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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from the headquarters of Ramsey Solutions, broadcasting from the Pods Moving and Storage Studio, it's The Ramsey Show, where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create amazing relationships. I'm Ramsey Personality, George Camel, joined by the incandescent...
jade warshaw this hour and we are so excited to take your calls at 888-825-5225 this is a show about you your life your money your struggles your success and we want to celebrate with you we want to cheer you on we want to encourage you we want to give you some hope And, Jade, I've had about 17,000 people DM me with, like, in-depth financial questions, and I go, call The Ramsey Show.
I wish I could sit here all day long and ignore my family at night and answer all these, but it's so much easier to talk to you guys. That's right. So please call in. We love the DMs, but this is the right format to get through it.
I'm so glad you brought that up because I feel so bad. It's too many to answer. It hurts my heart.
I wish I could help every single one. Me too. But I had a post go viral on TikTok last week.
Of course you did, George.
Over 10 million views. And it was a clip from this show. I took a call from a 19-year-old who wanted to make a million dollars by the time he was 26. Okay. And so now all these 19-year-olds are messaging me going, hey, I want to build wealth too. How much should I have in crypto? And I'm like, okay.
call the show we'll walk you through this so thank you for the calls 888-825-5225 i'm yoda that makes you obi-wan i don't know what's the big thing the oh what's that guy that i don't know what that was but i think what you're trying to get at was chewbacca
Wookies? Wookies?
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Chapter 2: Should I sell my van to buy a house?
I feel like I need like a normal shower and a normal bed, but I'm kind of jealous of the like, I'm 23, I live in the RV and I just travel.
If I can have like the glamping experience where it's like, you could park the camper where you want, but there's got to be like a just like a Hilton nearby where you can take a decent shot. Like there's gotta be somewhere in between.
There it is. But the RV life is great for a season, but I've found many people call in and they do it for a while and they want a semblance of normalcy and they've kind of, they did it, they got it out of the system and they're ready. And the problem is RVs go down in value.
They do. Well, his has got a pretty decent value and I love what you told him to do. Get out while the getting's good. before it drops even more.
Six months from now, that thing could be worth 32 grand.
Yeah.
Six months later, 30 grand. And so I'd rather put that towards saving up the down payment and getting into that home. Thanks for the call, man. More of those coming up at 888-825-5225. This is The Ramsey Show. Welcome back to The Ramsey Show. I'm George Camel, joined by Jade Warshaw this hour. Open phones at 888-825-5225. Well, Jade, you came up with this idea.
I cannot take credit, but you wanted to do the first tell-all on The Ramsey Show.
Jade and George tell-all.
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Chapter 3: How can I save for retirement when self-employed?
My wife, Whitney, doesn't do this right now. But seasonally, she'll subscribe to something called Nuuly. N-U-U-L-Y. Hashtag not sponsored. But it's like a clothing subscription. So you can rent like six pieces of clothing for the month and then send it back and get six new pieces of clothing for the month and then send it back.
That sounds like a great frugal hack.
It's like for the wintertime, you want a coat. For the summertime, you want a dress. You can just kind of use them seasonally and not have it take up space in your closet.
So this is kind of like rent the runway, but for an entire wardrobe.
Yes.
Wow. And what's it called again?
Nuuly. N-U-U-L-Y.
All right. You heard it first here, guys.
Again, none of the, we have no affiliation with any of these companies. We're just, we want to be specific.
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Chapter 4: What should I do about major storm damage to my house?
I'm not going to have a traditional retirement account. What are some ways I can go beyond a Roth IRA, go beyond that to invest?
Yes, exactly. That's the biggest thing right now because I got money in the bank kind of sitting and I'm about to start up with my own business and everything. So I really don't know what to do right now. I'm kind of stuck. I'm trying to figure that out now.
Well, once you get started with the business, I like what George said. For now, just that Roth IRA while you're making money at your current job or moving forward. But once you get into your business and you find that you've got that margin laying around, then what my husband... There's a couple of options. A lot of people like the SEP fund, or you might look into an individual 401k.
It really depends on... how much money you have that's disposable that you're able to put away, which is cool. We ended up with an individual 401k because you can contribute it from both the employer side and the employee side. And the limits are pretty high. I think at some, I think. You might want to double check this, but I think they're like $58,000.
You can really throw some money in there depending on the type of business you have and if it's low overhead and you've just got money. Whereas with the SEP, you're only going to be contributing to it from the employer side. So you've got some options there. I love that you're thinking ahead because so many people, when they set out with just their...
self-employed business, they kind of forgot, they forget about that part. Or it's kind of like, you know, they're head down, they're just trying to grow their business and they kind of forget, like, especially if they're the only one in it, I need to be putting away for retirement.
Yeah, that's big. And the one that came to mind for me was the solo 401k that Jade mentioned. That can be a great option for a lot of solopreneurs out there and allow them to invest even more than a traditional employee. So you have a lot of options out there. I would still connect with a financial advisor who can walk you through all of your options and give get health insurance.
This is a big one for self-employed people. They go, health insurance is expensive because I don't have it subsidized through my employer. I'm just going to skip it. Do not do that because you'll be the next guy calling in with a hundred grand of medical bills because you got hurt in your construction business and didn't have health insurance.
So look into the Solo 401k and an HSA, which is a health savings account, which actually is kind of a really cool way to invest as well. It's a really cool retirement tool when done right.
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Chapter 5: How can I get out of $80,000 in debt?
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That's right. And I have to interject because we were hosting earlier this week and a guy called in, didn't have the right coverage on his wife, got in a wreck and he owed big time. Remember that?
Yeah. I mean, not having the right insurance will cost you huge. And even if you have the right type, you might be overpaying. That's right. And so I like to shop mine every year just to see, am I still getting a good rate?
Yeah. Some of our rates went down this year, which was great.
Love it. All right. Let's get to the phones. John is in Wichita up next. John, welcome to the show.
Hey, thanks for taking my call. Sure. Um, I'm looking for some direction. I'm about $80,000 in debt and I just don't know which way to go.
What type of debt is it?
Um, various debts. I've got 20,000 in student loans, 26,000 in a car, 10,000 in a personal loan, um, 20,000 on a snap on tool truck, 3000 on Macco tool truck. And that's about it.
So I want to get into this a little bit further, but let's just get the specifics out of the way. What are you earning right now?
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Chapter 6: Should I quit my commission job if I'm not making enough?
Yeah, and he's got to just use that as fuel for the fire because you could hear it in his voice. He was like defeated, man. Like, ugh, I hate this. Yep.
All right, let's take one more from Andrew in Atlanta. Andrew, welcome to the show.
Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. Sure. What's going on with you? Well, I have been in a sales role, base plus commission, almost two years, and I have only... I've been selling every single month consistently that I've been with the company, but I've only got one commission check and I'm supposed to get it every 30 days. So in my mind, I've already made up what I want to do.
I kind of want to just hear somebody else say it and make sure I'm not making an impulsive decision or for whatever reason, a bad decision.
Well, have you spoken to your leader about this? Several times.
What do they say? So whenever I bring it up to the manager who pays it out, one of two things happens. It either gets pushed off or it gets, yeah, I'm working on it. I get answers like, yeah, I'm working on it.
There's nothing to work on, though. You close the deals, right? The money's in their accounts.
How big is this organization?
A total of 13 people. Do you think there's a lack of integrity here? No, and that's the catch. Well, not a catch, but that's the... I don't think anything illegal is going on. My family... I got this job from a family friend, basically. They're... We've known them for years. We, you know, years could go by and I find out this person's been arrested for embezzlement. I don't know.
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Chapter 7: How do I budget for monthly subscriptions?
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