 to welcome everybody into the Vanguard specialty ETF portfolio. This is comprised of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500. This I do consider one aspect of the mini in my passive bucket, but this is comprised of 11 different products in here that are all of the represented by the sectors in the S&P. So this has been with me now for, oh, since March 5th of 2019. So haven't owned this that long. I think really for a lot of investors out there, I want the takeaway to be the power of passive investing. I think a lot of people, they may not get involved in investing for fear of losing money. And although I do want to footstomp the importance and acknowledgement that investing does carry with it inherent to risk, you can buffer that risk by using certain tried and true philosophies and fundamental approaches to investing. And this speaks to many of them. Diversification is key in establishing a defensive mechanism. Now, while the market is going banana bonkers, this is not going to be the sexiest thing out there. This is not going to make you wealthy overnight. So if that's what you're looking for, keep hunting. This is for those investors that want to take a responsible approach to the market. And they want to do so with as much potential for appreciation. Yes, but to limit the downside risk through the diversification and the defensive protection that that does provide over time. And this has done quite well. There's nothing to scoff at in this portfolio. Performance has been fantastic. We've earned 530 in dividends since inception, and this will continue to grow. This will never go down. And a lot of people want to talk about investing as being a gamble or being too risky. There's nothing that I've ever found in life that is more for sure than a dividend yield in the stock market. And it's the easiest money I think that's the most passive way to earn money in here. Now it does require some capital upfront to render these dividends. They're not just going to come out of thin air. But I think the real takeaway here is that when this portfolio was started, it was started with maybe a few thousand bucks anyway, I can't get this to register. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, I started with there it is 1500 bucks. So right right there at the beginning of March in 2019, we started with 1500 and it's been it's been on ever since then. I mean, slowly to the right. And again, I do disclose to you guys, I do take these opportunities to fund up this was an opportunity where I felt the market had dipped a little bit. And then boom, I went ahead and put a you know, a $2,000 bill in there. And not everybody's going to have the ability to do that. And that's totally fine too. It just you know, the reason for this trajectory and the amount that I'm disclosing to you now. Let's see what that fund up was that went from 6000 up to about 86. So that was a $2,500 fund up right there. So I do that on occasion now this one. And that might have been as a result of transferring over from the old brokerage account that I had with first trade, which I'm no longer with them. So this might not have been free cash that I had, this just might have been I started this existing with the expectation that I was going to take those dollars and and and merge them into this account. And that's that's probably what I did here. But not a lot of funding over time, I do dollar cost average this every single month. This is actually where one of the income streams that I earned through the YouTube channel goes that that was my strategic goal from the beginning. I never needed the money. I didn't want to do YouTube to put food on the table. I wanted to do YouTube to render some passive income into each zone with regard to your strategic goal with with your side project. It doesn't have to be YouTube. But this is just where I leveraged some of those dollars. And it's paid me back $6,600 of white meat over the time that I've put these inflows in here just to shy of $14,000. So just shy of $20,000, I cannot I cannot be discouraged by this performance. This has just been an absolute pleasure to own. I don't see that changing into the future. This has been passively owned. And just like the dividend portfolio that I do disclose to you guys every now and then, this is also passively held, but I've held it for just just about nine months more than the dividend portfolio. So these are that much more mature of holdings and just really the performance is just fantastic. Now I do make this portfolio available to you guys. I will make it available in the description as well as in the comments below. Independent investors affiliated with M1 Finance, if you click on any of the links, please understand that the channel can receive a small compensation for providing awareness videos like this. I use the account basically just showing you what it is that I use the product for. And I love it. I just it took me a while to warm up with M1 Finance and it's a portfolio building tool that just is absolutely phenomenal. And I think it can actually just pay new investors who want to get involved in the market passively and they want to build the framework in this capacity, just build the pie. It's really nice to be able to do this and look at your money in this regard. I do the work as far as sharing an idea with you. This exact same portfolio is available through the link. If you do click on it, you can see this exact same portfolio. I share it openly. There's no reason to hide that. I kick over rocks for investors. I don't I don't profess to have all the answers because I don't believe anybody does. I believe that there are just ways of approaching investing. There's an infinite number of ways. But there's a few ways that you can really gravitate towards dividend passive. Those two are my favorites. This being the passive side to where this is just owned and funded up. I have not moved these in going on three years. So come March of 2022, this will have its three year birthday. And I think for anybody out there that's looking to get involved in the market, I think they can look at this and say, wow, you know, this pays a nice dividend. This pays a nice gain. I want that and you should. This is why I share my testimonial with you guys. Now, this isn't my entire portfolio, but for a lot of investors out there, it could be. And if I was a new investor, I'd be ecstatic to get involved in the market in this capacity to get going to get started to get off the sideline to get some capital working for me. Because if nothing else, this proves that in this capacity here, up over $6,600 and paying me those passive dividends that this is in fact working for me. And that is the root of all investing is to make sure that your money is working for you as you are working for your money. Guys, thank you so much for tuning in. We'll kick you back and we will conclude the video.