Meet Your Guide to the Student Loan Jungle: Travis Hornsby (Student Loan Planner)
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Travis Hornsby is passionate about student debt, especially helping people with lots of it find smart, effective pathways to pay it off. After a career as a bond trader, he turned his attention to building a service to help college graduates with large student debt loads navigate their way through the maze of repayment options, forgiveness programs, and tax complications that come with student loans. Travis and his company, Student Loan Planner, have consulted with thousands of students on over $1.4 billion of student debt, helping them create a repayment plan that takes full advantage of all the programs out there.
You can learn more about Travis and his work at The Student Loan Planner website. He also hosts a podcast by the same name:
https://www.studentloanplanner.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/student-loan-planner/id1446453497?mt=2&ls=1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Weinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekem and this is podcast number 514 for Weinabber. |
| 0:09.7 | We teach you four rules to help you stop it and pitch it to paycheck. Get out of debt |
| 0:12.8 | and save more money today. This is going to blow your mind. So we've been doing a little |
| 0:18.5 | bit of a college kick. We had Ron Lieber come on and he was chatting with us about, |
| 0:23.3 | well, the price you pay for college. And we did a deep dive there. And then we chatted |
| 0:27.9 | about that fairly unconventional, but very obvious strategy to set aside money for your |
| 0:32.8 | kids retirement instead of your kids college and let compound interest run its course, do |
| 0:38.3 | its thing, make its magic. I'm talking today with Travis Hornsby. He is a speaker and |
| 0:43.6 | the founder of Student Loan Planner. He launched this after helping his physician wife navigate |
| 0:50.6 | frankly, ridiculously complex student loan repayment decisions. So to date, Student Loan |
| 0:56.1 | Planner has consulted on over $1 billion in student debt and Travis, he's a chartered |
| 1:01.7 | financial analyst. Look it up if you know what that is. But the things that you have to do, |
| 1:07.0 | the things you have to learn and know to become a CFA are our next level. And he brings |
| 1:11.5 | this background as a former bond trader where he was moving billions of dollars. He's |
| 1:16.8 | now trying to solve the, you know, the student loan crisis. But really it was just their own |
| 1:21.7 | personal crisis. Him and his wife had, well, we're experiencing. So he came out of his |
| 1:27.7 | first retirement at age 25 and we dive into that. He brings the same, you'll hear this |
| 1:33.4 | in his voice. He brings the same intensity to analyzing the best repayment pass for graduate |
| 1:38.6 | degree professionals with six figures of student debt. So he retired quickly. He was saving |
| 1:43.6 | tons of his money and then he just kind of re-channel that mainly because he needed permission |
| 1:47.2 | to marry his now wife. His, his team and he have helped over 5,000 clients save over 236 million |
| 1:56.4 | dollars on their student loans. He's been featured all over the place. US News, Business Insider |
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