Leslie Lewis (she/her)
What is an ETF?
What the ETF? lol. An 'Exchange Traded Fund' or ETF for short, is just like a mutual fund, it's an investment that allows the purchaser...
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The Investing Starter Kit Blog
Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- May 4
- 2 min
What is a mutual fund?
Instead of investing in individual stocks, another investment you can choose is called a MUTUAL FUND, which is an actively managed...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Step 4 -Get a "Check In Chum"
Step 4 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is to get what we call a Check In Chum. Watch this video to get more info! Get a Check in...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Apr 21
- 3 min
America Will Be
April is also National Poetry Month in America. Here's one from Dartmouth professorof English, Dr. Joshua Bennett, PhD. AMERICA WILL BE...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Apr 13
- 2 min
For Us By Us
FUBU founder Daymond John has this great interview with Marie Forleo, as he promotes his new children's book. My favorite takeaway is the...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Apr 7
- 1 min
Kwibuka29 🇷🇼
Today we commemorate the lives lost 29 years ago in the Central African country Rwanda. It is a solemn day. 'Kwibuka' means 'to remember'...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Apr 1
- 1 min
Financial April Fools Day 2023
When have you 'acted the fool' with money? We all make mistakes, we all make money mistakes, but somehow those feel worse than other...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Mar 31
- 2 min
Senegal 🇸🇳
Hope you have all had a good month of March. I wanted to share about a family holiday I just took. SENEGAL. In West Africa. We stayed at...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Mar 12
- 1 min
Step 3--Increase Inflow
Step 3 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process: look for ways to increase the amount of money flowing in. In order to invest...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
- Feb 28
- 1 min
Great TEDx Talk--Success
How do you define Success? Further to this post on my beloved late grandmother, here's a beautiful take on the idea, from one of our...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Step 2--Digit Tally!
Repetition of this key strategy for the Investing Starter Kit Process! Step 2! Are you keeping a digit tally? What method do you use?...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
- Feb 22
- 1 min
1903--First Black Female Bank President, Mrs. Maggie Lena Walker
"Let us have a bank that will take nickels and turn them into dollars." Maggie Lena Walker Please take a look at this incredibly...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Feb 12
- 1 min
Carolyn Cooper Lewis Fugett 1925-2023
My father's mother, my beloved Grandmom, died last Tuesday. She lived an incredible life of 97 years. Over the space of about a year...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Feb 3
- 1 min
My mom’s book!
Please consider pre-ordering my mother's new book that will be coming out next month. That link is HERE.
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Feb 1
- 1 min
Black History / Black Futures Month 🖤
Here is a portrait of my dad, financial pioneer Reginald F Lewismade by my beloved teenaged daughter. I love this so much. It's even more...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Step 1--Begin tracking the S&P 500
We will be cycling through all 12 steps of the MGB Investing Starter Kit process over the course of the year, so let's have a refresher...
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Leslie Lewis (she/her)
- Jan 19
- 2 min
New Year, New Financial Fluency habits
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...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real...
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Hello MGB [MultiGenerational.Black]
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
Kwanzaa 2022-3
Today's Kwanzaa principle is Ujamaa-- 'extended family,' 'community' or 'brotherhood/sisterhood' in Kiswahili, the main language of East...
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