Last weekend I attended my third Rule #1 Transformational Investing Workshop in gorgeous San Diego, California. Every month, this workshop is hosted by hedge fund manager, New York Times Best Selling Author and motivational speaker, Phil Town and his family of instructors (“Rulers”) with the goal of evangelizing investing literacy. Tl;dr I STAN this workshop fam. I first discovered Rule #1 last year when I was looking to step up my investing game, and stepped it up I did. Tbh

This month is all about unblocking your fear of taking full agency of your dolla dolla bills ya’ll and trusting your hard-earned cash in Mr. Market – dun, dun, dun! So you’ve been hurt by him before – maybe you’re like me and witnessed first-hand the Great Recession’s (combined with an wicked-stepmom divorce) devastation of your parent’s finances in the years leading up to the biggest purchase of your life: university. Maybe it wiped out your college fund, maybe your parents

Why do I invest? I could repeat some corny Instagram caption about female empowerment, the gender wage gap, having a seat at the table - that it's a part of my feminist agenda, and I want to "vote with my dollars." I could say it's because I want to be "one of the guys" 🌭, or because every time I hear a dude say something like, "oh yeah, I totally shorted Tesla today bro" my eyes almost get stuck in the back of my head. I could talk about my obsession with money from an ear

So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your job's a joke, you're broke... Sound familiar? Yes it's the Friends theme song, but it's also all of us. Okay, so maybe that's not entirely true; some of us have pretty sick jobs or maybe a boyfriend/girlfriend who actually likes ALL of our Instagrams and watches ALL of our stories (can't relate tbh), but most of us have wanted, or desperately needed, some extra cash at some point - unless you're first lady-daughter Ivanka Tr