Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast.

Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life.

Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners.

Welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host.

So today I'm joined with Julianne Gunlock Smith.

How you doing today, Julian?

It's great. Glad to have you in the show.

Tell us a little bit about your background before we dive right in here. Yeah, so I would call myself an

investment educator and money coach. And I kind of had a roundabout way of coming into the financial

community. I like to tell people I use the Goldilocks method of finding my

life purpose. And really, my first career, I was a molecular biologist. So I mainly did lab research.

And what I found over time, though, you know, I felt like I was contributing to society, I really wouldn't see those results until like 10, 15 years down the road.

So I felt very isolated. I really miss person-to-person connection.

And, you know, around that time through that realization, my husband actually got laid off from his job.

My youngest child was just six months old.

We moved our family a thousand miles away, and I became a stay-at-home mom overnight.

And about two years into being a stay-at-home mom. My dad actually came to me and said, hey,

you know, do you want to attend the seminar about the stock market? And that really, really

completely piqued my interest. I didn't know how the logistics was going to work out, who was

going to watch my kids, and how all that was going to happen, but I knew I had to attend that

seminar.

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