After her divorce, a woman joined an investment club where she felt welcomed and stayed for 12 years. She built a stock portfolio, votes her proxy, and now sits on the nonprofit board that supported the club.
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About 12 years.
March 20, 2025.
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And then you join this investment club. So that's pretty interesting. And what was that like? Like, did you feel welcome? Did you feel like, okay? I mean, that's like a move to kind of okay, hey, newly single mom, I'm not really, like, financially savvy, but I'm going to go join some random investment club and kind of show up. I mean, what was that like?
Right? It's funny. So it was something that I was interested in because I had to ask myself that hard question. Okay. Now that I'm divorced and, you know, we had shared. Shared parenting and all that, it's like, so what do I want to do? Because it was pretty much all about the family. And I'm like, I was always interested in the stock market. So when a friend of mine told me about the investment club, you could actually visit the club and see what they do. You didn't have to join. You know, you could visit as many times as you want. So they were all so smart. They were all very, very inviting, like this investment club. And like the better investing organization that supported it, their nonprofit organization, it really changed the trajectory for me because they're talking about increasing revenues, you, increasing profits, evaluating management. I mean, I vote my proxy. And now, and to this day, I still have an individual stock portfolio. It's small, but I enjoy being an individual owner. And they were all inviting. They would go to lunch afterwards. Many of them are still very good friends of mine. I. I stayed in the club for about 12 years, and I. Even for the nonprofit organization, I now serve on the board. So that's how much I really benefited from that organization and still want to be a part of it.
