One Couple's $13,000 Debt Dilemma, plus Are HSAs Worth It? [BA QA]
Brown Ambition
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4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today's BA QA, where I take your questions about life, money, career and everything in between (!), we're revisiting past questions on managing debt as a couple, navigating military benefits during a cross-country move, and figuring out whether high-deductible health plans are actually worth it .
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, BA fam, let's be real for a second. And y'all know I keep it a book. The job market in |
| 0:04.9 | 2025 has been brutal. No, not brutal, trash, especially for women of color. Over 300,000 of us have |
| 0:12.3 | disappeared from the workforce this year alone. And not by choice, but because of layoffs, |
| 0:18.2 | disappearing DEI programs and stagnant wages that keep cutting us out of |
| 0:23.0 | opportunity. That's exactly why I created the Mandy Moneymakers group coaching community. |
| 0:29.0 | It is a coaching community that is built for us by us. Inside the community, you'll get group |
| 0:34.6 | coaching led by me, but you'll also get peer to peer accountability with proven tools and resources that can help you do what we have always done, |
| 0:42.9 | sis. |
| 0:43.8 | Rise. |
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| 0:49.2 | You can find information in the show notes of today's episodes or go to mandymoney.com slash community. |
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| 1:03.4 | Enrollment is open. So please go check out Mandymoney.com slash community today. |
| 1:09.8 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 1:14.5 | Hey, VA fan. Welcome back to Brown Ambition. It's Mandy Money. I am so excited to be bringing back |
| 1:20.4 | the BAQA. We took a couple of weeks off. Y'all have had a lot going on. And I'm just really happy to be |
| 1:26.8 | getting back to y'all's questions |
| 1:28.8 | remember you can send us your questions at brand ambition podcast at gmail dot com or you can slide into |
| 1:35.6 | my dms at brown ambition podcast on ig i love getting your voice notes especially because then we |
| 1:41.9 | can play them for everyone to hear on the show. Let us know |
| 1:45.2 | if you want a pseudonym. That can be a little fun, a little, you know, a little some something. |
| 1:48.6 | Keep yourself private, but still get your answer. In this episode, I'm tackling a few |
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