I started this blog on March 5th, 2024. It’s now June 22nd, 2025. That’s over a year of showing up, creating content, building something that wasn’t there before, and doing it whether or not anyone was reading. I’ve spent that portion of my life just creating. Whether it was through my own hands, physically typing on a keyboard, or just my mind, having AI help me organize what I already knew, either way, it’s mine.
It’s like orchestrating something. You’re the conductor. You might have tools, you might have help, but the vision, that’s yours. The structure, the intent, the flow of ideas, that’s all you. I’ve always been like this. As a child, I loved to create things. I wanted to understand how things came to life. I wrote stories. I read everything I could get my hands on.
I remember once I found one of my sister’s old school writings lying around the house, she hadn’t looked at it in years, and I read it. I was younger than 10, maybe even 8. I told my mom, “This is good.” I genuinely thought so. I was just trying to read, to learn, to absorb anything I could. However, my sister became upset that I went through her things, but I didn’t mean anything by it. I just loved reading. I wanted to know what people were thinking, how they felt, what they created.
Eventually, I started writing my own stories. I even built my own so-called publishing house. I had an “employee” help me write my content after I brainstormed it. It’s not that different from now. I still brainstorm, still build, still guide the process. It’s innate. This is what I do.
I’m Not Just Building for Me
This blog isn’t just for me. I’m building something for my future self, my family, and my community. And not just any community, I mean the people who’ve been left behind in the finance world for way too long. People who have been overlooked, who don’t fit the rigid cookie-cutter framework of what it means to be financially successful.
I write for the ones who didn’t have the tools. Who didn’t have the environment to grow in that direction. For people who come from financial trauma, who know what it’s like to stretch a meal for a week, who’ve had to make homemade solutions because the paycheck ran out before the month did. For people who struggled to keep $100 in their bank account. That’s who I created this for.
Every time I hit publish, it’s just another seed planted. Another piece of wisdom. Another perspective. Sometimes it’s something brand new, sometimes it’s a repetition of something I’ve said before, but that’s intentional. Because when you haven’t been in this environment before, you need repetition. That’s how it sticks.
It’s like going to the gym. You don’t just do one bicep curl and leave stronger. You do sets. You do reps. You return. Repetition is what builds.
I Gave Myself Three Years
Right now, I don’t feel pressure to make this blog profitable. I gave myself three years. I’m in school. I’ve got other things I’m balancing. I’m playing the long game. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want this to become something bigger.
If it eventually brings in income? That would be beautiful. Because at the end of the day, I’m still an investor. I believe in building financial freedom. I believe in creating economic engines, whether it’s your salary, your side projects, your blog, your portfolio. Whatever it is, I believe in building.
That’s what I do. I build things.
And for the first time, when I started building portfolios, I felt like I was aligned with myself. Then I built this blog, and it aligned even more. That’s how I know I’m on the right track. That’s how I know it’s not about the money first, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want the money to come eventually.
The Numbers (Because We’re in Finance, After All)
Here’s a look at what the traffic’s been doing lately:
- January 2025: 26 visitors / 39 views
- February 2025: 60 visitors / 91 views
- March 2025: 107 visitors / 131 views
- April 2025: 108 visitors / 177 views
- May 2025: 119 visitors / 142 views
- June 2025 (so far): 101 visitors / 120 views
That might not seem like a lot from the outside, but to me? That’s real. That’s growth. That’s proof that something I created from scratch, on my own time, with my own voice, is reaching people. And not just once. They’re coming back. They’re clicking around. They’re reading more than one post. The site is becoming a place people spend time in.
For a blog that started with zero visitors and no marketing, that’s not small. That’s momentum.
What the Stats Don’t Show
Here’s what the analytics don’t capture:
- That I’ve published 366 posts since launch
- That I’ve written over 380,000 words
- That my average post length went from 903 words in 2024 to 1,121 words in 2025
- That I’ve done it all without ads, gimmicks, or trying to sell my soul with excessive affiliate links, bare-bone articles that waste time.
They don’t show the thought that goes into every piece. They don’t show how many times I rewrote a line to make sure it felt right. They don’t show the nights I worked on a post while juggling school, parenting, and investing. They don’t show that this blog is, in many ways, my other portfolio.
And just like a good portfolio, this one’s compounding too, quietly, steadily.
🧠 What This Means Long-Term
What does this mean for me? I am in the compound interest phase of blogging, where every post I’ve written is starting to “work” for me in the background.
The site’s age (now 15+ months) is pushing me past the Google sandbox period.
If I do nothing but continue writing, this trend will likely keep going. Traffic might look like this:
- 💡 150–200 monthly visitors by fall
- 📈 300+ monthly by early 2026
- 💰 Monetization opportunities by Year 3 (exactly what I’ve planned)
I’m not behind. I’m early. And right on track.
(All of this is according to the blog site data analyzed by ChatGPT – we will see if the projection ends up accurate or close to it.)
What Ownership Means to Me
When I think about ownership, I think about freedom. I think about creative freedom. I think about security. I think about not having to answer to anyone. But more than that, I think about freedom from the stress of life.
This blog is something I can look back on. It’s a creation I can lean on. It’s something I own. Something I can count on no matter what’s happening in the world. And that matters. Even if only a hundred people ever read it, if it helped them see something different, if it mattered to them, then that’s enough for me.
I don’t need it to be viral. I don’t need it to be loud.
What I need is for it to be mine.
What I need is for it to feel aligned.
Because this blog wasn’t here before. And now it is.
These articles didn’t exist. Now they do.
At one point, no one was coming to my site. Now, people are.
Some are reading, some are sharing. Some are coming from countries I’ve never even been to.
And that’s meaningful.
Not because it’s “big.”
But because it’s real.
Final Thought
I’m not just writing to be seen. I’m not just writing to be paid. I’m writing because it’s what I’ve always done. It’s what I know how to do. I take something that wasn’t there before and bring it into existence. I build.
And even if the blog never earns a dime, it still gave me something no job, no check, no algorithm ever could:
A sense of ownership.
A sense of clarity.
A place where I could just be and build.
And maybe that’s the real wealth of this blog after all.
The Broke College Student 
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