Hi everyone. I finally figured out how to introduce myself lol. I felt a bit overwhelmed to say anything about myself in regards to investment because I feel a bit fragile around it all. I lost my retirement during a rollover Ira to gold and silver. I chose the wrong company who actually stole a lot of peoples money and disappeared. My metals never made it to the vault. They convicted one of the main people involved and mentioned restitution which I don’t know when I’ll ever see it. This happened shortly after I lost most of my crypto in a scam where I was moving the coins and basically walked someone into my account and lost everything. This all happened in 2022 within 6 months and I have been a bit traumatized to say the least and lost a lot of self trust with investing in the process. I have felt so much shame around it all. For not spotting it as I considered myself to be very intuitive and smart with these things. I thought I was making good decisions so I lost a lot of trust in myself. And froze. I also listened to someone to invest what I did have left over into hex and I can’t even get back into my meta account bc I write down the pass phrase so encrypted that I can remember it myself. And I’m not sure if that even ended up being a flop anyway too lol. The most stable investments I’ve made were in silver. Actual coins in hand. And I have no literacy of the market. I did invest in a cbd stock once and then pulled out. I have a lot fear that I’d like to dissolve around this stuff. And see if I can get myself to be more financially literate and comfortable to trust myself again and be ok with the uncertainty. When it was mentioned to pick your favorite stock I felt a bit silly and hesitant to say anything bc I don’t even know how to find and choose a favorite stock. So this is a very new place for me and I’m entering in hopes to come out of this trauma around investing in these ways :). Thanks so much xo happy equinox. I also wasn’t sure where to introduce myself so just chose money talk