Investing For Financial Independence | Dr. Dewan Farhana, DO, Doctor Finances
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Episode 144 is all about investing for financial independence, featuring Dr. Dewan Farhana of @doctor_finances!
Dr. Dewan Farhana, DO is a tech entrepreneur, thought leader on health care technology, and advocate of financial literacy. She studied cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University, conducted basic sciences research at Yale Medical School and earned her medical degree from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.
She founded Betternest, a software tech startup that connects users to digital and physical organization services to create functional spaces that improve quality of life. As the CEO of Betternest, she raised venture funding from angel investors and Rutgers Business School. Dewan was selected as a NPR “How I Built This” Fellow, received many leadership accolades and was featured in news media including Martha Stewart, Romper and White Coat Investor. She also founded and sits on the board of the Human Dignity Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on the upward mobility of impoverished individuals worldwide.
Dewan is a strong advocate of financial literacy and broad-based investing strategies to achieve financial freedom. She posts weekly on these topics to her 20K+ followers on Instagram and doctorfinances.com.
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| 0:00.0 | I think one of the most important things to know is, first of all, how the stock market works. |
| 0:04.4 | You know, there's the biggest fear with investing is like, oh, my God, I'm going to lose all my money. And I think we were all in this. And we were like, we were too hard for our money and there's no way that we're going to invest it. So one thing to know is that the market does have fluctuations. It will have ups and downs. And it's expected. We've had major crashes after 9-11, the Great Depression, |
| 0:23.3 | the tech bubble burst and all of that. But the important thing to remember is that the market |
| 0:27.9 | always recovers and the market always goes up. You're listening to Yo Quiero Dinoero, a personal |
| 0:35.4 | finance podcast for the modern Latina. I'm your host, |
| 0:38.6 | Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert, speaker, writer, and business coach. |
| 0:44.3 | I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain financial independence through side hustles |
| 0:48.5 | and investing. On this show, we're serving up POC-friendly personal finance knowledge, |
| 0:54.0 | always with a side of SaaS. |
| 0:55.8 | We're talking about how to make Dineiro, how to keep it, and how to make it grow. |
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