Jocelyn
Appearances
The Ramsey Show
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Hi. Hi, Dave. Hi, George. Thank you for having me on.
The Ramsey Show
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I would love to. So just a quick back story. My grandfather's best friend through school, once he graduated and got married, him and his wife needed somewhere to stay. So my great grandparents let them rent a cabin that they had in Gatlinburg for a couple years.
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But when they went to move out, my great grandparents then gifted them all that rent money that they had paid just as a gift to jumpstart to life. So fast forward 50 plus years, my grandma's randomly like, hey, I want you to go out to eat and meet somebody. So my family and I, we got to eat and I walk up and I meet this Older man, he's in his mid-80s.
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And we sit down and he starts talking about how him and my grandpa were best friends. My grandpa had passed since then. And he's telling me all these stories that they shared. And he ended with, in his honor and because of the friendship they had, he would like to send me to school. So I got to choose any college I wanted to go to.
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He would pay for my, yes, he would pay for my tuition, my housing, and also wanted to gift an allowance because he did not want me to work to concentrate on school. And the only requirements he had was that I keep above a 3.0 and that I would meet with him after every semester. And so that's what I would do. I would drive to his house. I'd pick him up. We would go eat.
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We would talk about everything. He would, he would, we would talk about my grades, how everything was going. And in 2016, I graduated completely debt free from college. And I would like to add, because he did that for me years later, now my brother is about to graduate in May from college with his engineering degree. And after all his, um,
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My parents will actually have put him through school with the help of what he had got from school as well. So he will graduate debt-free.
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So all because of what my great-grandparents did. Now, 50-plus years later, my brother and I have both. It came around to us. Wow.
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I actually, I went to EPSU and I got my bachelor's in mass communication. So public relations and advertising is what my concentration was.
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Yes, and I never got to meet my grandfather. He passed when my dad was actually young, so... I believe him and my grandma actually lost the connection there at some point, and they ran into each other randomly and started talking, and that sparked their conversation on, well, do you have grandkids, and that's how I met him.
The Ramsey Show
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No, she knew of him. They were best friends, and she knew him. But as far as knowing that rent story, I'm not really sure if she knew that beforehand or not.
The Ramsey Show
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Yeah. This is very well done. Since this has happened, he did pass in 2020, but he has a special place in my heart. He really did change my life. and the ripple effect to that, he, he really did make a difference.
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It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Yeah. Then my grandparents just has good faith and he was a great friend. They did that. And here I am.
The Ramsey Show
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Uh, so it was, It was something that I will never forget. And, you know, I knew it was a big deal when I was young in my 20s. But as I get older, you know, that those acts of kindness, they mean more and more as you get older. You realize how much of a deal that was.