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A 37-year-old with a $2 million investment portfolio says 3 habits helped her build her fortune
She invested in herself, built multiple sources of income, and invested so that her money could work for her.
By Laila Maidan
In 2010, Kiana Danial was living her dream life in New York. She moved to the US from Japan and landed a job working on Wall Street as a financial public relations associate. She then got the perfect apartment on the Upper East Side. And for a little over a year, it was all looking up for her.
“I got fired. I was not expecting it. I thought I was rocking it,” Danial told Insider. “So I was absolutely blindsided. And of course, my boyfriend then broke up with me a week later. And then, I didn’t have money to pay the rent on my dream apartment.”
She thought she had enough of an emergency fund to pay her rent while she found her next job. But she quickly realized that the money she’d invested for emergencies wasn’t accessible without a large penalty.
At first, she was shocked. But after looking into the details of her investments, she realized she didn’t know enough about her own finances.
