As co-host for New York’s Power 105 FM’s popular Breakfast Club, Angela Yee is one of the most listened to voices in morning radio. A graduate of Wesleyan University, she majored in English and held numerous media-related positions—ranging from corporate consulting to artist management—before finding her niche as a media personality. But along with the public notoriety came expensive shopping habits that landed Yee nearly $30,000 in debt. Much wiser about her finances; the media maven shares with BlackEnterprise.com how she beat the credit card crunch and learned to better manage her money.

You’ve had great success in your first year at Power 105, but came from a management and consulting background. What lessons did you learn in switching career paths?

I’ve quit a job one time because I was going to make more money somewhere else and I was miserable [at the new job]. I really did like the job I quit, but I was looking at it like, “Well, I’m going to go here and make more money.” Sometimes, in the long run, it’s best to make less money, which is what I did when I left working at a clothing line to go work at Shade 45. I wasn’t happy where I was working and I took a crazy $30K pay cut to start all over at Sirius where I made way less.

What impact did that pay cut have on your quality of life?

That’s probably where the debt started from, having so many bills that I had to pay. I worked the first month without getting paid because it was a probation period to see if it was going to work because I had never done radio [at the time], so they definitely took advantage of me. It was a struggle for me for so long but the next year I got a $20K raise and a bonus and I got a raise every year afterwards. I think sometimes you do have to go backwards to get further in the big picture. Now I make more than double what I made at Sirius.

Is that when you started to manage your money better?

If I didn’t get this job at Power 105 I would still be in debt. Being in debt is a depressing thing. Right now it’s amazing to me that I can go out and buy what I want and still be able to save and now I’m saving to buy a house. That’s a realistic thing for me, before it wasn’t even something I could fathom happening. I have a good base going and I feel good about it.

How bad did it get before you got your finances back on track?

The most I ever owed was about $30,000 in credit card debt. I’ve never been at a $0 [balance], but that was the most I ever owed. A lot of that was from being a manager and having to pay for rooms and flights. It was taking forever to get reimbursed and it definitely piles up.

What are some of the steps you took to get out of debt?

Usually they say you should pay off your most expensive bills first, but what I did was paid off the small bills first to get them out of the way. A lot of those were store cards because I have a Neiman Marcus card, I have a Saks card, I have a Bloomingdales card, etc… Those were just little bills, like a thousand dollars or so each and they had the highest interest rates. It made it easier for me to get those out of the way. I also have three American Express cards. After paying off the store cards, I paid off two of them first and then the one that had the highest balance was paid last, but I stopped using all of my cards and that was the only one I would use. So it was really only one bill I had to pay and that was the one with the lowest rate.

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Eminem (MTV #1 Hottest Rapper Bitches!) calls up the Morning After with Angela Yee and celebrates 6 years on Shade 45 with Reef the Streets!!

For this week’s pick I present “Flint Central High School – Class of 1990.” My boss at Sirius XM asked me to put together a mix that they would be giving out at the 20th Year Reunion of the Flint, Michigan School.

This joint has a lot of the top-40 joints that were playing in 1990. I didn’t put any drops in the actual mix, so DJs – put this on at a wedding or when you have to take a dumpski and you’ll be good to go!

Tracklisting:

1. Just A Friend – Biz Markie
2. Hold On – En Vogue
3. Close To You – Maxi Priest
4. All Around The World – Lisa Stansfield
5. Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
6. No More Lies – Michel’le
7. The Power – Snap!
8. Poison – Bell Biv Devoe
9. Vogue – Madonna
10. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
11. Janie’s Got A Gun – Aerosmith
12. Groove Is In The Heart – Deee-Lite
13. Pump Up The Jam – Technotronic
14. Step By Step – New Kids On The Block
15. U Can’t Touch This – M.C. Hammer
16. Love Shack – The B-52’s
17. Vision Of Love – Mariah Carey
18. Blaze Of Glory – Jon Bon Jovi
19. Someday Is Tonight – Janet Jackson

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BG describes his most recent arrest after leaving the daiquiri shop in New Orleans. I’ve never been to NO but I might have to go after this interview. Where else can you get a drink at a drive thru window???

“They waited for me to leave the daiquiri shop and they accused of us making a turn without using a turn signal and that was they proper cause to pull us over, and when they pulled us over they found 3 guns in the car. As of right now none of them are mine… One of my homies tried to take all the charges but they wouldn’t let him because they figured he was doing it for me.”