Ramit Sethi confronts Stephanie about her finances: without income, she'd survive less than a week despite having three children. She reacts with fear and guilt. Sethi argues that facing uncomfortable truths, however painful, is the only path to real change.
If you stopped earning money, you would last less than a week. That's it. Game over. And you have three kids. Hold on. Stephanie, what's going on?
Feel guilty? Feel stupid? They just. They deserve better. It's scary. I'm scared.
That is scary. I've always thought we should shine a light on the stuff that we tend to avoid. I'd rather know. It is scary. It doesn't feel good. Sometimes it feels horrible. Sometimes we cry. But ignoring it's not going to make it better. It hasn't worked, has it? No. So sometimes we got to walk straight through the fire.
