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While investing in the newest currency, technology, or financial instrument out there can be both interesting and lucrative, the reality is that true sustainable wealth is built when you have a strong financial foundation in place. That means starting with the basics. I recommend streamlining and simplifying as often as possible, which is why I […]
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New year, new you! Let’s be honest, most of us have just been hanging on for dear life over the last two years. We all got thrown a major curveball and now we’re finally starting to get back on track inside whatever this new version of life will look like. If you’re anything like me,
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The following interview with Lauryn Williams of Worth Winning was conducted over email and edited for flow and clarity. Lauryn Williams is a CFP, an entrepreneur, and a podcast host. She is just coming off the heels of hosting her very first financial retreat, The Worth Winning Retreat, which was a success. As a former
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Investing means using your money to earn more money. Those designer shoes you buy before your job interview are not an investment. In order for something to count as an investment, you must use capital of some type to purchase an asset that in turn has the ability to earn interest. The shoes may give
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Through my Financial Coaching practice with The Financial Gym, I’ve been able to work with hundreds of people from all different backgrounds. I have in-depth conversations with clients to learn their financial histories and future goals while creating comprehensive financial plans to help them achieve those goals. Through this work, I have started to notice
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The following conversation was conducted over email and edited for flow and clarity. For the second installment of our exciting interview with Jerel Registre, he takes a deeper dive into the cannabis industry and the ways in which Black and Brown people have been ostracized from monetarily capitalizing in this space. This is particularly important
The following conversation was conducted over email and edited for flow and clarity. We had the opportunity to chat with Jerel Registre, Managing Director of Curio WMBE Fund, to learn about private equity investing through the Cannabis and Wellness space. This interview was filled with so much valuable information that we had to break it
In the second half of this series, I’m exploring current proposals that could help close the racial wealth gap, individual actions you can take to help reconfigure our systems, and a few next steps to help you and your family rise above the statistics. As I wrote in part one of this series, the racial
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While the solution and causes behind the racial wealth gap are complicated, the problem itself is simple. The fact is, Black families in the U.S. hold about 15% the wealth of white families. Because it takes wealth (or capital) in this country to create more wealth, it has become mathematically impossible to catch up. One
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The following conversation was conducted over email and edited for flow and clarity. Arthur P. Johnson, Jr. is the chief strategy officer at Pure Storage. He has held several senior level positions in technology and finance. In addition to his very accomplished career he has built a real estate portfolio of 50+ units across four