How she became the Student Loan Doctor—and her three best pieces of advice.
SONIA LEWIS KNEW she had a problem when she couldn’t afford nachos. Forced to turn down a friend’s invitation to dinner because her bank account was overdrawn yet again—something that happened so frequently she called herself the “Overdraft Queen”—Lewis realized just how much trouble she was in. Her grandmother, who’d been her “financial security blanket,” had recently died. And her unexpected death forced Lewis to accept reality: Nobody was left to bail her out if she couldn’t pay her bills.
“If you fail with money or if you win with money, it’s going to be on you,” she remembers thinking.
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