For those of you not local residents, Anita Cochran is almost a household name. She's spent her life in the news biz, most recently as the prime time news anchor for KSN for several years. Several months ago at the pinnacle of her career and making big bucks, she resigned her job. I have found her blog and am following her life with intense interest these days as she and her family adapt to living on one income by downsizing everything in their lives, including their large, well-furnished and expensive home. She is following the Dave Ramsey money envelope system and she is committed to spending only cash for those things which are in their budget. She has put her heart and voice on the line as she blogs her journey, and I have grown to admire her courage in publicly sharing what life is like.
There are those of you who might say, well-she may be downsizing but her husband still works and they still make more money than what many do. This may be true, but it doesn't make her struggle and commitment to live a simpler life less real. There are people who make 500,000 a year who don't know how to manage their money, and there are people that make 12,000 a year that don't know how to manage their money.
I like Anita. She shows boldness in chronicling her successes as well as her failures in trying to get a handle on what's important in life. For her, other things were more of a priority than beaming into 500,000 viewers homes every evening and she had the guts to change her life. You go girl!
Her website, appropriately titled, "Breaking News - I'm Broke!" is:
www.anitacochran.tv/
Be warned, at times she's a little rough around the edges. But I think you may take something away from her willingness to share this most personal adventure with you.
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