The Investing Starter Kit Blog

We celebrate one year of email newsletters! they all have different content than what you find here on the blog . Here they all are, in...

A time-honored way to do ANYTHING, mentorship is receiving guidance, advice, support from those who are farther along on the journey than us. When I started my career in acting, a brilliant woman named Dr. Barbara Ann Teer took me under her wing and cast me as Dorothy Dandridge in a one-woman show at her storied company, the National Black Theatre, based in Harlem. I learned so much from being connected with this woman, and her children, Michael and Sade are doing so much to

Hi! If you have been following this blog, you know that the strategy we teach is one that Jack Bogle of Vanguard popularized:...

Happy Mother’s Day to you and your mom! Here’s a journaling exercise for Mother’s Day, related to investing. Write in your money journal...

Hi all! Known as the ‘world’s greatest investor,’ Warren Buffet spoke on May the Fourth (be with you!), at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual...

A financial friendship, a buddy system for improving your money skills.

Hi! Do you have what you need for your taxes? If not, use your Check in Chum to help yourself be accountable! Monday April 15 is 2024...

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...

Ease with money and investing.

Take a look at my latest piece for Black History / Black Futures Month, reflecting on more things I learned from my dad ....

Once you've got your Money Journal, what do you do with it? Well, Money Excavations is what we suggest--start to explore your relationship with money. Have you started doing any digging into your money history? Let me know in the comments! And as always, thanks for reading this. 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 HERE What is Inv

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 your investing journey? Let me know in the comments! And as always, thanks for reading this. 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 HERE What is Investing? is HERE What is The MGB Investing Starter Kit

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:...

This brilliant book, written by Dr King in 1963 (the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation), gives me so...

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...

Tonight's principle is KUUMBA--Creativity. Learning how to invest doesn't actually require a lot of creativity. In fact, done properly, especially for a beginner, investing seems pretty boring at first. Our concept of how to get started with investing is HERE and once you really understand it, it won't seem very creative to you. But, after following our suggestion for a few years, we feel very sure that the results of your taking action-- dollar-cost averaging into an S&P50

New York State has taken the historic step of launching a commission to explore the impact and role of chattle enslavement on our current economy and society, with an eye toward the possibility of paying reparations someday. This is such a big deal. Photo: Gov Hochul's flickr page Here's a link to the program. https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/video-audio-photos-rush-transcript-governor-hochul-continues-new-yorks-leadership-racial My cousin attended. I would have loved to have

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%...

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 the rest of our lives! Basically, we cycle through the other steps regularly: Continue to pay attention to the S&P 500 track our expenses (and income) daily/regularly increase our income! work with a Check In Chum --the same one, or complete your agreement with them, and try a new person increase our Abundance Fund to 2-3 months worth of

Buy and Hold is a 'passive' investment strategy made popular by Vanguard founder John Bogle and 'the world's greatest investor' Warren...

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...