 As I appreciate you coming back to the Independent Investor Channel, Ryan here, I roll out periodic portfolio updates for you guys. I wouldn't like to sit across from somebody who wasn't an investor. It provides credibility. It certainly does to understand that an investor, like myself, a retail investor has some skin in the game. Furthermore, this is to supplement what I do with my day-to-day job. I don't do YouTube for a living. So when I do roll these out, it's really just an extension of what I do in my financial wealth building. In this video, we're going to jump in and we're going to chronicle the 71 dividend growth portfolio with M1 Finance. Very cool stuff. It's almost like the Independent Investor ETF. These are companies that I like to invest in. They'll be provided to you guys in its entirety in the description and the comment section below. Leave no stone unturned for you guys. I want to break down barriers to entry for people so they can tune into a message like mine and say, Man Alive, if this guy can do it, so can I. And that's absolutely the takeaway that I want you to get from my message. So stay tuned, guys. We'll jump in and we'll conduct the review. Now for you guys that are somewhat new to the channel, this is one of my M1 Finance portfolios. This is comprised of 71 holdings. It's a different way of investing. I approach investing my way. It's somewhat different. It's not cliche. I don't buy into status quo investing in the least bit. I'm an advocate for taking tools out of the investing tool bag that makes sense for you. And we roll out multiple strategies that can be deployed by any investor out there. And this is just one of those strategies. Now out of these 71 holdings, these are all companies that are good, established businesses that pay a nice dividend. And I've broken it up across 10 sectors. I've left real estate out of the division of the S&P 500. I do that for a reason. I do that for tax purposes. I enjoy holding real estate in one of my very favorite holdings, which is realty income and the larger accounts under the tax protection of the Roth IRA. But the remaining 10 sectors I use in this portfolio for you guys, just so I can put this into some level of historical context, this portfolio started out as a 12 stock aggressive growth portfolio. It was comprised of Google, Facebook, Netflix, Nvidia, Uber, booking holdings, Alibaba, some other aggressive growth names that really just had quite well for me. Tesla, I owned for a little bit in that portfolio. And it was 12 stocks. It's a great way to invest. You know, M1 Finance really makes a lot of things happen for a lot of investors, especially those investors that don't have a lot of starting capital. If you've got $500, $1,000, $1,500, you could really get your start. But I do roll this out just to demonstrate what this means for me is just an opportunity for me to grab exposure with relatively lighter amount of money across a broad swath of 10 sectors of the S&P 500 and companies that I don't want really huge positions in, but I would rather invest in them than not invest in them. And M1 Finance allows me to strategically place this layer somewhere in my layering strategy. And this does really, really well. I just funded this up guys, but the net assets that have flowed in here, dollars that have went in here, just a little over 10 grand and we're up about eight grand. So not too bad. After the aggressive growth aspect, I added in the ARC ETFs and I only owned them for oh, just about a month anyway. They did really well. They ran up and I liquidated that portfolio into what you see now. And it just made strategic sense for me at the time I did it to leverage some of that profit, take a little bit of risk off the table presented through the ARC ETFs into the portfolio that you see here. So 10,000 on inflows, 8,000 in gains and a couple hundred dollars in dividends. This will obviously increase over time. This I have earmarked for $100,000 goal, $25,000 in the short to medium term and we'll get there. We will. I initially started this portfolio for a second one to really, really blow down the $10,000 barrier for investors out there who don't think they can do it. If you start with $25, it's just a matter of time before you get there. You just have to want to do it. And here we are slightly leaning to the right on the chart like we normally do. But if we cruise down here, I do want to highlight some of the changes here. Healthcare was the biggest one. We'll jump in here. I did add AMGEN to the top here. But this is just an example of, it doesn't matter if you have $4,000 or $400 in any given name. Eli Lilly, I just added into this portfolio. I really wanted to own it. But look at that guys. I've got a couple hundred bucks in there. Not too bad. You know, AMGEN right here, I've owned it two days. It's already up 3%. So for you guys that think maybe investing is gambling or it's just not for you. Or maybe you have an idea about investing that you think is accurate. Perhaps maybe you should stick around and just see here the number of holdings that I've got here. I just want to jump into the holdings. Let's go down the list here and just take a look from top to bottom. And this is cool. M1 Finance just gives the running list of all the holdings here. This is all 71 holdings. Hopefully you guys recognize, I mean the top four, five on the list are all bowel components, right? So value investing 101. We don't need to make this thing more difficult than it needs to be. But these are some serious dollars guys. All right. 1.6 shares of Goldman Sachs. And I'm up $73. I'm up 14% on one holding. Now on the aggregate, there's going to be some that are down and there's going to be some that are up. And you might say, well, Ryan, you know, that's a wash. I hold on a second. I beg to differ. If we cruise down the list here, we're talking positive, positive, positive, positive. One little negative, positive, negative, positive, positive. And we start to cruise down the list here. If we cruise down here, I think you're going to see a lot more green. Look at IBM up $38. Look at Home Depot up $44. You're going to see a lot more green in this little portfolio. And the power of, of, of owning this is almost like the independent investor ETF here. This is fantastic. And I will make the link to this portfolio available to you guys, as I always do. There's no reason to withhold information. I don't have a patent on this portfolio. The beauty of sharing information made possible through everyone finances that everybody can look at and, and maybe use as a springboard into your own portfolio, a wealth building strategy. It doesn't mean you have to invest exactly like me. But I mean, if you're looking at some of these names here, I got a couple of Canadian banks in here. Look at that. I've got all of them actually. TD Amerit, TD, Toronto, Dominion, Bank of Nova Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada. Right. I don't want to own positions in these that are large. Right. So I've got a few hundred bucks in here are not too, not too bad. A few hundred bucks. We've got in, inbroods. We've got some energy names, good discretionary. I got Leggett and Plackett is on twice Verizon. Some of these are a slight overlap, which is totally fine. I'm great with that waste management. But guys, if you're paying attention here, and this is intriguing you, look at this, the majority of these holdings are up and I didn't do a calculation. I guess it would have been interesting to show how many are actually up and how many are down. But I, you know, eventually the longer I hold this portfolio, I think they're all going to go to green. Eventually good companies do win out. Look at that John Deere, $29, 18%. This is a company I only own a half a share of. Look at that. So for you guys that, you know, I've been interested in investing, this should really provide some motivation here. That's it. That's the 71 holdings right there. I think that's a great way to demonstrate the power of M1 Finance. Now that's the running list of the, of the portfolio. And then like I said, I built the slices here. And if I share that slice makeup for you guys, you can categorize each of the holdings here, like I'll jump in here to materials. The list I showed you there was all inclusive. And then if you just go into materials here, it's going to have each of the respective slices of the companies that I want to own within materials. So, and this adds to the actual exposure to each sector. What I mean by that is I take this portfolio into account when I'm looking at the dollars that are allocated to a specific sector, whether it be figuring in my big stocks or whether it be figuring in my sector specialty ETFs, right? So in industrials, I also own the industrials ETF and I own the single stock. So I have the diversification on the ETF side and I have the dividend growth on the single stock side. So you can kind of understand a little bit of the method that makes sense for me. Like I said, this doesn't need to make sense for everybody. But for those individuals out there who are skeptical of investing, they're scared of their ability. We've just provided a roadmap not only to the account, but a structural way of approaching the stock market that can really make sense for all investors out there. I want to thank you guys for tuning in and we'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. All right guys, so we've come out of the review here and the real takeaway is how I've set up this structurally. This is a brokerage account. This is one of six investment accounts that I have. This is just a hybrid arm of seeking some dividend growth in a portfolio with M1 finance passively that I can fund on a dollar cost average schedule. And if you pay attention to my message, it's not necessarily about carbon copy, cookie cutter, try to apply what I apply. Maybe you take certain elements as to what I do and then make it make sense for you. And that's the whole idea. Success on the independent investor channel is predicated upon the success of each individual that tunes in and is looking for a little tutelage, little instruction, and maybe even a little motivation to start. 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