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You're listening to Ramsey everyday millionaires where we talk investing, retirement, building wealth and outrageous generosity. We'll go directly to the phone lines here with Dorothy in Boston, Massachusetts.

What's going on Dorothy?

Hey Jade.

Hi Rachel.

My question today is where would be a really good place to start when someone knows little

to nothing about investing?

I love that question. Is it you? It is me. I'm asking

for a friend. Yeah, right here. No, it's great. You know, I let me just tell you what I did. I knew that I wanted to work with a Smartvester

Pro or like work with a professional, but I also wanted to kind of have like a baseline of knowledge going in so that I could follow them in the conversations and also have an idea of what I wanted because I didn't want to go into it with this idea of like,

okay, you just tell me what to do, right?

I wanted to learn and understand it.

And so for me, a lot of that was I started listening to shows like this and digging into that content and on our website

Ramsey Solutions.com we have so many articles on investing and all these things that you can really sort through

and I think that that's a really

great resource and then I just spent time doing my own research and then I called up

a Smartfester Pro and I kind of let them know hey here's what I'm thinking the financial plan that I

follow talks about investing across four types growth, growth and income,

aggressive growth and international and they talk about putting 25% into each one.

I agree with that.

You know, and I just really started that conversation and I let them know, hey, I'm open

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