Watching Trees Grow

Watching Trees Grow is a money and personal finance podcast for Gen Z. Grow your knowledge of finance and understand the consequences of your money choices.

Office Hours is a 10-week series that brings the classroom to the Troutwood Community. Troutwood CEO, Gene Natali, has taught collegiate personal finance since 2015.

In Week 4 of Office Hours:

We begin with a review of Kweku Obed's Podcast episode, The ABCs of Investment Consulting. Students were asked to listen to Kweku, and then write down and discuss 3 actionable steps they could apply to their financial plans.

ABCs of Investment Consulting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7MsKEVvgE

Three takeaways from the conversation with Kweku:

1) Don't letting emotion drive your money decisions.
2) Gaining a better understanding of what it means to be a long-term investor.
3) It is possible to pursue your passion and love what you do.

We then covered:
- Debt
- Credit Cards
- Introduced the importance of insurance and emergency funds (important to cover in a complete future episode)
- Budgeting (Stress the importance of using data from www.bls.gov, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
-Soft introduction to investing

Many students are using Discover's student card as their first credit card. This is not a recommendation or a referral. You can learn more here: https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/student-credit-card/

Play "Buy, Sell, Hold!": https://apps.apple.com/us/app/buy-sell-hold/id1530137002?platform=iphone

Members of the Troutwood team are fact checking and asking questions behind the scenes in every episode of Troutwood's Watching Trees Grow Podcast.

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