Category: Investing

  • Do You Need An HSA?

    Do You Need An HSA?

    You might already be using your HSA for healthcare expenses, but have you thought about using it for your retirement plan too? Most people know an HSA as a Health Savings Account—a place to stash money for future healthcare costs. It can cover everything from doctor’s visits and prescriptions to…

  • A Quick Guide to a Roth IRA vs Savings Account (and Other Retirement Accounts)

    A Quick Guide to a Roth IRA vs Savings Account (and Other Retirement Accounts)

    The difference between a Roth IRA vs Savings is simple- one is a retirement account and the other is not. And one is an investment account, and the other is not. So a savings account is pretty simple. It’s an account you open with a bank for future expenses. It’s…

  • How to Invest in a Roth IRA in 15 Minutes

    How to Invest in a Roth IRA in 15 Minutes

    In 2020- during the peak pandemic time- I was making sales commission checks and had no restaurants and vacation plans to spend them on. This was the opportune time to finally up my investment game by opening a Roth IRA. I had heard about the Roth IRA, and it became…

  • How I Overcame My Fear of Investing

    How I Overcame My Fear of Investing

    What do you think about when you hear the word “investing”? Do you see 25-year-old women chatting about their low-cost index funds with green smoothies in their hands?  Or do you immediately see men on Wall Street with some numbers you can’t read and some graphs that go up and…

  • How I Started Investing With Little Money

    How I Started Investing With Little Money

    Why invest? In my other post, “How I got over my fear of investing,” I talk about why I was so convinced investing is the key to my financial future. You can check out the post to see the magic of investing and how it can make a difference for…