Hello everyone and welcome to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions. It is I, your host,

Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and a woman who loves talking about money.

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quotes and see how much you could say. And today my guest is someone that I have known in the personal

finance space for several years now. We've been to conferences together. We've collaborated on work stuff.

We've been in mastermind groups together. She's done events with us. She is a person who, if you

have an interest in personal finance and have been kind of in this space for a while yourself, especially if you're a lady, you probably have come across her work at some point or another. She's also someone that I think has an extremely unique and actionable perspective on a topic that is very interesting to a lot of people who want to take a slightly more active role

in the kind of investments they're making throughout their lives. We talk a lot on this show

about investing in the market and sort of more passive ways of generating wealth. And it's

very important that most of us participate in that, especially for things like saving for retirement.

And for most people, investing especially with things like retirement for retirement. And for most people investing,

especially with things like retirement accounts, are going to be a huge part of your overall

wealth building strategy. But another really big way to both secure long-term wealth,

to generate passive income, and just generally to make the best financial decisions possible,

is in our real estate choices. Now, most of us will end up buying a home

at some point in our lives, which for many of us, including even myself up to the point that I bought

my first home last year, remains kind of a mysterious process. But beyond that, we know that for many

average Americans, the homes that we live in, the homes that we own, maybe even the homes that we rent

out,

are going to be a big part of our overall long-term wealth building strategy. It's also an area that many people find, quite frankly, kind of fun and an area in which you can have a lot more

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