Thriving in the Midst of Financial Ruin, Part 2
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Overcoming financial obstacles starts with changing your habits. The sooner you adjust your habits, the sooner you and your spouse can achieve financial stability. John, Greg and Erin give some advice for how young couples can build healthy disciplines with money.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
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| 0:42.0 | You're trying to buy groceries for your family, |
| 0:45.0 | but then you check the bank account balance |
| 0:47.0 | and you realize, uh-oh, I don't have enough money to cover this. |
| 0:50.0 | And your heart sinks. |
| 0:52.0 | Uh, what do you do? |
| 0:54.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Greg Smalley and Aaron Smalley and we're returning to a conversation |
| 0:59.6 | with Aaron Odom who overcame financial difficulties, really significant ones in her marriage, and she |
| 1:05.8 | wrote a book about it called More than Just Making It. |
| 1:08.8 | Here he is Aaron talking with Jim Daly. |
| 1:11.6 | To paint that picture a little more fully, I mean you had to turn to government assistance. |
| 1:16.4 | You had to go on WIC, the program, the food supplemental program, food stamps, those kinds |
| 1:22.2 | of things. |
| 1:22.6 | And coming from your background in the book, |
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