{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65675c71c3ca8a0012804645/65675c79c3ca8a0012804cee?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"580: John Kapetaneas, Journalist who paid off $100K of debt in 2yrs","description":"<p>Our guest today has been dubbed The Student Loan Assassin, paying off over $90,000 in loans plus another $10,000 in credit card debt in just 24 months. The total damage? $111,354.33.</p><p>We don't cover debt as much as we do earning, saving and retiring early on this show but the fact is many Americans are saddled with a combination of student loans and mounting credit card debt. You struggle to make the right trade-offs. You're discouraged by the totality of the debt, not sure you'll ever see an end to it.</p><p>John Kapetaneas is here to offer us some inspiration and his own plan of action for eliminating debt in a short period of time. By day - and probably by night because journalists don't sleep - he is a producer and writer for ABC News covering all sorts of human interest stories. In the process, he's sharing his own courageous story of becoming financially free.</p><p>To learn more visit <a href=\"http://www.somoneypodcast.com\">www.somoneypodcast.com</a>.</p>","author_name":"Farnoosh Torabi"}