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Dave Ramsey Show interview clip

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Oh my goodness. What a crazy fun experience! I had an absolute blast and I’m sure it will rank right up there as a life highlight for quite some time.

Ten minutes goes SUPER fast. There was so much more I could have said, and wanted to say, but I was really happy with what we talked about. I guess the rest is just good blog posts for the next week right?

So apparently the 450 radio stations that cover Dave have the ability to “mix up” his hours and it could air over the next 48 hours. So if you’re trying to catch me on a local station I can’t tell you when I’ll be on.

So instead you can just listen here. I’d love to hear what you think. Do you have questions I didn’t address? If so, ask them in the comments and I’ll do some Q&A posts this week.

Interview on The Dave Ramsey Show: June 7, 2011

Dave’s intro cracked me up!

Okay, I just listened to the whole thing and I do have to say this. If your adoption is costing $30,000 that’s STILL not an excuse to go into debt. I know families who have raised that much and done it debt-free!!!

We stepped out in faith and God provided BIG time!

A sweet Twitter follower, Stacy Kennedy, lives in Brentwood, Tenn. and she went down to the DR offices and took 2 photos for me while the interview was happening.

Look, it’s Dave…talking to ME! With my book sitting in front of him.

And my name, “in lights”, check out the computer monitor, right above the clock where it has my name in the green highlight bar 🙂

 

D-Day is almost here

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That’s D-Day as in Dave Ramsey day.

(Updated: I totally didn’t realize when I wrote this last night that today IS actually the 67th anniversary of the REAL D-Day. Certainly did not mean to make light of the many men who sacrificed their lives that day. Always grateful!)

Tomorrow is the day I’ll be LIVE on the air with Dave and his 4.5 million listeners (EEK!) talking about “Adopt Without Debt“.

I’m not really nervous about being on the radio, not nervous about the number of people, not really even nervous about talking to Dave (although that’s a huge honor). I’m mostly nervous about getting across the right content in the alloted time.

Ten minutes.

Ten minutes for a BRIEF overview of our story, talk about the book, share a few ideas, inspire and encourage people.

Blake did say “may go longer if needed” 🙂

So my challenge is to either be really succinct and to the point (NOT my strong suit) or SO entertaining and interesting that Dave keeps talking to me for longer 🙂

Obviously the time issue is weighing on my mind because Saturday night I had a bad dream.

What was it about? Not flubbing it up or saying something really embarassing.

I dreamt that Blake emailed me on Monday and said “sorry, we can only give you 5 minutes” and I totally freaked out because I had NO idea how to get the good stuff across in 10 minutes 🙂

So glad it was only a dream.

Here’s the details again.

Tuesday, June 7th approximately 2:35 Central Time.

You can listen live online. If you’re listening on your local station I would be about 95 minutes into the show.

They post the shows online a day or so later so I’ll be sure to post a link.