I'm Marissa. I'm a mother, wife, full-time banker, and sporadic writer & filmmaker.​

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I'm also broke, a fact I discovered in 2017 when I realized that I dug myself into a hole of debt a little over six figures deep, consisting of a mix of student loans, mostly credit cards, a few personal loans, and a car loan. I became manic, checking my account balances daily to see that it's been depleted instantaneously, mainly going toward debt payments.

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I was drowning. Overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted, embarrassed - all the horrible emotions that accompanied the self-awareness of how much shit I got myself into and not knowing how I was going to get out of it.