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 either because i wasn't climbing anything close to a corporate ladder. i was just 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 through half your energy just getting people to take you seriously before you've even said anything worth taking seriously.

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

not finance-for-dummies. not a pink-washed version of what already exists. somewhere women are the entire point of the conversation, not the side note, not the secondary audience, not the disclaimer at the bottom of someone else's product.

this is the resource i wish i'd had when i was 20, opening my first roth ira and faking it on every call. if it can save someone else that flailing — even a little — that's the whole point.

— 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.