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Mar 2019
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Dare to Pay Off Your Student Loans with ...

Shari Rash, Money Podcast for Women, Personal Finance, Relationships & Mental Health
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Americans owe over $1.56 trillion in student loan debt - and that number is rising each year. So, what would you do to get your student loans paid off? Would you do something that seems scary just to wipe away your debt?

Today's podcast guest, Grant, and Ally from the new CollegeHumor show, Total Forgiveness, join us to have a lively discussion around student loan debt and the lengths they are willing to go to wave bye-bye to their debt.

What You'll Learn

  • How Grant and Ally came up with the idea for Total Forgiveness
  • How student loan debt impacts our everyday life
  • Is college still a viable option
  • How to approach paying off your student loan debt
  • Grant and Ally's money story around student loan debt
  • The crazy lengths they went to in order to pay down their debt


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