Columbus, you are my why.
Last night Ilaria Rawlins, CEO and Co-founder of Fortuna Bank, a women owned bank in Columbus, hosted us for a powerful evening of discussion.
This was not a beginner room. The room was filled with women who have already built meaningful financial lives, executives, operators, and financial professionals, yet are still navigating what it means to fully step into ownership of their capital.
Overheard in the room were the kinds of questions and shares that underscore why we gather as peers, and why Wealth Catalyst rooms are breaking precedent of what financial conversations look like as we are living through what I am calling Great Wealth Enlightenment- the convergence of inherited and earned wealth.
Do you see yourself in the below?
– “When do we actually learn what good debt is, and how to separate what we were taught from what actually works?”
– “We’re making financial decisions through patterns we didn’t even choose.”
– “I don’t just want to hear the wins. I want to know what happened when it fell apart, and how you came back.”
– “Sometimes I think I’m not asking the right questions, and that’s the part that feels risky.”
– “I want to build something new. I just don’t always know where to start, or who to ask.”
Thank you Ilaria, Marcia, for sharing Unapologetic Wealth, and the power of understanding our money stories, and to Sue Bevan Baggott for championing this event from afar.
We do this together.
Tonight, we gather in Chicago.
So lovely to see you Ukeme Awakessien Jeter, Jessie Lizak, Katie Irving!
