Tori Dunlap is a 27-year-old blogger and finance influencer who founded the finance website HerFirst100K in 2016. She’s made it her mission to make financial education more accessible for a wide range of people, including millennials, Gen-Z, and marginalized groups.
Dunlap’s journey started as a blog detailing her goal to save $100K before her 25th birthday. Two years later, her debut book ‘Financial Feminist’ is a New York Times Bestseller. Now, as a multimillionaire, she uses her platform to spread her wealth of knowledge to anyone with an internet connection.
DON’T MISS: Lyft has a plan riders will love (but investors are hating)
Welcome, Financial Feminists!!!
♬ original sound – Tori Dunlap — Money Expert 💸
Today’s hot tip proves that good things come in threes when she shares “three things I did to become a multimillionaire by age 27.”
But to start, she much-needed adds context. “I think it’s super important to acknowledge privilege. I am a cis-gendered, straight, white woman who grew up in a middle-class family. Yeah, there’s been a lot of hard work that’s gone into this — like, a lot. However, privilege 100%.”
More in Personal Finance:
TheStreet’s 2023 Finfluencers to WatchFinancial influencers: How Tori Dunlap is teaching Millennials to tackle financesInfluencers Who Talk About Being ‘Bougie Broke’ Rarely Get Sympathy
“Number one, I started investing as soon as I could,” she explains. “I opened up a Roth IRA and maxed it out every year. You can do that too, or at least get as close to the maximum as possible. Even just $20 a month is better than nothing.”
“[The] second thing I did [was] I started a side hustle that later became my full-time hustle. It’s this business. It’s HerFirst100k.”
“And the third thing,” she says, is that “I never stayed in a job that undervalued me. I was always negotiating for more or job hopping.”
Get exclusive access to portfolio managers and their proven investing strategies with Real Money Pro. Get started now.
