The Truth About Your Money Is Less Scary Than the Story in Your Head

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:12.3	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 relationships.
0:25.4	Dr. John Deloney, Ramsey Personality, number one bestselling author, Ph.D. in counseling,
0:30.5	and host of the really popular Dr. John Deloney show on the Ramsey Networks.
0:35.2	Be sure and check it out.
0:36.1	He's my co-host today.
0:37.1	The phone number here, AAA, 82550. on the Ramsey Networks. Be sure and check it out. He's my co-host today.
0:46.4	The phone number here, AAA 825-5-2-2-25. Derek is in North Carolina. Hi, Derek. Welcome to the Ramsey Show. Good afternoon. How are y'all doing today? Better than we deserve, sir. How can we help you?
0:53.3	All right. So, I'm 24. I live in North Carolina. I'm about 151k in debt. I currently work at full-time,
1:06.0	working, sorry, making about $32 an hour.
1:18.1	I commute to work and back from work about two hours every day.
1:19.4	Why? And I am.
1:21.5	That's weird.
1:24.7	I have an agreement with my father that I can live at home completely for free.
1:31.9	Where I work down there, I would be losing quite a bit of money to pay off my debt if I were to live down there instead.
1:41.2	So I take the time to commute.
1:44.3	What's this $150,000 in debt, brother?
1:47.6	So probably two-thirds of that is a parent-plus loan.
1:54.3	I made an agreement with my dad before anything was taken to take the debt out, and that I would pay him back in full for that,
2:03.6	and the rest of it is my student loans.
2:06.6	So it's all student loans?
2:08.6	I take that back. About 4,000 of it is car loan.
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