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Book · 2003 · Personal Finance

The Total Money Makeover

A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

by Dave Ramsey · Recommended by 16 people on 6 podcasts

#143 of 16,686 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts

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Go buy the book The Total Money Makeover, it will change your life. I have no problem recommending that.
Said on · ChooseFI · Jan 2017 Listen at 8:30

What they say about it

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  • Gift the book“send you a copy of the Total Money Makeover”
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  • Teaches the baby steps
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  • Bestselling financial book
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The best things said about it

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The fact that you can get The Total Money Makeover for $12 really blows my mind because that book helped my husband and I pay off $460,000, so if what you get from it is any indication of what it's worth, then all I'm saying is the book is really worth almost half a million dollars.
Jade Warshaw The Ramsey Show · Nov 2023
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I'll send you a copy of the book The Total Money Makeover, which gives you every detail of what to stop doing, start doing, and when to do it on the baby steps.
Dave Ramsey The Ramsey Show · Apr 2025
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I'm gonna send you a copy of the book, The Total Money Makeover. It's going to teach you the baby steps on steroids.
Dave Ramsey The Ramsey Show · Aug 2025
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I'm also going to give you The Total Money Makeover because I think being able to read that and read other people's stories you'll be able to see yourself in those stories.
Jade Warshaw The Ramsey Show · Feb 2025
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For people who are just wanting to get their financial houses in order, if they don't really have a good foundation, I would recommend Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover.
On the show ChooseFI · Apr 2020

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16 people who brought it up

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Why people recommend it

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey is a widely popular personal finance manual that outlines a straightforward, step-by-step framework for eliminating debt, building emergency savings, and achieving long-term wealth. The book is frequently recommended by Ramsey and his co-hosts on The Ramsey Show to callers struggling with financial distress. Dave Ramsey himself offered a copy to a caller named Eric to help him implement the foundational baby steps of debt recovery. Jade Warshaw repeatedly recommended the book across various episodes, offering copies to callers, parents, and couples to help them align their financial priorities, tackle credit card obligations, and clear car loans systematically. Isaac mentioned bringing up the guide to encourage his newlywed wife to read it as part of their shared journey toward financial alignment. Additionally, Brian Buffini noted on the show that he advises real estate agents to purchase copies of Ramsey's book for all first-time homebuyers to ensure they start their homeownership journey on stable financial ground.

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Dave Ramsey Eric, I'm going to send you a copy of the book, The Total Money Makeover. Uh, at this stage, 15 million peo… 36
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“Eric, I'm going to send you a copy of the book, The Total Money Makeover. Uh, at this stage, 15 million people have read it and followed those steps to do exactly what I taught you to do.”
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“and we'll send you a copy of Ken's book The Proximity principle which is what he's talking to you about right now and then we'll send you my book The Total Money Makeover which is what I was talking to you about with the baby steps”
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“have you got a copy of Total Money Makeover yet no I do not I'm gonna send that to you as a gift”
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“I'm going to send you a copy of the book The Total Money Makeover 12 million people have read it”
Jade Warshaw I would have them read the total money makeover and we'll give you a, we'll give you two copies, one for ea… 20
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“And then we'll give you total money makeover too, just walk into, walk into the baby steps because you guys are at that point that if you want to make the decision, like what Jade said, if you want to do it, you can do it.”
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“I would have them read the total money makeover and we'll give you a, we'll give you two copies, one for each of them so they can read it on their own time.”
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“We're going to give you total money makeover the book because what we're going to start to do is we're going to start to pay off this debt starting with the credit card, the car.”
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“We'll also give you Total Money Makeover. Uh George, what about Breaking Free from broke? Let's throw that one in there.”
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“I'm going to send you the Total Money Makeover. We're going to get you hooked up with every dollar”
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“Uh then yeah, it's working that debt snowball. And you read it in the book, it's listing them from smallest to largest. After that car situation is cleaned up, what's your next smallest debt?”
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“I'm also going to give you the Total Money Makeover because I think being able to read that and read other people's stories you'll be able to see yourself in those stories”
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“the debt snowball uh let's give him a copy of excuse me Total Money Makeover yeah um just follow the process read that it's classic um she's laid it out for you”
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“George the 20th anniversary it's here of what Total Money Makeover can you believe it we got to get at an anniversary gift”
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“I mean we just talked about The Total Money Makeover when it comes to getting out of debt there's a way to do this and it's walking those baby steps in order”
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“It takes place on anniversary of The Total Money Makeover book that we all know and love and so I'm really excited”
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“Total Money Makeover yeah Total Money Makeover”
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“the fact that you can get the total money makeover for $12 really blows my mind because that book helped my husband and I pay off $460,000 so if what you get from it is any indication of what it's worth then all I'm saying is the book is really worth almost half a million dollars i see what you”
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“I'm going to give you uh Dave's wildly best-selling book Total Money Makeover to read one chapter a day while you're going through FPU you know what to do at Amber”
George Kamel Yeah, Lynn, I I think as a grandparent, a gift like Total Money Makeover or Financial Peace University, I t… 19
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“Let's give him a copy of the Total Money Makeover to read. Hang on the line. We'll send it your way.”
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“Again, I think that book is a perfect um guide to all of this and you'll reference it back.”
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“Yeah, Lynn, I I think as a grandparent, a gift like Total Money Makeover or Financial Peace University, I think is great. I think that's a great idea.”
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“So, I'm going to gift you my book, Breaking Free from Broke, Total Money Makeover, and give you the Every Dollar Budgeting app, so that you have a game plan instead of just spray and pray.”
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“Mark, let me send you a copy of the book, The Total Money Makeover to help you get there.”
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“If you hold in the line, Christian's going to pick up and we'll just give you guys like three copies of Total Money Makeover.”
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“And also go ahead and throw in Total Money Makeover, too. And that's that's Dave Ramsey's bestselling book and it's the seven baby steps.”
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“if you like audio books Dave himself the the big eagle himself has re-recorded The Total Money Makeover audio book”
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“The Total Money Makeover Dave's all-time bestselling book it's helped more than 10 million people get out of debt and build wealth”
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“the FPU Congress Edition a GoFundMe for just sending all of them Total Money Makeover books”
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“so if you hold on the line Austin's going to pick up and we'll throw in a copy of Total Money Makeover uh which is Dave's bestselling book but it walks you through very simply the baby steps I you could read it in one night”
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“What was that book oh Total Money Makeover”
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“big shoes to fill when you have the total money makeover the best-selling personal finance book of all time”
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“Total Money Makeover book to give away when somebody says I need a budget like your mom did right”
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“once someone sent me a message John they said I bought 10 Total Money Makeover audio books cuz they're on sale”
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“I know a lot of you love to give out The Total Money Makeover as gifts I do that like the you know I had a pest control guy over”
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“The Total Money Makeover is on sale right now for for just 10 bucks you could get you know 10 of those”
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“and I think that's the mindset that led you to think I read The Total Money Makeover I got a great idea I'm going to go into our savings and I'm going to pay the bills”
Ken Coleman and by the way as a as a wedding gift by the way I want to give you uh Total Money Makeover Dave ramy's cla… 12
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“Uh, and I also want to give you Total Money Makeover so you can see the long-term picture of how the baby steps play out for a young man like you to where you're a multi-millionaire scam.”
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“One is Dave's Total Money Makeover. that's for you to give to someone else because you guys have you guys have actually done this.”
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“I was thinking of a baby gift so maybe Total Money Makeover I feel like we need to give we got even though the baby's not there yet”
Dr John Delony If I gift you uh this Financial Peace and this Every Dollar, will you promise me if I if I give you the Tot… 9
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“Sometimes people read and they hear about the baby steps or they read Total Money Makeover or Baby Steps Millionaires and they're inspired financially.”
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“If I gift you uh this Financial Peace and this Every Dollar, will you promise me if I if I give you the Total Money Makeover, will you read this book?”
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“I'll also send you my buddy Dave Ramsey's book, Total Money Makeover.”
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“you're holding is The Total Money Makeover.”
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“i'm also gonna send you a book called total money makeover that's going to teach you about how to take control of your money”
John Deloney I'm going to send you Total Money Makeover for free. The book. I want you to read that. 3
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“I'm going to send you Total Money Makeover for free. The book. I want you to read that.”
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“and planting some seeds and going hey I'm going to go buy The Total Money Makeover and Breaking Free from broke and go hey I'm reading this book it'd be really fun if you guys are open to it”
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“and we're gonna give you a copy of Total Money Makeover that you can give to a friend or a family member or just your neighbor”
Rachel Cruz stay on the line and I'm Gonna Give You Total Money Makeover it's one of our best-selling books 3
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“We're going to give you the total money makeover book that'll walk you through the baby steps”
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Rachel Cruze I would love to give you Total Money Makeover it's the bestselling book that we have here at Ramsey written… 3
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“So, if you hold on the line, Chris is going to pick up and we're going to send you Total Money Makeover, the book, to walk you through with the baby steps.”
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“and Christian throw in a Total Money Makeover book as well um to get you on this plan cuz we're we're cheering for you TOR you've done the hard work you can do this this is the ramsy show”
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“I would love to give you Total Money Makeover it's the bestselling book that we have here at Ramsey written by Dave”
Becky Heptig and then I I have to plug Jim Collins book simple path to will nice it's made a huge difference in fact I k… 2
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“and then I I have to plug Jim Collins book simple path to will nice it's made a huge difference in fact I keep a bag of books in my car and in that bag is copies of simple path and Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover”
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“in fact I keep a bag of books in my car and in that bag is copies of simple path and Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and if I find anybody that I think is open to the message then I give them a book”
Brian Buffini to get every firsttime buyer, buy them a copy of Total Money Makeover. 1
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“to get every firsttime buyer, buy them a copy of Total Money Makeover.”
Jaspreet Singh The second book was Total Money Makeover. Rich Dad Poor Dad is by Robert Kiyosaki. Total Money Makeover is… 1
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“The second book was Total Money Makeover. Rich Dad Poor Dad is by Robert Kiyosaki. Total Money Makeover is by Dave Ramsey.”
Rich Carey and then I read Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and I saw in his book that like I had hit all these step… 2
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“and then I read Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and I saw in his book that like I had hit all these steps already and I was doing a great job and I'd already paid off all my debt but there was a stepping that I hadn't done yet I hadn't done the step of paying off your your mortgage”
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“and then I read Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover and I saw in his book that like I had hit all these steps already”
Jonathan Mendonsa this book uh really feels a lot to me like Total Money Makeover for a new generation and in some ways I act… 1
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“this book uh really feels a lot to me like Total Money Makeover for a new generation and in some ways I actually think I would prefer it as a recommendation because I think it really speaks to you know we were talking about budgeting for the lavish vacation just now but the other end of the spectrum is broke”
Kristen Knapp Dave Ramsey came on my newscast when he first released his Total Money Makeover book in the early 2000s. Ok… 1
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“Dave Ramsey came on my newscast when he first released his Total Money Makeover book in the early 2000s. Okay. This is before he got super famous, right? And I read that book”
Military Dollar while I was still in college I read Total Money Makeover from Dave Ramsey and a few other books and I kind… 1
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“while I was still in college I read Total Money Makeover from Dave Ramsey and a few other books and I kind of understood what I was doing”
Mr. Groovy and she went to the library one day and came back with um what's Dave Ramsey's book again is classic financ… 1
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“and she went to the library one day and came back with um what's Dave Ramsey's book again is classic financial piece is that what it's called no no his actual book was Total Money Makeover”
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“I've got a couple Ramsay company books. I've got the total money makeover that I've kind of encouraged her to read after I finish my reread of it.”
Speaker The Ramsey Show Wisdom Starts Where Debt Ends 2026-09-16
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“I'd love to share with you guys just how we got here. Do you have I got 20 seconds. Okay. So, total money makeover in 2025.”
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“I picked up the Zero Money Makeover book recently and it's like all of this truth and like good stuff is here in front of me”
Speaker The Ramsey Show Quit Paying for Yesterday's Mistakes 2026-08-26
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“Well, I appreciate all your advice for over 20 years since I read that first total money makeover.”
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“No, my parents for my graduation present gave me Dave's book, um, uh, The Whole Money Makeover. And I read it right after I graduated, and I remember rolling my eyes and being like, 'This is the stupidest book.'”
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“So, we first found Ramdy Solutions in 2008 after reading the total money makeover. Immediately paid off all of our consumer debt.”
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“I made her read Total Money Makeover. So, then what does she say about all that stuff?”
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“well, I just I just recently uh finished uh listening to the Total Money Makeover and been listening to George's book.”
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“he's listened he's read the Total Money Makeover and then he's listened on Audible to Entre Leadership and Smart Money Smart Kids.”
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“And Dave, I'm in the middle of a Total Money Makeover as well.”
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“A high school friend was giving away five copies of Total Money Makeover. Just Wow. Hey, this book changed my life.”
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“I actually have your total money makeover book.”
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“So, we got the Total Money Makeover as a wedding gift.”
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“I got to talk to my Uncle Matt and Aunt Gina, who were the ones that gifted us Total Money Makeover.”
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“um but I just started reading your the total money makeover book.”
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“Um, and is there any I again I just started listening to you guys and reading the book. I didn't know if you guys had any more suggestions.”
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“We um came back from our like fourth vacation and uh I couldn't pay off my credit card at the end of the month and that's when I found you, read the total landing makeover. um convinced my husband, although I feel like I'm still convincing him some days, but um we're actually two weeks away from paying off um”
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“Well, first off, so a a sister in my church bought me the Money Makeover book and the workbook and I downloaded the app, so I'm I'm I'm ready to you know, take responsibility and and make changes to my life.”
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“That's something also that I realized and accepted while reading your book.”
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“I feel like we need to sit down, both read The Total Money Makeover, talk about it.”
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“Um I am a long-time listener and I just finished reading The Total Money Makeover, which was really energizing to read.”
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“My aunt um actually gifted us the money to buy a newer minivan. We I had I hadn't read The Total Money Makeover yet so I hadn't internalized the value of going the snowball method like and and and mentally like”
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“We both read the total money makeover and actually this Friday um we drove to town and sold our my uh dirt bike and with that check we'll be able to pay off our auto loan AND BE DEBTREE.”
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“Hi. Um, so as a family, we've been reading Total Money Makeover and we've been working to implement the principles and just started Baby Step 2.”
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“I think uh from you know the total money over there was something about a high cap, low cap, midcap and a foreign cap or a foreign mutual fund.”
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“Just bought Total Money Makeover yesterday as well.”
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“While she was wrapping up pharmacy school I read Total Money Makeover at Barnes & Noble. And then I was like hey we can do this and then uh it kind of started.”
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“Hey, uh, I appreciate you guys taking my call. Um, it was actually your book, George, that got me to take financial situations a lot more seriously, so I appreciate that.”
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“I have a few questions, but the main one I'm trying to get through is that I we've been listening me and the wife have been listening to um Dave Ramsey's uh Total Money Makeover.”
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“Hey, um just want to thank you for your book, The Total Money Makeover. My mom gave that to me. It seems like almost 20 years ago now...”
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“For Father's Day, I got him a Total Money Makeover and he he started reading it and he like wants to get on the right track now...”
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“we were just paying minimums and then we've read um you know uh total money makeover and we've started trying to get out of this debt.”
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“And um and then I bought the Total Money Makeover Reddit in one weekend, I think.”
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“But I have listened to the Audible book, Money Makeover. And let me just say 95% of the things in there I 100% agree with.”
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“I've been following the Ramsay baby steps. I'm currently reading the Total Money Makeover book and I got my refund from school about in May and it was close to about $4,000.”
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“And I've I've given them like the the total money makeover book. I've tried to help them with budget management and”
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“I know we did the total money makeover and, you know, we have our money in, you know, in a 401k and then some CDs.”
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“I've got the book, the Total Money Makeover book, the workbook, the Every Dollar app, the financial coach, and I'm just wondering, am I too late to be doing all of this?”
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“um and as I as I was reading um the Total Money Makeover. I'm sorry, I'm nervous. I'm shaking.”
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“um, so my question is, when I was reading um the debt snowball portion of the total money makeover, there was one caveat to listing your debts from smallest to largest”
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“Um, and I read the Total Money Makeover book, and I want to pretty much get out of debt.”
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“I got a hold of your book, um, total money makeover, and, um, the part about join, you know, having a joint account. Um, we have never had a joint account since we've been married.”
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“I went home and bought your book, read it in 24 hours, and then went to my husband and said, "You have to read this book. It's it's makes so much sense."”
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“I'm going to send you guys a wedding gift. It's called The Total Money Makeover. It's our bestselling book.”
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“I read Total Money Makeover, you know, last year. Changed my perspective on finances and things.”
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“So, um recently started reading the Total Money Makeover and we're on baby step two.”
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“Um so since reading Total Money Makeover, it's just been all gas, no breaks, and trying to tell everybody that I can about it.”
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“following the total money makeover, my husband and I are doing very well with money.”
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“About 20 years ago, I read Dave's Total Money Makeover and and we got out of debt.”
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“So I ordered the book on Amazon.”
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“started seeing some videos pop up on my Facebook, kind of dove right in, finished reading total money makeover. Uh borrowed it from the library, finished it in a few days, and my husband's reading it currently, and he's getting excited about it, too.”
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“So, I was listening to another radio show and he's talking about if you want to get your money in shape, this is the first place to start listening to Total Money Makeover.”
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“So, I I just read on the total money makeover not to do that, but I've already been doing it um for a whole year.”
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“I had money issues in my first marriage and got that all paid off and I got your book the total money makeover and followed that to get out of debt and to do there's a mountain mountain of deception here”
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“So I really taught from your uh total money makeover financial peace book. So for two years we've been doing the the full curriculum and the course is getting more and more popular.”
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“You're an eighttime best-selling author, including Total Money Makeover, the book that changed my life.”
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“When did uh I mean the book that I read was Total Money Makeover. That was the second one. Yeah, that was the second one.”
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“No, I actually just finished your book last week and paid off my credit cards two weeks ago and I don't have any student loans. I love it, Candace. Awesome. You got some money in savings. Um, I have a,000 in my savings and then my son has about 3,000 right now.”
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“And so we looked at our cars, read, you know, the book. Yeah. Total Money Makeover is kind of what what got us sold into it, Dave. We started listening to your program and really just made a commitment to each other.”
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“And of course, we had heard of of the Ramsay show before, um, but we hadn't read the book. We really hadn't listened much to the radio program. So, it was really just trying to think what are some logical steps we can do to really start tackling this debt.”
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“And I think that's something that as we read your book and listen to your show, um, we shouldn't just accept that as normal. And both of us work hard. We make good money. We've we've always managed our money fairly well, but we fell into that trap”
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“my friend gave me a giant box of books and I was looking through them and uh the total money makeover happened to be in there your book and looked interesting. So I decided to give it a read and the rest was history.”
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“honestly I I will go back and say like we got someone gave us the Total Money Makeover we got married and I like looked at the book and said like oh this is not us I was like one of those classic people who didn't think like school debt was real debt”
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“me and my husband are reading your Total Money Makeover book and we are trying to get serious about getting out of debt”
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“we were uh buried in debt uh had a good friend of mine who reached out to us and sent us a copy of The Total Money Makeover Katie read it right away she became davish and I was so hopeless at the time I put the book in the closet didn't touch it for 2 years”
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“so I actually listened to your book a few years before our journey we were already in in debt and I listened to The Total Money Makeover and was like he is so right we have got to get out of this debt we'd have so much margin in our life”
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“so then I listen to your book again in this time it sank in it's okay my plan obviously isn't working”
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“and I trapped him in the car listening to Total Money Makeover it didn't go well he made fun of the book you know it can't be that easy just seven easy baby steps a baby could do it”
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“and then she gave me uh your um Total Money Makeover Mone when we were deciding if we were going to date or not I was like read this book and let's talk about it decided if we want to”
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“uh two of them actually have graduated high school within the last three years and um you know I gave them a book I gave them your Total Money Makeover book uh when they graduated as a graduation gift and kind of inscribed in there some things that I learned from the book and I found really interesting and really”
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“and so she said yeah he wrote this book called The totally Money Money Makeover you should go read it and so I read it and immediately was like yes this this is a plan”
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“well um our journey with you actually goes back to 2011 when we had $24,000 in credit card debt and we didn't realize we didn't realize that until a friend told me which John and an algae have to shout out to them they had told us about The Total Money Makeover”
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“recently filed bankruptcy in May but I realized after watching your show and I have your book The Total Money Makeover I decided to dismiss the bankruptcy case”
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“my friend Amanda actually had The Total Money Makeover on her shelf and I remember she had read it and she had really loved it”
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“and that combined with reading The Total Money Makeover finally um I felt like this finally is a plan that I can follow I have steps that I can follow”
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“uh was it was the book I found uh with a guy from Tennessee that I'd never heard of read the book um cover to cover”
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“so I used to ask them a lot of questions and one of them told me to get um Total Money Makeover huh and I got it in my early 20s but I didn't need it at the time but it said in my um Library all that time so I went to the where our books were and I”
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“so he has um around about 50,000 um and um and when we started dating I gave him the Total Money Makeover um and he read it”
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“and then uh once I read The Total Money Makeover it was game over and uh that's when I came home to her”
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“so I read that to M make cover and I got a very impulsive and I basically empty our savings to wipe out uh our cars uh my student loans and uh a huge chunks to the mortgage”
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“when I was a junior in high school my parents saw that I was not great with money and they were like we'll pay you twenty dollars to read The Total Money Makeover”
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“um I'd actually read your book uh Total Money Makeover in 2008”
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“and I think you bought me the book for Christmas yep I read it and game was over there it is yes history”
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“so yes we we have Total Money Makeover we're currently um about to start Financial Peace University”
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“the opportunity to talk to young people all the time and one of the first things I do is always by then Total Money Maker or my my niece is mine I always send them Total Money Makeover”
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“so we owe 2 000 left on credit cards I I plan on having that taken care of pretty quickly we do have a car 20 000 on the car I have 23 000 in student loans and then the home is 121 000.”
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“my husband and I got started on the path to financial Independence about six months ago when I randomly picked up Dave Ramsey's book um our experience with Dave Ramsey is similar to what you guys had talked about on the podcast meaning that I really loved his book and I read it in like a day actually I read”
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“one of my favorite books when I was on my journey was uh The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey back in the day that really helped me get on a path to debt free”
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“and that's actually how we discovered Dave Ramsey and the The Total Money Makeover that's how we discovered choose fi in the community here”
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“we read the total money makeover went to a class through our church”
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“and then I think for people who are just wanting to get their financial houses in order if they don't really have a good foundation I would recommend Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover”
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“My husband and I got started on the path to financial Independence about six months ago when I randomly picked up Dave Ramsey's book um our experience with Dave Ramsey is similar to what you guys had talked about on the podcast meaning that I really loved his book and I read it in like a day actually I read”
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“but if you don't understand how all this works and you're starting from scratch go buy the book The Total Money Makeover it will change your life I have no problem recommending that”

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Portraits from Wikimedia Commons: Dave Ramsey, Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0); Rachel Cruze, Digitalscouting / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).