Investing before you’re ready
An on-demand workshop for the girlies who know they should start investing… but haven’t yet.
Workshop
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You’ve probably told yourself something like:
“I just don’t feel ready to invest yet.”
Maybe you want to learn more first.
Maybe you feel like you don’t have enough money yet.
Maybe you have competing goals like saving for a house or paying off debt.
Or maybe investing just feels like one of those things you’ll get around to eventually.
Meanwhile…
You move money into savings because it feels safer.
You try reading another article about investing and give up halfway through.
You tell yourself, “This will be the year I start.”
And then life gets busy, and the moment passes.
We know this pattern well — because we’ve both lived it.
Even after writing about investing professionally and interviewing experts for years, we still found ourselves waiting to feel more ready.
Eventually we realized something important:
Feeling “ready” doesn’t come first.
Starting is what makes you feel ready.
Introducing: Investing before you’re ready
A 60-minute pre-recorded workshop to help you finally move from:
“I should probably start investing someday”
to
“Okay, I actually started.”
This isn’t a class designed to turn you into a stock-picking expert.
And we’re not going to throw complicated financial jargon at you.
Instead, we’ll walk you through the simple foundations of investing so it stops feeling mysterious and starts feeling doable.
By the end of the workshop, you should know exactly what your next step is.
This workshop is for you if…
Investing has been floating around in the back of your brain for months (or years)
You keep telling yourself you’ll start once you feel more confident
You’re tired of opening 17 tabs about Roth IRAs and still feeling confused
You worry about opening the wrong account or making the wrong decision
You want to start investing, but the whole thing still feels intimidating
Workshop details
Investing Before You’re Ready
🎥 You’ll get instant, lifetime access to the workshop upon purchasing
✍️ You’ll also get a workbook to fill out as you listen along
🤩 By the end of the hour, you’ll have an easy-to-implement game plan for how to start investing right now.
What we’ll cover during the workshop
1.
Your options when it comes to investing accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs — we’ll demystify all of them)
2.
How to know whether a retirement account or brokerage account makes sense for you
3.
The two superrrr simple strategies we personally use to invest (you might literally say “wait… that’s it?”)
4.
What actually goes inside an investing account
5.
How to make your first real-life investment contribution — even if it’s small
6.
Why you’re probably more ready to invest than you think
The biggest myth about investing
One of the reasons people wait so long to start investing is because it feels like a high-stakes decision.
Like if you choose the wrong account…
or buy the wrong thing…
or start at the wrong time…
you’ve permanently messed everything up.
But that’s not how investing actually works.
Investing isn’t a personality trait.
It’s a skill.
And like most skills, it gets easier once you stop trying to understand everything and start focusing on the next decision in front of you.
A note from us
We started The Finance Girlies because traditional finance advice often feels like it wasn’t made for people like us.
It can be overly complicated, overly technical, and honestly… kind of intimidating.
Our goal is to make money conversations feel approachable, human, and a little less lonely.
This workshop is an extension of that.
We’re not financial advisors.
We’re two finance writers who have spent years researching personal finance, interviewing experts, and figuring out what actually works in real life.
And we’d love to help you take your first step.
Ready to finally start?
If investing has been living in the back of your mind for a while, this is your nudge.
You don’t need to understand the entire stock market.
You don’t need thousands of dollars to start.
You just need enough clarity to take the first step.
👉 Grab the Investing Before You’re Ready workshop now
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. This workshop is specifically for people who know investing matters but still haven’t started yet — whether that’s because you feel confused, intimidated, underprepared, or all of the above.
You do not need to know a bunch of investing jargon ahead of time. We’re keeping this beginner-friendly, clear, and grounded in real life.
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Honestly, that’s kind of the point.
This workshop is for the girlies who are waiting to feel more confident, more informed, or more qualified before they begin. If you already felt fully ready, you probably wouldn’t need this.
We’re not here to magically erase every fear in 60 minutes. We are here to help you feel clear enough to take your next step.
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We’ll walk through the two very simple investing approaches we personally use, plus the basic building blocks you need to understand what goes inside an investing account.
That said, we’re not financial advisors, and this workshop isn’t personalized financial advice. Our goal is to help you understand your options, feel less intimidated, and make your first move with more confidence.
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It depends on the type of debt.
In general, if you have high-interest debt (like credit card debt), it might make more sense to focus on paying that down first before investing more aggressively. We’ll talk through that distinction in the workshop so you can better understand what makes sense for your situation.
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You do not need a huge amount of money to start investing.
Part of what we’ll talk about is how to think through investing when your income isn’t perfectly consistent, when you have competing goals, or when you’re not working with tons of margin. This is not a workshop for people with perfect finances. It’s for real people.
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Our goal is that you leave knowing what your next step is.
You’ll also get a downloadable investing blueprint to fill out during the workshop, so you’re not just walking away with more information — you’re walking away with a clearer plan.
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Not entirely, but retirement investing will be a big part of what we cover because it’s the most common place to start.
We’ll also help you understand the difference between retirement accounts and brokerage accounts, so you can better figure out what type of investing account makes sense for you.
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Then you’re among friends!
Truly — no shame here. We know a lot of smart, capable women who have put off investing for way longer than they expected to. This workshop is not about judging where you are. It’s about helping you move forward from here.
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Possibly — but that might not be a bad thing.
This workshop is designed to help people go from “I should start investing someday” to actually taking the first step. So we’ll be focusing on the foundations.
If you already understand the difference between retirement accounts and brokerage accounts, feel confident choosing investments, and have been investing consistently for a while, this may not add much for you.
But if you’ve been stuck in the “I know enough in theory but still haven’t started” phase, this will likely be exactly the bridge you need.
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Nope.
You can come to the workshop whether you’ve already opened an account, half-opened one and abandoned it, or haven’t touched the process at all yet.
We’ll walk through how to think about which accounts make sense to open and what the next step looks like for you.
Our goal isn’t for you to arrive perfectly prepared — it’s for you to leave feeling clear enough to start.