgage.

0:53.3

And so I'm a little bit discouraged.

0:55.0

Like I see all these young kids on YouTube, you know, doing all of these, I don't know,

1:00.9

investment type things where they're built, like buying duplexes, living in half of it.

1:05.4

You know, I forget what that's called.

1:07.1

But I'm just curious.

1:09.1

It just seems so slow.

1:10.8

Okay. No, it was about 10 years for us.

1:14.5

Ten years. We filed bankruptcy in 1988. It was probably about 98 or even near 2000, somewhere in there

1:21.0

before we hit a million dollar net worth. I guess, I've never gone back and looked at it, but it's

1:25.1

somewhere like that. It was not, wasn't that fast.

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