I'm A Single Mom With A Part-Time Job, How Do I Get Out Of Debt?

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

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0:00.0	Brought to you by CHM, a biblically based alternative to health insurance.
0:06.3	Learn more at CH Ministries.org slash budget.
0:09.2	My question is trying to navigate debt as a single mom on a part-time job.
0:16.1	I'm door-dashing currently, and I have a little one-year-old boy who has come with a lot of medical
0:22.1	debt as well as me trying to consolidate my own debt and I'm currently living in a
0:29.8	DV shelter trying to navigate our way out. You're living in a what shelter?
0:36.3	A domestic violence shelter okay wow how old are you hon
0:42.5	in 24 okay all right and how much debt um do you have personally collectively about 18000
0:52.7	that includes his medical debt?
0:55.4	Yeah.
0:56.1	Okay.
0:57.2	And what was his precious boy born with?
0:59.5	What's he struggling with?
1:01.9	A number of things.
1:03.5	So he was born with Lyft Heart Syndrome, and part of his heart was not developed
1:09.3	correctly.
1:10.0	He had several surgeries to take care of it.
1:12.6	Um, meanwhile he now that he's on the up curve and he's being a lot of his, um,
1:21.6	milestones being hit.
1:23.6	Uh, we're trying to get him into speech. Uh, he's one, he's turning two in September here.
1:31.3	And we're getting into speech and they possibly think he may have autism spectrum disorder.
1:37.3	So I have a lot of extra doctors.
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