Don’t Let Toxic Relationships Keep You From Building Wealth

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Jade Warshaw, number one bestselling author and Ramsey personality, is my co-host today. Open phones at 888-825-5225.
You jump in, we'll talk about your life and your money. Jade, producer James has requested

that we address current events, which we seldom do on this podcast because we never know when you people are going to listen to it because by the time some of you listen to this, it won't be current anymore. But current events are that the stock market has dropped dramatically in the last couple of days.
And cue the whining, screaming, and gnashing of teeth that everyone's going to die and we're all going to retire and have to eat Alpo routine. Not good for Democrats if the stock market goes down and fears of a recession are looming.
Not good. Economics unseats more administrations than anything else in history.
So those of you worried about other things. Anyway, the reason I, number one, most of the time we just talk about stuff here that you can listen to it three years from now and it would still be the same answer and it helps you all the time.
It's uh called modular or evergreen content and uh but anyway stock market's down and uh so far kind of a yawn except it hadn't been down in a long time it's been a couple years since y'all have experienced a downturn like 20 was pretty dramatic took a big old dive there's something going on in march if i remember of 20 and the old market took a dive and the world was coming to an end and we were all going to die and you know then too you remember i mean what was it what was it in march 2020 i don't remember but the um it affected my memory but i've got pts um bouchy and so um uh fouchy ptsd but the um here's the deal. If the thing levels out sometime this week, uh, it's not even going to make the top hundred worst days.
It's pretty much a yonder as downturns go. This one's not really exciting.
Now, if it continued to dive your day over day, over day, over day, a thousand points a day for four or five days. We'd have something to actually discuss.
But right now, it's more of your emotions that we want to address. Because why is the stock market going down, Dave? Why is it going down? Well, because the jobs report came out and said jobs suck.
Worst hiring quarter in a long, long time. More people unemployed.
Nothing nothing like the 80s nothing like other times when there was real unemployment but it's actually a downturn there there's some other indications the Fed is screwing around again which is a good way to get a president or a vice president unseated as well if you want to throw them out just screw with

the interest rates boys that'll do it and um so they're gonna they're gonna screw around with that apparently and uh you know everyone has declared there's a recession you one more time people you don't get to declare there's a recession there's a definition of a recession well have you heard people say vibe session? Have you heard that? No. It's the feeling.
It's the vibe that we're in a recession. You know what? I'll go with that.
There is a malaise out there. There is a cloud, a fog, whatever out there, a vibe session.
I'll go with that. But because you can define that as a feeling.
It's a feeling. But a recession is not a feeling.
You got to go with real numbers. Recession is an economic economic fact gross domestic product gdp is the measure of all goods and services in the u.s has to contract be less than two quarters in a row what it was before that is the definite until it does that it's not a recession that's right i don't care why it feels i don't care you feel if you want to call it a vibe session or what it would a vibe that's right a vibe session sounds like a session we had vibes but yeah um like a mute sounds like an album but the album cover an old vinyl from the 70s when drugs were good to your parents and so that kind of stuff anyway but yeah so all right investors are running for the hills they're selling off crypto and especially tech stocks so bureau of labor stats report the u.s economy added uh poor how did poor jobs report uh ai is still a scare um this article from cnn says and it says uh recession fears are mounting overall and so the fed and they're worried about the fed so ai the fed the jobs report all pour into this idea that things are horrible.
And so the stock market is overreacting. And you might add that Iran and Israel might be getting about the dance.
So not going to be good for Iran. I've been to Israel several times.
Not a group of people you want to mess with. There's a lot going lot going on there's a lot going on it's got everything screwed up and turned up and so and let me tell you about this short term the stock market going up or down is a bunch of drama queens they run on emotion on a daily basis overall over an annual period or you know four or five months it runs on numbers but on a day-to-day basis you can you know you can just shout uh the sky is falling the sky is falling there yeah chicken little will run so what do you do out there when you see the stock market drop i don't do anything i'm tempted to buy because i think it's on sale but i don't do anything because i don't day trade yeah i don't i don't buy and i don't sell based on this crap yeah i just keep buying all the time every every month i just keep buying dollar cost average gonna load my 401k up gonna load my roth ir IRA up gonna load up my automatic draft on my checking account that goes into the mutual funds and uh when it goes down I'm gonna smile because I just bought it on sale because 10 years from now you won't even remember this crap 10 years from now you won't even know who was president you'll have to think about it who was quick who was president 10 years ago see i got you all right so anyway but that that's see what i mean it's just like you you you get all torqued out about this stuff you you know you mean there was a oh yeah i remember yeah and you even log in and check i i do not if i see this headline i'm not even checking we need to talk about the stock market and i said what he goes don't you watch the news? And I said, no.
I see this headline, I'm not even checking. I came in and James said, we need to talk about the stock market.
And I said, what?

And he goes, don't you watch the news?

And I said, no.

I don't watch the news.

I saw somebody post something about it on Instagram.

And I was like, okay.

But I think that the people who watch their accounts like that,

that's where the temptation lies. Well, that's like a Dr.
John Deloney anxiety producing event.

Don't do it.

If you check your accounts every morning, you're a spaz. Okay.
Yeah. You're going to spaz out.
You're, you know, you are asked if it's not a hobby. That's just weird.
Don't, I don't even look at my, I look at mine once or twice a year. Yeah.
And if I'm doing some kind of year end final, I'll say, okay, how did it do compared to the other indexes this year? Do I need to move anything? But I'm just, you know, for 35 or 40 years, I have put money in, put money in, put money in, taken almost no money out. And there's a lot of money in there.
Well, let's talk about that for a second, Dave, because we both said, I'm the type of person, you know, I set my 401k contributions all my contributions, they're set. They happen automatically.
I'm not thinking about it. But for somebody who might say, well, Dave, is now a good time for me to throw in some extra money? I'm at 15%.
Can I go in with a lump sum and buy more? No. Just because you don't want to build up the muscle of day trading and timing.
You don't want to try to time the market.

All the data, all the research tells us people who try to time the market make less money than people who steadily invest.

There's like 15 or 20 serious research projects that reveal.

Mathematically, if you steadily invest over a 10-year period of time

versus trying to jump in, trying to jump out, trying to catch it,

you screw yourself by dancing with the devil. Don't do it.
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She's making minimum payments, but I'm trying to kind of get this whole thing sorted out and out of my name. How would you suggest that I approach her and the situation

as a whole?

How old are you?

I'm 27.

When did all this happen, hon?

It started back in 22.

I want to say 21, 22.

It was after my divorce.

So I was kind of just throwing caution to the wind and just saying yes to everything. Oh, so you agreed to her doing this? Yes.
It all started because the landlord wanted to sell the house that I grew up in, that she's currently living in, and she offered us a pretty good deal. And my brother and I, we bought the house together for my mom.
And now she's struggling to make the payments. And I'm just waiting for the day that I get a call that, hey, your payments do.
And my wife and I, we can't afford the payment ourselves. So I just don't know what to do.
Wow. You bought the house together for your mom.
And then she took out credit card loans in your name, all with your permission. Yes, sir.
So whose name is on the mortgage? Yours? Mm-hmm. Yes, sir.
And she's living in the house. Mm-hmm.
Yes. Rent-free.
And the house, the property is titled to you as well, correct? Correct. She's paying the mortgage.
It's just that her credit was too poor to actually take the loan out herself. So going back to the other debt, the other loan, how much money are we talking about on the credit cards? Shy of $20,000.
And what does your mom make a year? She's self-employed. She won't really give me a straight answer.
If you had to guess, what would you say? Not much. She doesn't work much.
She sucks blood off of her sons. Okay.
She's a parasite. It's a horrible thing to say about your mother.
I'm so sorry. Just an observation.
What's your living situation? I am currently living in an apartment in Utah, and the house is in another state. Yeah.
And your wife is not happy with this situation, I would assume. She is not, and I'm not either.
Okay. Okay.
And how old is mom? 55?

Ballpark.

Yeah.

Okay.

So, um, and what is the house worth that she's living in?

Uh, I would say three 50 to four.

And what do you owe on it?

I want to say two 20, two 50.

I don't honestly know. Yeah.

Is your brother also on the mortgage?

Yes. My brother's on the mortgage as well.
And on the deed as well. Yeah.
Okay. So if you guys, what's your brother saying about all this? My brother wants to keep the house and he's just happy to go along because he wants to keep it for sentimental value.
I personally agree with your team but but it's just a house. We can get another

one. Yeah.
So what would I do if I woke up in your shoes? This is going to be what is called a difficult conversation, my friend. Your mom has gotten away with this misbehavior, underproducing and unbelievable asks of her grown sons rather than taking care of herself.
A 55-year-old woman ought to be able to build a sustainable life without sucking the blood off of her children, okay? Or man, for that matter, okay? So this is not positive.

Your mom is not in a good situation mentally and spiritually

because otherwise she wouldn't have done this to her own kids.

And, of course, you all aren't because you allowed it to happen.

Oh, no, you straight up endorsed it.

So what I would do if I woke up in your shoes is I would go,

how long ago did you get married?

My wife and I, we got married a month ago. Okay.
This is going to come down on your wife if you're not real careful from your mother. Your mother's going to blame her because she's the new thing on the scene, and about that time you evict your mom.
So she's going to end up blaming your wife if you're not real careful. So your wife does not need to be anywhere near this conversation, nor do you quote her, nor do you even bring her up.
She's not physically in the room. She's nowhere around because it's not her fault.
Okay. So you need to travel with your brother and sit down with your mom and say, guys, I can't do this anymore.
I'm looking at the future, 10 years into the future,

and all I see is pain and trouble.

There's a problem here.

You're ruining my credit.

I'm waiting for the phone call when you don't pay the mortgage.

So what we're going to do is we're going to sell the house.

We're going to pay all the debt off,

and we're going to pay the taxes associated with selling the house. If there are any there are any there shouldn't no there will be because it's not a personal residence you may have some capital gains on this so you pay your taxes and then you say as for my half of what is left over equity mom i'm going to give that to you as a parting gift and you can go set yourself up a life with that and I'm not going to do anything anymore in the future that's it brother you can do with your half whatever you choose to do if you want to help mom get a house with that that's fine I'm done we're selling the house we're paying off the credit cards and I'll give you my half of what's left over after that, after taxes.
Do you anticipate your brother holding up that process? Or do you think that he'll go along with it? I think he would hold it up because he's not big on Ramsey. I found you guys because I found your book, Breaking Free from Broke.
Well, I mean, forget about the Ramsey part. Just the idea of you cleaning this up because it's very messy that's anything to do with ramsey it's got to do with your mother screwing her own kids over yeah i honestly think he would not go along with it because he's seeing it as an investment on his then he can buy you out he can buy you out that's another option but honey we selling the house.
If he doesn't want to sell the house, then it's going to be a civil court action, and the judge is going to demand that the partnership be dissolved by the selling of the house. We're selling the house.
I'm not asking. We're telling you.
This is what we're doing. Now, if you want to buy me out, that's okay.
The way you need to think of this is this is saving your marriage, by the way. Yeah.

Because your wife is not going to sit around and let your mom be the reason that she's not in her new house.

You guys are in an apartment.

You've been married for a month.

If this messes around and causes you guys the future that she's envisioned, you're going

to have a much bigger problem on your hands.

Yeah.

Mom, I love you and I've done more for you than I should have. And I put myself and my future family in jeopardy because of you and you continue to misbehave with this.
My bills are not being paid. You're destroying my credit in my future.
We're selling the house. Little brother, if you don't want to sell it, you can buy me out.
You got 10 minutes. Ready, set, go.
You're on the clock. Okay.
Cause your little brother's codependent like you were until something woke you up. And again, this has got nothing to do with Ramsey.
Don't you blame it on your ex? Don't you blame it on your new wife? And don't you blame it on Ramsey? It's not Ramsey. This is you stood up.
I'm a 27 year old freaking man with a backbone and this is madness and the madness ends. It's not a sign

of love to continue in codependency. This is not an act of love.
There's no love in this discussion.

You can be kind, gentle. You don't have to be yelling and screaming, but we are selling the

house. You can either do it voluntarily or I'll have a judge make you sell the house.
We are

selling the house. So y'all get your heads around that, whatever flopping in the floor and foaming at the mouth you need to do, but get your heads around that.
We are selling the house. It's not an option.
The only other option is brother, you buy me out or mom, y'all buy me out. Get me off the mortgage and pay off all the credit cards.
And you got to do that in 90 days and you got it ready, set, go. And if you're not going to do that, we are selling the house.
The best thing for mom, by the way, is sell the house. Put some money in her pocket.
Tell her to get a freaking job. Self-employed for her is code for I don't work much.
That's what that is. That's code.
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Mac is in Seattle. Hey, Mac, welcome to the Ramsey Show.
How are you doing, Dave? Better than I deserve. What's up? So I am currently a business analyst.
I work remote, and I'm 28 years old. I have a fear of sooner or later becoming unmarketable, make a decent wage, but I'm basically working off a bachelor's degree.
And so I'm trying to decide if it's worth taking a student loan out to also cut time from my current job to either go back in an MBA or an MBA adjacent, or completely do a career shift into something that is a little bit more desirable, a little bit more fulfilling, but might even be a dip in terms of my compensation or who knows what the career would

bring with that. It's kind of a question of, do I continue to do something I'm good at, but

not necessarily something I'm stoked about? Or do I kind of mix between doing that with an MBA

or completely shift, you know, take the time now to shift into, you know, something completely different for the rest of my life, but also taking a financial risk with that. Well, I'm definitely not interested in you going into debt to further the education.
And I'm certainly not interested in you going into debt for a job that you're not even really stoked about, right? So that's the first thought. My second thought is, what would be the other thing that you would do that might, you know, bring less money, but you're happier doing it? What do you have in mind when you say that? So for the longest time, I've wanted to be an architect, but I know that that market is a bit saturated.
It takes a lot of credentialing to eventually get to a point where you can make a decent bit of a wage and have a good, healthy income. Okay, you're making decisions based on a wrong assumption.
Here's the wrong assumption you're making, that degrees or credentialing cause people to be successful. Nope, they don't.
degrees put tools in the belts of people who are going to go leave the cave, kill something, and drag it home. Credentialing puts tools in your belt.
And so the reason some lawyers are successful and some aren't is not because of law school. It's not because of passing the bar.
It's because they chose to get it. They chose to get out in the market and climb and grow and be ambitious and read and continue their own growth curve and approach it.
And so the reason some architects, you know, anytime I hear the market's saturated, I just think of lawyers. They're freaking everywhere.
God, we can't get rid of them. They're like roaches.
They're everywhere. And yet some of them make 500 bucks an hour.
You know, it's killing me. Same thing's true with architects.
There's always somebody that gets better at their job, you know, know continues there's other people can't seem to find a wet job making a living as a cad uh supervisor and they've got an architectural degree but that's got to do with the person not the degree and not the space and not the credentialing you know i've been podcasting for god's sake know who's got a podcast? Every human on the planet has a podcast.

You know what causes this to be one of the top five podcasts in the entire world?

Nothing to do with credentialing, buddy.

I'll tell you that.

Nothing to do with my dadgum degree.

Nobody even asked what my degree is.

I got a Ph.D. in DUMB.

So what I want you to do is figure out what you want to do with your life

and go be the very best at that. If you need to put some tools in your belt fine but don't sit at home doing remote work worrying about the marketplace the marketplace is always going to kick you in the stomach if you suck and the marketplace is always going to fill your wallet if you're awesome i think that we need to make sure you leave here.
Ken Coleman has a really great book, Find the Work You're Wired to Do. And inside of it, there's an assessment that you can take.
And I think it's really going to help you figure out what it is that you want to do. And then the book is going to help you walk through the results of your assessment so you can really narrow in and hone into what it is that you want to do.
Because here's the thing. I don't want you going off spending a of money yeah when you have a bunch of question marks exactly so let's i do want you to go get an mba if it's part of the tools for your belt it's an excellent degree field but it's a horrible degree field for somebody that doesn't want to be in business that wants to be an architect so it would be a bad idea you know don't do that but hey and business analyst with an undergrad,, I got a friend of mine.
He's a 42-year-old guy. He's a great 43-year-old guy.
He made 250 last year. He's got an undergrad.
That's great. He's got an undergrad in finance.
He's a business analyst. And he's, you know what? But he's really good at it, you know, and he works really hard and he's good with people and he has common sense insights when he's doing his analysis, not just crunching numbers like some broke finance professor.
So that's the trick, man. Don't believe this lie that because I got a degree I'm guaranteed something, or because I go get another one, that's going to be what opens the door to a fully saturated market.
You've got to add the secret sauce to it. No, no, no.
You boys. Parents, teach your children that the cause of their success is them.
That's right. Teach them to stand up straight, bathe regularly, shake a hand and smile.
And brush your teeth. You've got to bathe.
And don't send your mother on your job interview. Teach your children to have some moxie, some confidence.

Teach them to do hard things and scary things.

And teach them to persevere when they get a little bit scared, not collapse in the floor.

Teach them to have some skeletal structure to their character.

And to believe in God who loves them and is bigger than them and will carry them through when they don't think they can get through.

Teach them these things and then let them get a degree.

But quit worshiping it.

Not picking on you, Mac, but it's just it's everybody out there.

Quit worshiping at the altar of where somebody went to school.

Nobody gives a crap where you went to school.

Nobody ever asked their oncologist right after they got a cancer diagnosis. where'd you go to school nobody ever said that ever how many of you even ask your divorce attorney where he went to school you didn't care you just went get me out of this all you care is didn't they do their job do they know what they're doing and all you care is did you put the tools in your belt while you were studying nobody Nobody has asked my GPA ever once since I left school.
40 freaking years I've been waiting for somebody to ask for my GPA. No one has ever asked me for my degree.
I don't even know where it's at. You know how some people have it in- Oh, you mean the little diploma? The little paper that people put in a frame and put behind their Zoom? Man, I got mine framed.
Did you? Yeah yeah i was so proud because i just barely got out i got out okay but no one no one cared no one ever asked me about it you know they they had that little thing that's what do you call the graduation ceremony did you walk you don't walk i walked to work i was working that day because i was hungry the idea of spending money and taking a day off from work when i had a buck 67 in my checking account that's what i walked that's so true now oh man i you know oddly enough though my son graduated from business college i got a degree daniel several years what 15 years ago 10 years ago 12 years ago whatever it was at the university of tennessee same business school I did and they let me do the commencement exercise that is a full circle moment so I got to I got to walk that is very very full and I went up there like like a academic type person or something with all the little hats and stuff it was pretty cool I had a full circle moment like that when I graduated with a music degree the first cruise line I auditioned for to be a vocalist, I didn't get through the audition.

But when we became talent agents,

they were the first agency that we signed as working.

So I was like, wow, this is a full circle moment.

I don't know if you realize this,

but when I auditioned, you said no.

I wasn't good enough to sing for you,

but I'll hire all your singers.

There we go.

They'll remain nameless for now.

It sounds like something cruises, yeah. Yeah.
Cruise Line, Inc. Yeah, that's right.
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Thank you for joining us, America. Sarah is in atlanta hi sarah how can we help hey y'all how are you doing great how are you i'm doing great thank you so much for taking my call um my husband and i we have three small children we have a four-year-old a two-year-old and a one-year-old and in january of this year our four-yearyear-old got diagnosed with leukemia.
And so I'm, yeah, he's actually doing super well. So, you know, it's not been quite as bad as we thought, but I'm calling because my husband and I are wondering if we should pause our baby steps and just save money, or if we should go ahead and continue with the baby steps.
Definitely pause and save money. What baby step are you on? Two? Yeah, we're on babys step number two.
We only have $7,000 left on a car, and we could actually pay it off today. It would just be kind of a big hit to our savings account.
How much is in your savings? We have about $11,000, thanks to our community raising money for us when he got diagnosed. What's the prognosis? Is it a situation where it's, you're going to go through this line of treatment and then everything should be good on the other side? Do you have a timeline in mind? It sounds like you do.
Yeah. So he, for most leukemias, it's three years of treatment, but the first eight months are like extremely hard.
We're actually right at the end of that eight months. You went back to school today, which is super exciting.
I know. It was great.
And we're super blessed. We got something called Katie Beckett Medicaid.
If you're familiar with that, it's a type of Medicaid for families that make more than the Medicaid limit. And it'll come behind like a child and we'll cover the 20% that your insurance won't cover.
So we're actually not looking at massive medical bills. The scary part is that like at any point he could get

an infection and we could be in the hospital for 10 plus days and I just may have to take FMLA.

Okay. So that's kind of what we're dealing with.
My husband and I met about a hundred thousand

dollars. How much of that is you? I make about $60,000 of that.
Okay. With the gross, like I obviously bring home less.
All right. Number one, Jade's right.
The very first, and you've already done this, and if I'm in your situation, we got grandbabies that age. There's one beat leukemia no other job total focus okay job one if there's any crumbs left in our lives emotionally spiritually financially after we do job one we can talk about doing other stuff but it's only if there's crumbs left okay so i i would never uh personally nor would i ever recommend you do anything except beat cancer that's it yeah okay period now uh it sounds like you're entering the second season which is lighter lighter by your explanation.
I don't know anything

about that, but I'm going off of your explanation. Okay.
Yeah, that's correct. And this is more of a,

you've gone from very intense to a maintenance, if you will. I'm using layman's terms.
I have

no idea what I'm talking about. That's what I think I'm hearing.
Is that right? Yes,

it's actually called maintenance. Oh, wow.
Wow. Stumbled into it.
Who knew? Okay. And so, you know, in other words, we've kind of gotten past, A, the panic that when you say that C word over my child, and then we've also now gotten the other side of the tough medical eight months of hell.

And now we're, you know, now we're going to put the finishing touches on the death of cancer.

Right.

And but that's going to be a little more gradual.

We've gone from a sprint to a marathon.

And these metaphors working at all.

Oh, my gosh.

Absolutely.

OK.

All right.

I'm just trying to understand.

I want to make sure I understand.

So what I want to say is what we always say is when you're facing a storm, stop your debt, your baby steps, stop your total money makeover and address the storm. And so what you and your husband have got to decide is mathematically, financially, um, a month from now, two months from now, with the eight-month

period in the rearview mirror, do we feel like we're out of the storm? It's still raining,

but the wind quit blowing and the lightning quit crashing, or do we feel like we're in a predictable,

sustainable environment where we feel safe to go ahead and pay off the car, safe to resume

our financial plan without putting the cancer treatment process in jeopardy at all. That's the way I'd look at it.
Okay. When you feel safe.
Yeah, when you feel safe, then you go again. So, like, if you lose your job, which is nothing compared to what you're doing, but it's still a thing, you know, once you get the new job and you get a paycheck, you push play again and you go.
You're the other side of the unemployment storm, right? Once you have a child, a pregnancy, it's not in the same bucket emotionally, but it is still a situation where you stop, we pile up money and baby come home we push play again so when we get the event the the uh situation no matter how scary or negative or positive it is in our rear view mirror then we push play and we go uh but we don't try to do uh we don't take it down to a thousand dollars and try to beat cancer and a four-year-old no no that's just stressful that that feels stressful yeah i think yeah it's just we've had some stints where he's gotten an infection and we've been in the hospital for a long time and i've actually we've both worked through it like working from the hospital and it's very hard emotionally yeah no well you're probably going to do that anyway because you want to just keep careers you want to keep life moving but that's not got to do with hitting the total money makeover baby step goal that's just got to do with we just got to keep this thing rolling we got to keep the wheels on the bus you know well yeah that's a different posture when you're working because you need some you know you need to keep working versus there's no money in the account if i don't work you know we won't be able to pay the bill you know that's a whole different level how many how many of those trips has he had um the when we first got diagnosed no the infection trip only one so okay all right yeah so hopefully it's the only cloud it's it's the worst cloud still hanging over this situation other than we know we've got some discomfort but nothing like we've had before going forward right yes no he's like 99 percent like prognosis that's so awesome it's honestly we're you when you live in the hospital as much as we do you realize how lucky you are when this is all you're facing so So we've got a lady here named Shauna that, um, came into my office, um, uh, 17 years ago or 14, 15 years ago and said, my three-year-old has leukemia and, uh, she worked in accounting and you can't do accounting. Your brain doesn't work when you're getting it.
So anyway, we paid her and paid her through all of it.

And the ladies took care of meals and the guys took care of keeping the grass cut.

And then pretty soon we had a little ball-headed three-year-old running around the office and we're celebrating with her.

And the other day we gave away Ramsey scholarships and she walked across the stage and gave me a hug.

Graduated from high school.

And I got to take a picture with her the other day. So there is a good ending to these stories.
Yeah, we have so much hope and we have such a good community too. So that makes all the difference.
We can hear it in your voice. Yeah, you really can.
You're very joyful and. Attitude's everything here.
It really is. It's a lot of it.
So, hey, we're with you. If you need any us back but i you know just use good common sense babe take care of baby first and then once we're clear of the storm don't let the worries of the world keep you from going and winning what might be but use good wisdom okay thank you all so much i appreciate it thank you god bless you sarah wow that's a good differential dave because in in her case yeah this this has the ability to be a three-year stint but it's not it had two two seasons that's right so thinking through okay do i need to truly be paused for three years or is there a point where i'm okay if you are if you are yes but in her case there it seems like there might be a point before that where they can put the foot on the gas again.
They got some money in the bank. They're only $7,000 away.
They're not $107,000 away. It'd be nice to have that car payment gone while they're doing this.
I'm sure. And it'd be nice to have that stability.
And guys, just remember, if you have an emergency come up and you have zero debt and $25,000 in the bank for an emergency fund,

sometimes, not that kind of emergency, but some emergencies are a mere inconvenience.

The drama starts to leave your life when you get your crap together.

I know, that's right.

Hello.

So that's what these calls remind me of.

She's a hero. What a great mom.
Wonderful. Wow.
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Tyler's in Orlando. Hi, Tyler.
How are you? Hey, I'm good. How are you? Better than I deserve.
What's up? Hey, I have a question about a real estate deal that I did with one of my friends. Okay.
All right. So I gave him $9,000 back in September.
And then as of he was supposed to sell the house, it was part of a down payment for a house that he bought. And he was supposed to pay me back by January or I gave him eight grand in September.
He was supposed to give me $14,000 back in January. And then he showed me a picture of the bank account with all of the money.
Then I gave him a thousand dollars more and he bought another house. He did a 10 35 exchange to another house.
And, um, and then he was supposed to pay me back, I think 25 K plus some extra for the taxes. And that was supposed to be due in April.
Um, he's given me $2,500 back out of the right now, as of now, he owes me 29,500. Um, I have it all in contract and in writing and today's the date.
I actually made a new contract last month and said that he owes me the full amount, 29500, by August 5th, which is today. And if he doesn't pay me back that, then he has to pay for all the court fees, attorney fees, and $1,000 extra per month in interest.
Okay. Why has he not paid you? I don't know.
I mean, he told me. Well, did the house sell? No, he said, he always says that it's going to sell.
Oh, the house hasn't sold. So he doesn't have any money.
Yeah. Do you think contracts magically make him have money? No.
He doesn't have any money. That's why he's borrowing from someone like you.
Yeah. Have you seen the properties? Yes, I have.
And right now. So the first one sold, right? He said it did, but it didn't.
Okay. Was the first one ever rented? Did he ever rent it out?

Yes.

Did it ever have rental income?

No.

No.

Then it is not involved in a 1031.

Only income-producing property can be in a 1031.

Flips do not qualify for a 1031.

And besides that, if it didn't sell, he can't roll it into the other house. So that 1031 tax deferred exchange did not occur.

Okay.

So basically he owns two houses right now, neither one of which have sold.

Yeah.

And how old are you?

23.

And how old is he?

Maybe 30-ish. Okay.
And why did you think this was going to work? I mean, I was skeptical of it. I mean, I had the contract, so I wasn't too worried about losing the money.
Well, you're learning a very harsh lesson that I learned early in business, and that is that contracts don't make bad deals good. Contracts are simply pieces of paper that say what happens when everything blows up and melts down.
They don't make bad people good, and they don't make bad deals good, and they don't make money appear on the scene that's not there. But I have a contract is never a defense for getting into a really stupid deal.

So you might end up spending $30,000.

So the other house, you probably lost your money.

But anyway, let's play it through.

The current property that we're waiting on both of them to sell, right?

Yes, sir. Do either one of them have $29,000 worth of equity?

Yeah, yeah. Do either one of them have $29,000 worth of equity? Yeah, yeah.
Okay. Well, I guess if I were in your shoes, I would try this.
I think this will be much more successful than suing on a contract because that's a three-year process. It's going to cost you $15,000, $20,000 in legal fees.
Right now, you've got $2,500 of your $9,000 back. So right now, you're only bit to the tune of $6,500, right? Yeah.
Okay. That might be the most expensive tuition that a 23-year-old's paid lately.
But if you pay tuition to the school of life and that's all you pay instead of $65,000, and it's not too bad, but let's see if we can salvage this. It doesn't sound like he's a liar, except about the part on the house, the first house selling in the 1031.
It sounds like he's a neophyte, doesn't know what the crap he's doing. He took some tick tock thing on how to buy real estate.
And I kind of know that because he got a 23 year old as his financier who came up with a whole 10 grand. Okay.
This is not like a high roller here. That's got an ultimate real estate experience.
So I think he's just dumb is what I'm saying. Okay.
Yeah. I don't think he's evil.
Yeah. I bet if the house is sold, you would have had your money.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think he hoped the house would sell and you'd have your money and you're, naive, that's being kind, to think that a contract was suddenly going to make sure that money appeared. Contracts don't do that.
He has no money, dude, until the house sells. So why don't you go to him and say, instead of suing you, my financial advisor suggested that I take a second mortgage lien on your property and that you sign a lien for $30,000 on both properties.
So now you have a $60,000 position. If he doesn't, and put terms to that, that that has to be paid on sale or within six months, whichever is first, and he can go refinance and buy you out.
Okay. Okay.
Now not then you don't have to you don't have to sue you merely have to foreclose okay and foreclosure is a lot cheaper and more efficient than a lawsuit okay so go to him and say instead of suing you and instead of you and me going to court and all this you're i waiting on the house to sell, you're waiting on the house to sell.

I'm either going to sue you this week or you're going to give me a second mortgage lien for $30,000 on both properties.

And then you don't screw him.

Whenever you get your money, you release the other property.

But whichever one sells first, you get your money.

Okay.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, that makes sense.

And don't do this again.

Did you learn your lesson?

Yeah.

Okay.

If you get out by the skin of your teeth, don't act like you're a pro.

You just lucked freaking out if you get out of this deal.

This is a deal where you deserved to lose $9,000.

If you get out and don't get what you deserve, you can buy the T-shirt better than I deserve

and learn your lesson and move on.

Wow.

Thank you. thousand dollars if you get out and don't get what you deserve you can buy the t-shirt better than i deserve and learn your lesson and move on wow he'll be lucky if he gets his money back i have done so many stupid things that i deserved yeah to lose money so i can say that to you son oh my gosh yeah you you just you you walked up on the thin ice and said please crack i want to be wet but wet.
But he had a contract. I know.
I'm just joking. The ice promised me it wouldn't crack.
Oh, boy. Yeah.
When you're doing business with broke people, please expect them to do broke people things. And we know the guy is broke because he borrowed $9,000 from a 23-year-old.
Who knows if these properties are going to sell for what they hoped and if there's even going to be any profit. No idea, but it'd be fun to foreclose on it and see if you really wanted to know.
That might be interesting. This is the Ramsey Show.
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So I've learned so many silly little sayings from other generations because I'm on the air with the cool people around here. And I, so I learned that like wheniden forgave the student loans that that was sus oh yeah suspect yes i didn't know what i had learned what sus was so there you go and i learned about fomo fomo yes fear of missing out that's a real thing apparently motivates people to do really stupid things with money facts sometimes and uh other things too uh i'm going to give you a fear of missing out and it's not a stupid thing to do with money and you should not be doing it if it is a stupid thing i'll help you with this the live like no one else cruise is almost sold out we have the entire ship on holland america march 22nd through the 29th The Jade Warshaw will be with us.
All of the Ramsey personalities will be with us. Sharon, my wife, and I will be on there for the entire seven-day cruise.
Plus Stephen Curtis Chapman, who not only is Emmy Award winning 67 Doves or something like that, but last week Stephen got inducted into the uh uh grand old opry that's great yeah he was telling me about it he was at the house monday night with a bunch of guys and um he was uh last week and just tears in his eyes it was a huge huge honor for him because he he grew up of course singing country music and he's one of the world's best renowned christian artists as you know and so anyway we're going to turks and caicos st thomas puerto rico the bahamas we'll be doing events and things and performances and talks and whatever else you want to call it on the ship the entire week it's going to be a blast um it's almost gone you can still get uh uh you can still get a room a state room but you you need to get your deposit of six hundred dollars down before the cabins are gone you don't have to pay for the whole thing up front but you don't need to go on the live like no one else cruise unless you are baby step four and beyond yeah for sure we don't tell people to go on vacations when they're in one through three and that includes vacationing with us i heard george was going to be bouncing at the doorways bouncing what

you know the bounce ball he can't bounce anything george was going to be uh security checking get bounced but he's not what's he is it was he at the at the daycare checking the baby steps cards gonna be a bouncer where's George gonna be

that's not even funny y'all

that's just insulting. Oh, man.
So, hey, this is a chance for you to celebrate your process through the baby steps, a milestone in getting to baby step four or beyond, maybe seven. Maybe you do your debt-free scream with us.
Maybe it could be the world's largest debt-free scream at us maybe could be the world's largest debt-free scream at sea because if it's the only debt-free scream at sea it by definition is the largest debt-free scream at sea so we're going to do that for sure maybe we need to get the guinness book and give people give them a room or something on there so ramsey solutions dot com slash cruise get signed up we'd love to have you go with us matt is in. Hi, Matt.
How are you? Hey, Dave. Doing great.
How are you? Better than I deserve. What's up? So just a quick question.
I'm getting married next year. I have a full-time career in the military as well as two part-time jobs.
Just opened up a Roth IRA and put in an initial 2,500. I'm looking to see how much you suggest I put into it either on a monthly basis or an annual basis, being that I'm also trying to save up for a home as well.
Good for you. Are you debt-free? Thank you.
Yes, I am. Good for you.
How old are you? Thank you. I'm 24.
Thanks for serving your country, sir. Thank you for your support.
I appreciate it. Yeah.
So if I'm you, you've already paid off your debt. Do you have three to six months of expenses saved up? Yes, I do.
I have about maybe 85 to 9,500 saved up. Okay, good.
So yeah, officially you're in 3 B or four, whichever one you choose. And what I would do, so you're, you're investing 15% of your income.
So if that allows you to max out that Roth, I would max out that Roth. Now, most people would say 15% of your income every single month until that's gone until you've used up the 15% until you've maxed it out.
Right. And then you could move on to another investment vehicle.
So do you think you can max it out? Yes, absolutely. Okay.
Because I'm also looking for, I mean, I'm definitely money hungry, to put it in the easiest way. So I'm trying to find, you know, all sorts of multiple side hustles and everything that I can.
Everything you can. Yeah, I heard you say you have two other part-time jobs.
So you max out this Roth. What other things do you have available to you through the military that you can put money into? TSP.
TSP, Thrift Savings Plan. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.
So I would, what we want you to do at Baby Step 3B, 3B is saving for a house and or investing for retirement. Obviously, the more you put into retirement, the less you'll have to save towards a house.
Agreed? Correct. So the most you would put in at your stage would be 15% of your household income, your total income, until you're married.
Once you're married, the total income of the household needs to go into retirement, a maximum of 15%. Some people back the 15% down a little until they get their down payment saved.
Some of them do the whole 15%. We suggest not doing more than 15% at this stage.
Instead, put it all toward the rest of everything else towards the house. But if you want to do 10% or you want to do the Roth and that represents 8%, I don't know what your income is and all that, but you know, whatever you guys want to do and then start saving towards that house.
That's great. Who's paying for the wedding? Uh, my, my fiance and I had actually, uh, our parents, our parents offered to help us, uh, immensely, but my fiance and I both felt like we would feel personally more accomplished if it was paid off ourselves.
So we're paying for the wedding ourselves. Wow.
What's the budget? We're looking at about $27,000 right now. Is that money already saved? Yes, it is.
We have about $46,000 in a joint account as of now. Okay.
No more joint accounts until you're married except the wedding fund, okay? Yes, that's exactly. And no buy a house with somebody you're not married to? Yes.
Okay. Absolutely.
I appreciate it. I'm curious why you felt like you should not have mom and dad pay for the wedding.
That's a traditional thing. It's not a, it doesn't mean you're like a deadbeat if your father-in-law pays for the wedding.
No, absolutely. I mean, and they, and like I mentioned, they did, they did offer to pay for it.
I don't know. I guess it's, I guess it's something personal, you know, personally that I, that I feel just, just being able to say that, you know, I paid for something myself.
I saved up and I paid I feel. Just being able to say that I paid for something myself, I saved up, and I paid for something myself.
How'd they take it when you told them? Were they a little disappointed? They were taken back that we didn't want help, but they're going to wind up giving us a huge gift in exchange. Okay.
All all right i guess we can use that towards the house yeah yeah absolutely and and with the military um with the military benefits we don't we don't have to put a down payment on the house um but i'm not sure i haven't looked into it that much um but being that we don't have to put a down payment i'm not not sure how exactly that works. Oh, you do need to put down a down payment.
Don't use a VA loan. VA loans are more expensive than conventional.
Okay. So you need to do a Fannie Mae with a traditional down payment and above your emergency fund and above your wedding.
So there you go. Very cool.
Very cool. That's interesting.
I have not, you know, that's from a generation, not him, but that's from a generation that doesn't want to pay their student loan. Well, everybody's not like that.
I know. Everybody's not like anything.
And I paid for both my daughter's weddings, and I did not think poorly of my son's-in-law in the least. No.
I had no expectation they would do that. That's what's kind of like, I'm an old Southern dad, and that's what I did.
Here's the budget, and y'all do it within that, and don't ask for any more, that's it. But if they had said, you know what, Dave, we got it, would you have been like, oh, man, or would you have been like, I would have been a little bit taken aback like he was.
And I was like, yeah, but I'm like, huh? Yeah. I mean, it wasn't like I'm going to give him, yeah.
Oh, well, yeah. There's nothing wrong with it.
It's just. No, just different.
Yeah. It's not an expectation of character or lack of character, folks, if your in-laws pay for your wedding.
I'll say that out loud. I don't think that's true.
So if they don't, there might be something else going on there, though. I think so.
He didn't say that, but if there's a lot of strings attached, you don't want to activate Mother of the Bridezilla. You don't want them to come out of their cave and all that.
There's all kinds of stuff that you might want to do that for. But oh, well, OK, cool.
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How are you? I am fantastic. Thank you so much for asking.
How are you? Better than I deserve. What's up? All right.
so i am going through a divorce and and it's really hurting me financially so i'm wondering if i should take money out of my business account and that i'm actually trying to sell because of the divorce and use some of that money to buy things for my primary job so what is your primary job? I am a school teacher and tomorrow I go back to school and the kids come back next Tuesday, but I need to buy some supplies for the students to come back to school. I'm sorry, they don't furnish you supplies for the classroom like $5.
Which would make you every school teacher in America?

Well, yeah, thank you.

They give me $5 as students, but I've already spent that.

I bought glue sticks and colored pencils and pencil pouches for the students.

So what are you talking about spending?

I need paper, hand sanitizers, folders, and journals.

What are you talking about spending? I'm thinking I need about $200. What type of business do you have? What's the nature of it? So in the evenings, I run an escape room, but I have to sell it according to the divorce decree.
I have to sell it so I could pay back some of the equity that I owe to my soon-to-be ex-husband. Do you take a payroll from the business? I don't.
It doesn't make enough money, so I run it, and then it pays for it. Okay, if $200 changes your life, you have other problems.
Well, right now, I just, I'm barely finished baby step number one. I've been using your EveryDollar app.
If you have to choose between you eating and buying your children hand sanitizer, you eat. Okay, I get that.
Okay. And so, if you, you know, if you're down to nothing, if you have no money and $200 is a huge amount to you, where you get it from doesn't matter.
It's where you spend it that matters. You don't have the option to be this generous to these students.
Contact a local church and ask them to help you if they've got some journals laying around and maybe they've got some hand sanitizer they can give you from the children's ministry and help you fund this help you get the thing set up without you spending the two hundred dollars at tarjay and you know let's go that route because it sounds like this two hundred dollars is a lot of money to you yeah and you've got you need to work on the other side of that and that's the overall income i think i'm tutoring instead of running a, yeah. Today's question of the day is brought to you by Y-Refi.
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All right. Today's question comes from Nora in Pennsylvania.
She says, I've been married for almost 30 years and my husband and I have adult children. My husband runs his mother's family business.
He will inherit the business when she passes, but he says that the business is not going to be mine if anything happens to him. He says his will is going to state that our children will get the business and that he will not be providing for me.
I've explained to him how upsetting this is and that I shouldn't have to go to my children for help when it is his responsibility to care for me. I live on a fixed income.
My adult life as a stay at home mom, what can I do to protect myself legally? Wow, you can't. So you have a you have a marriage problem.
My goodness. You don't have a legal problem.
You're married to a jerk.

And that's a problem.

Yeah, I thought this question was going in one direction.

And then it turned left and went off into the ditch.

It sure did.

So, honey, you need to go see a marriage counselor,

and he's not going to go with you because he's right about everything.

He doesn't need any help if you ask him.

And, of course, everybody else listening to this knows he's the one who needs the help.

But you need to go to the marriage counselor,

and the marriage counselor is going to explain to you that your marriage is over if you don't get some serious work done on it.

That rattling you're hearing under the hood means the engine's about to blow, kiddo.

And this does not describe a loving home where the husband is gentle kind and serves his wife i didn't hear anything like that in here no so sad nor i'm sorry but yeah you need to go see a marriage counselor today tell tell him that he ought to go with you but he won't and then the marriage counselor will give you words to speak to him that lead to either him coming to the table or the end of your marriage. You can't go forward with this.
And after 30 years, he still chooses his mommy. Wow.
After 30 years, he's still a mama's boy. Old men that are mama's boy are kind of pitiful.
Ah, that's the worst boys are pitiful period after four years old but old men mama's boys seriously pitiful whoo and he's going to be one even after she's gone that means this guy is in his 50s yeah he's an old man mama's boy you can title the thumbnail on youtube old man mama's boy there you go i thought she was gonna say something i you know as i was reading it i thought okay this is a his mom's family business it's gonna pass to the children maybe she didn't want to run the business you know what i mean because there's part of that where it's like i don't want this responsibility but that took a hard left turn oh gracious yeah mamas, don't let your boys become. Leave and cleave.
Choose carefully, my darling. Choose carefully.
Choose a man who loves his mother from a distance. I know, that's right.
Mom, I love you. Over there.
Listen, I say that, but when the day comes when my son gets old enough where he has to go over there, I'm going to be sad.

I think it's one of the hardest child developmental things I've ever witnessed.

As we raised kids, girls separate from their mom, but boys stay right there until they separate.

When they separate, it's brutal.

And it usually comes somewhere around 16 or 17 years old for people that become men. Oh man.
But boys who are mama's boy at 50, they never did cut the cord. And so they're still tugging on her apron strings.
Mommy, mommy, mommy. I want the business.
Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy. Would you take care of mommy? Mommy, I want to make sure you love me, mommy.
i think i'm gonna puke oh gosh oh no i want we do have a manhood crisis in this country for sure wow i mean what this is not masculinity it's not toxic masculinity it's just a child yeah and a controlling child a very controlling jerk of a child yeah goodness gracious and here's the thing norah's husband if you happen to end up listening to this if you're not who she says she you are you need to understand how screwed up your marriage is that your wife wrote this letter to a nationally syndicated show that has hundreds of millions of people downloaded every month so if you're not this and she sent this in you got stuff going on dude so you still deserve bus tracks over your butt so we threw you right in front of the bus still that's what happened maybe he'll write in a letter next i hope so i wish he would just come on the air and let us talk to him. How fun would that be? That would be compelling podcast material.
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Find what you need at RamseySolutions.com slash insurance. Jade Walshaw, Ramsey Personality, is my co-host today nathan's in philadelphia hi nathan welcome to the ramsey show hey jay thanks for taking my call i've been listening to your show for a while i never thought i'd have to call in but life kind of threw me a curveball okay cool how can we help so i have started dating a girl and i have found out recently that she is close to 150 000 in student debt for a doctorate degree that she does have and she's been working for a year with that a doctorate degree on what physical therapy okay okay so she got a phd and she's a pt okay correct yeah um so I don't have any debt.
Um, I've been proud of that and I've been finding that as I'm going through this relationship, that that's been a big deal for me, I think. So I'm just trying to figure out how much do I factor that into the way I, I guess, pursue this relationship.
And then two, how do I talk to her about it? Um, have you asked her, Have you asked her what her philosophy on debt is going forward? Does she plan to utilize more debt? That sort of thing? I think that I've made my position somewhat clear as far as like I don't like debt. So I haven't straight out asked her how she feels about it going forward.
If I were you, this is just what I would do. I'd want to do a little bit of undercover detective work.
So I'd probably ask her a little bit more about her views before I revealed all of my views, because I would not want her to say something to appease me. Okay.
Yeah. I'd want her to, I'd want to know the full business.
And then I'd say, well, here's the way I feel, you know, and then see where the conversation goes from there. Okay.
How long have you been dating? About four months. What do you think? She might be the one? It's a little early.
No, I like her. I feel like our relationship outside of this has been really good, and I appreciate getting to know her.

But that's one thing I feel like it's really taking a lot of my – it's been adding stress to my life just thinking about it, even though I'm not in my debt yet. So, like, I'm trying to figure out if I'm overreacting, because I think, I mean, with our combined income, assuming, you know, down the line, obviously, a lot of things would have to happen.
I wouldn't not continue a relationship with somebody because they had debt but I would not continue with the relationship with someone if they had an opposing view from that point going forward okay yeah like if she said oh I hate this uh if we if we ever got together and we're married we would throw everything at it and get it done like that guy does on the radio. I'd want to do it that way.
If she said something like that, she's a keeper, dude. But if she says, oh, no, I plan to keep this debt and pass it to my grandchildren.
I think debt is wonderful. Then she ain't for you.
I think that her expectations of how much, how quickly she can pay this off is different than reality just based off of what that's different expectations are just information and that's a big point of this you know what dave said is is so true a lot of this is information you got information at some point that informed you that debt's a bad idea living in debt you know continuing to go into debt is a debt is a bad idea. That's information she may not have come across yet.
And the way our culture is, it's just telling you car loan, student loan. That's the way.
So if she comes in contact with the same information that you've got that led to your life change, let her, you know, have that moment as well. And that has to do with all of it, not just the debt, but the reality of the jade's saying and i think jade i thought that was really wise ask a lot of questions don't make a lot of statements and just fish around a little bit and then then you know you can kind of open it up because honestly what you're trying to ascertain i think we think is not whether she has 150 000 in debt is debt.
Is that a deal killer? That is not a deal

killer, we think. But what is a deal killer is someone who's going to mishandle money and be

chaotic and stay in debt the rest of their life. That makes for especially for someone like you,

you've told me like six times how you hate debt, and this has got you stressed out.

Can you imagine a whole life of being that stressed the rest of your life? No,

you're not marrying that woman. That's a hell on earth.
That'd be awful, especially for you. Now, if someone loves debt and they think just like her, then they can get married and they'd be just fine in their chaos.
But, um, but you know, so being in agreement and being aligned on money is the number one cause of divorce. And so the inverse of that is true.
It's the number one area of happiness for couples that stay together. Because when you agree on money, you are agreeing on your value system.
Jesus said your treasure is where your heart is. You're agreeing on your dreams.
You're agreeing on your fears. You're agreeing on what stresses you out and what doesn't.
And these things matter, even if you're a spender versus a saver, all being in it, you can still be aligned on the values of the subject. And I think that's what you've got to fish out.
Um, but you need to run like your hair is on fire. If this lady intends to stay in debt the rest of her life, and she thinks this is wonderful because it will destroy you Nathan especially you because the way you outline this whole thing on the air yeah that's a big deal that's a good differential between uh the philosophy of how you view money in debt versus just personality characteristics like exactly I tend to be a saver I tend to be a spender but if the philosophy at core is the same, but we still avoid debt and we still don't go into debt, then you're OK.
Yeah. So, Nathan, if you said we would say that that someone who said along those lines, OK, I'm not going to date anybody who has debt.
So if you want to keep dating me got to get out of debt i would call you a pharisee yeah that's not that's not the right thing yeah you know but and and you know you made this mess you figure it out well then i wouldn't want my daughter to marry you right you know but we did teach our kids that they weren't going to marry anybody who was perfect and that they aren't by the way because they learned early on in the ramsey house that the axis of the world does not run through the top of their little head and so the inmates don't run the asylum that's not how it works at our place so even when the grands come to visit papa dave we still have a certain level of reasonableness in the house so and um yeah yeah and so that's not there's nothing wrong with that that's a good so you want to be aligned on where we're going and and why we're going there absolutely that's the big thing the going forward you're looking into the future and and you know so you you know in a sense there's a lot of things that we do in our lives that are that way, like a job interview. Are you a cultural fit? Right.
Do you align with the values of that organization and what they're trying to accomplish? If they run perpendicular to who you are, then in 20 minutes after you get there, you're going to be going, oh, this is a toxic workplace. Well, yeah, it does.
It's not toxic. You just joined a group that don't think like you you joined it does you no favors to change your answer in order to get the thing exactly it's like then you're just going to be or to like you said set somebody up to change their answer right to get you that's right that's a bad thing hey guys big announcement right now everybody tune in hold your breath listen listen listen listen listen turn up your radio turn up your podcast listen we're changing things at the ramsey show oh my gosh they're yes so this show is a three-hour talk radio show when you guys get it on a podcast without the commercials it's about 38 minutes or 39 minutes or whatever and on uh and same thing on youtube right? And's tens of millions of you on all these different formats literally so the third hour the third segment of the talk radio show that is on podcast and on youtube and all that kind of stuff the third hour after starting today is now going to be on the ramsey network app for free.
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