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Key Takeaways In 2016, high school sweethearts Kelan and Brittany Kline were working jobs that left them with little time together.
Neither of them felt that they had much control over their money or their schedules.
They started a personal finance blog, The Savvy Couple, which grew into a $1 million business.
Ten years ago, Kelan and Brittany Kline faced a problem. The then-newlyweds were working jobs that left them with little time together and juggling about $40,000 in student loan debt.
Their situation was hardly unusual: Americans ages 25 to 34 carry an average student loan balance of about $33,271, according to Federal Reserve data cited by CNBC.
The Klines met in high school in Rochester, New York, and began dating in ninth grade. Since those early days, they found jobs that yielded reliable paychecks: Kelan worked as a jail deputy and Brittany as an elementary school teacher. However, neither of them felt that they had much control over their money or their schedules.
“We were working opposite shifts,” Kelan recently told Business Insider. “We never got to see each other.”
One evening, the couple decided to confront the pressure head-on over dinner. “We sat down and said, ‘This is not working,’” Kelan told Business Insider. “We kind of just had this brainstorm of, ‘What’s working? What’s not working? Where are our finances at?’”
That conversation became a turning point. The Klines started a personal finance blog, The Savvy Couple, in 2016. It later grew into a seven-figure online business and eventually gave both of them the option to leave their jobs.
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