Welcome to Financial Foundations, a many series of financial feminists brought to you by State Farm.

During each episode of this limited series, we'll be tackling financial basics,

like budgeting, investing, debt, and what it really means to be a financial feminist

to help you get on track no matter where you're at on your money journey.

Through short actionable episodes and simple homework exercises,

I'll help you build a financial plan you'll actually want to stick to.

Thanks again to our sponsor State Farm for making the series possible.

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.

Welcome back Financial Feminists to our Financial Foundations series.

If you are new to this series, what we've been doing is going step by step through a lot of

the financial basics. A lot of the too long didn't read versions of personal finance in order.

So this is episode five all about investing. And if you haven't listened to episodes one through four,

I need you to do that before you listen to this episode. These are primers. These are meant to be

consumed literally episodically. Please don't dive into season five of the show before you watch

the other seasons. I also want to thank our friends over at State Farm who are allowing us to do

this incredible series. So if you like this series have gotten some benefit from it.

Feel free to share it. Feel free to let us know. All right.

Let's talk about first some homework from last week.

You might recall that we asked you to write down our thoughts about investing.

Write down your common beliefs or your common narratives that you've heard about investing.

Maybe they're things like investing is gambling or it's too late for me to start investing.

Or investing is complicated and I should just have someone do it for me so I don't have to worry

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