Rima Grace

Have you ever felt like that?

Oh, yeah.

I come from an immigrant family.

I and my mom immigrated from the Dominican Republic.

We lived in the Bronx.

And we always talked about our lack of money.

I knew from a very early age that I was going to do whatever I could to get my family out of the financial situation that they were in.

I was just so focused on thinking through the world from an ROI perspective.

And I remember when I started my first job right out of college, I was feeling on top of the world because I finally...

landed a job where I was earning three times what my mom was earning.

Oh, wow.

What was the job?

So I was a private equity investor at Goldman.

I really was trying to maximize my earning potential.

I was doing everything I could to do that.

And I signed up to Mint.com.

I put in all of my financial situation.

And my net worth was negative because all I had were all of these student loans.

And it just went into a spiral.

I couldn't believe that I had worked so hard for so long and still...