Rock Bottom Can Be Solid Ground to Rebuild On

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.0	Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.8	Live 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 relationships.
0:29.6	Rachel Cruz, number one bestselling author, host of the Rachel Cruz show, co-host of Smart Money Happy Hour, two big hits on the Ramsey Networks, and my daughter, she's my co-host today.
0:39.4	Open phones at AAA 825-5-2-2-25.
0:43.9	Tasha's with us in Louisville, Kentucky.
0:46.3	Hey, Tasha, how are you?
0:48.3	Hi, good afternoon.
0:50.2	Thank you for taking my call.
0:51.8	Sure.
0:52.3	What's up?
0:54.7	I just had a question.
0:57.1	I do suffer from a little financial PTSD from the past, and my husband and I have both worked through that.
1:05.0	We do not have any credit card debt.
1:08.2	We own our own homes.
1:09.5	We both work. We have no car payments. However,
1:13.9	sounds like a good disease to me. It actually is, and that's why the next part is the problem.
1:21.8	My husband finally has got his 25 years in. He desires to work two more years before retirement, but he has started a new side job,
1:32.2	and it has done very well.
1:34.7	But with that, he has blown through a substantial amount of our savings, and now he wants
1:41.3	to blow into our retirement.
1:45.3	And I don't know if I'm being selfish because of the past traumatic or trauma of the
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