Wonder what it would be like to make a BIG CHANGE that starts your debt-free journey? 

Today we are hearing from Bethany and Corey on their story of what that looked like in their life. When they decide to give up the 'good life' for the 'better life' and by better I mean hard and uncomfortable but moving towards financial freedom. 

 

I love hearing real-life stories from real people who are making the hard decisions that allow them to TAKE CONTROL and start steering their life in a new direction - one that is in line with their values and the call they feel on their life. 

Bethany and Corey share a lot about what it looked like to bring God into the decision to make a move and get serious about changing their lifestyle.

This episode is part one of two. 
Bethany and Corey's story about staring their debt-free journey

How they were raised to view finances and debt
“Even though you know all the right things you can be very easily deceived”
“It was little things that added up”
How they handled the debt conversation between them
Decreasing the budget to account for leaving a job to become a stay at home mom
Using credits cards for regular spending versus paying in cash
Wanting to give your kids everything and buying them things
Making a big location move to support the debt-free journey
Feeling a calling on their lives to make the big move
When life seems to be good but you aren’t living fully inline with your faith
When life is uncomfortable but also very uncomfortable
Giving up your ‘good’ life as you know it for something ‘better’
Starting a new job in a new town and taking time to build it up
Acting like you don’t have any extra money and putting extra dollars towards debt
Myths we believe about finances that can get us into trouble
Playing the ‘credit card game’
The comparison game 
“You have to find happiness in the pits. You have to find happiness in the crappy two-bedroom apartment and the junky car you have to try and start four times, if you can be happy there - you can be happy anywhere. But so often we get it backwards”
Keeping up with the Joneses 
The cultural assumption ‘you deserve nice things’

Find the Adkins at the Millenial Mission Podcast and on Instagram @bethanyandcorey. 

In the next episode, we talk about more practical budgeting tips, how debt repayment as impacted their family and that season of life where they weren’t making progress. So go check that out too. 

 
FULL TRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to Episode 102. There's kind of this line you cross as a podcaster. Once you've done 100 episodes you like I, I powered to do, I held out, I did the thing. So it feels so great to be in the triple digits.

And it feels even better. When I hear from you guys hear the episodes you're liking you bring it into the Facebook community, and ask for more topics. So I just love this podcast. And I love the community and the conversation that it is creating. And like I said in the other episodes, we are doing bathroom rentals. So there is some drilling and hammering going on. Just bear with us.

All right, I'm also sharing something today that I don't do often. And that is interviews. Today I'm sharing two episodes, I've broken them up into two from my talk with the Atkins, Bethany and Corey Atkins, the having podcast called the millennial mission.