{"id":108994,"date":"2026-05-28T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/i-grew-my-salary-to-180k-a-year-while-paying-down-40k-in-credit-card-debt-ive-gone-from-ashamed-to-empowered\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:27:43","slug":"i-grew-my-salary-to-180k-a-year-while-paying-down-40k-in-credit-card-debt-ive-gone-from-ashamed-to-empowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/i-grew-my-salary-to-180k-a-year-while-paying-down-40k-in-credit-card-debt-ive-gone-from-ashamed-to-empowered\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew my salary to $180K a year while paying down $40K in credit card debt. I&#8217;ve gone from ashamed to empowered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Lindsey S; BI<br \/>\nLindsay Stockall is a 38-year-old who splits her time between Newport Beach, California and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Business Insider has verified her income and employment hi\u2026 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/salary-journeys-38-year-old-marketing-180k-credit-card-debt-2026-5\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Lindsey S; BI Lindsay Stockall is a 38-year-old who splits her time between Newport Beach, California and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Business Insider has verified her income and employment hi\u2026 [read more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":["1"]},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-make-money"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paydonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}