The Annual Giving Show: A Celebration of Radical Generosity

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:14.2	Normal is broken common sense is weird, so we're here to help you transform your life.
0:22.4	From the Ramsey Network and the Fairwinds Credit Union Studio, this is The Ramsey Show.
0:27.5	George Camel Ramsey Personality, number one bestselling author, is my co-host today.
0:33.8	The Bible says that God loves a cheerful giver.
0:42.3	Generosity is possibly one of the most important financial principles that you can bring into your life.
0:52.6	When you give steadily, regularly, as a rhythm of your life, it changes you.
1:03.4	It changes the attitude of your heart, the positioning of your heart, and you move along the spectrum from self-ish to self-less.
1:16.5	Someone that has been giving for a long time and giving a lot for a long time is some of the most
1:25.3	selfless, generous people, we call them. And they're the ones that hold
1:29.9	the door for you at the grocery store. They're the ones that help you pick up the cans of
1:36.0	soup that are rolling around in the parking lot because the cheap plastic bag broke. Generous people
1:42.5	are generous people. And they're more attractive. We all want to hang out with those kinds generous people.
1:45.1	And they're more attractive.
1:46.7	We all want to hang out with those kinds of people.
1:48.7	They do.
1:49.2	And they tend to prosper for that reason because they're more attractive.
1:54.8	I mean, if you think about it, who would you rather do business with?
1:58.3	Let's say your person that fixes your car. Someone that has a heart of generosity
2:03.1	and the car in the bay next to you is a 32-year-old lady who's lost her husband in the military
2:10.6	and he's donating the repair on her car and she's sitting in the lobby with you telling you
2:16.8	that this guy's taking care of
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