Reyna Gobel
M.B.A. and M.J.

Reyna Gobel is a journalist, author and student loans expert who's been quoted by Money Magazine, Real Simple, and The Washington Post.

Her financial advice appears on Wise Bread's New Graduates Help Center, in her video course How to Repay Federal Student Loans, in CollegeWeekLive newsletters and keynotes speeches, and in her audiobook How Smart Students Pay for School, now in its second edition.

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Reyna's Latest Book

CliffNotes Graduation Debt: How to Manage Student Loans and Live Your Life
By Reyna Gobel


Graduation Debt is different from the competition because it provides a step-by-step road map for effectively managing student loan debt and having a successful financial life. Yet, it's completely positive. The focus is less on sacrifice and more on not wasting money, so readerrs can live better lives while paying off debt.

The book's content is divided into small subsections geared toward those neck-deep in student debt. The brevity of each section makes the book digestible to those who aren.t inclined to focus on their finances. Readers are encouraged to take action steps such as finding long lost student loans that may have gone into default, discovering payment plans they can afford, consolidating loans when it makes sense to do so, saving money on eating out and groceries, improving credit scores, tweaking their debt-to-income ratios that's needed to buy a home, discussing their student loan and non-student loan debt with their significant others.

By the end of the book readers will be on the road to managing all their debt and having extra money for vacations and other fun stuff, too.

Reyna's Latest Articles

3 Things You Must Know About Repaying Your Private Student Loans

Avoid making costly mistakes by asking these three simple questions.


What Recent Grads Must Know to Repay Federal Student Loans

Paying back your student loans might seem daunting, especially if you don't have a job yet. But there are several repayment options to help you. Here's what to do.


5 Reasons Why You Should Fill Out the FAFSA

Learn 5 ways how FAFSA could bring you unexpected grants, scholarships and opportunities.


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