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Money Sense: Budgets

Special Guest: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox is The Money Coach,™ personal finance expert and author.

Description: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach™, joins us to simplify budgeting and debt. Listen in for helpful tips and insider secrets to balance the money side of your life. 

Duration: 36:18

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Show Index:
00:24 Intro: Money Sense
03:17 Two Budget Rules
11:05 Budget Methods
13:15 Listener: Credit Card Balances
18:20 Your Credit Score
22:13 About The Money Coach
24:50 Listener: Getting Ahead
32:19 Closing Comments
34:28 Closing Track: 1500 Miles


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About The Money Coach™ 

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach™, is a personal finance expert and the author of The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million, Investing Success: How To Conquer 30 Costly Mistakes & Multiply Your Wealth! and the New York Times bestseller Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom. A sequel to Zero Debt, called Zero Debt for College Grads: From Student Loans to Financial Freedom, debuted in 2007 from Kaplan Publishing. Lynnette's latest book is called Your First Home: The Smart Way to Get It and Keep It.

As an award-winning financial news journalist, Lynnette worked for nearly a decade as a Dow Jones Newswires reporter and a Wall Street Journal reporter for CNBC. At CNBC, Lynnette filed weekly television segments on personal finances, investing and small business, and conducted online chat sessions on CNBC.com.

Lynnette has interviewed thousands of financial experts, and personally paid off more than $100,000 in credit card debt and nearly $40,000 in student loans before turning her financial life around. Now she shares the secrets to wealth with audiences nationwide, using insights based not just on her professional knowledge, but also on first-hand experience.

A popular keynote speaker, Lynnette also conducts workshops about credit and debt, money management, real estate, investing and entrepreneurship. Lynnette is a frequent guest on national TV and radio programs, and has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Redbook, Essence, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, The Tyra Banks Show, The Rachael Ray Show, Tavis Smiley, as well as the Emmy award-winning reality program “Starting Over.”

When she’s not chasing after her three young kids, Lynnette is developing two PBS pledge specials, based around her books Zero Debt and The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million. She is also presently a Money Coach for AOL, where she dispenses her unique brand of personal finance wisdom.

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About the Book

Would you like to be free from financial worries, rest at night knowing your bills are paid, and have peace of mind when it comes to money matters? Then you need Zero Debt - a 30-day action plan to fix your finances.

In Zero Debt, you'll discover:

• How to get annoying creditors off your back
• Insider secrets to reduce interest rates or eliminate credit card late fees
• Your legal rights – and what bill collectors can and can not do under the law
• The best strategies to clean up your credit report or fix errors in your credit file
• How to make lifestyle changes that will save you money for decades to come!

If you want to be debt-free and achieve financial freedom, you need an action plan to guide you. This book is your step-by-step plan. It’s simple. It’s easy to understand. And it works.

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As Discussed on the Show

• My Fico

• Millionaire Kids Club

• Annual Credit Report

• National Foundation for Debt Management

• IDAnetwork.org
(Individual Development Account)

Money Coach Videos Answer Money Questions

How can I responsibly and effectively use credit cards?

How is my FICO credit score determined?

What are the biggest myths about bad credit?

What are the first steps towards achieving financial freedom?

How can I budget more effectively?

What kind of insurance do I really need?

How to Negotiate with Creditors

Plus many more . . .

Additional Resources
Lynnette Kalfani-Cox co-authored The Millionaire Kid$ Club Series.



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