This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1351.

What does it take to be a successful investor?

By Vicky Cook and Amy Blacklock of Women Who Money.com.

And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Merriam.

This is the show where I narrate posts from a wide variety of personal finance blogs.

We cover so much on this show from saving to

investing to debt reduction and more. Today we're going to be talking about

something I've experienced firsthand, the confidence gap often seen with women and investing.

Fear, not friends, it can be overcome.

Stay tuned after the reading where I'll provide a trick that I use to handle the emotional side of investing.

But for now, let's hop into this post before you hop into your weekend and start optimizing your life.

What does it take to be a successful investor by Vicky Cook and Amy Blacklock of Women Who Money.com. Several studies in the last few years

have found that many women are really good investors.

In fact, you might be surprised to learn that women often

earn higher returns on their

investments than men. They also tend to add more to their account balances over time,

but there's still a confidence gap when it comes to women and investing.

Many women don't invest their money or enough of it

because they lack confidence.

This causes them to miss out on the power of compounding that's earning interest on top of

interest for years. Instead women tend to play it safe by using savings accounts

rather than investing their money. While using a savings accounts rather than investing their money.

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