By Will Boyd, DPT
The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.
In this episode of The Breaking Student Debt Podcast, Will interviews Physical Therapist and Home Health Contracting business coach, Bert De Vera, PT.
Bert shares his story of moving from the Philippines after passing his Board Exam and starting life in America as PT. After working for someone else for 6 years, he hit a wall and started to wonder if the American dream he came for meant working endless hours for someone else and not having time to spend with his family.
That wondering led him to researching different ways to leverage his knowledge and increase his financial stability. He learned about Home Heath Contracting (the details of which he explains in this episode), started his own business, and has since been able to significantly increase his income and help other rehab professionals do the same, providing them with more time with their families and improving their financial lives.
If you're interested in learning more about Bert or seeing what his Home Health Contracting business program is about, you can connect with Bert at www.rehabpreneur.com / www.bertpt.com /www.homehealthcontract.com or find him on Facebook under Bert De Vera.
Hope you enjoy this one!
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Natalie Nelson, Au.D., an new grad Audiologist who has reduced her debt by over $55,000 since finishing her graduate program. She was actually first a listener of the BSD Podcast and reached out to us on LinkedIn sharing her personal wins she has learned from listening to the show. We chat about her personal strategies for reducing her debt (and doing it FAST), the current state of student loan debt, and her new project, www.doabledebt.com
In this episode, Will and Aaron sit down and discuss the idea of delayed gratification and being smart with needs vs. wants. Is it worth the fancy object for temporary satisfaction? The guys break down their thoughts on this in the latest episode of BSD.
In this episode, Aaron and Will sit down with Nick Skye, the Co-Founder of ChangEd, an app that rounds up your digital transactions to the next dollar and puts that into an account to use to pay towards your student loan debt!
Imagine a digital piggy bank for all your loose change!
Nick joins us to break down how ChangEd is helping students across the country put massive dents into their student loan debt.
If you want to learn more about ChangEd, check them out at their website:
https://www.gochanged.com/
In this episode, Will and Aaron talk about their upcoming transitions from secure and financially stable jobs to pursue new entrepreneurial endeavors and the emotions arising about their money/debt situations.
In this episode, I sit down with my best friend, Aaron Abodeely, who shares his story of tackling $19,000 credit card debt down to $0. We dive a lot into this episode, including Aaron's reasons for confronting his rising debt, how he assessed his situation, and how created a game plan to go from in the red to in the black. Hope you enjoy this one and as always, if you find it helpful, please share this with a friend who could get something out of it!
In this episode I sat down with Josh Reif, a former medical student who graduated with his MD, but decided to make a shift to the online world before ever accepting a residency.
Why bring on Josh? Well, I constantly hear from listeners who are unsure if the field they're in (physical therapy, medicine, OT, nursing, etc.) is really the right fit for them or they didn't think it would be like it turned out to be. I thought it would be great to bring on someone who has gone through that exact feeling and even in the midst of significant student loans, had the courage to follow his gut and create the life he wanted. Moral of the story: never settle for anything in life because you think you'd disappoint what others want for you.
If you're interested in Josh and want to join his Facebook group, Digital Skills for Entrepreneurs, check it out here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitalskillsforentrepreneurs/
Or check him out at his website:
https://www.joshreif.net/home-2
As always guys, keep on climbing!
This episode features second-time guest on the podcast, Joe Reinke, the CEO of FitBUX. Joe sits down with me on this episode and gives us the 30,000 foot view of the various federal student loan repayment plans one can choose when the time comes to start making payments.
Joe covers the basics of:
1. The 10 year standard repayment plan
2. The 25 year extended repayment plan
3. The 25 year graduated plan
4. The income-based repayment plans
Check out FitBUX at www.fitbux.com to sign up for a free phone call!
Joe also breaks down some vocabulary including fixed vs. variable interest.
Hope this helps guys!
In this episode I sat down with Erin and Kevin Jones, a couple based out of Arizona, that got out of $107,000 in debt in 33 months. They run the successful blog www.debtfreehappens.com where they share their story from deep in debt to financial freedom. As a quick note, over $70,000 of their debt was rooted in student loan debt. Erin and Kevin are one of the kindest couples you will ever meet and in this episode we dive into:
It's been a few weeks and I wanted to share what it's been like staring at my first student loan bill, which was.....$1,099! :( I thought I'd break down for you guys how and why I switched my repayment plan from a 10 year standard plan to a 25 year extended fixed plan. Very cool guests coming down the pipeline!
The podcast currently has 29 episodes available.