Ep. 1 - Ten Reasons Investing is Awesome

This episode is an intro to The Investing City Podcast. In it, we go through 10 reasons why everyone should invest. Here's the link to the original blog post: https://www.investingcity.org/blog/a-vision-for-investing Thank you so much for listening, we really appreciate you. If you have found this valuable, please consider leaving us a review as it will help more people find it! Thanks you're awesome! You can find more information and content by going to these places: Website: https://www.investingcity.org YouTube: Investing City Twitter: investing_city Instagram: investing_city Or feel free to email us at service@investingcity.org Again, we really appreciate that you would take the time to listen. Hope it was valuable. Let us know if you have any questions! For the hearing impaired or those that like to read here is the full episode transcripted (we'll try to do this as often as we can!). Enjoy! Episode 1: Intro Episode (Transcripted) Okay, here's the first episode. And then we're a little bit late to the podcasting game. We're still excited. Nonetheless, just to get this thing rolling, and the purpose of this first episode, and really just be an introduction to who I am, what investing city is, and why you should listen to this podcast. So I just want to give you a little bit of context on who I am. Typically, the format for this podcast will be interview style with me interviewing interesting people. But I do just want to give a little bit of background on myself, just so you know who's talking. So my name is Ryan Reeves. And I'm 21 years old. I'm from Southern California. And I love investing. I've been investing since I was 12 years old, I bought my first shares in a stock cold Corning glassware because I typed in "best stocks to buy" on Google. And that was one of the first ones to pop up. But since then, I've learned a thing or two about investing. And I hope to share those things. Because I really have a passion for investing and teaching investing. And so that's why I started investing city you can find it at www.investingcity.org. And the goal is really just to create a community where people can learn about investing, and just take back a little bit of financial freedom. So that's a little bit about me and investing city. But I really just want to elaborate on what we hope to accomplish by doing this podcast and why you should listen. So the goal of this podcast is, like it said in the intro to get better at investing business and life. And we'll do that by talking to interesting people about just those topics. We especially want this to be interesting and relevant to your life. Because, you know, life's too short to be bored and not learn. So that's really the goal. But for this first episode, we'll do something a little different. So to really hammer home, those points will go through one of my original blog posts called a vision for investing. And it goes through 10 reasons why I believe everybody should be interested in investing, and why it is a fascinating topic. So without further ado, let's just hop right into it. So Reason number one is the stock market is a game, it's a game because there's so many moving pieces. And you can use critical thinking and strategy to really get the upper hand for instance, when I was younger, I wanted to be the general manager of an NBA team, just like I'm sure was the case with a lot of other little boys. But I really view the stock market and investing in kind of a similar fashion. So if you're a general manager, your job is to get a lot of pieces together, you have to get players that play well together, you have to make sure that the chemistry is good, you have to look out for the strengths and weaknesses of other players. And your goal is to really have the best team possible so that you can win a...