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Dividend investing helps your mental health by not caring as much about market volatility

because you're getting reliable and rising cash payouts every three months.

Dividend investing is a no-fail strategy that makes investing easy and allows you to earn income while you sleep, golf, relax, and travel.

Dividend investing can make you money while you sleep.

These are just a few of the countless claims from well-followed people arguing that dividends are the solution to our investing problems.

And it's not just limited to

financial influencers on social media. The last quote was the actual title of an article

published by CNBC earlier this year. The misleading claims are getting louder, more extreme,

and reaching more people than ever before. I get it, yield and predictable income and making money

while I sleep is appealing. Much more appealing than spending from my diversified portfolio of

stocks and bonds. While dividends are a normal and natural part of the investing process, their

role in a retirement portfolio is often misunderstood. In fact, one academic study concludes that

reducing exposure to dividend stocks can actually boost your long-term returns. Welcome to the

Staywaldi podcast. I'm your host Taylor Schulte, and today I'm very excited to kick off a multi-part

series on dividend investing. Once and for all, you will have a clear understanding of how dividends work, the role they play

in the investing world, why some companies issue them and some don't, the pros and cons of

this investment approach, and an underrated alternative to companies paying a dividend.

To grab the links and resources from today's episode,

just head over to you staywealthy.com forward slash 217. When a company is profitable,

it can choose to invest those profits back into the business to fuel future growth or it can

pay eligible shareholders a cash

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