One Decision Can Change Everything
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One Decision Can Change Everything

B1IntermediateJuly 30, 20262h 5m

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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 this is the Ramsey show and I am Rachel Cruz hosting this hour with my good friends and co-hosts of Smart Money Happy Hour,

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George Camel. So we're here to answer your questions about life and money. So give us a call at 888-825-5225. Up first we have Mae in Oklahoma City. Hi Mae, welcome to the show. Hello, thanks. Yes, absolutely. How can we help today? So I'm getting a little bit of conflicting advice. A couple years ago, me and my husband

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set up like a set kind of budget plan and our goal was to pay down our mortgage, you know, as quick as we can as part of that. We don't have any other debt and we've been paying basically double payments on our mortgage instead of $1,500 a month, $3,000 a month for the last two years. And I have $195,000 left on my mortgage with no other debt. But

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