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June 11th, 2021. Welcome everybody to the Women in Money podcast, as well as everybody smart enough to listen.

All right, it is Susie School today and the topic of Susie School today is change.

How does change and what happens in the world affect how you invest and what you invest in?

It was 1980 and I first became a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch and I was so proud to be a stockbroker.

And to be a stockbroker, you have to study and get your Siri 7 exam and know everything about the economy

and all of these things so that you really know how to invest people's money theoretically speaking

because learning about it and doing it is a whole nother thing. However, during that time,

I was the only woman stockbroker. Most of the other 105 stockbrokers all male were so much older than me.

It's not even funny. And I wanted to learn. I would always go to them and say, can you teach me this?

What about this? What does this mean? And they would answer and we had a great relationship.

But I also had an older brother who was brilliant and he still is. And he would say to me, Susie,

you need to learn how to do a technique called covered call writing. And if you could do that,

you can make yourself and your clients a lot of money. And I said, well, Bobby, what's that about?

And he said, Susie, it's about options. Options can be speculative, Susie, but they can also be used

to be very conservative. And I'm doing it, Susie, and I'm making a good 20% every few months on my money.

But you should go to the brokers and learn about it from them. And I'll never forget being so excited

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