When You Feel Overwhelmed, Control the Controllables

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:00.0	brought to you by the every dollar app start budgeting for free today normal is broke and common sense is weird so we're here to help you transform your life from the Ramsey network in the Fair Winds Credit Union Studio.
0:23.7	This is the Ramsey Show. I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Rachel Cruz, number one bestselling author,
0:29.8	Ramsey personality, host of the Rachel Cruz show, my daughter, she's my co-host today.
0:34.7	Open phones here at AAA 825-5-225. Before we go to the phones, we're just going to take a
0:42.0	second and get off format a little bit, off format because some of you will hear all of this
0:49.1	in another day or so. Some of you that listen on podcasts and things, you might hear it two
0:53.3	weeks from now.
1:02.2	But acknowledging that, we do do this show live from one to four central time every day on the glass in the lobby of Ramsey Solutions and people, nice people are out there right now watching
1:07.4	us do it, which means they really need to get a hobby. And, but there they are. We love
1:12.7	y'all. We love you. We love you. But I mean, come on, really. And so, but the, anyway,
1:18.3	you're here and thank you for hanging out with us. We got free coffee and free cookies. So that makes,
1:22.8	that makes it all worthwhile. So anyway, because of that, and the show is on 680 talk radio stations, many of those
1:29.6	are live.
1:30.3	And so just to let you guys that are listening two weeks from now understand what's going
1:34.0	on.
1:34.7	So at the moment we're recording this, it is September 11th.
1:39.4	And so, which I noticed the other day, I noticed the minute ago it was called Patriots Day.
1:45.4	I missed that somehow that it had been named, but the acknowledgement of the terror attacks on the towers, bringing the towers down.
1:54.8	And the Pentagon.
1:55.6	And the Pentagon.
1:56.9	And in Pennsylvania.
1:57.4	And 3,000 plus almost 4,000 people losing their lives, including first responders, in very short period of time.
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