How to Free Yourself From Credit Card Balances, Boost Your Credit Score, and Live Debt-Free

Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors 2016 Outstanding Nonfiction Book Award in the Self-Help category and an Amazon #1 Bestseller.

Sometimes, the lay-off-the-lattes or the cut-up-the-credit-cards advice works, but more often, it doesn’t. You know why? Because we’re all unique and the reasons we got into debt differs by person. This is why a one-size-fits-all approach to debt elimination can’t possibly work for everyone.

The Debt Escape Plan: How to Free Yourself from Credit Card Balances, Boost Your Credit Score, and Live Debt-Free helps you create a custom strategy for getting out of–and staying out of–credit card debt. I know this works because I’ve done it myself. I’m a former CPA, who ironically, racked up over $20,000 in credit card debt. I could calculate earnings-per-share for a multi-million dollar corporation, but I approached shopping as if it were an Olympic sport and I was going for the Gold.

When I finally made the decision to take back my life, I started reading everything I could get my hands on about personal finance. Every time I tried a “proven strategy,” I was only partially successful.

You know what worked? Creating my own custom debt-elimination plan.

Credit: New York Daily News, February 2015.

In The Debt Escape Plan, I share everything I’ve learned about getting out of debt and living debt-free. In my book, you’ll learn:

  • How to use the Money Personality Quiz to customize your own debt escape plan.
  • How to overcome the hardships of medical bills.
  • Seven secrets for giving your credit score a quick boost.
  • The nine biggest debt mistakes and how to overcome them.
  • How to debt-proof your future so this never happens to you again!

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The Debt Escape Plan Worksheets – Why yes, they’re free!

All you have to do to get started is click on the links below to download the spreadsheets.

Debt Escape Plan Example

Here’s the worksheet filled out with sample numbers. I thought this might be helpful so you can see how it’s supposed to look.

Debt Escape Plan Worksheet

Here’s the blank Excel worksheet that you can use to fill out with your own budget. You can use this to play with the numbers and see where you can find your “debt escape” money.

Credit Card Balance Example

Here’s the worksheet filled out with sample numbers. I thought this might be helpful so you can see how it’s supposed to look.

Credit Card Balance Worksheet

This spreadsheet allows you to track all of your credit card debt and sort the cards by outstanding balance, interest rate, minimum payment, due date, credit limit, utilization ratio, current payment status, and credit limit status.

Debt Payoff Milestones

This spreadsheet allows you to track your progress as you pay off your credit card debt.

Gift Planning

This spreadsheet allows you to establish a budget for gifts and track your spending against that budget.