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American financial advisor, author and radio personality

Not to be confused with Dave Ramsay or Dave Rumsey (disambiguation).

For other people with similar names, see David Ramsey (disambiguation).

David Lawrence Ramsey III (born September 3, ) is an American radio personality, author, speaker, and finance expert. He is the owner and CEO of Ramsey Solutions and co-hosts the nationally syndicated radio program The Ramsey Show. Ramsey has written several books, including The New York Times bestsellerThe Total Money Makeover.

Early life

Ramsey was born in Antioch, Tennessee, to successful real estate agents and developers. He attended Antioch High School where he played ice hockey. At age 18, Ramsey took the real estate exam and began selling property, working through college at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and real estate.

Career

By , Ramsey had purchased property worth over $4&#;million. However, Ramsey was unable to service the loans and filed for bankruptcy in

Shortly after filing for bankruptcy, he founded The Lampo Group, a financial advisory service (now known as Ramsey Solutions), and in he wrote and self-published his first book, Financial Peace.

Ramsey began as one of three alternating hosts of The Money Game on radio station WWTN/Nashville in The show eventually became The Dave Ramsey Show, Ramsey's daily three-hour call-in financial advice talk show.

Financial Peace University, Ramsey's nine-lesson, video-based personal finance course, debuted in The Gannett newspaper group ran his financial column, though dropped it when the newspaper realized that Ramsey had changed the names on the letters to which he was responding. He offered to pay them their m

Dave Ramsey

David Lawrence Ramsey III (born September 3, ) is an American radio show host, author and businessman. 

He was a graduate of the College of Business Administration at University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a degree in Finance and Real Estate. As a real estate investor, doing business as Ramsey Investments, Inc., he built a rental real estate portfolio worth more than $4 million by  The bank that was financing his real estate was sold to a larger bank who demanded immediate repayment on the loans. He was unable to pay, and eventually filed bankruptcy in September

After recovering financially, Ramsey began counseling couples at his local church. He attended workshops and seminars on consumer financial problems. Ramsey developed a set of lessons and materials based partially on his own experience and partially on works and teachings by Larry Burkett, Ron Blue and Art Williams of the A.L. Williams company, now Primerica. In he wrote his first book, Financial Peace.

Ramsey has been featured on many media outlets including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 60 Minutes, and The Early Show. He recorded a pilot and six unaired episodes of The Dave Ramsey Project for CBS. He was the host of the television program The Dave Ramsey Show, which aired on the Fox Business Network until June

Ramsey is a devout Evangelical Christian. He has been married to his wife Sharon for 38 years. They have three children and reside in Franklin, Tennessee.

Blake Thompson was hired as the original producer of Dave Ramsey’s The Money Game radio show in , which soon changed to The Dave Ramsey Show once syndication started. Today, he’s the executive vice president of Ramsey Network and serves on the Operating Board. Blake is responsible for the distribution and content development of all programs and platforms for Ramsey Network, which includes The Ramsey Show, The Dr. John Delony Show, The Ken Coleman Show, The Rachel Cruze Show, The EntreLeadership Podcast, The Fine Print podcast, Ramsey Everyday Millionaires podcast, Ramsey Call of the Day podcast, Smart Money Happy Hour podcast and the George Kamel YouTube channel. He was also an executive producer of the Webby Award-winning documentary Borrowed Future: How Student Loans Are Killing the American Dream.

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