YOUR FIRST INVESTMENT: PAYING ATTENTION
Growing up, investments were not a common language at the dinner table, over holidays or a family gatherings. When I went off to college and even into adulthood, I started to be exposed to more folks talking about finances, financial advisement, investors, stocks + bonds, IRAs, 401Ks and retirement. It used to make my head spin. Nowadays, thankfully, there is more common language and resource sharing happening around building generational wealth that I think over the few decades, we will reach new levels of wealth by more people than we've ever seen before. However painful, my lack of awareness brought to my attention how few of us grew up with financial education. It wasn't taught in primary, middle or high school, unless you had a chapter of Junior Achievement, and not in college unless you were a Finance major. I have made many bad decisions when it comes to money, but as I fumble forward I commit to teach what I know to my siblings, my community and find ways to teach it to the little humans so they have a head start much sooner. Today, in addition to all the other things I'm up to (doing the MOST), I am a licensed insurance broker which I plan to use actively as I
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