Someone was paying $2 a month on a student loan and the balance kept climbing. Someone else got talked into cash value life insurance by a college friend. Six real situations, six ways out.
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- Why income-driven payments can leave your balance flat or growing, and how to fix it
- The rule for deciding whether going back to school is worth the debt
- How to evaluate getting out of a cash value life insurance policy, including surrender charges and the 1035 exchange
- How a self-employed person opens a Roth IRA, and when a solo 401(k) makes more sense
- Paying yourself from your own business, including S corp salary versus distributions
- Practical ways to add friction to your spending so impulse purchases stop happening
- The catch-up and super catch-up amounts available if you are starting seriously in your 50s
- Whether greed is good, and the line between greed and ambition
- Banks are finding third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, and what that means for you
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- Get That Raise E-book — https://mastermoney.co/get-that-raise-ebook/
- The Stairway to Wealth — https://mastermoney.co/the-stairway-to-wealth/
- The Ultimate Guide to the 1-3-6 Emergency Fund Method https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wbu4UWoWBKvFcAIYn2IND-twKACWVEE1/view
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Question for you:
Which question in this episode sounded the most like your own situation?
