About
Hello and welcome to the Creative Force Podcast! I am so excited for this episode because I have returning guest Sarah Nicole Nadler back on the show to talk about something important - investing. Sarah is the founder of Fierce Feminine Finance, a published author, and a coach who recently crossed her first million dollar investment portfolio and yes, we are celebrating that!
In this episode, Sarah shares her own story of going from zero investing experience at age thirty to building a million dollar portfolio in eight years, and breaks down exactly how you can get started no matter where you are financially right now. We also get into biggest misconceptions and fears that hold women back, and she walks us through her step by step Feminine Fortune Formula for making smart data driven investment decisions.
If investing has ever felt intimidating, confusing, or just not for you, this episode is going to change that.
My Takeaways
• It is never too late and you are never too early to start investing. Zero to a million in eight years is possible even starting with no experience and making mistakes along the way.
• A stock is simply a word that describes owning a company. If you have ever been a business owner or dreamed of owning one, you already understand the concept of investing.
• Women have historically been kept out of investing spaces, both through exclusion from the stock exchange floor and through a financial industry that was financially motivated to keep women ignorant so they would keep paying others to manage their money.
• Most people skip straight to the girl gang vibe check (asking others what to invest in) before doing their own research. This is step five of the formula, not step one, and doing it too early can cost you a lot of money.
• Step 1 — The Abundance Resolution: Make your investing decision from a place of abundance not scarcity. Know your values, your goals, and your deepest desires before deciding what to do with your money.
• Step 2 — The Cash Couture Assessment: Pay yourself first. Your investment account and your fun money come before lifestyle inflation. If you always wait until there is money left over you will never invest.
• Step 3 — The Designer Piece Pick (Fundamental Analysis): Research the company behind the stock before you buy. Look at what they sell, their debt to income ratio, profit margins, and do a simple SWOT analysis. You are looking for designer value at clearance prices, not cheap trash.
• Step 4 — Chart Alchemy (Technical Analysis): Learn to read stock charts and use past performance signals to make educated guesses about future movement. Proper risk management means you only need to be right about 85 percent of the time to make great money.
• Step 5 — The Girl Gang Vibe Check: After doing your own research, then go ask trusted people their opinion. At that point you have enough data to actually evaluate what you hear rather than just being spoon fed someone else's experience.
• Emotional investing is the biggest mistake people make. Buy into hype, skip the formula, and you are essentially guessing. Make data driven decisions, not emotion based ones.
• Paper trading (now done digitally through apps like Trading View) lets you practice investing with simulated money so you can build skills before risking real money. Give yourself permission to be bad at this with smaller throw away amounts first.
• You can start investing with as little as one dollar through fractional shares. The skills you build with small amounts will protect you when you have larger amounts to invest.
• Money sitting in a regular savings account is losing value due to inflation. At minimum move it to a high yield savings account earning four to five percent. Better yet put it into the market or another investment.
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