{"id":13941,"date":"2024-03-30T17:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/i-was-offering-great-advice-but-i-wasnt-following-it-the-personal-finance-guru-who-spiralled-into-debt\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:44:24","slug":"i-was-offering-great-advice-but-i-wasnt-following-it-the-personal-finance-guru-who-spiralled-into-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/i-was-offering-great-advice-but-i-wasnt-following-it-the-personal-finance-guru-who-spiralled-into-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was offering great advice but I wasn\u2019t following it\u2019: the personal finance guru who spiralled into debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happened when a financial influencer lost control of her own budget?<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to be known as the coupon lady,\u201d says Lauren Cobello, 43, who commanded $5,000 per YouTube video as a personal finance influencer. \u201cI was a regular on the Today show and Good Morning America, I was blogging, working with newspapers. I had no financial background but I\u2019d got my family out of $40,000 debt by couponing and budgeting and people wanted to know how I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friends invited her to church groups and seminars to share her financial wisdom. From there, she was invited on local TV, and influencing followed. By 2016, she was a mother of four posting several times a day; she employed two staff, had written three books under her married name, Lauren Greutman, and launched a family budgeting podcast with her then husband, Mark.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat happened when a financial influencer lost control of her own budget?
\n\u201cI used to be known as the coupon lady,\u201d says Lauren Cobello, 43, who commanded $5,000 per YouTube video as a personal finance influencer. \u201cI was a regular on the Today show and Good Morning America, I was blogging, working with newspapers. I had no financial background but I\u2019d got my family out of $40,000 debt by couponing and budgeting and people wanted to know how I did it.\u201d
\nFriends invited her to church groups and seminars to share her financial wisdom. From there, she was invited on local TV, and influencing followed. By 2016, she was a mother of four posting several times a day; she employed two staff, had written three books under her married name, Lauren Greutman, and launched a family budgeting podcast with her then husband, Mark. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happened when a financial influencer lost control of her own budget? \u201cI used to be known as the coupon lady,\u201d says Lauren Cobello, 43, who commanded $5,000 per YouTube video as a personal finance influencer. \u201cI was a regular on the Today show and Good Morning America, I was blogging, working with newspapers. I …<\/p>\n

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