No Matter Your Income, You Have To Know Where Your Money Is Going

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:06.9	Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.6	From the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, it's the Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create actual amazing
0:25.6	relationships.
0:27.2	Rachel Cruz, Ramsey personality, number one bestselling author, host for the Rachel
0:31.3	Cruz show and my daughter is my co-host today.
0:35.0	Phone number here is AAA 82555-2-2-25.
0:38.8	April is in Michigan.
0:40.1	Hi, April.
0:40.5	How are you?
0:41.7	I'm doing excellent.
0:43.1	Thank you so much for taking my call.
0:44.9	Sure.
0:45.3	What's up?
0:46.4	We have an interesting situation.
0:48.9	My mother-in-law is in the end stages of advanced Alzheimer's disease.
0:53.1	She's 89 years old and continues to have a decline.
0:57.3	She was amazing with money.
0:59.6	She's got a great nest egg.
1:01.0	We'll well live beyond, you know, her money will live out with her by lots of years.
1:06.5	She has a huge coin collection.
1:10.0	And we are trying to figure out how we can best get that
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