In your adult lifetime, you're likely only going to see five to seven major economic downturns,

and they are going to be your biggest opportunities to build wealth.

Let's be very clear.

Rich people actually love these moments because they're going to rapid fire deploy their

money into investments when everybody else is freaking out.

Let's talk a little bit about how you can

recession proof your finances. These are a couple strategies you can use to set yourself up

for financial success no matter what the economy throws at us.

What's up, rich friends?

Welcome to another episode of Net Worth and Chill.

I'm your host, Vivian 2, aka Your Rich BFF, and your favorite Wall Street, Gurley.

With the implementation of Trump's tariffs and downward market movement, people are more stressed than ever about a potential recession.

Yes, it's scary and it shows.

The S&P 500 index, which is essentially the benchmark for the American stock market, has

been pretty volatile lately.

And the S&P 500 measures the performance of the 500 largest publicly traded companies

in the United States. So it's pretty indicative of the overall health of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States.

So it's pretty indicative of the overall health of the economy.

The S&P 500 is widely considered one of the best gauges of the U.S. equities market.

And like I mentioned, it is a benchmark.

So when we're looking at it and we're seeing it go down, that can be kind of scary.

If the S&P is going down down, typically it's an indicator that the U.S. economy is feeling pretty down too.

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