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I like that a lot. And I'm going to go the next step on the relationship side. You're in your mid-20s, you're with your girlfriend. You and your girlfriend are very much on the same page, which is incredible. A couple things to remember. One, don't combine incomes yet. Don't pay off each other's debt yet. You guys are not married. If I were You, I would start making a plan to saying, okay, I'm now financially secure, I'm. The career is great. Now it's time to think about what my life can begin to shape up as with this person, right? Am I going to marry this person? If so, it seems like we're on the same page with money. But let's have those deeper conversations. Let's figure out what this could begin to shape up as. Assuming we are all on the same page with, with money and all the, you know, the big things that people should be on the same page about before they get married. I think it's money, religion, kids, things like that. But again, you're crushing it. And maybe relationally is not the next step. Maybe you want to go start house hacking, right? We talk about that all the time. 5% down Fannie Mae mortgage is a wonderful way to start doing that. Now is the time to start saying, okay, if I make some specific decisions over the next five, 10, 15 years, I can retire very wealthy. What are those decisions and how do I actually stick to it? If you are someone who invests consistently, building wealth is inevitable. Be intentional with your money, Ryan Day. You're going to be just fine, my friend. Our next question comes from Lauren M. Lauren says. Hey guys, been listening to the podcast for a while now as it's one of my go tos. I had a question that I think I would only trust you guys to answer honestly. I've been seeing a lot of people on Instagram talk about how now is the time to sell our stocks because a recession is looming. I have certainly noticed my stock soaring lately and I feel as if things might be inflated and a correction could be coming, but I don't know, obviously. So how do I do this correctly? So if I do take profits, I don't take off too much and miss, miss out on growth that could still be happening. I also have some capital to buy when prices are low. Again, I'm not one to follow advice, especially financial advice from people on Instagram, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. This is a good question, Robert. I, I think it's pretty timely. So let's, let's dig in. Yeah, are, are prices inflated right now? So let's just make sure we're all on the same page. The stock market, the s and P500, the NASDAQ 100. Right. This is a list of the 500 largest, most profitable companies in the United states and the 100 largest companies listed on the NASDAQ the stock market, specifically these index funds. The value of the stock market goes up when profits go up. Makes sense during a recession, right? Consumers aren't spending, money isn't flowing, profits go down, stock market goes down. The stock market and the economy aren't the same thing, but they tend to impact one another pretty dramatically. So what are we seeing right now? Now to your point? Yes, we are seeing the economy slow down. We're seeing unemployment tick a little bit higher. We're seeing consumer confidence go down. I think we just had Caleb Silver to explain this to us recently here a couple weeks ago when he was on our Friday episode talking about how, you know, 50% of spending is coming from the top 10% earners, which is crazy to think about. So to your point, yes, parts of the economy are slowing down and we, we've seen this happen. It, it's, it's mile away. We've seen this happen. However, however, the opposite is true. Right now for the stock market, we're seeing the Magnificent seven or the top ten companies deliver blowout quarterly earnings recently. Right? We just heard from Meta and Google just had their first hundred billion dollar of, of quarterly revenue. Amazon, their operating income increased by 30%. You know, we just heard from all of these names how great the company is doing. And so let's be clear, there's a difference between how the economy's doing and how the stock market's doing at the moment. In my humble opinion, the stock market is doing so well because of this AI infrastructure kind of boom that we're experiencing, right? This AI productivity boom. I like to think about it. And when you pair that with lower interest rates, potential quantitative easing, China trade deal talks that are agreed upon, the government reopens eventually, right? A lot of things have, we have some tailwinds that can continue to push the markets higher. That does not mean that there are not bubbles inside specific sectors of the market. However, in my opinion, the entire s and P500 at the moment is not in a bubble. The entire NASDAQ 100 at the moment is not in a bubble. Again, there are bubbles in sectors of the markets, right? Very highly speculative sectors. But to your point of like specific stocks and how to sort of take profits and diversify your portfolio, it's a great idea. It all depends on the stock and why you open the position. If you bought this stock stock with the intention of, hey, I speculate that this company is going to do really well in the next 18 months as this specific secular growth trend plays out. And fast forward 18 months you were right. You're up 100% or even more. And you're just like, this is so cool. Yeah, take those profits, redistribute them back into your portfolio. In the ETFs and index funds we talk about, don't forget core satellite portfolio strategy. 65 to 85% of your portfolio is in the core section. These are ETFs, index funds and other blue chip names. The 15 to 35% of your portfolio that's left is in the satellite section. This is the diversification section of your portfolio into different asset classes like cryptocurrency, real estate, precious metals, alternative assets, speculative single stocks. Right. That's the smaller portion of your portfolio. So if something in that portion of your portfolio does really well, take some profits and redistribute that money back into the core section of your portfolio. Lauren, I hope this helps.