you can read danielle fishel's essay about mom guilt on our website, goodmorningamerica.com.he did it in just a couple of years. kaylee hartung is here with how she did it. she has some tips for us, does she? >> she does, robin. we've all got the essential bills that we have to pay, but the young woman who you're about to meet will show us what can happen when you really prioritize your spending on everything else and make your money work for you. ♪ tory dunlap set an ambitious goal for herself right out of college. save $100,000 in three years. by the time she was 25. >> so i read an article about someone saving 100k at 25 and i was probably 21 or 22 when i read the article and i crunched the numbers, did some math and realized that that might be possible for me. >> reporter: dunlap hit her goal months before her self-imposed deadline. >> i really focused on priority-based spending so figuring out what your priorities are in life, what really brings you joy. my friend says you can afford anything. you just can't afford everything. i focused on the things that brought me the

now danielle fishel is opening up about her newborn son's frightening first weeks of life. >> the babyoy was upon with a potentially deadly lung disorder. fishel sat down with abc news for an exclusive with quina whitworth. >> reporter: actress, producer, and director danielle fishel, best known as topanga on "boy meets world." >> no matter how difficult life gets, the important thing is to live it with hope. >> reporter: now a new mom. the 38-year-old and her husband welcoming their baby boy adler in june nearly a month early. >> it never occurred to me that because my water broke so early, something else could be going on. >> reporter: their tiny bundle of joy entered the world fighting for his life. >> ultrasound tech came and he said, okay, it's fluid in the lungs. >> reporter: adler, diagnosed with a rare lung disorder, chylothorax, affecting less than 1% of babies. with fluid building up in his lungs, it makes breathing extremely difficult and could be fatal. he would spend the next 11 days in the nicu. >> as a parent you feel kind of helpless. >> reporter: doctors hoping adler's