The Investing Starter Kit Blog

Our company's whole purpose and mission are to help America achieve racial wealth parity, by making stock market investing more...

A simple way to start gathering information about our spending and income, so that we can be prepared to invest.

Happy Independence Day. Here at MGB, we adhere to the thesis of the 1619 project , that our country was really born when the first...

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,...

Join on Juneteenth at 8:15pm at the Magic Johnson Cinema in Harlem, to watch this incredible film together.

Summer break is here, and many young people will be working at a summer job or internship. While earning a paycheck is exciting, it can...

The last post on Step 6 is HERE . This is a big step! Calculate your net worth, assets minus liabilities, just once a year, to get a snapshot of your financial picture. Watch the video for more. Have you taken any of these actions? Will you? How is it going for you? Let us know in the comments! And as always, thanks for reading this. All 12 steps of the MGB Investing Starter Kit process are HERE Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is HERE Step 2 is HERE  --Keep a

Start an 'abundance fund' with $500 in a checking or savings account, for those unexpected costs that pop up. This is an essential step for preparing to invest.

MGB Ice Cream Social on May 19 at Lenox Sugar Hill Creamery

We all need somebody to lean on. With money and investing, I have found that having an 'accountability buddy' can really help people shift their relationship with money and investing. We call it a Check-in Chum, and it's so important that it's both step 4 and tool 4. The last Check in Chum Step 4 video is HERE . The last Check in Chum Tool 4 video is HERE . And the latest video is below: Click the image to go to the Step 4 video on Vimeo How to find a Check in Chum: use your

Have you been practicing Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process ? If so, you have seen that the S&P 500 closed at 5,062.25 on...

We have all played the fool with our finances. It's an unfortunate but necessary part of the game. Investing and financial fluency are...

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: 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  or our free tracker HERE Step 3 is above! What is Investing? is HERE Wha

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

Kendrick Larmar’s Super Bowl Halftime show was Black Excellence at its finest. Watch it again HERE Beyoncé finally won a well deserved...

This is the first step for financial fluency.

A great man, who held the nation accountable to its ideals. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Justice for all. We need to remember...

Dear Reader, The next MGB Investing Starter Kit Workshop will be on April 22 at 6pm ET. The link to sign up for $98 is HERE . Thank you...

Money is a store of value and an easily transferable means of exchange, created entirely by our collective belief in it.

Calculating our personal net worth is bracing but very useful.

Learning how to use Google sheets/Excel/Numbers or any spreadsheet software is a great step in anyone’s financial fluency journey. It...