The Investing Starter Kit Blog

A time-honored way to do ANYTHING, mentorship is receiving guidance, advice, support from those who are farther along on the journey than...

Hi! If you have been following this blog, you know that the strategy we teach is one that Jack Bogle of Vanguard popularized:...

Happy Mother’s Day to you and your mom! Here’s a journaling exercise for Mother’s Day, related to investing. Write in your money journal...

Hi all! Known as the ‘world’s greatest investor,’ Warren Buffet spoke on May the Fourth (be with you!), at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual...

A financial friendship, a buddy system for improving your money skills.

Hi! Do you have what you need for your taxes? If not, use your Check in Chum to help yourself be accountable! Monday April 15 is 2024...

Happy April 1! A great day to share our money mistakes! Bringing them to light helps us to heal. Here's what I said in 2022 . And in 2023...

Ease with money and investing.

Take a look at my latest piece for Black History / Black Futures Month, reflecting on more things I learned from my dad ....

Once you've got your Money Journal, what do you do with it? Well, Money Excavations is what we suggest--start to explore your...

We can 'write our own deliverance' by using the tool of a ' money journa l' to document our process. Have you bought a new notebook for...

If you have been watching the S&P 500 , and I hope you have, since it's Step 1 in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process, then you know:...

This brilliant book, written by Dr King in 1963 (the 100 year anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation), gives me so...

I attended President Gay's inauguration back in September, along with a group of my classmates and my daughter, and it was one of the...

Tonight's principle is KUUMBA--Creativity. Learning how to invest doesn't actually require a lot of creativity. In fact, done properly,...

New York State has taken the historic step of launching a commission to explore the impact and role of African enslavement on our current...

The S&P 500 closed at 4719.19 yesterday. When I made this video in January of this year, the S&P 500 was at 3974.50. That is an 18.7%...

We made it! The 12th step in the MGB Investing Starter Kit process is a maintenance step, one that we all can conceivably continue for...

Buy and Hold is a 'passive' investment strategy made popular by Vanguard founder John Bogle and 'the world's greatest investor' Warren...

We here at MGB can't resist a holiday with the word BLACK in it! This post isn't a sale, it's not a special, it is just a wish for you...

Well, this is it--the step we have all been waiting for. Once you have taken steps 1-10, step 11 is when you finally get to start...