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“I’m One Million Dollars in Debt - What Should I Do?”

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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Investing, Education, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What should you do in situations where you have a ton of debt? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right?

0:02.0

All right, you ready to kick it off with Julia's question?

0:09.0

Let's do it.

0:10.0

She says I'm 33 years old and I have over 1 million dollars in debt and I'm feeling overwhelmed

0:20.7

understandably Julia I'm a doctor so I have about $200,000 of student loans at

0:26.0

6%, with an $800,000 mortgage at 7.5% and $3,000 left in credit card debt.

0:34.0

Clarification, $800,000 mortgage with what interest rate?

0:38.0

7.5%.

0:41.0

She goes on to say my mortgage payment is right at 25% of our gross income and our

0:46.6

combined household income is around 270,000 dollars.

0:51.0

Besides the mortgage we've kept our spending down drastically,

0:56.1

so I know we can tackle this quickly,

0:58.2

but I am just not sure where to start.

1:01.6

Any advice? Well, one, Jill Jill you got a bunch of big numbers here right? I mean obviously you were young you're

1:07.9

dealing in the realm and the world of big numbers right when I hear $200,000 in student loan debt, I hear $800,000 in mortgage debt, I hear

1:17.8

$270,000 of income, yeah that's a lot. That's a lot going on. Brian, I would like to start this off if you're okay with that.

1:25.6

She's trying to figure out how do I tackle this. Number one, very first thing that I, well, I can't say number one, I got to go back to the beginning. We got to start the financial order of operations because they can't say number one I got to go back to the beginning we got to start the

1:33.5

financial order of operations because it can't be I already had it ready

1:36.2

be number one you got to go to the financial order of operations because she said

1:40.1

one thing in there that I heard that was just super annoying she said that she's got three3,000 to credit card debt.

1:44.8

Now, and I was like, one of these is not like the others

1:47.8

when I heard everything else.

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