The Investing Starter Kit Blog

We have all played the fool with our finances. It's an unfortunate but necessary part of the game. Investing and financial fluency are skills like any other skill--it takes practice and making mistakes to learn. And as I say in the 2023 video below, we learn to walk by falling down. So let's normalize that making mistakes with money and investing, is a part of the process! Happy April Fools Day today! So I have shared on this day, for the last three years, my foolhardy financ

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.

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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...

Here’s a video about the S&P 500–the first step in our MGB Investing Starter Kit Process. https://vimeo.com/1009328435/fb70336917 Have...

A quick summary of all 12 tools.

There are SO MANY WAYS to learn about investing. Here are some of our favorite resources (and we don’t get any referrals for this, it’s just a pure recommendation. That said, of course, use your discernment as you research these tools.) Books: Paris Woods, The Black Girls Guide to Financial Freedom (Not just for women!) Instagram account: MGB (has book recommendations) Newsletters: The Motley Fool Magazines: Kiplingers Websites: Investopedia Have you tried any of these? W

We are so thrilled about the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black woman to win the democratic nomination, and her...

Anything we pay attention to, benefits from that attention. The 7th tool in the MGB Investing Starter Kit financial fluency process is to review our finances regularly. If you have started investing , we suggest reviewing those investment quarterly--taking time every three months to take a deeper look and how those investments are coming along. Log into the account and then update the numbers in a spreadsheet to keep track. If you haven't started investing yet, this review co

Have you seen this episode? We're really happy about it! https://youtu.be/oaTM1K4WTFo?si=W1Kelh_XIzP_A7y9 Quick Links: Step 1 in the MGB...

Juneteenth this past week was a vibe! Hope you all enjoyed celebrating FREEDOM. Moonlight guiding the way. What does financial freedom...

In investing, one is actually NEVER DONE. There's always something one could do to improve things. ALWAYS. The market is constantly changing, and new innovations keep coming out that can make things better. If we don't stop and acknowledge the progress we have made, it can feel like an endless process. That's why this tool, Celebrating Milestones, is SO IMPORTANT. No one else can do it for us. We have to take stock of how far we have come, and celebrate the victories, big or

Check out my sister, Christina Lewis' new Wealth Advisory firm, Beatrice! See the articles in: Black Enterprise Forbes CNBC Institutional...

It's graduation season...

The mother of our Forever First Lady, Mrs. Marian Robinson made her transition to eternal life on May 31, 2024. I had never met her, but...