The Certainty of Uncertainty
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Suze Orman Media
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This Suze School episode dives into how uncertainty drives volatility in the stock market. Despite what’s happening now, you don’t need to panic about market dips, especially if you are dollar-cost averaging into quality stocks. Suze also has advice for federal workers experiencing this current shutdown and how the shutdown affects all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Susio here now. What is the goal of money? The goal of money is for you to be secure. |
| 0:06.6 | And there is no better way for you to be secure than having an emergency savings account. |
| 0:13.2 | It is essential for your financial foundation. So all of you should be participating in |
| 0:19.2 | the ultimate opportunity savings account at Alliant Credit Union. |
| 0:24.0 | Go to myalliant.com to find out more and be secure. October 12, 2025, welcome everybody to the Women and Money podcast, as well as everybody smart enough to listen. |
| 0:48.5 | Today is Susie School, so get out those notebooks. |
| 0:53.2 | Are you ready? Today, Susie School is titled, The Certainty of Uncertainty. |
| 1:02.5 | Because the stock market, the stock market doesn't hate anything more than uncertainty. If there is uncertainty in the air, |
| 1:15.7 | that's when the markets start to go down. And why is that? I want you right now to think |
| 1:23.6 | about your own life. When you're really uncertain about something, you're either afraid or it's |
| 1:31.3 | just, you're just uncertain about what's going to happen. You know, should you do this, |
| 1:35.4 | should you do that, you tend to do nothing. Or let's say you're uncertain. Is it going to rain? Is it not? |
| 1:43.8 | You stay in the house. You protect yourself when you are |
| 1:48.4 | uncertain. So why does that affect the stock market? Because you, whether you know it or not, |
| 1:56.5 | you are the stock market. I know you think the stock market is made up of shares, shares of stock |
| 2:04.3 | in companies, either individual shares or bundled as mutual funds, ETFs, whatever it may be. |
| 2:13.0 | But what you have to understand is it is you, me, KT, it is people that buy and sell those shares. Just that |
| 2:25.3 | simple. And when you get uncertain about anything, or you see something that upsets you and you're like, |
| 2:32.8 | oh my God, here we go again. I'm uncertain of |
| 2:35.6 | the outcome. I'm uncertain in how this is going to affect me. What do you do? You will tend to sell, |
| 2:43.2 | especially if the markets are ticking down, especially, listen to me closely, if you have |
| 2:49.0 | incredible gains in some of your stocks, incredible gains, 100%, 200%, gains in |
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