AIE 133: HOW and WHY to Pay Off Debt from a Bankruptcy Lawyer
Adulting Is Easy: Making Personal Finance & Real Estate Easy
English - September 20, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week, Lauren interviews Tampa bankruptcy lawyer and host of the Crushing Debt podcast, Shawn Yesner. Obviously, this man knows about debt. And it turns out, a lot of people have debt. It's nothing to be ashamed about, and there are ways to take care of it long before you need to get to bankruptcy discussions. There are a lot of kinds of debt out there: credit cards, medical debt, student loan debt, car accident debt, government and SBA loans, IRS debt...it goes on. Shawn provides us with tangible ways to get out of debt and stay out of debt in this episode. Shawn and Lauren talked about debt consolidation, negotiating and modifying loans, hardship discharges, and much more. You'll walk away from this one motivated to pay off debt or stay out of it in the first place.
About Shawn Yesner:
He was once an associate attorney at one of the largest lender foreclosure firms in Florida. In 2004, Shawn left the plaintiff’s side of the practice to focus on helping homeowners keep their homes or get rid of their homes while incurring minimal liability. In November 2015, The Crushing Debt Podcast, which supports the lawfirm, with the message that “everything will be okay.” In 2018, Shawn’s book, Crushing Debt: 9 Strategies to Eliminate Financial Bullies was released, and in 2020 he released his second book, Become Debt Free in One Hour or Less. Shawn is a Florida native, born in Tampa and raised in Miami. He has a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Florida State University and a JD from Samford University.
Connect with Shawn:
Listen to the podcast: https://www.yesnerlaw.com/podcasts/
Subscribe to my YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@adultingiseasy