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Welcome back to another edition of DIY Money. DIY Money.

Ali Howard, we are going to get right into it today and go into a great email that we got.

It's actually a story that we want to tell and kind of share with everybody.

But before that, let's do some housekeeping odds and ends.

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you'll get a $25 Amazon gift card. Allie, we have such a cool story today from Isaiah. I'm going to

let you read it on the show. Yes, and I'll also caveat because we just talked about questions.

We don't often do this. We look for

audio questions a minute or less. So if you're just joining us, first of all, welcome. We're glad

you're here. Keep in mind that ideally we'd like to receive things as an audio question and we'll

respond to it. But I got this email the other day and I was kind of blown away. It is remarkable to see

the ways that this podcast has touched people. But I think there's also elements of this story

that was really inspiring to me and I know would be really inspiring to some of the clients that we

talk with or some of the other people we've interacted with on the show before in just feeling

like, how am I ever going to get out of this? So I thought we would read it and kind of kick it

around. We were going to just read it at the beginning. And then as we started talking about it,

we were like, yeah, that's going to be a 45 minute podcast if we read that and then answer a question.

So on this special edition of DIY money,

we're going to share this story. Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?

Stop what you're doing and listen. And I'll read it. It's from Isaiah. And Isaiah says, hi, DIY

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