The Investing Starter Kit Blog

Step 3 is HERE. The previous video for Step 3 is HERE. (sometimes hearing the same thing, said slightly differently, or just totally repeated, helps us to retain and actually ACT ON the information!) Have you tried this exercise? Let us know in the comments! Quick Links: What is Investing? is HERE What is The MGB Investing Starter Kit? is HERE Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is HERE Step 2 is HERE --Keep a 'Digit Tally', like You Need A Budget or RocketMoney o

Regularly taking ‘DigitTally,’ keeping track of our numbers, increases our financial fluency.

This is the first step for financial fluency.

Hello and thanks for following this blog. I'm writing today to recommend a magazine that provides quality financial education monthly, that, by subscribing and reading it regularly, you can help yourself improve your financial fluency, and ideally, achieve financial freedom more quickly. First, a story: I like having conversations with Black people who have worked out their money game well, asking them how they did it. I was really surprised when in the space of about a week

We are more than midway through the first month of 2023, and it's a great time to look at our financial progress of the year that just ended. If you have been following this blog for a while, then just by reading each week, you have been increasing your fluency in financial concepts. YAY! Let's take time to do a 2022 year in review of our personal financial picture, sound good? If you have been doing some level of Step 2 for Financial Fluency--Keeping a Digit Tally, then you

Hey there! Doing your research is the most important thing in investing: learning the basics enough to become confident in making decisions. In investing, there is always the risk of losing money. When I have lost money with an investment, I made sure I didn’t lose the lesson, and I chalked it up to ‘tuition’ for the learning I gained. But just getting started has proven to be worthwhile. It really does help to have someone you trust to encourage you. I have great advisors,

Glad you asked! There are three answers: It's a beginner's investing philosophy (that you can read more about below), a CLASS you can purchase HERE, take on zoom once by registering HERE, or for 6 months by clicking HERE, and a process that has 12 steps. And it's this website! The investing philosophy is very simple. (So of course, we believe that if you want to get started with investing right away, you should BUY and TAKE THE SELF STUDY CLASS) But if you don't want to do

Hi All! Happy June! For this post, I'll address this thing that we all have have a relationship with-- M O N E Y. What is money, really? What gives it its value? Money is a means of exchange, a way to store value, created entirely by our collective belief in it. Money evolved from the barter system, and is no longer tied to any underlying gold stores--that ended in the 70's. So today, the money system is really a measure of how much confidence we have in each other, our count

Hi! If you’re interested in learning how to make your money work for you, you’ve come to the right place. I’ll be writing bite-sized bits of info for anyone who wants to learn the basics of investing. Let’s dive right in. Investing is putting your money to work, so that it can start to earn money for you. It means choosing a company or product that wants financial support, and giving it money, with the hope and expectation that it will make that money grow. Investing always