Money Plan SOS

#112: This is Week 2 in the 7 week series of Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps to Financial Peace. Last week I talked briefly about Baby Step 1: Build a $1,000 starter emergency fund. Baby Step #2 is to pay off all consumer debt using the Debt Snowball Method. Why is The Debt Snowball in Baby Step 2? [...] The post appeared first on .

#18: This is a real life story of a couple with four children who were normal Americans, made a lot of money, and enjoyed life. They had two cars with payments, a 2nd mortgage, spent $1,000 a month on dining, paid off credit cards with 401K loans, and thought they were doing great. But one of their four children caused them to sacrifice all that "living". Bob and Jen share their story of why they decided to make a drastic change in their life, including working 8 different jobs last year to pay off debt and START GIVING while paying off their ton of debt! Listen to their inspiring story of who they were, who they are now, and who they hope to become. If you were inspired to give and don't know where to start, why not make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at . For more information, visit the show notes at

#42: One of the things we have to do when building our house of financial freedom open up some windows (share and experience things with others). I call this giving. There are plenty of ways to be a giver. 5 ways to turn things we value into something valuable for others can be found at

#118: The Wall Street Journal released an article that shows the average 3 hour major league baseball game averages only 18 minutes of actual actions. That means there is absolutely nothing happening 90 percent of the time. Those 18 minutes contain all the real action and the real big plays often last less than 30 seconds. [...] For more information, go to

#110: What are the top 10 financial products debt free people must have? Over the past 50 years our society has invented thousands of financial products: Credit cards, hedge funds, and the inappropriately named "FreeCreditReport.com". The most marketed category of products today, the ones we are the most familiar with and are told we can't live [See More at