What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. Sinking funds are an account that I think are so important and helpful.

But to open one, I'm a fan of having a high-yield savings account or an online savings account.

And you could read about it for like months.

So I recommend setting a timer, right,

30 minutes. Here's what my favorite experts are saying, okay, I'm going to go ahead and open it.

So really focusing on educated action, but staying away from the analysis paralysis.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's episode, we have the founder and CEO of Fiscal Fem, Ashley Feinstein-Gertzley. She's an author, entrepreneur, and feminist who is on a mission to end inequality through financial well-being. And today,

we're going to be talking about financial adulting and identifying and ending inequality in finance.

Ashley, thank you for being with us today. Of course. Thank you so much for having me. And it's a big topic today. Yeah. So before we dive in,

why don't you tell a listener's a short summary of what it is you do and your background.

Sure. So I would say I'm a personal finance educator and coach. I do it all with a feminist angle

and a place of no judgment or shame. We need

a lot more of that in the personal finance space. We have a ton of free content. And then also I have

some books. My latest is financial dolting and have some courses on the site. My background,

it's interesting because my background sounds like I would know a lot

about money and personal finance, but I didn't, and that's why I do what I do. I studied finance

in college and then worked in finance and still knew nothing about my own money. And there was,

my first job, I was an investment banker, and I had a great salary, but just not a lot of time to spend any money, do anything. I ate most meals at my desk and worked pretty late. And so when I switched jobs to a job with a better lifestyle, I started making up for a lost time. And when I switched jobs, I did take a pay cut. So I was just

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