Readers,

Welcome to The Starting 5 Newsletter! The 30 Second Newsletter with stocks, motivation, and tunes! Hope you enjoy!

1. Stock Performance 📈

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY): $607.82 ▲ +0.17%
Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ): $542.36 ▲ +0.48%
SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA): $430.25 ▼ –0.13%

Introducing The Warm-Up — the once-a-week newsletter breaking down the music behind the world’s top athletes.

Founded by two former Division I athletes, we’re not here to clutter your inbox — just one email a week with the pre-game playlists, locker room anthems, and go-to tracks that fuel champions and teams. Song-by-song, we show you what today’s top performers are listening to before they dominate.

It’s like having that teammate who always had the aux cord… now in your inbox.

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2. Crypto Check-In 🪙

Bitcoin (BTC): $108,084 ▲ +2.81%
Ethereum (ETH): $2,436.80 ▲ +0.42%

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3. Motivation Of The Day 💭

“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh

4. Term Of The Day 📚

Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

📖Definition: A government-held stockpile of bitcoin, similar to a strategic oil reserve, established by executive order to serve as a national digital asset reserve.

📊 Why it matters: This new U.S. policy gives bitcoin a quasi-official reserve status, boosting legitimacy and potentially encouraging other nations to follow—shifting crypto from fringe to strategic asset class

💡Example: The U.S. Treasury holds 200,000 BTC ($22 billion), creating a block of digital reserves that could reshape global asset policy.

5. Song Of The Day 🎧

🎧 Song of the Day Track: “Waves of Tomorrow” – Nova Vale
Why it hits: Released June 22, this synth-driven electro-pop single blends futuristic soundscapes with motivational lyrics—perfect for powering through your day’s grind.

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