Steph Wagner

If you're sitting here right now, wherever you are with your relationship with money, do you like to get in the game or are you more comfortable to sit on the sideline and watch other people?

Well, that's the difference between abundance and scarcity, right?

But how do you go and unleash your power if it's trapped inside of you in fear?

Yeah, thank you.

I actually always loved finance.

I loved math.

I kind of went to college knowing I wanted to do this.

You know, I wanted to get in the world of finance, particularly corporate finance.

And I started my career in investment banking and was really fortunate to get in this crazy world of private equity very young.

Pretty naive about it.

Way back then, it was in its infancy.

Certainly no women, I think.

in the field, so consequently I had no mentors, which became really important as I was navigating my career, my life, I got married, I started having children, and this was really the beginning of what eventually became my wake-up call, which was, you know, the pressures that I think so many women feel as their careers are evolving and then as your family life is tugging at you, especially in the world of finance,

I actually had this moment where I was asked to get on a plane to Cessna no less, to go and look at a deal in a very rural town of Alabama.

I was six months pregnant.

I had a two-year-old at home and my husband at the time traveled over 150 nights a year.

And I just sat there and said, this isn't sustainable.

Like something has to give.

And as I shared, I had no one to talk to.

And I really saw it very black and white.