Money Chaos Doesn’t Have to Be Forever

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Business, Education, Investing, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.3	Start budgeting for free today.
0:10.8	Normal is broke and common sense is weird.
0:13.9	We're here to help you transform your life.
0:17.3	From the Ramsey Network in the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio.
0:22.7	This is the Ramsey show.
0:28.2	Ken Coleman, Ramsey personality number one, bestselling author, and host of the front row seat, a big hit on Ramsey Networks.
0:29.9	He's my co-host today.
0:31.8	Phone number at AAA-2-5-225.
0:35.9	Daniel is in California.
0:37.4	Hi, Daniel. How are you? Hi, Dave. Good. How are you? Better than I deserve. What's up? Thank God. First, I just want to say I'm a big fan. I'm young, but I first heard about you in high school. Wow. I just wanted to say that. Well, thank you. So I'm 23 years old.
0:55.4	I started a finance brokerage about three years ago with some outside investors.
1:01.1	Initially, they promised about a million to two million of investment for half the company.
1:06.2	And then basically right as we signed like a major office lease, they had some financial troubles pulled
1:12.6	out, leaving me with all the overhead. At that time, I decided to just try and pick up the
1:18.5	business myself. At one point, we were doing about like 200,000 gross a month. Now it's closer
1:24.4	to like 100 to 120. After expenses, it's probably around 40 to 50.
1:31.4	And then during that rebuilding process, I racked up about like maybe 80,000 in credit card debt.
1:37.7	Now the investors want their money back.
1:40.6	They originally demanded double.
1:42.4	I negotiated it down to just the principal. The challenge is,
1:47.1	given their connections and influence, I can't really just like refuse to pay them even though
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