The Impact of Student Debt of Your Life and Option Set with Nate Baker

Career Bound by Praxis

This week on the podcast Mitchell is talking with Nate Baker, Deputy Director of Grassroots Operations at Americans for Prosperity and Praxis Alumni, about his experience with student loans.
They cover Nate's story of experiencing first hand the toll student loans can take, why Nate decided to leave college to join Praxis, and how student loans can affect your career path.
Connect with Nate: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-baker/
In this episode:
- Nate's experience taking on student debt to go to college
- Making the decision to leave college after three years and join Praxis
- How student debt affects your career path and what makes it a uniquely bad type of debt
- Why do parents fall into giving bad advice to their kids about college and student debt
- Why the ROI of college is not keeping pace with rising tuition costs
- What are the resources that Nate found the most useful for paying off student loan debt
Books and Resources:
- Dame Ramsey (https://www.ramseysolutions.com)

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