MI017: Crushing Student Loan Debt with Travis Hornsby (Personal Finance Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. On today's show, I meet with student loan expert Travis Hornsby. |
| 0:06.7 | Travis is the founder and CEO of student loan planner, where he and his team have consulted on over |
| 0:11.7 | $750 million in student loan debt. He is also a chartered financial analyst and an ex-bond trader at |
| 0:18.1 | Vanguard. Arguably now, more than ever, Travis's expertise in navigating |
| 0:23.7 | student loans is needed to help correct the current student loan crisis. I hope you enjoy this tactical |
| 0:29.4 | conversation with Travis Hornsby. You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, |
| 0:36.9 | where your host, Robert |
| 0:38.4 | Leonard, interview successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to help educate |
| 0:43.7 | and inspire the millennial generation. |
| 0:45.8 | Hey everyone, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm your host, Robert Leonard, and with me today, I have Travis Hornsby from Student |
| 1:01.3 | Loan Planner. |
| 1:02.2 | Welcome to the show, Travis. |
| 1:03.7 | Good to be on, Robert. |
| 1:05.2 | For the listeners who may not be familiar with you and your story, can you walk us |
| 1:08.6 | through your background and how you got to where you are today? |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah, I traded bonds and decided that that wasn't my calling, you know, just making rich people richer, it wasn't my thing. I don't know what it was, but I just decided that I was meant to do something else. And I met my now wife. She had a bunch of debt. She went to medical school. And so I made a plan for her with those Excel trader background, |
| 1:34.8 | that Excel bond trading kind of skill set that I had. And so I did that. And then she started telling all over girlfriends, like, hey, my boyfriend knows how to figure out student loans. |
| 1:40.1 | And that was back a few years ago, and that was a pretty rare thing. |
| 1:48.0 | And so I just started helping out her friends and then her friends told friends. |
| 1:52.3 | And then I started blogging about it and that got picked up by some major websites. |
| 1:55.9 | And that's kind of what propelled me into doing this as a full-time thing. |
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