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Podcast Summary: Financial Audit - Episode Title: 31-Year-Old Immature Woman Refuses To Take Responsibility
Podcast Details
- Host: Caleb Hammer
- Episode: 31-Year-Old Immature Woman Refuses To Take Responsibility
- Duration: Detailed timestamps provided
- Description: This episode features a financial audit of a 31-year-old infectious disease physician struggling with significant debt despite a high income. The conversation centers around personal finance decisions and accountability.
Key Participants
- Alina: A 31-year-old infectious disease physician from West Hartford, Connecticut, who has recently entered the workforce and is dealing with financial difficulties.
Episode Overview The episode follows Alina as she discusses her income, expenses, and the financial decisions that led her to accumulate significant debt. Caleb Hammer, the host, provides insights and critiques on her financial behavior, urging her to take responsibility for her choices.
Timestamps & Discussions
- 00:00 - Job, Income, and School
- Alina details her educational background and current salary:
- Income: $300,000 annually (includes bonuses).
- Recent immigration challenges related to visa processing.
- 03:30 - Why do you even have a mess??
- Discussion about Alina's financial mess despite her high income. Highlighted her impulsive spending after securing a job.
- 07:40 - You're CHOOSING to be immature
- Caleb emphasizes her lack of financial maturity and irresponsible choices.
- 09:13 - WHAT ARE YOU DOING
- The conversation shifts to her expenditures and debt accumulation.
- 14:25 - You're being STUPID!
- Caleb expresses frustration over Alina's decision-making regarding her finances.
- 20:00 - THIS DEBT IS STUPID. STUPID!!!
- Alina reveals her debt details, and Caleb stresses the need for immediate action to avoid further financial distress.
- 31:35 - YOU'RE DROWNING
- Discussion about the unsustainable nature of her spending habits and lifestyle.
- 36:20 - Clean this up... and GROW UP
- Caleb insists on the importance of taking control of her financial situation.
- 42:00 - I don't think you're going to fix a single thing...
- Caleb expresses skepticism about Alina's commitment to change.
- 47:46 - Hammer Financial (pain) Score
- Final evaluation of Alina's financial health, resulting in a score of 0 out of 10, indicating a dire financial situation.
Key Concepts and Arguments
Personal Responsibility
- Alina’s financial issues stem from a lack of maturity and understanding of her financial situation. Caleb stresses the importance of taking accountability for spending habits that lead to debt.
High Income vs. Spending
- Despite earning a substantial salary, Alina's spending habits have led to financial struggles, demonstrating that income alone does not equate to financial stability.
Impulsive Spending
- Alina discusses her impulse to spend lavishly after securing her job, signifying a common mindset among new professionals who feel a sudden increase in financial freedom.
Importance of Budgeting
- Caleb urges Alina to create a budget and prioritize paying off debt over unnecessary expenses, emphasizing the necessity of financial discipline.
Emotional Factors
- Alina mentions using humor as a defense mechanism for her financial anxiety, yet she needs to confront the reality of her situation to make meaningful changes.
Conclusion The episode serves as a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of financial irresponsibility, even when one has a high income. Caleb Hammer’s tough love approach highlights the need for personal accountability, disciplined budgeting, and the importance of making informed financial decisions. Alina’s journey illustrates the complexities of navigating finances and the significant impact that choices have on one’s financial health.
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Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Hi, this is Alina. I am from West Hartford, Connecticut, and I'm 31 years old and this is financial audit. 31 and you're you're based in connecticut okay what do you do for a living in connecticut i am an infectious disease physician oh very cool so i'm sure that's been super super easy like nbd yeah yeah well you're 31 how long did it take to get into that position lots of school yeah so i actually i grew up in pakistan um so because of that so here you guys have like undergrad and then you do med school but in Pakistan you basically just go to med school after like high school so I did five years of medical school and so that that kind of saved me three years but I still did three years of residency I graduated in 2020 and then I did fellowship got done in 2022 but because I'm on a visa I was yeah and there were the previous government kind of like messed with the h1 visas a little bit so it slowed everything down and so for three months i was in limbo from july to september and so i was unemployed finally my my visa came through and i started working as an attending in september of 22.
1:15okay very cool what do you make now so pre-tax i make 300 a year and then there's bonuses on top highest income we've had on this show. I think bonuses on top? Yeah. What are the bonuses for? So there's two things that you can get a bonus for. There's CAUTI metrics or there's RVU-based metrics, which is RVU, which just stands for, it's basically a value unit. And essentially, if you see a certain number of patients above their cutoff, then you make a certain amount of, like, each RVU has a value. And so it's like this, like, really complicated math thing that you will make money off of. But that...
1:57What would you calculate your bonus at? So I, because I just started, I was only there for three months. I did get the quality bonus, which was, I think, for anybody who was there for the entire year, it was going to be$15 ,000. But I was only there for four months. Oh, but it's normally going to be about$15 ,000 a year? Yeah. Ish. Yeah. I mean, obviously, then tax is 25 % of that. And that hurts. But I got a third of$15 ,000. So I got$5 ,000. And then 25 % got taken out. And then RVU metric, we are a very small hospital. So we didn't see a lot of volume this year. But there is an option of pretty much you expect like$5 ,000 to$10 ,000 maybe to come up.
2:42So maybe$15 ,000,$20 ,000 above that. And when is your visa expiring? Oh, no. Now I'm good. Now I'm good. oh no yeah um so it was a different kind of visa before it was like a it was a non it was more like a training education visa and now it's more like now it's like a work visa now it's an h1 and so um it's so as long as the company keeps endorsing it okay yeah but if you ever wanted to leave the company um i could go to if i finish three years i can go anywhere three years yeah yeah and then i can actually because of what country i'm from i'm from pakistan i can actually get my green card within three to four years.
3:22So that would just eliminate the whole visa issue. Okay, very cool. Yeah. Well, so, I mean, I know a lot of people out there are thinking, why am I not subscribed and they should just subscribe? But I also know that a lot of people are like, she's making$300 ,000 a year. She has crazy bonuses. She's doing very well. But you have a mess. I know. Like crazy. Why? why well i guess you've only been in the position for not that long so it's it's like okay yeah so now it's time to start cleaning it up yeah pretty much yes so a few things happened a um me being an idiot like there's no other way to describe it classic yeah yes i'm an idiot but um so one of my the dumbest things that i did was when i got this job uh so there was also like a sign-on bonus that was promised to me and i thought i would get it when i signed on but what i didn't realize and that was 30 000 what i didn't realize was that first they were going to split it into two for the first you were going to get when you started working so within 30 days of your start date so not really a sign-on bonus and the other half you were going to get a year after you you started working so more like a retention and i didn't read the fine print because even though i had a lawyer but like he okay so you got half 15 000 yeah but taxes but but no no but when i started working it couldn't be so while i was waiting for my visa i what was the what was the distance between that time three months okay so no income um and so but when i signed my job it was in september of 2021 because the visa process takes forever and you have to like so it took me a year to get my visa um i was like oh i'm gonna be i'm gonna be a baller now i can like live my best life i should start buying attending stuff i should start like buying shoes and clothes and just be fancy why what was that mindset where that come from because i was like i'm gonna be a baller it's great because like i will say so i think um it was very dumb i'm not even gonna yeah i'm not even gonna i'm not even gonna play that game but i feel like um with covid and all that i think a lot of us like i was in the first surge and took care of people in chicago and like a lot of like really awful things happened and so i was in this ridiculous mindset like you know what you could die in five minutes because i saw like very young people and very why do anything if we could die in five minutes i know but you know so that was like my whole that was that was 2021 alina this is my dream alina we've like grown up now we're 31 and we're mature so so a year of like ridiculous spending and then then i realized i wouldn't say a year i would say six or eight months but then i realized that this transition is also very expensive i had to pay for my license my medical license it's like four thousand okay um i had to pay for um a couple other things i to pay for my like DEA license that is about a thousand and then I had to pay for my boards which was twenty five hundred and then I had to pay for another the Massachusetts like DEA situation was just like an MCSR which was like six hundred and then I also there are a bunch of things that I ended up had to pay for licenses we're talking like five percent of your income no but this was before.
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7:26Any of this happened. How long have you been working now? Now it's been six months. Why do you have debt? Because, you know, because it was a lot of debt. I actually have cleared out some of my debts already. But, yeah, I don't know. What's your take home on a monthly basis? So post-tax and post-retirement, it is... A 401k contribution? Yeah. It is$13 ,800. And then one of the reasons that I had like a lot of loans was because three months of living in Connecticut at my current place I'm living at without any income was$15 ,000 out of my pocket, which I did not have. So credit cards and loans and.
8:11Seems like a lot of choices, though. I know. This is just you choosing. Yeah. To get. I didn't. I mean, come on. I didn't. The weight. Yeah. Yeah, you can't control that, but you can control what you do in between it in terms of where your money's going. Yeah, but I had to, like, pay rent. I actually lived very leanly those three months, but, I mean. How much debt did you go into in those three months? Those three months, I would say$15 ,000. F*** you, lean. That's not lean. It was my rent. That's not lean, though. My rent for a month is$3 ,500. It's not overly expensive, but it's not lean. My rent was$3 ,500.
8:50Yeah, that's not lean. Because that's the place I was going to live in. I don't care. Live in a cheaper place. But then I would have to move again. Oh, cry. What? So the problem was I was supposed to start working. I'm trying to justify all this bullshit. No, we're not doing that life. We're not doing the justified bullshit life. Why do I not have your checking account? No, I did. I sent it to you. No. I did. 25%. Live your income. So technically fine. wouldn't go baller, as you said, on your rent right now when you're trying to get out of the disgusting debt that we haven't even touched yet. Do you want me to send you my checking out information now?
9:35Okay. All righty. Let's take a look. Okay.
9:41Yeah, this is incredible. But then, well, it's incredible the amount of money that comes in, but you start with a dollar. Yeah. I mean, I'm also trying to aggressively pay down the debt. And so, because there was one debt that's no longer there. It was like one loan that I paid out$1 ,500 and then I closed it last month. Because there were three upstart personal loans. I'm trying to aggressively pay off debt. Venmo's out$250. Goes to Starbucks. Goes to Jam City. does this, goes to Starbucks, has a subscription to Washington Post. I don't care. Hulu. Wenmo was my dog trainer because I have a little dog who's anxious.
10:31Okay, but when we're trying to get out of debt, maybe not the best time. Well, you know, the dog's anxious. I'm sure. Probably anxious from all the debt. Juggernaut. Yeah, just gotta support brown journalism, you know? Yeah. How about support you not having an endless amount of debt? Do you take this seriously at all? Yeah. It's just I find humor the best defense mechanism. Are you sure? Because I think you might find Starbucks to be the best defense mechanism in your life. Hey, Starbucks is, you know, I need my morning. Yeah, you need to not have debt. And also brew coffee. I make better espresso than they do out there for much cheaper.
11:14So I actually usually get... DoorDash. Josh, Wolfgang Bakery. That's the groomers for my dog. Again, trying to get out of debt. He's a poodle. I can't, like. Good for him. He needs the grooming. Yeah, use a$5 pair of scissors. Starbucks. Starbucks. Dude, this is endlessly going. And Uber Eats won't stop. I think, to be honest, I don't think Uber Eats that much anymore. I think maybe, like, once or twice a week. Not really. It was a few times a week. But then also Ubering and Ubering and doing a photo booth thing and Ubering and Ubering and Ubering and Ubering and Ubering and Ubering. Oh, guess what?
11:58We're Ubering. That was when I was in New York for my birthday. Yeah? Otherwise I drive. Good. Yeah, because birthdays, you know, they really care about your debt. Yeah. Starbucks, Starbucks. Pandora. Pandora. Who has Pandora? I do. Because I'm old. But who has Pandora? Well, I don't know. I just never got into, what's the one that everyone? Hotels, hotels. Klarna, great. What's Klarna? I don't have Klarna in here. Oh, I finished it. What do you have finance? What did you have finance? It was a very old purchase. I think it was like shoes, like a year old or something. It's closed. I don't have any Klarna's anymore.
12:44I still have in a firm. I had a Peloton, but I sold it. Venmoing out$880. Yeah, that was paying back a friend who loaned me money when I was poor. I'm glad you paid them back. Yeah. More dog stuff. Yep, there's your Peloton membership. Canceled because you sold it? Mm-hmm. Good. Yeah, I sold it last week. Amazon Venmoing out$300. We're Venmoing out so much money. PayPal something$417. The PayPal Jam City, Jam City Dude, this doesn't stop And this is just a single month And this is like so many freaking pages Mm-hmm Yeah Poor dog crap And I love my dog so much Yet you are trying to get out of a bad situation You're going to all these like extra luxuries That are not 100 % needed Well, his costs now have gone on Because I got him in December Starbucks, Venmo, not$250 Trainer anyway so um now a hundred dollars in the at uh atm who knows where that went um so i was doing like the cash thing like the cash envelope thing just like only spend a hundred dollars a week good dog spot that's a daycare doggy daycare stop because where is he gonna go when i'm working nine hours a day home where like everyone else's dogs are but he's gonna he's gonna poop everywhere then.
14:08Why? Train him. So I got him last week of December. He's a puppy. Three months? My dog pooped inside twice maybe when I first got him? Train him. Google some things. Venmoing out. Venmoing out. Venmoing out. Going to a spa. Yeah, that's what you need when you're trying to go on a day. I'm taking this really serious right now. I've matured going into all these things. Starbucks. Starbucks. Why will this not stop? This just keeps going. More doggy daycare. Why will this not stop? More Starbucks. He no longer goes to daycare. More subscriptions. He no longer goes to daycare. This episode is brought to you by NBA on Prime.
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15:32yeah that's uh are you really doing everything possible to get out of debt because you're spending so much of your 13 800 that comes in on a monthly basis yeah that is i wouldn't i would say that i'm trying to pay off the debt but i'm and i'm not i'm not incurring anymore i only like i only spend on my checking account i don't like use my credit cards anymore good have you chopped them up uh clearly not a credit card person they're not they're they're not i don't have them they're like sitting at home somewhere like even right now i don't have them on me do you have a savings account i do how much is in it there's i have two i i have an ally bank account that i just opened um but i'm worried that ally might fold as well there's like 150 in that because i just opened it it's fdic insured i know but i highly doubt you have more than 250 000 in any of these banks no i don't you don't have anything to worry about yeah well true it's just how much you have in savings uh 300 dollars okay but i have retirement and that is we're not pulling from that so it doesn't matter i had to when i was when i was unemployed how much i pulled 7 000 so we talked about the 15 000 you went into debt so really you spent 21 000 to live in three months yeah yeah plus you did not go lean don't throw the word lean around here some people live off of thirty thousand dollars a year lean yeah yeah but i also had to pay for all the other things that they would that from all my licensing and stuff and then yeah but we already talked about that and yeah a lot of my money ends up going in interest though oh a lot of your money ends up going to all the starbucks and doggy daycare and a rent that you shouldn't have got because it was stupid and a rent you still shouldn't have because it's 25 % of your large income where most of that should be going to pay it off this debt.
17:33Yeah, I agree. What are you doing here? Because you're trying to justify every single thing in the world. What are you even here for? So I actually, I feel like... Talking to the mic. Okay. I feel like I need a better roadmap of what to do. Thank you. um i have gotten i actually have gotten better um i know that's hey look at my credit card i went from like 530 to 570 in like a month yay but i know you're getting better it's still though from what we just looked at yes getting better like at what point is that actually a good thing like you're the progress i don't know where it was before this but it's still it only matters if you're actually in a good place yeah no i agree i i guess it's being an alcoholic can go from a bottle of liquor a day to a half a bottle of liquor a day wouldn't call that half a bottle great that's true um so i guess for me um the fact that i'm not incurring any more debts is that is a progress and that's good and then i just i just didn't so i'll be honest I didn't really understand so I always thought oh yeah if I want to pay off my credit card it's fine I can keep using it but I have to keep paying it off but I just didn't it didn't compute that that's a stupid way to get out of debt and so a lot of my like my chase card like my interest is like four hundred dollars like it's insane and so it took me a while so like really when I when I was like okay I need to like get serious I'm 31 um then I realized I have to like stop using all my credit cards which I did um and then I also realized that it doesn't matter I started doing the math how much I'm pulling from saving from retirement if I if I'm losing so much like the math isn't mathing with all the debts that I'm like incurring with all the interest and so I decided to like I still contribute but like less than I used to um and so I've slowed that down as well because I just didn't I guess I had no idea.
19:38What's your 401k contribution percentage? It used to be What is it? Right now it's 1.5%. How much is matched? It's a percentage of how long you've been working there. Right now they're matching 25%. 25 % of contributions for you? Yeah. Whatever I'm contributing they'll match 25 % of my contributions. If I contribute like a thousand they'll contribute$250 ,000. Up into how much? Up until I think$6 ,000, something like that. They'll contribute$6 ,000 or up until the$6 ,000 you put in? I think they will contribute up to, no, actually my$6 ,000. But if you work there for like five years or so, they'll do a 100 % match, but I've only been there like six months, so I've added 25%.
20:33so that's why I didn't stop the contribution because I'm getting free money from them depends what your interest rates are usually 401k match is like do it because it's 100 % return on your money because it's 100 % match but if it's only 25 % match we'll see what the interest rates are might not even be worth it in that situation oh yeah the credit card interest rates are horrible the loans aren't that bad but the credit cards are awful let's take a look so the first card We have a balance of, and this is your prime card. I can't believe you accrued this on an Amazon prime card. $5 ,802.35. Minimum monthly payment, $2 ,7812 as of right now.
21:20Yeah,$122 of interest charged this month. Let's just keep adding up your interest as well. Crazy. Yeah, the interest is a lot. It's the Outer Chase one that's super painful. You said you stopped purchasing on cards. When did you stop purchasing on cards? So there's some that are on, like, I have some auto deliveries, but I pay them off right away. Like, if it's like$20. What are the auto deliveries? Like toothpaste and stuff. I just get them in bulk. They're cheaper from Amazon. But auto deliveries, I'm seeing. And Prime Video is not an auto delivery. Yeah, that was a subscription that I didn't see.
22:007, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. So you have 13 things on auto delivery? Yeah. Trash bags, tea, iced tea. Okay, cut that. Okay. You don't need it. I will cut it. I doubt there's 13 things that you need. I actually have cut it. Toothpaste? Yeah, get it. Garbage bags? Yeah, get it. Dog food. Okay. And then poop bags. So I have cut a bunch of them though Cut all of them that you don't need And I don't even know what they are I will cut most of them Yeah the primary deal was my brother when he was there He made a count And I didn't realize And I've cut it now because I don't really Do primary deal At a 26.74 % interest So again the 401k match makes no sense At this point because it is not Beating that Yeah Now we have a Chase Sapphire.
22:56This one is really awful. Yeah, it is awful. This one hurts me. $9 ,675.89 with a minimum monthly payment of$413.33 on a monthly basis. Death, you're losing on a monthly basis$222.75 in interest. and there were fees charged of$9.11 this month. What was that for? That was a plan fee. A what? If you make a bigger purchase and they will do like a... Two are from DoorDash plan fees. That was from December. That's from December. No, it's not! Yeah, the plan... February 12th! Yeah. No, the plan fee is from recent, but the actual purchase, because I'm still paying it off. Something from DoorDash? Yeah, because it was like a big amount.
23:55Cancel it. Okay. I don't care. It's DoorDash. You don't need it. And we're looking from the last little bit. Cafeteria purchase at where you work. Pack a lunch. DoorDash. Barnes & Noble. DoorDash. dude some paw place in Amazon you are not making purchases on a card where you're losing$222 on a monthly basis right does this make sense yeah yep yep yep
24:36the reason oh my gosh they're 27.49 % interest rate so again it doesn't make sense the only reason usually I don't get angry at people. I get angry at the debt, but I'm a little angry at you because you're just justify, justify, justify, justify. Here's the story. Here's ten stories. Yeah. So... No, I mean, I agree. Oh, here's another story. It's like a dumb... It's a dumb situation. No, there's no story. This is a real good story about Bronx and his dad, Ryan, real United Airlines customers. We were returning home and one of the flight attendants asked Bronx if he wanted to see the flight deck and meet Captain Andrew.
25:09I got to sit in the driver's seat. I grew up in an aviation family and seeing Bronx kind of reminded me of myself when i was that age that's andrew a real united pilot these small interactions can shape a kid's future it felt like i was the captain allowing my son to see the flight deck will stick with us forever that's how good leads the way okay there's that story so we also have paypal credit yeah this is the one that i'm focusing on with the snowball method um it is so that's the method you're doing yeah i was i was thinking so i wasn't sure if i would i should do avalanche or snowball because i have um such high interest debt all right well we'll we'll assess we'll assess so we'll assess yeah but i basically we will assess based on that i'm paying this off right now okay minimum monthly payment 115 dollars yeah because your minimum monthly payments are stacking up aren't they uh interest charge luckily this one's nicer than the other because the balance is lower, of$10.18.
26:12Yeah, and I'm about... This one's... This statement's a little old. $36 of purchases! Stop! Can I see that? It's an Uber. Oh, that was probably by an accident because sometimes my PayPal will automatically go, but I don't really... I never use my PayPal credit card anymore. And UCA something. USA something. US. Gas maybe? Yeah, possibly. Because sometimes it'll automatically go to the credit. And then I have to reach. And this one's at 28 % interest. Stop making purchases. Car. Debt. Yes. It's a lease. A lease term. Three years. What's the lease amount? 718. No, that's your monthly payment. What's the payoff?
27:10$20 ,000 approximately. Jeff, payoff of a lease? Is your payoff to get out of the lease? I think so. I mean, that's what I have to pay within the next few years. What is this car, possibly? It's a Toyota RAV4 hybrid. Is that a nice car? Not really what the new ones are. Yeah, it's 2022. I mean, I had trouble credit when I got it, so I got it last year. I got a lease because I'm not a car person at all, and I don't know anything about cars, and I don't know anybody here. I don't know anything about cars, but I know for a Toyota whatever,$20 ,000 to pay over the course of just a couple years with a$718 minimum monthly payment on here.
27:59Yeah, it was not the best deal. It was not the best deal. But I needed an SUV because I live in a snow area. You don't need an SUV. I lived. Like I needed like an old. No, no, no. I lived in like the fifth snowiest college in the United States. And I had a sedan the entire time. You get snow tires, you're fine. And it was two wheel drive. And I delivered Jimmy John's. Justification, justification, justification, justification, justification. So I lived in a very warm climate. I've never driven in snow before. So it was scary. You learn. It was scary. Oh, it's very spooky. But you learn. Yeah. I actually.
28:33there was the nor 'easter i drove last week and my car slipped twice and i was like that's it i'm gonna die but you're driving very safely okay might need to take a driver's class if you're out there not being able to drive that should not be the fault of the rest of us who are driving around you i was driving i mean the car slipped but i was you have student loans no uh very little basically the three thousand dollars amount but they are not you cannot access them because they're from a different country um i don't have like a statement from them like and they're in my dad's name so it's like not even under your name no it's my dad's name because that's are you paying are you going to pay though so my dad paid off half of them i'm gonna pay off the rest of them but the interest is like two percent so three three thousand is what you're gonna pay yeah i just want to make sure i put it in your thing yeah and but the interest is two percent good to Yeah, so it's like every now and then I'll throw in like$200 in that because it's not even$3 ,000.
29:31It's actually in Pakistani rupees. And because our currency is doing really poorly, the number actually keeps going down. So the debt that we've gone through is the debt that you have. Yeah, that is not really real debt. It's just like, ugh. Not really real debt. Yeah, I mean, it is real debt. It's like 2%.
29:51Do you know the interest for the car that was locked in? I have no idea. The lease, I really would not know. It's raining 26. Yeah, it's going to be something really awful. But then I also have the Upstart loans, because they are those I have on my phone. I can get from Credit Karma, because I didn't know how to pull the statements from them. I had three, but now I have two, because I paid off the oldest one. So this was the one. This was the$10 ,000 loan. I paid it off February 2023. You paid this off? Yeah, just now. And then it was$10 ,000. And then I have this other one that is$7 ,000 that I'm a third paid off.
30:48The minimum payment is like$100. So$7 ,000 is left on it? No,$7 ,000 was total. Now it's 4 ,700 is left on it. What's the interest? It is. It's actually 7%. Okay. Minimum monthly payment? It's 130. So after I'm done with the PayPal. What is the interest that is accrued on a monthly basis? Already accrued. Is accruing like on a monthly basis right now?
31:157%. I mean like in terms of number?
31:21Yeah, it's 7%. and it says per month it's like$11.85. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. So this is actually not the worst one. You're paying. You're losing on a monthly basis. And I don't even know the car. I mean, the car is probably even worse with the deal that you're in. But just the other debts you have outside of your car and outside of the student, which is low anyway, but$367 in interest on a monthly basis you are currently losing, which on your income should not be the case. Makes no sense. There's another loan. What is it? It's another, I said upstart. There's another one. It's another upstart?
32:01Yeah. What's this for? So this was all of like basically the amounts that I didn't have any cash for. I also had to pay for moving and so it was just a lot of expenses that came out of a fellow salary. I used to make$3 ,600 a month and so that was rough paying for everything. You made over you made$13 ,000 over 48 % of Americans and you were complaining that it wasn't enough so you just went into all this debt. No$3 ,600 when I was still in fellowship as of June. I made$3 ,600 a month until June 2022. Okay. So now yeah this is the last. This is the other one. How much is left? This is a lot. This is$19 ,000.
32:48$19 ,000? Uh-huh. Death. Yeah. Minimum monthly payment? This is$450 ,000. Yikes, yikes. Yeah, so a lot of my - Interest rate? $24 ,000. Oh! $24 ,000. $24 ,000. Yes. Okay, this is it. That's it. No more? No more sneaky little hidden debt? I don't think so. Minimum monthly payments that you have, And if you were at the income you're at before, it would just be insanity. I would be like. $2 ,104.09 on a monthly basis. Yeah. Crazy amount of money. And none of that's going to anything productive. It's just things you've already done. Yeah. It's the stupidity of 2021. 16 % of your post tax. Yeah. Okay.
33:38Yeah, no, it hurts. Trust me. It hurts my soul when I think about it. does it really because you're going to starbucks and all this instead of going full priority to get out of it how much is it really hurting yeah no that's also true i just i try justified by saying that okay yeah i try to justify everything yeah that i'm saving money in the morning um the more patients i see the more money you're not saving money in the morning make espresso at home I'm saving time in the morning And time is money Coffee? Keurig? Yeah Get the cheapest$75 Keurig thing that's on a Walmart shelf Yeah, actually someone gave me a Nespresso So I will make Nespresso I actually got a bunch of Creamers and things recently Because I was like, maybe I should start making more coffee at home I haven't made them yet It's in the fridge.
34:36Okay. Okay. Okay. What's your utilities on a monthly basis? So my electric is$200. It's Connecticut. It's super expensive. Internet is like$70. Gas is around$60. Water is like$20. Phone bill? Oh, it's like$40. I have like a super cheap plan. But I also have to pay for my brother's phone. He's in college. How much? $70. Yeah, my...
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35:35from higher TV bills. Paid for by Keep It Local Media. You have to. Because my parents said that I have to. F*** your parents. I don't care. Are you not 31? Are you not an adult that exists in this world? Yo, I get like really emotional phone calls from my dad and then I'm like okay. Okay, so that's manipulation. Tell him to f*** off. Yeah. They also want me to pay his rent. I told them I wouldn't pay his entire rent. I would pay a portion of it. Health insurance was taken before? Yeah, and it's like very low. What about your renters insurance, car insurance? Car insurance is high because I wasn't driving for a long time.
36:13I started driving a couple years ago. It's like, I would say$200 a month. Renter's probably like$20, right? Yeah, like$15,$20. And I already paid off the policy for six months. Oh, okay. Then we'll just do the$200. Yeah, I'm not paying for renters right now. And the car is also paid off until April, last month of April, because I do the chunks. Last month of April? Yeah. Then I have to redo the... Last week of April? Yes, sorry. Last week of April. Okay. Yeah, because I do the six months, like, chunks. Can you give you groceries? I'm going to give you groceries. I'm going to give you groceries of$300.
36:56Okay. I'm going to give you toilet paper money as in anything else you need to just, you know, operate the household of 100. I will give you dog money of only$150. No more of this bullshit that you're constantly doing. That's food and, you know, whatever. That's food, essentially. Food. Oh, my gas. Gas is 40 a week because I drive 20 miles one way to work. So 40 miles a day. Okay, so. I average that out to about$173 on a monthly basis. Anything else that's required on a monthly basis?
37:38I don't think so. Not really. I mean, every now and then there will be, like, bed bills for the dog because, like I said, I just got him, and he needs to get neutered next month, so that's going to be an expense coming up. You couldn't? I mean, I want everyone to have a dog because I love dogs. I love my dog so much. Yeah. You're not in a place where you can afford to get a dog. Yeah. You shouldn't have, but it's done. Yeah. And it was the first few months were expensive because he had, like, the worst separation anxiety. Now he's gotten a lot better. So now he just has a dog walker come in. Congratulations.
38:15Your needs in order to survive on a monthly basis,$6 ,977 a month. This includes, like, the minimum payments? Or no. Which is 50%. That is the minimum monthly payments, which is 50%. So your needs are 50%. That is correct. So your needs categories maxed out, meaning if there is anything we're missing or anything at all that just happens, you're blown out. There's nothing else you can do. Yeah. But the good news is you have$6 ,800 left. In reality, not after your spending, but in reality. We have$6 ,800 left. Yeah. Cool. Congratulations. $6 ,500 left. PayPal's gone. And the first upstart is gone at the end of month one.
39:07Okay. Second month. Your Amazon card is gone. And you start putting a little towards the Sapphire. Okay. Then we're in the third month. All goes towards the Sapphire. It's almost paid off. We're in the fourth month. Oh, wait. Did you get my... I have another credit card. the MasterCard the Bank of America MasterCard you didn't send it I did you didn't now your minimum monthly payment on this MasterCard is going to be above your needs are going to be over it's actually not that bad what's the debt amount it is 57 but the interest rate is lower 57 what 100 okay did you think thousand yes no I'm not maybe I'm not that crazy yet but the interest on it and that is like It's lower.
39:53It's like 17%. Minimal monthly payment? 150. Okay. So, yeah, month number three. Instead of what you did with the Sapphire, you put it towards the Master, and then Master's paid off. And then with the Sapphire, you put it towards it for one and a half months, and then Sapphire is paid off. That takes us to your five and a half months in. Then we have the upstart. So I should do the snowball method I think that's best for you Then in three months From there What did we say we were five and a half By the start of month nine By the start of month nine The upstart will be gone The last one? Yeah the big one Then at this point I would just pay off your$3 ,000 To your dad get that over with And then put everything else for another three months towards just pay off this car lease.
40:55So buy it off early. Well, yeah, you pay it off early and then, yeah, just pay down the$20 ,000 and then you have it for the next two years, looks like-ish. Yeah. Then you can choose to buy it out or get another car at that point in cash. Okay. Which you can easily save up for with your income and without all these minimum monthly payments. Yeah. Your life is incredible, incredible without these minimum monthly payments. You're maxing out your 401k on a yearly basis. You have no reason not to. You're maxing out your IRA on a yearly basis so you can backdoor if you want to. It doesn't matter. Yeah, I can't do it at all with the IRA, but I figured out how to backdoor it.
41:31But I'm going to do it once I get out of debt. You max, max, max. But you have to get out of debt. It's probably going to be like a yearly process. But it only works. This only works if you stop the Starbucks. You stop the endless b****. all these Amazon subscriptions, that you have been continued justified throughout this conversation. And I, to be completely honest, because I'm a very forward person, and it would be irresponsible for me not to on the side of the table, I have zero confidence in. Zero confidence. You have not shown me in any way throughout this conversation that you're going to cut back.
41:59Yeah. Well, I have cut back because I used to eat out all the time. Every single day, I don't do that anymore. Good. as opposed to the Starbucks because it just says$25 but the amount has gone down because I used to get breakfast and now I only get a coffee because I eat at home. Okay. Well, now you're only making coffee at home and you're only eating from home and your grocery bill is maxed to$300. Okay. If you follow the plan you win. If you get your way through it, this process, these interest rates at 25-30 % are going to continue to balloon and you're going to be doing this for years and years and years and you're going to be falling behind on retirement because what's your 401k balance sitting at now it is 11 000 because i had to pull the seven okay so you're already well behind 31 years old so you need to start catching up but in order to do that we have to do this and you need to get a six month emergency fund your six month emergency fund is going to be pretty expensive yeah you're about seven thousand dollars and well actually after we get rid of the debt payments so your merge well do you have an emergency no your savings right now is three though so i would add an extra month to this process and i would quickly put seven thousand dollars into savings okay so that you can cover everything for a month in the worst worst worst case scenario yeah one of the reasons uh let's let's get your emergency fund figured out so right now it's about seven thousand dollars but after your minimum monthly payments are taken care of five thousand dollars times that by six thirty thousand dollars that's your emergency fund that's great yeah okay that's what you do after the debt payment.
43:33So now we're like, a year and a quarter, a year and a half. Yeah. So my goal, I know that it sounds like I'm not serious, but I am. My goal was to get out of debt this year, 2023. And by the end of 2024, save enough to get a down, put a down payment on a house. That's a great goal. Lots of people have goals. You have to take the action necessary to do it. Yeah. I love hearing about goals. I need to see action. I need to see you actually doing this. And I want you to do well. I want you to be a success story. There's just been something. Maybe the audience can tell me, but there's just been something about this conversation.
44:07Yeah. Where I just cannot gain the hope that I wish I had. Not the hope, the faith. But the hope is there. Yeah. Please do well. Please do well. I mean, I want to because it hurts my soul knowing that interest is just like, it's all my money evaporating. But if it's actually hurting you, your checking account would reflect that. And right now it doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I just, I guess, like, the one part of me is like, oh, you know, like, I have this high income, so it isn't really a big deal if I get coffee. Because other people in my situation are living much larger, like, they're buying Chanel bags and stuff, and I don't do that.
44:47Yeah, we don't compare ourselves to what people, what stupid people are doing. I know. So that, I think that's like a big, you know, just looking at people who are in my situation. And I'm like still trying to get out of debt because I have to support like my brother because my parents make me. And I wasn't supported as much. Well, have the conversation with them. Tell them how dire your situation is. Show them this video and show what you're doing. Your plan is to get out of this. And then say you can support the crap out of him once you are in a better foot. But right now you can barely stand.
45:20Yeah. Yeah. um and also if they're manipulating you and they can go themselves honestly yeah it's uh it's uh they're retired there's not much they can do but i mean they own their house what pisses me off about them is they own their house they own their cars uh they they actually own a plot of land that they got for my brother's education and they're like oh we're not getting a good price on it so we're not going to sell it and what and they expect me to pay for him until they sell it and it's a little annoying because like that land is like like oh we we're getting like this many thousand under what we're asking i'm like but you know you don't really need it you don't need that like it's this was supposed to be for him just don't let them manipulate you just don't let them manipulate you yeah it's i mean honestly like the phone calls like like i just got two days ago like messages from my dad like please please please please pay his rent i just paid for his ticket and it's...
46:19What's your brother doing right now? He is in college first year. Undergrad? Yeah. Okay, studying. Computer science. Where? In Saskatchewan. Does he have a job? No, I told him he has... Then f*** him, he needs to go get a job. You're not helping until he gets a job. You can support if he's working his s*** off and he's trying to do as much as he can. If he's not, then no, no support. Yeah, I told him that he has to... Some of the windmows are also for him. I told them that they had to and they were like no he's like he's not like you he needs more time to study and because I used to like work while I was well I've said it a few times and I'll say it again then go f*** himself I don't care he can help support himself and if he is actually putting in the work then you can support that's fantastic or they can support but if he's not doing the work then there's no support yeah no I agree I um yeah it's it's like it's it's a lot of times I'm like yeah and he'll learn real quick oh yeah I yeah he he's a little spoiled like he was visiting me in December and he didn't know how to cook or anything and I was like honey I'm not gonna cook for you and within a month he was cooking I'm not gonna cook you I mean I know but he would make my mom up at 3am to cook for him and then I was like I'm not doing that for you yeah he's definitely been spoiled but i can't say you necessarily haven't been as well yeah um just get your together i will yes follow budget download any budgeting app i use rocket money i used to use mint they're all good whatever i have mint fantastic um it used to be that i i will say i'll tell you why i've gotten better i used to because i used to have a lot of anxiety about my financial situation i would never look at my finances.
48:06Now I look once a day to know exactly where my money is going. And that changed, I would say, two months ago. Well, listen, it's more geared towards college students, but I think it'll help in your situation. Check out my resources. Fizz, sign up for Fizz. Debit card helps build credit score. Your credit score sucks. You want to get a mortgage eventually, so that helps. But it also helps budget. So this will help you spend on certain categories in a correct way. So use Fizz. It's good. That's why I partner with them, because it's perfect for most people on this show. Is it a secured card? to that.
48:34It's a debit card. Okay. Yeah. Any final thoughts? Uh, I know, I, I know I probably sound really entitled and spoiled. I'm not. Um, I just, this is just how I cope. Um, but I do have my goal and it's, it's been a rough few years for us. Doctors have mercy, especially infectious disease doctors. Um, but it's been, but it's, it's been a goal of mine to get out of debt. And I have, there was another debt that is not here because that I got out of in January was another like personal loan that I paid off and then I owed somebody else money that I paid off too so I've been like paying off my debts like almost every month um but the problem is now and I was trying to pay off people before I paid the cards because relationships can get messed up if yes so um I paid off those first since it has been an overall negative conversation I though I don't see what it was before I'm happy to that I'm hearing that progress has started on you spending not as good as it should have been, but I'm happy that there's been progress and I'm happy that you have started to pay off some of the debts.
49:36So progress is happening and we can celebrate that. Yeah. Just buckle down and get it together. Yes, I will. Hammer financial score is 0 out of 10. I am in pain, pain, pain, pain. We even checked my blood pressure afterwards because she's a doctor and we could check it. That's on Instagram. Check it out, which you can follow in the description below, along with the other resources. Don't forget to subscribe. Love you. Bye.
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