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Black Friday 2 for 1 sale!
Have you been waiting for to enroll in MGB Money Study Hall? if so, this is your sign! Today through Sunday only, two people can enroll for the price of one! Click HERE to enroll yourself and a friend for 6 months of MGB Money Study Hall For more info about the class, you can click HERE . If you have any questions, email Hello@MultiGenerational.Black , or send a text to 917.971.6615. Would love to see you and a friend in class! We have a special New Year's class on December
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
1 day ago1 min read


Happy TG!
Thankful for the tools and the time

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
3 days ago2 min read


Tool 11--Get a financial advisor
Click HERE to watch this week's video Getting good financial advice can be a godsend. It can make a big difference to a person's long term wealth. But of course, we must use discernment. When shopping around for an advisor, anyone can look up the advisor's name on BrokerCheck from FINRA, the organization that regulates the financial industry. That link is below: https://brokercheck.finra.org/ Have you thought about getting a financial advisor? Would you be willing try havin

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Nov 211 min read


More on Co-Founder Paul on Instagram!
MGB Cofounder Paul Bryant with Wharton and Spelhouse classmate Alexandra Jenkins (Spelman C’2023) from the Morehouse Instagram. Full post is HERE . HBCUs represent! As reported in this post , Paul is a first year MBA Candidate at University of Pennsylvania's famed Wharton School of Business. Go Paul! His instagram is HERE . And are you following MultiGenerational.Black on Instagram ? We recently posted our first reel. You can see that HERE . Let us know what you think! And a

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Nov 121 min read


Step 11--Begin Investing!
Open a *brokerage account* and begin to *dollar-cost average* into an *S&P500 Tracking ETF*

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Nov 62 min read


Terrifying? 👻
The scariest part of investing might be just getting started

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 312 min read


Tool 10--Research Home Ownership and Real Estate Investing
After the stock market, real estate investing is the next most accessible form of putting money to work, in my opinion. I bought my first apartment in 1996, using the proceeds from the life insurance payout that I had received after my father's death. After living in it, I sold it five years later for double what I had paid for it. Very satisfying. That's an example of the market going up, and I got lucky, to be honest. But something I like about real estate is: if the marke

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 243 min read


What is the Time Value of Money and why is it important?
A dollar today is worth more than a dollar next year, and investing can help take advantage of that difference.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 162 min read


Step 10–Write your Will, Health Care Proxy and Power of Attorney
Every adult—over 18–should have these three documents.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 91 min read


Happy Birthday to MGB Cofounder Paul Bryant!
Paul is an MBA Candidate at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania!

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Sep 251 min read


2nd Podcast Interview
To watch the podcast episode, click HERE . Fun experience recently doing this podcast . My message is always basically the same! But...

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Sep 81 min read


Step 9--Create a new Money Plan
Watch the video by clicking HERE What some call a budget or a spending plan, we call a 'money plan' because it's about planning how our...

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Sep 21 min read


2nd Anniversary of The Alabama Riverboat Uprising aka Chairteenth
Celebrating the resistance and Black resilience!

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Aug 182 min read


If you have extra money
A neat way to assess what your options are if you have some extra cash.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Aug 81 min read


Step 8--Begin Paying Down Debt
If debt is feeling like a burden, there are many pathways out.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Aug 12 min read


Mid-year Assessment
A midsummer night's check in.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jul 231 min read


What is the MGB Investing Starter Kit 6 month workshop?
Our company's whole purpose and mission are to help America achieve racial wealth parity, by making stock market investing more...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Jul 182 min read


Step 7–Add it up!
A simple way to start gathering information about our spending and income, so that we can be prepared to invest.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jul 112 min read


Meditation on the Fourth of July
Happy Independence Day. Here at MGB, we adhere to the thesis of the 1619 project , that our country was really born when the first...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Jul 42 min read


What is a Roth IRA?
IRA stands for Individual Retirement Account and the last post about a Traditional IRA is HERE . A Roth IRA has some of the same rules,...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Jun 271 min read


Juneteenth—let’s see Sinners together in Harlem!
Join on Juneteenth at 8:15pm at the Magic Johnson Cinema in Harlem, to watch this incredible film together.

Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jun 172 min read
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