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The Ramsey Show

Make Financial Choices That Give You Freedom

The Ramsey Show

Ramsey Network

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.5 β€’ 38.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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πŸ’΅ Sign-up for EveryDollar today - The simplest way to budget for your life! Ken Coleman & Rachel Cruze answer your questions and discuss: "I am $470K in debt and drowning" "Is there a responsible way to go into debt?" Selling Taylor Swift tickets to pay off debt, Watch the trailer Mike Rowe's new movie Something to Stand For A 14-year-old entrepreneur looking to expand, Getting sent to collections... in Europe Support Our Sponsors: Zander Insurance Health Trust Financial Churchill Mortgage Next Steps πŸ“ž Have a question for the show? Call 888-825-5225 Weekdays from 2-5pm ET or click here! 🚒 The Live Like No One Else Cruise is booking fast! πŸ“„ Will an online will work for you? 🏠 Find a Ramsey Trusted Real Estate Agent Listen to more from Ramsey Network πŸŽ™οΈ The Ramsey Show 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour πŸ’‘ The Rachel Cruze Show πŸ’Έ The Ramsey Show Highlights πŸ’° George Kamel πŸ’Ό The Ken Coleman Show πŸ“ˆ EntreLeadership Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

You're going to help you win in your life.

0:21.6

When with your money, when in your work, and win in your

0:24.9

relationships.

0:26.7

Triple 8, 825, 5225 is the number.

0:30.7

I'm Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruz joins me this hour and she'll be

0:34.6

taking the money questions I'll jump in on the income questions related to your

0:38.6

work you ready to go miss Rachel oh yeah Ken summer Summer time summer summer summer time we are we are here in June

0:47.7

and the weather could not be nicer in middle Tennessee a nod to our lovely studio audience out there,

0:54.8

great-looking people today from all around the country. So let's get to it.

0:58.6

Michael's going to start us off in Columbus, Ohio. Michael, how can we help today?

1:02.0

Yeah, hey, Michael, how can we help today?

1:03.0

Yeah, hey, I'm, uh, I'm pretty much a drowning in debt.

1:07.5

I'm 27 years old and I got about 350,000 in my house that I owe and about 120,000 and 8 different accounts that I'm

1:18.0

mowing and I'm just kind of trying to figure out what the best route is. I have a 401k loan. I have Dr bills. I have 8,000 in IRS. I have two personal loans, one auto loan, one travel trailer loan, and in 20,000 on a credit card.

1:40.3

Oh my gosh, okay.

1:42.4

So how did you get here,? What's what's kind of the backstory? What's caused all this?

1:47.0

I think previously I didn't, you know, I didn't make much money and then I got a job where I started making more money.

1:55.5

So I just started spending more and then I think it became a habit and then I started

2:01.0

trying to pay off my debt so I started consolidating debt with a loan,

2:06.0

paying that off, or not paying it off, I'd consolidate it and then rack up all my credit cards and finance know finance more stuff and then I consolidated

2:14.3

again and I probably did that two or three times but now I'm kind of I'm right at

2:19.4

the edge I would say yeah for sure I mean it's you're bumping yeah half a million dollars in

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