Nine questions I get about Dave Ramsey

I get a lot of questions about my cousin Dave Ramsey.  Here are nine of them with honest answers from his bratty little cousin:

1. Are you brothers? No, our dads are.  We’re named after each father. He’s named for mine. My first name is after his.  But I look up to him like a big brother.  (I have two sisters who are equally amazing).

2. Do you follow his advice? About 95% of it.  It’s hardwired into us — my grandfather survived the Depression and afterward using the principles Dave teaches. I believe in what Dave teaches because it reduces stress in your lives.  It makes your marriage better. Dave has done an amazing job making it easy to learn and follow.

3. Are you proud of him? Of course.  But not just because of his financial success.  Meet his kids sometime.  Rachel, Daniel and Denise are fantastic people. Dave and his wife Sharon have done an amazing job being parents.  How he raised his kids make me want to be just like him.

4. Is he for real? Does he follow his principles? Yup.  Had dinner with him one time and the waiter was studying his debit card something fierce.  He’s real, folks.

5. Is he like what he’s like on the radio all the time? Dave is funny, will give you blistering honest advice and honestly tries to help. He’s been amazing (like all my family) during my career transition.

6. Are you jealous of him?  (I honestly got this question.) Yes — he has an assistant!  Seriously, no.  We both have been blessed with our lives.

7. What’s the thing you admire most about Dave? Besides his family and his successes, I admire that he has the uncanny ability to hire amazing people.

8. Did you grow up together? No. His family lived in Nashville and mine in Atlanta. But I saw him on family vacations and on holidays. Always admired him when I was a kid (he’s eight years older.) We shared two amazing Grandparents and I love hearing him talk about them on the radio. It’s like the come back alive to me.  I’ve had the joy of getting to know him as an adult.

9. What was it like to do the childrens books with him? Amazing.  He has a great team and I still cherish when I get to work with them.  I probably drive them nuts, though.