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Here Comes the Bear Market! Now What?

As the stock market dropped down into bear market territory, I created this video with some of my thoughts on March 12, 2020. You can choose to watch the video or read the transcript below. Video Transcript Hi friends, I’m Rebecca, welcome to Squintillions! Today I am talking about what is going on in the market and how I am reacting. First, the news of the day is that the market is dropping into bear territory. In reaction to this, the Fed is offering $500 billion in a 3 month repo operation. You can read their statement about that on… Read More »Here Comes the Bear Market! Now What?

Grow Your Dough Challenge 2019 Final Results

The Grow Your Dough Challenge involved putting $1,000 into your investment choices, via whatever investing platform you liked, at the beginning of 2019. I ended up investing via seven different platforms: Acorns, Capital One, E*Trade, Fundrise, Lending Club, M1 Finance and Robinhood. Read more about my year of investing…

Planning Your Life and Dreams Videos

Planning Your Life and Dreams: Top 10 Tips to Achieve Your Goals — Check out the videos I have created based on my favorite principles from Jack Canfield’s book “The Success Principles.” Includes a summary of the principles, actionable ideas, and my personal thoughts and experiences. A few of the topics discussed are: finding your purpose, goal setting, taking action, handling fear, and persevering.

Grow Your Dough Challenge 2019 Q2 Update

Time for the 2019 Grow Your Dough Challenge second quarter update! The Grow Your Dough Challenge involves putting $1000 into the investments of your choice via the investing platform of your choice at the beginning of the year. At the end of 12 months, we’ll see how the investments have progressed and which one can grow the most dough. For the challenge, I made investments across six different investing platforms, plus a special bonus category of investing in myself through my blogs and YouTube channel. (Click through to read more…)

Status Update for Squintillions and Shout Out!

Summer is here! What does that mean for Squintillions? It means my children are out of school and home with me all day and it is much more challenging to make any videos for the Squintillions YouTube channel. You know what is awesome though? I got a shout out from one of my favorite personal finance video influencers, Joseph Hogue, on his channel “Let’s Talk Money! with Joseph Hogue, CFA.” We are both doing the Grow Your Dough challenge and he referenced my previous Grow Your Dough update video. Check out his video here: Unforunately, my Sony RX100 VI camera… Read More »Status Update for Squintillions and Shout Out!

Grow Your Dough Challenge 2019 Q1 Update

Following my investment choices in the Grow Your Dough Challenge. $1000 invested for 12 months in each of theses accounts: Acorns, Robinhood, Fundrise, Lending Club, E*Trade, and a Capital One CD. Also looking at costs to develop my blog and YouTube channel as part of investing in these tools and my education to use them.

View my Lending Club Walkthrough

A short post to announce the release of my Lending Club Walkthrough YouTube video in which I review and show the Lending Club website for anyone curious about investing in this peer-to-peer lending platform.

View My Fundrise Walkthrough

I am so glad to announce that my Fundrise walkthrough is now available to view. This took a little while to make because after filming the first part I caught a rather nasty illness and LOST MY VOICE! Ever hear that expression that someone sounds like a frog? Yep, that was me. Croak. I was thinking of remaking the first part because I spliced so much of the video together, but with the delay and all the other content I have planned, I’m settling for this slightly rough, choppy version. But you do get to take a peak inside my… Read More »View My Fundrise Walkthrough