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🗓️ 1 August 2025

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.8	Live from Ramsey Solutions, it's The Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create amazing relationships. I am Rachel
0:22.5	Cruz hosting this hour with my good friend and the wonderful Jade Warshaw, and we will be
0:29.1	answering your questions. That's right. About life, money, career, anything and everything,
0:34.2	give us a call. So kicking us off this hour is Steve in Memphis, Tennessee.
0:40.9	Hey, Steve, welcome to the show.
0:43.8	Thank you guys for having me.
0:46.5	I'm in one of those predicaments in one of those places where I just desperately need help.
0:52.3	And a friend of mine said hey you guys were the
0:55.6	ones to turn to and so here's my plight I've got a lot of student loan debt close to
1:03.0	$60,000 and back last year at the beginning of year, I was off work for about six months.
1:12.3	And so I did the unthinkable and got a lot of high interest loans, you know, loan shark kind of loans.
1:20.8	Oh, no.
1:21.5	The places, yeah, the worst.
1:23.3	Yeah.
1:24.2	It's hard to get out of that cycle, too, because of how high the interest is and everything.
1:29.4	And the interest was just astronomical and it was, you know, just trying to put a band-aid on a gunshot wound and it didn't help.
1:37.7	And now I'm currently in the process of a divorce and my spending is out of control.
1:45.3	And I'm just trying to get my life straightened out.
1:49.5	And, you know, I'm trying to start with the finances and the family and looking to you guys for some help.
1:56.4	And it's a lot, Steve.
1:57.8	How long were you guys married?
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