"You're Spending Like A Billionaire But You're Broke!"
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.3 | I just started listening to the show yesterday, and the situation I'm in, I just feel really stuck, |
| 0:12.3 | and I don't even know where to begin. Okay. What is making you feel stuck? |
| 0:18.4 | I guess I just have a lot of payments that I am responsible for. |
| 0:23.5 | And, you know, I owe $31,000, $28% loan on a $25,000 truck. |
| 0:31.9 | I owe $16,000 on an RV that's worth maybe $7. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm willing to sell all this stuff, but I wouldn't be |
| 0:39.1 | able to get a personal loan to make up the difference. Okay. Well, here's the good news. You came to |
| 0:44.8 | the right place. George is going to walk you through this, but you need to have this mindset as |
| 0:48.9 | he walks you through this. You're actually not stuck. You're not stuck. You're just in a really rotten place that you |
| 0:58.3 | put yourself in and you got into it way easier than it's going to be to get out, but you're not |
| 1:03.5 | stuck. You got to hold on to that. You got me? I got you. All right, George, prove it to him. How |
| 1:09.3 | does he get unstuck in his mind? Well, let's look at the math of this and then figure out, you know, the easiest way out. Because it might be a solvable problem with your current money or might need to go, you know, sell a bunch of stuff and go get three more jobs. So tell us about your financial picture. How much are you making right now? I'm making between 60 and 80,000 a year. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm taking home about 44, maybe a little less. It kind of fluctuates 4,400 every month. |
| 1:37.0 | What do you do for living? I drive truck. And what is your rent? |
| 1:46.5 | So my mom owns the house and the mortgage payment is $8.50 and I give her $900 and I'm also responsible for the water bill. |
| 1:55.5 | Okay. That's a very reasonable rent as far as your income goes. I see on the screen here it says you're behind on the rent. |
| 2:02.5 | Why is that? |
| 2:06.0 | I think just, you know, just one thing after another, you know, I pay one month's rent, |
| 2:12.5 | and then by the time I pay it, it's, you know, another month to do immediately. |
| 2:16.0 | And I just feel like I can't get caught up. |
| 2:19.8 | No, where's the other $3,600 going that isn't rent? |
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