Can you talk us through the different components of investing, i.e. the different steps that you go through in order to become an investor?

So when you start investing, first thing, you need to have a plan.

We talked about this also in the, in the first episode.

You need to have an emergency fund.

You don't wanna have a lot of debt that are very costly.

You have a plan, you know why you're investing, for you're investing for the medium term, for the long term, maybe for, for retirement.

Once you have your plan, you will need to pick a platform.

How would you go about building your portfolio step by step, and what does good investing look like in practice?

Can you just talk me through how we can keep calm when markets feel like they're going a bit crazy?

So for me, it's about having this plan, first of all, being financially organized, so you have a budget and you know how much money you're putting into your investments every month.

It's better to automate your investments so you're not deciding every month, "Oh, you know, how much money should I invest this month? How much money should I save? And if you invest money, what funds do I buy this month?" So I automate my investment, which means that every day on payday, a little bit of my pay is going into an investment portfolio, so that removes any decisions for me to pick and choose whatever I wanna buy.

Now, there's times in a year where you can review, sit down and look at your investments and check that your contributions are invested properly.

So making sure you take a step back.

I think it's fine to switch off financial and investing news sometimes.

So if there's some areas that you're interested in, maybe take the time to research these areas instead of reacting to market fluctuations.

Yeah, so then women have the sense that they've missed out.