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All right, so today's question, 
can I actually pay off debt if I

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struggle with ADHD? 
Yes, absolutely. 

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Yes, absolutely you can, and I'm
here to show you how, for one. 

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But also, I've been there myself
for myself. 

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I was undiagnosed and I was on 
the struggle bus. 

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So First off, let's talk about 
why it's so hard and why we why 

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we feel like it's so hard. 
So I just want to clear this U 

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right now. 
You absolutely can pay off your 

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debt with ADHD, but not with the
boring old some not the boring 

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old systems that your brain just
wants to quit and run from. 

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OK, because our brains want to 
protect us. 

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We are in like protection mode 
and have, you know, maybe we've 

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started and we've stopped things
before. 

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So then we've kind of got this 
broken trust thing. 

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So we got, we got a little bit 
of work to do when it comes to 

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getting to the mental space 
where we can say, yes, we're 

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going to do this. 
And this is one of the things 

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that I absolutely love working 
with my clients on is getting 

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through some of these roadblocks
because sometimes we can feel 

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like it is such a big monster 
and it is such a big elephant. 

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So you know that, you know, you 
can eat an elephant one bite at 

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a time, but we're like thinking 
about the whole elephant. 

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And when, when my husband and I 
were going through our $107,000 

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elephant, I didn't realize we 
had that much. 

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So I hadn't truly added it all 
up until afterwards. 

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But I, it was like, this is a 
lot and our brains aren't the 

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thing that is holding us back. 
It's our plan just wasn't set up

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for our for us and for our 
brains. 

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And so that's what I love 
teaching. 

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And so stick around today 
because this episode is going to

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help you. 
If you have ever felt super 

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discouraged and you're like, I 
am just going to sit here in my 

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debt and I'm good. 
This is forever how life is 

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going to be. 
So it absolutely doesn't have to

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be that way. 
So to kick things off, I want to

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OK, So what are some ways that 
are going to help you if ADHD 

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and your debt feel like they're 
getting in the way? 

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So one of the things that was 
really helpful for for our 

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family is we did these little, 
little sprints. 

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And the thing that's really cool
about these sprints is it's 

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going to give you motivation to 
start. 

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And it has, it has a deadline, 
but it also gives you some quick

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wins because we don't want to 
wait around. 

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We're like, oh, you know what, 
we've got this $1000, this $1000

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debt to take care of, but you 
know, it's going to take us a 

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little bit. 
No, let's break it down into 

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smaller amounts and say, hey, 
we're going to make a $200 

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payment towards our debt this 
month. 

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So we're going to break that 
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Maybe it's in like a two week 
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And so you get to work on that 
and you tackle that. 

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And that's where those wins come
from is those, those little wins

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like that where you freeze free 
up some money and you're like, 

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hey, you know what, I'm going to
put that towards that. 

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So then instead of taking 
taking, you know, a couple of 

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months to pay off a debt, you're
going to be able to pay that off

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in two weeks because you have 
broke it down into smaller 

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pieces. 
And that's one of the things 

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that we do inside the membership
as well, is that we take these 

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big pieces, these big, big tasks
and we break them down into 

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smaller bite size action plans 
so that you don't feel 

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overwhelmed. 
You also get that, that 

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dopamine, that encouragement, 
that quick win that our brains 

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are looking for that's going to 
allow us to continue that 

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momentum. 
And then we start to see that 

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visual progress too of that 
number going down because we're 

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tracking that. 
We're looking at that and that 

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number is getting smaller. 
And then that becomes the thing 

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that we're focusing on is what 
can we do to get that number a 

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lower and lower. 
And so one of the things that 

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we're doing inside the Debt 
Rebel community right now is we 

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are doing a summer savings 
challenge. 

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And This is Money that we're 
going to look through our 

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budgets together. 
We're going to look through our 

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spending. 
It's all done by e-mail and 

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takes about 10 minutes and 10 
minutes a day. 

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So you can jump on my website, 
debtrebelpodcast.com and get 

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signed up there. 
And I'm going to send you an 

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e-mail and it's just going to be
a quick task that you can do to 

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help you free up some money. 
The ultimate goal is to make 

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sure that you have that money 
for an emergency fund. 

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If you don't have that set up at
small emergency fund. 

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And if you do have that small 
emergency fund set up, then you 

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can use it to tackle your debt. 
So because as summer comes, 

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other things start to come up 
and all these extra expenses 

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with our kids start popping up. 
And so if we have this emergency

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fund in place, it's going to 
also allow us to stay focused on

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our goal of eliminating that 
debt, giving us some breathing 

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room and not allowing us to jump
to that credit card when the 

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life happens. 
So what do, what do you do 

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inside of all of this? 
So we, you know, we talked about

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making a smaller, picking a 
smaller debt and then just 

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really attacking that. 
And so that's one of the things 

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that we're going to do inside 
this challenge is take that 

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dollar amount that you want to 
save up. 

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And then we're the everyday 
steps are going to your that you

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know, the 10 minute steps are 
going to help you. 

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So the big thing is, is this is 
also going to help you build 

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some trust with yourself. 
Again, your brains going to 

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start going, wait a second, I 
can do this. 

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And you're going to see that 
progress is going to start 

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building and building and 
building. 

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And then they'll be no stopping 
you. 

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I'm super excited to go on this 
journey with you. 

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So jump on my website, 
debtrebelpodcast.com and you can

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find some information there too.
If you're just like, you know 

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what, I want to skip the 
challenge and I want to go 

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straight to the membership, 
we're going to be doing it 

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inside the membership as well. 
Go get some extra bonuses and 

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extra support inside the 
membership if you decide to do 

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it that way to go jump on my 
website, check it out and we 

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will see you inside the next 
episode. 

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Thank you for tuning into the 
Debt Rebel show today. 

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Ready to take your family 
budgeting to the next level? 

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grind and start living debt 

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