Short-Term Thinking Keeps You From Building Long-Term Wealth

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.0	Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.1	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
0:26.4	amazing relationships.
0:28.4	Jade Wash, a Ramsey personality, number one, bestselling author is my co-host today.
0:34.1	Megan is with us in Chicago.
0:36.1	Hi, Megan.
0:36.6	How are you?
0:38.0	Hi, how are you? Thanks for having me.
0:40.2	Sure. What's up?
0:42.9	Well, just quick context. My husband is an addict.
0:48.6	He, on average, spends about $6,000 a year on his addiction to tobacco and marijuana.
0:57.9	We've had kind of a rough couple months.
1:00.9	His father passed away.
1:02.3	His grandfather passed away.
1:04.5	I'm currently pregnant with our third child and taking a toll on him.
1:10.5	So I've actually seen his spending go up a little bit.
1:14.7	I shouldn't say a little bit.
1:17.0	It's kind of doubled in the past couple months.
1:20.1	Last month was $700 alone on his addictions.
1:25.3	Anyway, that by way of context, my main question is we have a car payment.
1:34.8	It's 600 a month.
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