Do you find yourself staying awake a night worrying about how you’re going to start paying back your student loans when you graduate in May? Are you a millennial who has the mindset that you’ll always have debt so why bother paying it off? We’re going to dive into how to pay your student loans faster! I promise, you don’t have to spend the rest of your life trying to pay down your student loans.

Today I’ve brought Sheena Garcy, a senior coach from The Student Loan Doctor onto the show to talk about how to create a plan to start paying down your student loans and put yourself in a position to pay them off fast so you can actually live your best life in your 20s and 30s without any financial strain.

How to Pay Your Student Loans Faster

What we talk about in this episode of SheRocks@College

LIVE:

The mindset that most college graduates have around their student loans that’s hurting their financial future
The difference between forbearance and deferments
Subsidized vs. Unsubsidized student loans
What most student loan lenders don’t want you to know about your interest rates
All of your options for student loan repayments you didn’t know about
What you should do with your semester refund that will help offset your student loans
How to avoid defaulting on loans you didn’t know you borrowed
Why it’s so important for college students to be focused on their relationship and mindset around their student loans while they’re still in college