i spent two years in capital markets. i was the only woman on the team for just about the entire time. i won't romanticize it, because i wasn't climbing anything close to a corporate ladder. i was trying to keep my head above water in an industry that wasn't built with me in mind.

here's what nobody tells you about being a woman in finance: you walk into the room already behind. not because you're less capable, but because that's the assumption. you burn half your energy getting people to take you seriously before you've said anything worth taking seriously.

and i was a white woman in a seat most people never get near. sitting there is exactly how i saw how deep this goes. even the women who make it in still get treated like an afterthought.

not finance-for-dummies, and not a pink-washed version of what already exists. a place where women are the entire point of the conversation instead of the disclaimer at the bottom of someone else's product.

this is the resource i wish i'd had at 20, opening my first roth ira and faking it on every call. if it saves someone else even a little of that flailing, that's the whole point. and if you're here reading this, you're part of the reason i get to keep building it. how lucky am i.

callie · founder of savvie

p.s. it's pronounced sav-ee. like savvy, but cuter. and named after the feeling you get when something finally clicks.