Shaun | @ParlayBros is back on the channel three years later, and he's stopped adding to the high-dividend payers that built his income — including Altria, still his largest position- and he's doing something most dividend investors would never do on purpose: he's selling his high-yield dividend stocks and moving that money into low-yield ETFs and compounders. He calls it his bonsai tree approach — pruning the portfolio so it grows the shape he actually wants instead of just paying him the most cash today. In this conversation, we walk through his seven stages of investing, the ten ETFs he's buying right now, what he'd do differently if he were starting over, and what he'd tell someone with $500 a month to invest and no idea where to begin. We also get into the stocks that are hard to buy, why Costco is a low-risk, high-uncertainty situation in the Dhandho sense, and how to survive the boring middle of a long investing journey without quitting. If you own SCHD, Realty Income, ARCC, or any other high-yield dividend stock and you've wondered whether chasing yield is the right move as your account gets bigger, this one is worth your time. Real talk about dividend investing, dividend growth, portfolio strategy, and the mistakes that cost him money along the way.
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