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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:07.0	Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.5	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 amazing
0:25.2	relationships.
0:26.9	I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Dr. John Deloney, Ph.D. in counseling, Ramsey personality,
0:31.4	number one bestselling author, and host of the popular Dr. John Deloney show on Ramsey Networks.
0:36.3	All of that, he's my co-host today.
0:38.7	Open phones at AAA 825-5-225.
0:42.7	Thank you for joining us, America.
0:44.5	We're glad you're here.
0:45.4	Erica's in Charlotte, North Carolina.
0:47.4	Hey, Erica, what's up in your world?
0:49.9	Hi, guys.
0:51.4	At first, it's an honor to speak with you both. My family and I were big fans,
0:55.2	so much so that my now two-year-old, one of her first words was 225, and we knew that she
1:01.9	just wanted to listen to the show. She's got the phone number down already. She knows who to
1:07.5	call in an emergency. I love it. That's right.
1:11.5	So I wrote this down because I'm super nervous, but I hope that's okay.
1:16.5	Sure.
1:17.8	I'm originally from Brazil, although as of recently, I'm incredibly proud to say that I'm an American.
1:24.9	The Brazilian laws make it super complicated to leave a customizable will.
1:30.5	So decades ago, my grandmother decided that she was going to, it's called donate a portion
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