Jul 27, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
In this episode, I reflect on five things I did around five years ago that are paying off in a big way now — from scrappy investing beginnings to mindset shifts that changed everything. It's a…
Now, if we wanna be really, really, like, you know, splitting hairs about it, I think I invested my first dollar in 2019.
But at that time when I'd invested that little bit, I was pretty much, like, I was on a bit of a roll of, uh, you know, I would open the accounts, and a lot of them had, like, um, uh, sign-up and referral bonuses at that time.
And so I would, like, get the $20 invested and just with, like, free investment and just withdraw it, because it was, like, a quick way.
There were micro-investing apps, and I started just dabbling in putting in, like, $5 a week.
It started really, really small, and then gradually I started to invest more and more.
Now I, I moved over to one, uh, share platform in 2022, so bang on four years ago.
A little over four years ago, March 2022, I moved my investments that I had with, um, a different broking platform.
But the ones that you could transfer, the shares that you own, that you are, uh, that are chess sponsored, that you're a chess holder of in Australia, you can transfer over to a different platform.
But at that time, so in those first sort of couple of years of dabbling, I had invested about $3,000, Australian dollars.
Now, if we wanna be really, really, like, you know, splitting hairs about it, I think I invested my first dollar in 2019.
But at that time when I'd invested that little bit, I was pretty much, like, I was on a bit of a roll of, uh, you know, I would open the accounts, and a lot of them had, like, um, uh, sign-up and referral bonuses at that time.
And so I would, like, get the $20 invested and just with, like, free investment and just withdraw it, because it was, like, a quick way.
There were micro-investing apps, and I started just dabbling in putting in, like, $5 a week.
It started really, really small, and then gradually I started to invest more and more.
Now I, I moved over to one, uh, share platform in 2022, so bang on four years ago.
A little over four years ago, March 2022, I moved my investments that I had with, um, a different broking platform.
But the ones that you could transfer, the shares that you own, that you are, uh, that are chess sponsored, that you're a chess holder of in Australia, you can transfer over to a different platform.
But at that time, so in those first sort of couple of years of dabbling, I had invested about $3,000, Australian dollars.
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