Episode 95: When preparing to fund your kid’s college, debt is not the only way!

Do you cringe at the thought of funding your kid's college? Today's episode with Kara Walker highlights why and how this does not have to be the only way! 

Kara Walker graduated from college debt-free, and is now on a quest to help other students do the same with her podcast, "Money and Mental Peace," and her upcoming course "The Debt-Free College Blueprint"! 

She is a twenty-something Christian entrepreneur, amateur snowboarder, and recovering 

over-achiever. Kara enjoys goal-setting, budgeting, and living a debt-free lifestyle, and wants to help YOU do the same!

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Full Transcription: 

Speaker 1 (00:00): 

So besides navigating all the digital things with our kiddos, another thing that ranks way up there in  terms of stress is trying to figure out how to fund our kids' college education. Well, if you have been of  the mindset that debt and college education must go hand in hand today's episode is going to give you  some tips and tools to where that maybe may not have to be the case. Stay tuned. 

Speaker 2 (00:28): 

Welcome to your source for tips, tools, and support to help you be that mom that is tuned in and  proactive for yourself, your family, and for the wild ride of raising kids in this digital age, inspired by a  mother's love with a relatable real life. Proud to be that mom FLA. This is the be that mom movement  with your host, Dolly Denson. 

Speaker 1 (00:53): 

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Speaker 1 (01:50): 

So this recording is being done in a different location than my normal one. So please forgive me if  there's any background noise, but thank you for being here. Let me just real quick introduce Kara and  then I will bring her on and we will get started. So Kara is, uh, graduate of college where she managed to  graduate debt free and is now on a quest to help other students do the same with her podcast. Podcast  is named money and mental piece. She also has an upcoming course called the debt free college  blueprint. She's a 20 something Christian entrepreneur in amateur snowboarder and recovering  overachiever. She also enjoys goal setting, budgeting and living a debt free lifestyle and wants to help  you do the same. So I hope that you will check out the podcast in its entirety today and then check out  her podcast and her upcoming course that is being released as we speak, and definitely use all the tools  that she shares. 

Speaker 1 (02:50): 

Cuz I think this is really valuable stuff. And I will say as the parent of three kids with two of them now  through college, I definitely do it. Didn't do