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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:13.0	Normal is broke. Common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:19.6	From the Ramsey Network in the Fairwinds Credit Union Studio, this is
0:23.9	the Ramsey Show. I'm Ken Coleman. Jade Worshaw is alongside AAA 8255-2-2-25. Is the phone number
0:32.6	AAA 825-5-2-25. Your money questions, Jade is ready to go. She stretched beforehand, I'm told.
0:39.8	I did. Got a little energy drink, so she'll help you on those. I'll assist. And then Ramsey just
0:44.2	did a new study, Jade, and in my area of things on work, and we're finding that the two
0:51.0	biggest areas of problems for folks in the workspace is burnout and a lack of life balance around work.
0:58.8	Are we going to talk about that today?
1:00.5	If that is you, folks, you can call in and I'll dive in on that.
1:05.6	So there you go.
1:06.7	Money, the burnout, the life balance issues as it relates to your professional life. They all
1:12.0	tie in, by the way. I think you need to dive in regardless of anybody calls in. So we'll take those
1:15.9	questions and let's start with Lars in Eugene, Oregon. Lars, how are you, sir? I'm doing
1:23.8	well. How are you, Ken? Good. How can we help today? I'm wondering what gazelle intensity looks like for me when I have massive debt and okay income and a pretty full family life where I feel very busy.
1:37.1	Why don't you lay out the debt and then we'll get into the family schedule?
1:41.4	Yeah, so I'm in $156,000 of debt, vast majority student loans plus about 4,400 left on a silly van payment.
1:50.8	Okay.
1:51.3	So other than the 4,400, is everything else student loans?
1:55.9	Yes.
1:56.7	Okay, okay, yeah, that feels scary, $152,000. Is that right?
2:01.9	$156, yeah. Oh, 52 the loans. For the student loans, yeah. What kind of degree did you get?
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