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Speaker 1: Credit card debt, how to finally get out of it

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Speaker 1: from the thousand Dollar Projects. Good morning, everyone, Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Sugar Mama's Fireplay Podcast. I am Canna Campbell. I

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Speaker 1: really hope that you had a fantastic weekend, that you

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Speaker 1: recharge your batteries and you are ready to embrace and

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Speaker 1: tackle the week ahead. Today we're going to be talking

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Speaker 1: the way, and learn a lot about yourself so that

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Speaker 1: you never repeat history. And I'm also going to show

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Speaker 1: you how to include the thousand Dollar Project to help

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Speaker 1: But before I begin, just a quick little bit of compliance,

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Speaker 1: I need to remind you that all of my content,

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Speaker 1: whether it be a YouTube video, a blog post, a podcast,

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Speaker 1: something you see on Instagram, everything of mine is general advice. Only.

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Speaker 1: The reason why is because I don't know anything about

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Speaker 1: your individual situation. I don't know anything about your financial goals,

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Speaker 1: your fincial responsibilities and liabilities, your risk profile, and of

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Speaker 1: course all the deadlines that you have for your financial

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Speaker 1: goals and dreams. So if you're ever listening to me

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Speaker 1: talk about a particular financial strategy or a particular financial product,

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Speaker 1: please know that it's not personal advice. And if you

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Speaker 1: feel like you need to get personal advice, always and

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Speaker 1: only reach out to a qualified and licensed financial planner

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Speaker 1: that can give you personal advice. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: feeling almost like a trigger, well, I'm gonna be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, it's probably because the truth hurts deep down.

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Speaker 1: You know, you need to confront your issues of credit

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Speaker 1: card debt in your life. So if there's a pushback

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Speaker 1: or you know, some sort of feeling of discomfort, please

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Speaker 1: know it's actually a good thing, because you're going to

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Speaker 1: of your life for good. Why is a credit card

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Speaker 1: debt so bad? Well, think about it. There are a

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Speaker 1: lot of toxic emotions that come with credit card debt.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about people who use credit card in

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Speaker 1: a responsible way that they might have, say two thousand

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Speaker 1: And I actually have no problem with using credit cards.

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Speaker 1: I have one credit card and I use it correctly,

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Speaker 1: and I don't create debt. But the problem is when

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Speaker 1: credit card debt, they're pretty horrible. They're are very energetically

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Speaker 1: depleting emotions such as guilt. You know, I don't need

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Speaker 1: can you ask yourself what did you buy to get

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Speaker 1: So stop the excuses. Admit to yourself that you're living

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Speaker 1: do is also factor in repayment plans. Minimum repayment plans,

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Speaker 1: that is, for each of those debtors. So you might

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Speaker 1: instead of you know, transferring, say that thirteen hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: towards MasterCard, when you hustle some money or save some money,

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Speaker 1: that thirteen hundred dollars gets to stay with you. You

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Speaker 1: get to add it to your net wealth. You get

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Speaker 1: to feel really good about it. You're not having to

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Speaker 1: chase your tail or feel like you're on the rat race.

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Speaker 1: You know, hand to mouth as it goes from you

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Speaker 1: know it's not necessarily in the hand to mouth it's

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Speaker 1: hand to debt, or you know you are doing things differently.

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Speaker 1: You get to keep that money for yourself. You get

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Speaker 1: to hold on to it, you get to salvage it,

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Speaker 1: you get to see it accumulate and grow. These are

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Speaker 1: all really empowering things to see as you see your

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Speaker 1: account balance or your savings account balance increase in value,

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Speaker 1: or your investment account increase each time you've got more

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Speaker 1: money to invest. This is the life I want you

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Speaker 1: to be thinking about. This is where I want your focus.

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Speaker 1: So this is where I want your attention. This is

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Speaker 1: where I want you to feed your inspiration and motivation

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Speaker 1: to do things differently, to do things better. You should

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Speaker 1: feel excited about that, and this will hopefully drive you

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Speaker 1: to put even more things in place to be you know, frugal,

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Speaker 1: or to hustle extra money in your life, or to

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Speaker 1: come up with some sort of fun, fun challenge to

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Speaker 1: get these debts out of your life even faster, and

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Speaker 1: ride with it when you're feeling better. It inspired sees

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Speaker 1: it allow that to help you smash your goals sooner,

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Speaker 1: faster and more efficiently. And always, always, always open yourself

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Speaker 1: up to the lessons and the wisdom and the advice

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Speaker 1: that the universe is trying to tell you about yourself

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Speaker 1: and about your debt free journey. Perhaps it's you know,

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Speaker 1: a humbling experience where you realize, okay, I've been living

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Speaker 1: beyond my mean Learn from this, because that's when the

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Speaker 1: shift happens. That's when powerful growth happens. And then you

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Speaker 1: start doing things differently and you feel different, you feel better,

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Speaker 1: and the proof is in the pudding. You're going to

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Speaker 1: see your debts coming down, you're going to see your

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Speaker 1: savings going up, You're going to be really embracing life.

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Speaker 1: And I tell you what, there's so much I've seen

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Speaker 1: this so many times where people I've coached out of debt.

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Speaker 1: Their life is seems so much happier and healthier. They

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Speaker 1: have a glow about themselves. Their weight comes down as well,

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Speaker 1: which is really interesting. They're starting to explore other areas

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Speaker 1: in their life, so you know, they're not shopping as much.

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Speaker 1: They're embracing a new hobby or a new fitness or sport,

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Speaker 1: or you know, their social circles are expanding, or they've developed,

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Speaker 1: you know, come into a new spiritual growth. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's really interesting to see when people actually, I guess,

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Speaker 1: rip off the band aid of living a toxic life

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Speaker 1: and debt, seeing the wound for what it is and

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Speaker 1: really starting to heal properly, allowing that woman to heal,

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Speaker 1: allowing that scar to repair itself, and for that skin

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Speaker 1: to turn back to that resilient, beautiful skin that can

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Speaker 1: see the sunlight, breathe the fresh air. The key things

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Speaker 1: are review your budget all the time. Don't just do

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Speaker 1: your budget and think you don't need to touch that

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Speaker 1: for a year. That's not true at all. You must

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Speaker 1: always review your budget on a regular basis. There are

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Speaker 1: always new expenses trying to creep in the lifestyle creep,

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Speaker 1: and there are times where you're going to have to

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Speaker 1: update it and make changes because there are new responsibilities

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Speaker 1: and commitments in there, whether you like it or not.

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Speaker 1: You know, Rock has just started art classes and they're

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Speaker 1: about four hundred dollars these art classes every three months,

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Speaker 1: I think, and I had to adouptdate our family budget

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Speaker 1: to make sure that I accounted for that in there. Also,

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Speaker 1: both my kids are growing in a rapid rate. I

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Speaker 1: have to every now and again look at the budget

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Speaker 1: and go, Okay, I'm gonna have to be a bit

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Speaker 1: more tight here so I can make sure they've got,

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Speaker 1: you know, clothes that they fit into. And of course,

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Speaker 1: always look at your side hustles. Talk to people about

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Speaker 1: your side hustles. So many of the best side hustles

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Speaker 1: I have from doing a thousand dollars project is from

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Speaker 1: other people, from people telling me about, oh, you could

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Speaker 1: do this, or you couldn't do that, or I need

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Speaker 1: to introduce you to this person because they're looking to

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Speaker 1: get some extra help here and they could potentially pay you.

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Speaker 1: Talk about your side hustles, look at ideas, get it

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Speaker 1: out there that you have a side hustle, because someone

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Speaker 1: will want your service or your product or your help

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Speaker 1: where you're offering The amount of people I've spoken to

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Speaker 1: recently actually that have started doing tutoring helping busy families

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Speaker 1: with their kids' homework is incredible. One person I know

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Speaker 1: in particular, I think it's making eighty dollars an hour,

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Speaker 1: you know, helping their kids get through their homework, and

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Speaker 1: the I was like, oh, wow, that's quite a lot

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Speaker 1: of money per how but they're busy, They've been booked

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Speaker 1: up by other parents who are, you know, time poor,

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Speaker 1: and they don't want their children slipping behind at school,

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Speaker 1: so they're paying this person to help them get their

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Speaker 1: homework done with all their projects and assignments. And I

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Speaker 1: can completely understand that because I know how hard my

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Speaker 1: is for myself it is to get your child to

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Speaker 1: sit down and listen and lone do their homework. And

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Speaker 1: I have to say sometimes I look at the homework

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Speaker 1: and like, I don't understand what you have to do here,

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Speaker 1: which is really embarrassing to say that. But anyway, there

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Speaker 1: are so many side hustles out there that you can do,

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Speaker 1: like open up your mind, like it really is quite

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Speaker 1: incredible the opportunities there are out there. And then, of course,

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Speaker 1: as I said, educate yourself as you start to think

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Speaker 1: about the next financial goals you want to achieve, you know,

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Speaker 1: beyond paying off this debt, the savings that you want

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Speaker 1: in your life, the investment goals, even maybe the passive

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Speaker 1: income goals. You want to start working in your life,

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Speaker 1: or you know, the goal and dream of owning your

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Speaker 1: own home one day. You want to start saving up

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Speaker 1: that deposit, which is really exciting. You want to start

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Speaker 1: thinking about retirement. Educate yourself obviously, make sure you're really

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Speaker 1: careful as to where you're getting your education from. Be

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Speaker 1: very careful of the thin influencers all over social media, becau.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of them with really dangerous bad advice,

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00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 1: and there's a separate podcast about that's about this anyway,

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00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: but it is importantly you educate so so you understand,

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Speaker 1: all right, the moment'm debt free, this is what I

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Speaker 1: need to do, and this is the best way of

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Speaker 1: doing it. And talk to people. As I said, share

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Speaker 1: your goals, share what you're doing, because you are going

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00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: to inspire other people and you're part of a very

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Speaker 1: powerful ripple effect where we're all debt free, we all

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Speaker 1: have emergency savings, we all use our credit cards or

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Speaker 1: even I have no problem with buying now, pay later.

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Speaker 1: When it's used responsibly, you know, to to run our

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Speaker 1: lives efficiently so that we're not bogged down and stressed

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Speaker 1: about money. In fact, if the polar opposite, we embrace money.

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Speaker 1: We embrace and respect the freedom and luxury and choice

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Speaker 1: that it brings in our lives. You know, we treat

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Speaker 1: money in the right type of way. We know how

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Speaker 1: to keep it, we know how to grow it, We

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Speaker 1: know how to use it responsibly. We know how to

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Speaker 1: use it also in a powerful way, so when we

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Speaker 1: do use money, we're using it for the benefit of

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Speaker 1: the community, are well being, and even the planet, particularly

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Speaker 1: when you think about the environment and charities. So please

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Speaker 1: note this is you don't have to be in debt.

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Speaker 1: You can do something about it, but make a decision

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Speaker 1: to do something about it today. Put action in place

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00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: starting today. Write down all those toxic feelings that you're

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Speaker 1: experiencing from being in debt. Write down what it would

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00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: feel like and all the emotions you'd experienced if you

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Speaker 1: didn't have that debt in your life. Next is you

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00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: write the list of who you owe money to and

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00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: exactly how much for starting with the smallest debt, all

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Speaker 1: the way to the biggest. Make sure you have a

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Speaker 1: minimum payment plan in place for each of those debtors,

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00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: and work on your hit lists. Look at ways you

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Speaker 1: can save extra money and earn extra money, and the

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00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: moment that money comes into your life, transfer it as

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Speaker 1: a lump sum ad hoc repayment towards the person at

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Speaker 1: the top of your list. Regularly update your list and

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Speaker 1: don't stop. Keep going, and if you need to have

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Speaker 1: mini breaks along the way, just make sure that they're

583
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: effective breaks. They recharge your batteries, reinspire you and reinvigorate

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Speaker 1: you to get back on your debt free journey, and

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00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: keep going. Don't stop until you are completely debt free,

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Speaker 1: and the moment you're debt free, set up a separate

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Speaker 1: emergency savings account so that you never ever get into

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Speaker 1: debt again. Make sure that you have the correct amount

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Speaker 1: of emergency money in place. And for people who thinking,

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Speaker 1: hang on, can I how much emergency money do I need?

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Speaker 1: We'll grab a copy of Mindful Money, because I just

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00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: share with you exactly how to work out the right

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Speaker 1: amount of emergency money for you and build that up

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Speaker 1: and think about the next funcial goals beyond that. Your

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Speaker 1: fincial situation is always evolving and growing. There are always

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Speaker 1: opportunities around you, and you always have a choice, So

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Speaker 1: embrace being debt free. I promise you will never regret

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Speaker 1: it and you will feel so much better about yourself.

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Speaker 1: All right, everyone, thank you so much for listening to

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Speaker 1: Sugar Mama's fire Play podcast. If you have a spare moment,

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Speaker 1: I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave a

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Speaker 1: rating and a review, and of course, please feel free

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Speaker 1: to send this podcast to anyone you know that needs

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Speaker 1: to hear it, who is living a life in debt

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Speaker 1: and wants to do something about it and knows enough

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Speaker 1: is enough. All right, everyone, have a fantastic weak ahead,

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Speaker 1: and don't forget to make sure you're following me on

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Speaker 1: Instagram at Trigamma tv and of course at Canna Campbell

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Speaker 1: Official if you'd like to see what I'm up to

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Speaker 1: in my normal, everyday life juggling children and pregnancy and

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Speaker 1: Giuseppe and my crazy nutcase hoard a partner Tom and

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Speaker 1: of course the capsual Wardrobe Fashion, where I try and

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Speaker 1: share with you as many pre loved outfits as possible,

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Speaker 1: as well as we're in beauty hacks. All right, everyone

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Speaker 1: enjoy the weak Ahead, lovely speaking and connecting with you.

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