The Prosperity Gap Podcast

This journey is so much more than just getting out of debt. This is Deanna Broaddus and her journey of recovering from addiction of alcohol/drugs at rock bottom all the way to the top. Along her twisty path of discovery she lost her house to foreclosure, made poor relationship choices, and racked up a lot of debt. Once she turned to faith she found healing in self discovery, a new tribe, and developed new financial habits that lead her to paying off $47,763 in debt. 

Deanna is now investing towards her retirement, she lives debt free and teaches women with recovery and finances. 

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Clarissa Moore the Budget Queen joins the show to talk about budgets, credit scores, side hustles and so much more in the financial space. She loves everything personal finance and shares her insights with us on how she works with her clients to get them on a budget that works.

Clarissa breaks down her 10 year college journey, she talks about ways to improve your finances, using credit cards wisely, smart budgeting, saving goals, and we focus more on managing your credit scores. 

"Passion comes first, check comes second" - Clarissa Moore

"If you understand what money comes into your house and what money goes out, you will better understand your credit score." - Clarissa Moore

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Are you ready to learn about some of the best Side Hustles that bring Kevin in cash every month? Kevin Ha is an attorney and the blogger behind Financial Panther. His journey is about paying off $87,000 in debt in 2.5 years and how he continues to live a baseline lifestyle that brings him joy and why he chose to not live as a big shot lawyer. 

Kevin is passionate about earning money using the sharing economy and you can see all the ways he makes extra income every month in his side hustle reports.

Check out this podcast and see if you get inspired like we did. 

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Dillon Hurt from Dixie Technical College in Southern Utah joined the Podcast to talk all about tech schools vs traditional college. And why they turn blue collar jobs into gold collar jobs.

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Kat Kahanic a freelance writer and graphic designer joined us to discuss family and finances. The thing I love about our guest Kat, is how she described getting into financial literacy. She said that there was not a silver bullet, or this one moment that came to her, but it was more of an evolution. She said it was really, "a gradual awakening" that put her on the financial path to tell her story. She does also credit the fact that FinCon was also a huge boost for her to help get her story out.

When talking about finances we really have to be on the same page with our spouse. And in every relationship we usually have a saver and a spender. I am definitely the spender in my family. But we really balance each other out in the end and when we get on the same page that is where the fireworks happen. That leads to better communication in our finances and over all in our marriage and we become a force to be reckon with and debt becomes eliminated. 

If you are still in this horrible cycle of trying to get out of debt and your budget is not working, you are watching what you spend, but your spouse blows your savings, then you are not on the same page and you need this podcast in your life. Not only does Kat talk about her journey to paying off debt, but she discusses her weekly budget meeting with her husband and how those meetings always didn't go so well. 

Let's face it. We are all trying to get out of debt and become financially free. That means saving money for retirement, vacations, and things that sound exciting and really give us comfort knowing we have money and we are not living paycheck to paycheck. But sometimes we end up with setbacks that deplete our emergency savings and then we have to rebuild. Kat talks about this in the show and how boring it is too replenish this account after you suck it dry. And she's right. None of us like to save just for an emergency but we would rather be saving for a trip to Europe, or the somewhere exciting.

To get to the point, you and I need to make sure we are working as a team with our spouses and that is the only way we will get out of debt and on to financial freedom. Learn how Kat finds success in being a team player and how her passion for frugal living is helping her reach financial independence. Track her journey also on her financial blog, familyfiproject.com.

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Curtis Olsen is an experienced Estate Planner for over 10 years and has done over a thousand estates. Curtis started in the financial planning game years ago and continues to stay close int he legal services industry.

To get started we should talk about some of the questions that will be discussed in the podcast, like is it helpful for families to actually talk about death and assigning kids to be the trustee or there's assets out there, is it wise to have discussions about it prior to passing away? Is there a process that has to do with changing the beneficiary or listing the ownership of the asset to be the trust?

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David McKnight bestselling author and speaker joins Dave Hall in episode 10 to discuss how he has helped put thousands of Americans on the road to the zero percent tax bracket. During the podcast they discuss how to protect your retirement savings from the impact of rising taxes. This is a show you don't want to miss.

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Jay Fleischman from MoneyWiseLaw.com and the StudentLoanShow.com podcast is here to educate you on student loan debt.

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When you hear the word frugal that can mean several things, but to Amanda Blankenship that means happiness. Amanda shares on this episode how to be happy and frugal. She recently got married, moved to Atlanta and is crushing her $90,000 of debt with over half already paid off. 
 
 Learn her secrets to making a frugal life work with no spend challenges each quarter, weekly budgeting meetings, and how to get your spouse on the savings train. This episode is packed with tips and you will learn that being frugal is a sacrifice, but that doesn't mean you are going to end up miserable.
 
 Get ready to be inspired.

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It's time to hear one of the most honest and open conversations about money and emotions with Byanna Dee. She is a Success Coach, Master NLP Practitioner & Clinical Hypnotherapist. She is also the host of the Shadowlight Podcast, a speaker, a writer and she can help anyone master their mindset and transform their life from the inside out.

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