DeAndre will be the first to tell you: two years ago, he had no idea what a portfolio was. He'd been working at the same warehouse for eight years, earning a solid wage, but every dollar was accounted for before it hit his account.
"I wasn't bad with money," he told us. "I just didn't know there was more to do with it than pay bills and survive."
Everything changed when a coworker dragged him to one of our Saturday workshops. DeAndre almost didn't come — he thought it was going to be a "get rich quick" scheme. Instead, he got a wake-up call.
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Book Your Free Seat →We started him with the basics: build a $1,000 emergency fund, then get a term life policy to protect his two kids. That took three months. Then we moved to phase two: automate savings and start learning about investing.
DeAndre opened a Roth IRA with $50/month. He started reading about index funds. He asked questions in our monthly group sessions. Slowly, the numbers started making sense.
Today, DeAndre's portfolio is worth over $12,000. His emergency fund is fully stocked. His life insurance is in place. And every Sunday night, he sits down with his kids — ages 9 and 12 — and they review the portfolio together.
"My daughter asked me what compound interest was," he said, laughing. "I never thought I'd be the dad who could answer that question."
That's the real return on investment. Not just the money — the confidence, the knowledge, and the legacy you pass down.
