This is the White Co-investor podcast, Milestones 2 Millionaire,

celebrating stories of success along the journey to financial freedom.

Here is your host, Dr. Jim Dolly.

This is Milestones 2 Millionaire, podcast number 32,

achieving public service loan forgiveness.

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All right, we've got a great guest today. We're going to be talking about public service

loan forgiveness. Let's get her online. All right, our guest today is Jen Gond, welcome to the

Milestones 2 Millionaire podcast. Thank you for having me. So how did you pay for your schooling?

So I paid for schooling almost entirely with student loans. I have a wife who was working at the time

and her salary was going to pay most of our living expenses. I was a non-traditional student.

I had worked for about eight years before I went to medical school. I started in that school

in my early 30s. And so we were kind of accustomed to having my salary to pay for our

housing. We owned a home in the district of Columbia. And so it was difficult for us to maintain

that same lifestyle without taking out student loans. So what did you end up owing when you got out?

I owed about $300,000 when I got out. 190 of that was federal and about 110 was in private loans.

Can you remember the first time you heard about public service loan forgiveness?

I remember, so I started medical school in 2006. And I remember hearing about it. I think shortly after

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