Live frugally, save abundantly, invest intelligently. Join us as we interview special guest Mabel Nunez, the founder of Girlsonthemoney.com, where she shares her investing success journey and how she's helping others boost their investing knowledge. The Cash Kid Podcast is underway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Transcript Live frugally, save abundantly, invest intelligently. That’s our guests’ motto on the show today. Welcome back to another episode of the Cash Kid Podcast where we continue to build super financial skills. If you aren’t, please be sure to follow us on social media. Just search Cash Kid Podcast or on our website at CashKidPodcast.com. Cash Kid’s we’ve got a special guest on the show whose story is inspiring and motivating to learn how to invest. Parents, there’s an investing course for you to learn about as well. Listen up! The Cash Kid Podcast is underway. Cash Kids, we've got a special guest on the show whose story is inspiring and motivating to learn how to invest. Parents, there's an investing course for you to learn about as well. Listen up, the Cash Kid podcast is underway. So, you got some cash, maybe from an allowance? Or, that money your grandma gave you for your seventh birthday. Here ya go, sweetie! Woo hoo! Thanks, Grandma! Whatever it is, what are you gonna do with it? Spend it? Hide it away? Or maybe invest it? Let's start learning how to make that money grow. Time to learn how to be a Cash Kid. Cash Kid: Joining us today is Mrs. Mabel Nunez. Mabel Nunez is the founder and CEO of Girls on the Money, with over 60, 000 on her Instagram page alone, and 10, 000 members on her Facebook She's a blogger and investing educator whose mission is to teach everyday people how they can intelligently invest too. Welcome to the show. And first off, tell us a little bit about yourself and your story. Mabel Nunez: Hi, Cash Kid. I'm very excited to be here inviting me and I guess I can say I can start with the fact that I wasn't born in the United States. I was born in an island in the Caribbean called the Dominican Republic and I moved to the States when I was 9 years old and from a very young age. My parents always taught me. The importance of saving money and, you know, being careful with credit cards, things like that. Um, but it wasn't until I went to college my, my last year of college, my senior year when I discovered the stock market and investing and I. You know, fell in love with it and became obsessed with it. Um, but, you know, it wasn't something that I learned at home. I learned that when I was already in school, but I'm very grateful and blessed that even though I didn't know how to invest from a young age, I still kind of knew the basics of personal finance from my parents. I grew up in a very, um. Um, I guess poor household because we were immigrants. So we had limited resources and things like that. So we had to kind of make do with what we had. And then later on when I, you know, made my own money and started investing, I discovered, you know, this whole new world. So that's kind of how things started off. Cash Kid: That's really interesting. Tell us about Girls on the Money and why you started this site. Mabel Nunez: So I started Girls on the Money because when I started to invest, um, And I became obsessed with it, like I said, I noticed that a lot of my friends, my female friends weren't into investing, or they found investing intimidating, or they were, they thought it was too complicated. And most of the people that I will talk to about stocks and funds will be my male friends, my guy friends. Because they were the ones into it. Um, so I thought, you know, there was a disconnect there. You know, I wondered why weren't more women talking about investing? Why were they so scared of it? So it kind of like, you know, it was like a light bulb moment for me to, okay, I need to create a community or a platform that increases the confidence of women to start investing or, you know, girls. Even though, like I say on my website, I don't discriminate if like, you know, guys want to learn too. Like that's fine. I welcome them. But my, the majority of the people that I target are female. Cash Kid: Yeah. I love how on your site you talk about investing being your passion. That's how I started my podcast as it was part of a passion project. We were assigned that school. Why is investing your passion? Mabel Nunez: So investing is my passion because, um, I guess it first started with my professor, my college professor that I mentioned before my senior year. He, uh, kind of explained to us how anybody with any income can become a part owner of companies. You know, major companies, you know, like the McDonald's, the apples, the Microsoft. So I was like, very impressed by the fact that wow, like me, like an average person, you know, with an average ...
