Start Investing This Year Without Overthinking Every Decision

About this episode

Shari Rash discusses how to start investing without overthinking decisions and addresses common hesitations women face in investing.

If you’ve been telling yourself, “This is the year I’m finally going to start investing,” but somehow another month goes by and you still haven’t done anything, this episode is for you. Investing hesitation is almost never about intelligence. It’s about uncertainty. What if you pick the wrong thing? What if the market drops? What if you should be doing something else with the money first? And when every decision feels high-stakes, it’s easy to stay stuck in research mode and call it being responsible. In this episode, Shari Rash, founder of GWA Wealth, breaks down where to actually start if you want to invest this year. You’ll learn the investing order of operations, why cash reserves matter before you start putting money into the market, how to think about employer matches, IRAs, Roth IRAs, taxable brokerage accounts, and why consistency usually matters more than picking the “perfect” investment. You’ll also hear why sitting on too much cash can quietly cost you, how to think about investing when you still have debt, and why the goal is not to become obsessed with investing — it’s to build a plan you can actually stick with. You’ll hear: Why smart women delay investing even when…

People in this episode

Host: Shari Rash

Topics covered

• investing
• financial planning
• women and finance
• overcoming hesitation
• investment strategies

Keywords

• investing
• financial advice
• cash reserves
• IRAs
• market timing
• debt
• investment strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GWA Wealth

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