Eliminate debt or focus on saving capital?

[Jackie Comitino]

Overthinking about overthinking. Newbie here and planning on learning, reading, practice analyzing and just getting myself as educated as I can before I make any first moves. But my questions is regarding priorities. I have a small-ish amount of consumer debt ($10,000) and not nearly enough capital saved. So do you think it's smarter to focus on getting rid of the debt first and THEN save (might take 1-2 yrs) or focus on saving capital first to get started sooner?