Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Money Foolishness
Happy April 1! A great day to share our money mistakes! Bringing them to light helps us to heal. Here's what I said in 2022 . And in 2023...
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The Investing Starter Kit Blog
Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Mar 201 min
Tool 3–Money Affirmations and Meditations
Ease with money and investing.
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Feb 281 min
BHM Insider essay
Take a look at my latest piece for Black History / Black Futures Month, reflecting on more things I learned from my dad ....
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Feb 281 min
Tool 2–– Money Excavations
Once you've got your Money Journal, what do you do with it? Well, Money Excavations is what we suggest--start to explore your...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Feb 61 min
Tool 1 —A Money Journal
We can 'write our own deliverance' by using the tool of a ' money journa l' to document our process. Have you bought a new notebook for...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jan 262 min
Record high EDIT: 5000!
If you have been watching the S&P 500 , and I hope you have, since it's Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process, then you know:...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jan 152 min
Rev. Dr. MLK Jr
This brilliant book, written by Dr King in 1963 (the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation), gives me so...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Jan 52 min
Harvard President Gay deserved better
I attended President Gay's inauguration back in September, along with a group of my classmates and my daughter, and it was one of the...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Dec 31, 20231 min
Happy Sixth Night of Kwanzaa! 🖤❤️💚
Tonight's principle is KUUMBA--Creativity. Learning how to invest doesn't actually require a lot of creativity. In fact, done properly,...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Dec 22, 20231 min
Reparations!?
New York State has taken the historic step of launching a commission to explore the impact and role of African enslavement on our current...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Dec 17, 20231 min
Do you see what I see?
The S&P 500 closed at 4719.19 yesterday. When I made this video in January of this year, the S&P 500 was at 3974.50. That is an 18.7%...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Dec 5, 20232 min
Step 12! Maintenance and pay it forward!
We made it! The 12th step in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is a maintenance step, one that we all can conceivably continue for...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Dec 1, 20231 min
What does it mean to Buy and Hold?
Buy and Hold is a 'passive' investment strategy made popular by Vanguard founder John Bogle and 'the world's greatest investor' Warren...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Nov 24, 20231 min
Happy Black Friday!
We here at MGB can't resist a holiday with the word BLACK in it! This post isn't a sale, it's not a special, it is just a wish for you...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Nov 19, 20231 min
Step 11–BEGIN INVESTING!
Well, this is it--the step we have all been waiting for. Once you have taken steps 1-10, step 11 is when you finally get to start...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Oct 24, 20231 min
Fireside Chat!
Thanks to those who attended the NMSDC conference in Baltimore this past week. Here's a link to the recording of the 20 minute segment:...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 17, 20232 min
Step 10: write your will…
They say that that nothing is certain except death and taxes... We talked about taxes in step 6. Now, let's talk about death! No one here...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
Oct 13, 20231 min
The Audacity of Wealth Equity—Panel on Tuesday in NYC
https://lu.ma/gvaskdp2 If you're in New York, this panel, with three terrific other speakers, should be worth attending. It's at...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
Oct 11, 20232 min
What is a brokerage account?
It's actually shocking that in the almost two and a half years of this blog, this is the first post to explain about this essential part...
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