When I was a young mom, I simply didn’t have enough time to think about the particulars of my family’ financial future. My husband and I made sure to put money away for his 401k match and started putting away money for my kids’ college funds. But college, as you know, is expensive. Like, unbelievably expensive. I didn’t want my kids to be saddled with student loan debt—I knew how exhausting it was to worry about that every month. And that didn’t even take into account the other kinds of things we wanted to save for: we’d always talked about going to Kyoto, about learning to Scuba, about moving to Florida when we retired. There’s so much life has to offer—the problem is that it’s all so expensive. After running the numbers a hundred times, I realized I had to make a change. There was simply no way that we were going to be able to retire on time, let alone find a way to pay for our kids’ college tuition. After many discussions with my husband, we realized two things: one, he simply didn’t have time to find another way to earn more income. And, two, me getting a part time job while the kids were at school simply wasn’t going to cut it. We had to strategize. And we had to be smart. Because our capital was tied up in his 401k, IRAs and the 529s we’d opened for our kids, we didn’t have much money to work with. I looked for options that would let me work from home, but everything I found was either too time consuming or not profitable enough. I tried buying and selling on Ebay and data entry—neither was sufficient. Then I heard about prop trading from home. Initially, I was incredibly skeptical about getting involved with the stock market. I’d heard so many horror stories from the 2008 crash. But when I learned about opportunities to trade with someone else’s money, I was intrigued. When I learned about Try2BFunded I knew I had found what I was looking for. Try2BFunded offered me a crash course in trading. Within 4 weeks I’d learned to manage risk, to analyze trends, to spot stocks that were ready to rise, and those that were about to crash. Within 8 weeks, I was seeing deposits hit my account. With 60% of the cut coming my way, I was finally able to feel as if I was taking control of my family’s future. I wasn’t waiting for compound interest to do the work for me—I was making investing a habit, not something I watched happen. My favorite part of Try2BFunded is that it has taught me investing lessons that extend beyond just the service. Yes, the money is great, but it’s also empowering to learn how to balance risk with reward. These kinds of lessons are something that will last a lifetime—and something that will help safeguard my family.