10 Weeks to a Debt-Free Life

Late in 2010, I was sitting in the green room preparing to go on NBC's Today show for my weekly "Money 911" segment, which had been airing for more than two years. Oddly, this week, most of the questions seemed to be about debt. Then it hit me -- in just two years, we had gone from being asked mainly about investments to being asked almost entirely about personal debt.