I Have Over $300k Cash Sitting In My House (I'm Scared Of The Stock Market)

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.1	Normal is broke and common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life from the Ramsey network in the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio.
0:22.1	This is the Ramsey show alongside Jade Warshaw.
0:25.8	I'm Ken Coleman.
0:26.9	Excited to have you with us.
0:28.2	The phone number to jump in.
0:29.7	Your question today is AAA 825-5-2-2-25.
0:33.9	Triple-8-8-25-5-2-25. Let's start it off with Steve, who joins us in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:41.2	Steve, how can we help today?
0:44.2	Hey, Dave, thanks for taking my call.
0:46.9	Sure.
0:47.2	So I'm trying to get some advice from you.
0:52.4	I've got kind of a long-term problem here with my mother, and I think I
0:58.5	should give a little backstory here. About 15 years ago or so, her house was paid for, and we had her car
1:09.6	paid off.
1:13.3	I knew she's always been a spender.
1:16.3	I've been supplementing her income the last 10 years.
1:21.5	And, you know, I knew she was spending on credit cards.
1:26.8	So, you know, first I gave her $3,000 to pay them off.
1:34.7	Then I gave her the next year $5,000.
1:37.2	And then it went to $7.
1:38.7	And then in 2024, she had racked up $21,000 in credit card debt.
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