Money Shame: How I Climbed Out of $300K in Debt | Tiffany Aliche

9 November - 1 hour 8 mins
Podcast Series The School of Greatness

You can save a million dollars and still feel broke if the fear behind your money never got the message that you're safe.

Tiffany Aliche, a former preschool teacher who built The Budgetnista and wrote Get Good With Money, sat down with Lewis to tell how a friend she calls “Jake the thief” talked her into $35,000 in credit card cash advances. The recession took her teaching job soon after, and at 30 she was almost $300,000 in debt and back in her middle school bed.

Her first year in business grossed $8,000. Years later she brought in $10 million in a single year and felt worse than ever. A nurse took her blood pressure twice while she kept typing on her laptop in the exam room.

She calls i...

1 hour 8 mins

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