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Kiana Danial is an Iranian-born American investing educator and author, and the founder and CEO of Invest Diva, a New York-based financial-education company aimed primarily at women. Born in Tehran, she moved to Japan at 18 to study electrical engineering before relocating to New York and launching Invest Diva in 2012-2013; she wrote "Invest Diva's Guide to Making Money in Forex" (McGraw-Hill, 2013) and "Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies" (Wiley), and has been cited as an adjunct professor of finance at Baruch College. She teaches forex, cryptocurrency, and stock investing through Invest Diva courses and her "Triple Compounding" framework, and hosts the "Triple Compounding with Kiana Danial" podcast. By her own account, her personal portfolio has grown to over $5 million with an eight-figure net worth, claims she uses in her marketing; her audience includes roughly 394K TikTok followers, about 445K Instagram followers, and about 75K YouTube subscribers.