Who am I? And why am I starting a blog about Finance?

Hello everyone, before starting my blog I would like to share with you who I am and also some of my background. Not just in the Financial world but also in my personal Life.

Let me tell you a Story 📖

I want to start by introducing myself: my name is Carlos Rullan Zarraga and I am 20 years old. I am from Veracruz, Mexico but I live in Riverside, California. I attend to Riverside City College and this spring I am getting my associate’s degree in business administration. I’m a tennis player and I play for the Men’s tennis team at RCC.

When I was 17 years old COVID happened, and I couldn’t play tennis for months because courts were closed. I was used to train tennis about 3 hours a day. So with that free time at home I started discovering other skills that I didn’t know I had, and that’s when I discovered the entrepreneurial world. I read the book Rich dad poor dad, and my mindset changed completely. After I finished that book I wanted to make money so I started selling clothes that I wasn’t using anymore. In fact, I even created a page called quarantine shop, here is a photo 👇🏻

I remember I used to get super excited when someone Dm me for details😃

After I sold all the inventory I had (all of my closet 😂) I didn’t know what to do with the money. I remembered asking myself “Should I save it or invest it?” but I knew I didn’t want to just spend it all. So I started searching on the internet about Investing and that’s the day I started learning about it.

As a beginner in the investing world, I thought investing was just buying the hottest stock at the moment and expecting a 30x return in 2 months. I didn’t know anything, but social media influenced me to make dumb decision. I lost money since I also invested in cryptocurrency without doing any research just because everyone said it was going to go up, or the classic finance phrase “ to the moon”, but I learned from those mistakes and I started really educating myself through books and courses about personal finance and the stock market and I am still learning to this day.

Why should you read this blog?

My main goal why I started this blog is to help people learn about finance, because nowadays everyone is talking about stocks or investing your money, but they don’t actually tell you how to start or how to know if that strategy is the right fit for your situation. Let’s not forget that everyone’s situation is different.

People have come to me to ask for advice so I decided to put all the information on this blog. I am not going to lie to you, I do not consider myself a finance expert but I know I can help people understand better the concept of investing.

In this blog, I will teach all the concepts and things I have learned from investing in the stock market, and share with you all the mistakes I’ve made so you don’t make them.

Final thoughts

I want to thank you for taking the time to read my first entry. I hope that my story and journey have inspired you to take charge of your finance and explore the world of investing. Let's embark on this journey together and see where it takes us 💪🏻🔥.

I would like to finish with this empowerment quote that I love👇🏻

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett