Each week, Penny Forward members meet to learn from and support each other as they become better money managers. These workshops are recorded so members can listen to workshops they missed or refer back to particularly memorable topics.
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Wednesday Workshop: Finding Money To Save and Invest
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Finding Money To Save and InvestTonight we talked about how to find extra money to save and invest. Investing can be a powerful tool for growing our savings, and having enough saved can give us peace of mind when something suddenly comes up. What do you do, though, if you don’t have any money left over to save? We’ll discuss…
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Wednesday Workshop: Risks and Benefits of Investing
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Risks and Benefits of InvestingThis week we talked about the risks and benefits of using investing to achieve our goals more quickly. When we first learn about investing, many of us immediately wonder how we can use investing to speed up saving for a short-term goal such as a vacation or a new home. We also tend to look…
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Wednesday Workshop: Investing in Dividend Stocks
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Investing in Dividend StocksThis week we talked about how investing in dividend stocks can help us earn more from our investments. Investing in growing companies can be a great way to grow your savings more quickly, but is buying low and selling high the only way to earn money from our investments? Dividends are distributions of a company’s…
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Wednesday Workshop: Yahoo’s Finance App
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Yahoo’s Finance AppThis week we continued looking at investing from a beginners perspective using the Yahoo Finance app’s accessible charts. Specifically, we discussed how investing in a large number of stocks, using a fund, is less risky than investing an individual company stock. We also discussed how investing over long periods of time is less risky than…
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Wednesday Workshop: Yahoo Finance App
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Yahoo Finance AppThis week we talked about investing from a beginners perspective and explored the Yahoo Finance app, which has some interesting accessible charts that you can use to analyze the history of individual stocks or the market as a whole. Chris had Internet issues during this call, so this recording may be corrupted, but we’re posting…
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Wednesday Workshop: Motivation To Succeed
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Motivation To SucceedThis was the last call in our series about the SMART (specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, and time-driven) framework for defining and achieving our financial goals. We talked about how time can be used to motivate us to succeed, or can be used to make our goals more realistic. We also discussed how social anxiety and…
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Wednesday Workshop: Achieving Our Goals
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Achieving Our GoalsThis was the third call focusing on the SMART (specific, measurable, actionable, realistic, time-driven) framework for defining and achieving our financial goals. This we focused on actions we can take to get started, keep going, and cross the finish line to achieve our goals. Next week we’ll be discussing why we believe our goals are…
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Wednesday Workshop: Wrestling With What-Ifs
Listen to: Wednesday Workshop: Wrestling With What-IfsThis week we followed up on some concerns brought up on last week’s call about wrestling with “what-ifs” and introduced the “SMART” framework for defining goals. Each member defined a goal and we spent a short time finding a way to make it more specific. Next week we’ll be talking about how to define measurements…