Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Member Lateral Monkey shares her story from a non-target school all the way to the

front office at a bulge bracket investment bank. Find out what helped her land a rare sophomore summer

internship in capital markets

and why she despised it, why she stayed at the same bank for her junior summer, and what saved her

time and time again. This is part two of a two-part series. Talk to me first about so you're sorry i interrupted you before about like the there were

no female mds talk to me a little bit more about that so like there was just did you feel like it was

you're out of place yeah like you were talking about gender ratio there.

So I have a firm belief just based on my experience and finance.

I have very often been the only woman in the room.

I don't think it's about having more women in the room, although that's always a plus.

I think it's about the way men treat you.

If they treat you like your opinions are valid and they're worth listening to and like you're important, I think that that goes a very far away. You know, like there was

no women in my group, my second summer. But the way that the men treated me and the way that I

interacted with them made all the difference.

So a big difference is this, right?

Like, I have certain hobbies and I think they're interesting.

And, you know, junior bankers on my first summer, on the team, my first summer, were not willing to talk about it.

And, like, honestly, to talk about it and like

honestly looked down on it and super condescending my second summer they were open to

discussing it and learning about it and we would talk about it and there was like an

exchange of ideas there that is super positive and I think that is a sign of a

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