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- While Mike and Sara can candidly and concisely acknowledge their shortcomings, it doesn't mean they're comfortable with the position they find themselves in: completely incapable of curbing their spending, they've turned up on the doorstep of their affluent friend Paul in hopes that he can help administer some long overdue "aversion therapy".
- Discusses environmental issues in relation to women's spirituality.
- Ronald and Vivian were on the verge of calling it quits. Vivian's gambling at the casino and Ronald's frequent fleeing to a hotel was driving them into crushing debt. With four children at home, this house of cards was on the verge of collapsing. Then, just days before Gail arrives to help, they get the notice of foreclosure on their house. Can this family be saved?
- Gerry is a financial analyst but the books at home just don't balance. This is a second marriage for both Kelley and Gerry and they're both trying hard to avoid control issues they faced in past relationships. But, with three kids and seven years of uncontrolled spending under their belts, they're sinking fast.
- When Elizabeth lost her job, this family of five felt the crunch. But Elizabeth didn't stop spending, so Wojtek began juggling their growing debt between 16 credit cards with low introductory rates. Now, the cards are about to jump to full interest and these two are preparing for the worst.
- Three week newlyweds Paul and Robyn earn a combined income of just over $100,000 annually. They used to go out and do things - most expensive - until they bought their house. Now they largely spend their time at home not knowing what to do but sit on the couch and watch TV. Robyn, in particular, feels like the house is an anchor. They have no savings and they financed their wedding on credit. They still plan to go on their $7,500 honeymoon over the Christmas holidays, and expect upcoming large Christmas bills. They use one debt source to pay off another. Their money issues have negatively affected their relationship. Gail shows them that they have unrealistic views of how much they are earning, how much they are spending, and how interest is calculated on debt. Gail issues life challenges to them on how to live within their budget. She makes them look realistically at that upcoming honeymoon. And she makes them review their relationship in light of that anchor which they call their house.
- Jacqueline and Grant met online as fans of Queen, and have now been married for six years with an infant child and another on the way. Jacqueline is also the queen of coupon shopping, she justifying spending on stuff because it's a good deal, not realizing that most of it is stuff she probably would not need. But it becomes less of a good deal when it is causing debt - their consumer debt currently at $53,000 - on which they have to pay interest. She believed she was managing their debt, but in reality was paying off their debt with more debt while she racked up more purchases. Grant's spending is on the bigger ticket items of vacations, he not caring if a vacation causes them to go into debt. While Jacqueline stresses about Grant's lackadaisical attitude about paying bills on time, Grant is stressed about their debt level, but doesn't have the wherewithal to do anything about it. Their financial problems are in part a cause of their crumbling house, which is in need of many repairs, but which is the lowest item on their priority list. Gail shows them that they have to place more of a priority on their house, their primary asset, which means making repairs and organizing all the stuff that Jacqueline has purchased. She gets them to place their vacations in their proper light as a luxury and not a need, vacations which they can only take if they have the money. And she needs them to start communicating instead of fighting or ignoring their issues.
- Married couple Melissa and Ted are a police officer and paramedic respectively, earning a comfortable combined annual income of $155,000. Because of their chaotic work lives while they deal with two pre-school aged children, they are always on the run, not thinking about where they spend their money, or communicating with each other about where he/she spends, which they both do largely on impulse. They have upsold their house twice, thinking they could make a profit on each sale, but realistically they lost on both while having a larger mortgage for each successive bigger house. Gail finds that they are totally disconnected from their money, which has led to their debt problem. Gail wants them to see how much of their life energy has been poured into stuff currently in their house, while getting Melissa to deal with the finances in and of themselves, which she has been reluctant to do thus far. Gail gives them a symbolic challenge to show them how difficult it is to run through life aimlessly like they are with the debt load they are carrying. She also wants them to slow down and enjoy their lives together as husband and wife.
- Chris, who earns $12,000 a year, is a full time student with one more year to obtain his undergraduate degree. He wants to go into dentistry, which will require a few more years of school post-graduation. The issue is that he is a mature student at age thirty-five, never having had a career of any sort as the perpetual student living at home rent-free. But now he is married, his Filipino bride, Yen, who works full-time and earns $35,000 a year. That income will soon diminish as Yen is in the early stage of pregnancy. As is with the Filipino culture, she sets aside a few hundred dollars to send home every month. To help them out, Chris' parents, Bill and Vivian, let them live in their basement rent-free. Bill and Vivian also paid about $10,000 toward the wedding and plane fare to/from the Philippines for the wedding. Bill and Vivian do all the work around the common areas of the house, Chris only helping when asked. Chris' debt, largely from student loans but also from his expensive habit of eating organic, currently sits at $52,000. Gail wants Bill and Vivian not to be Chris and Yen's safety net, being able to ask his parents for help which is how Chris has lived all his life. Conversely, Chris and Yen have to be contributing members to the entire household as long as they are under Bill and Vivian's roof. She wants Chris and Yen to feel the weight of the debt in their lives, which can only be lessened if Chris makes more money. She wants Yen to ask more of Chris, especially as he didn't disclose his financial situation to her before they married. Chris has to evaluate critically future options, including dentistry, especially in light of the debt, his age and the upcoming baby. And she gets them to understand the true costs of living independently.
- Twenty-somethings Tara and Jeff, who have been together for two years and who want to get married but won't until they are close to being debt-free, live in unique circumstances. Ninety-eight percent of their $89,000 debt is carried by Tara, $70,000 of which is her student loans, which she did not even really consider how she would pay off once she got into the working world, which she is in now as a youth program manager. Her current $39,000 annual income alone would be insufficient to pay off that debt in a timely manner and still live a regular life. They live together in a house which is paid for through Jeff's job as a social worker as he is the 24/7 caregiver to sixteen year old Clayton, who suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. All of Clayton's bills are also paid for, leaving only Jeff and Tara's own personal expenses being what they need to cover to live. Jeff only gets every other weekend off, and has to pay for an alternate caregiver for Clayton for any other time he wants off. Because they feel tied to the house between Jeff's breaks, they overspend on whooping it up whenever Jeff has time off rather than focusing on getting out of debt, despite paying off the debt being the reason Jeff specifically took this job. Jeff does not like to deal with financial issues whatsoever, while Tara, who handles all their finances, does not look at any of it critically, in large part having a sense of denial about the debt. Gail sees their biggest problem as not having a sense of the debt in terms they can comprehend. Once they can comprehend finances in their entirety, Gail wants them to do some planning which includes for Tara what her life would have looked like if she did not have this golden opportunity of Jeff's job in order to pay off her student loans.