A short transcript excerpt from a podcast episode where Ramit Sethi moderates a conversation between Wendy and John about heavy household debt. Wendy expresses worry about the financial burden and prioritizing paying it down, while Ramit expresses a desire to prevent her worrying.
John wants a second kid. He's thinking about it and I'm just like, no, we have to pay this off. We need to make this manageable. I feel like it's a huge weight that we're both carrying.
I don't want her to worry about it. At the core of it, I don't want her to worry about it.
But I am worried.
You are worried. It just confirms for me that she is so loving, she's intensely loyal, and she's willing to do whatever it takes. John and Wendy have around $600,000 in debt. 450,000 of that is John's debt. But he's not really worried about it. He has a plan. Wendy, on the other hand, feels anxious. In fact, she assumed their debt was going down. But right before they got on the call with me, they looked at the number together and she was shocked that the debt hasn't actually gone down. It's gotten bigger.
