Jodi

One of the reasons I did not go to trial is that I did not want them to emotionally relive the experience which would have been detrimental to them. My hope and prayer is that they will heal and move forward to have beautiful lives. I am willing to submit to what the state feels would be an appropriate amount of time served to make restribution. That's an outcome.

I have my attorney. That's great.

No, I'm not going to step out of the house.

Step out of the house. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Do you have a search warrant, sir?

I can tell you what's in the house.

Do you have a search warrant?

You can't just come into my house without a search warrant.

But why are you coming into my house without a search warrant?

But that doesn't make sense. You come into my house and do what you want, and then you tell me you don't have a warrant?

But don't you have to have a warrant?

She's right over here.

She'll be 10 next week.

Mm-hmm. I have Airbnb guests over there. Probably scared them to death.

I'm a psychologist. I've watched people flip things all the time. So I get it. I sit on your side. I get it. So you guys seem nice people. I'm not trying to be difficult. This is really, if you knew all the pieces, I think you'd have a lot of empathy.

I don't know. And I'm an honest person as well. So get along great. And he just said, do not say anything.

I brought up to the fact that this is not what he did, but more or less what he didn't do. He did not provide life-saving measures for George Floyd when he knew that the guy was in pain or needed medical attention.

Hi, Mel. My name is Jodi, and I'm 56 and single in Scottsdale. As I've gotten older, I find it more and more difficult to date and have lasting relationships. Many people in their 50s are challenged with balancing a demanding career and navigating children of all ages, managing relationships with their exes, and caring for aging parents.

When I do date, most of the problems are not within the relationship itself, but managing all of the other complexities of the surrounding relationships. What suggestions do you have for navigating the challenges many of us face dating in midlife?

It's awesome.

Me too.

That's right.

We live in South Bend, Indiana.

We paid off $153,000 in three years.

We started at $162,000 and we ended at $192,000. Okay, very cool.

I'm a high school teacher. I teach history, economics, and a little course called Ramsey's Foundations in Personal Finance.

I've taught it, I think I've taught it three years, two times a year. So, yeah.

It does. It does. I think it gives the kids a better perspective on this is possible. You can really do this.

I've shared my story. Matthew often tells me I share too much with my students.

I overshare. They know everything. Yeah. So I can't wait to tell them that I did my debt-free scream.

Oh, well, yeah. Play it in class.

Very encouraging, yeah. They're super excited about this whole process. They're very excited about the fact that we're going to be debt-free. I think they're very excited about their journey into adulthood and walking the path debt-free as well. So it's been an amazing thing.

It was our mortgage. Oh, you're weird people. Yeah, we're really weird. House and everything is paid for. House and everything, yeah. What's the house worth? The house is probably worth, Matthew, what do you say?

Yeah.

Yes.

I have all juniors and seniors. Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think the idea that you can walk this path debt-free, it frees them in a way that other paths don't. When they think, well, I don't necessarily have to go to that big-name college and take out all this debt. I can find a different path, and I can find a career I love, even if that doesn't mean going to college. I think it really opens a lot of doors for them.

And the idea that maybe not college is an okay choice, that really frees them to do what they really want to do and have an amazing life debt-free.

Well done.

Yeah, well, I think so. Really, it's all Matthew's fault that we found you, Dave. And so you want to tell that part of it?

Murphy moved in fairly solidly in our house.

Yeah, it really did. So we just kind of lived in that for a couple of months. I was obviously teaching virtually. And then we thought, okay, well, you're not getting a new job right now. So how do we make this work? We've gotten really good at budgeting. Matthew is a very good budget grocery shopper. We found that out. We ate more spam than I'd like to admit during that time.

I started doing grocery delivery during the pandemic, and so we were able to pay our mortgage just with the grocery delivery that I was making. Matthew started delivering pizzas, and we found a way to never touch our emergency fund. Matthew didn't find another job in your field until about a year. Wow. So February 2021, you got a new job.

And we said, man, the only thing that stressed us during the mortgage. We're getting rid of it. Let's get it done. Let's be done with it. Wow. And so I'm the budget nerd. I'm the every dollar nerd. I'm the one that's on the budget all the time. And Matthew started playing with the- The payoff calculator.

I love it.

It's absolutely amazing. Yeah. The freedom that we have now to just do whatever we want to do is amazing.

Yes, yeah, thank you.

They do. That's why it's popular. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

I think intentionality is the key. There it is. Just being focused and working the plan.