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How do I start investing when I still have a mountain of medical or nursing school debt?

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Capture your employer retirement match first, then build an emergency fund before splitting extra cash flow between debt and investing.

We prioritize capturing any employer retirement match first, as that is free money. From there, we build a foundational emergency fund before aggressively splitting extra cash flow between high-interest debt paydown and early market investments.

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