Different Answer
Five years ago, I was $180k in debt.
Despite 25+ years of working and climbing in corporate America, I felt completely trapped and frustrated. I had little understanding of basic financial facts and no one I trusted to turn to. The future I imagined was slipping away and I had another 11 years of payments. I figured I could never retire. Feeling like a failure, I got scared and really started searching for a different answer, a new path. I found one that turned my life around.
I was introduced to a program that seemed too good to be true. But the more I looked at the analysis results, MY own numbers, the more I saw that my own reality was looking back at me. I was living for debt, and that’s not truly living.
I got the program and started using it. Within 28 months, I eliminated that big debt and saved myself almost $50k!! It actually became fun because the closer I got to paying off the debt, the more exciting it became. It was like a fun game to see how fast I could get things paid off. It wasn’t the waterfall approach nor the snowball effect. This was looking at the big picture.
It was such a wonderful feeling that the weight of hopelessness was gone! I knew I had to share this and help more people just like me.
"About the most powerful thing you can do
to help a society and economy is get
more money in the hands of women."
Sallie Krawcheck
Co-founder of Ellevest