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In this episode, member Shana Punham 2 shares her path as a Big 4 tax consultant to leaving

the workforce for an extended period of time to help raise her two kids, how she broke

back in an advice she'd give to her

younger self. Enjoy. Shana Punham 2, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you. Thank you for having me.

So it'd be great if you could just give a quick bio to the listeners.

Sure. So I started out doing my undergraduate degree in accounting, MBA finance.

I began first with a big four accounting firm on their tax staff

and gained my CPA there with a certain number of years of experience, and then kind of

pivoted towards my ultimate goal, which was the finance as a long-term career, and I worked in loan syndications,

which is similar to leverage loans, Levfin. So I moved into debt capital markets, but on the

investment grade side is loan syndications

and took some time off to raise my family, returned with a return to work internship in a credit

rating agency, and moved on to investment banking where I am currently.

Great. So how long was your time off there to raise your family?

15 years.

There you go.

So it's really interesting because we haven't had a guest on.

We've had now several female guests.

We haven't had a guest on that has taken the break and they come back.

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