Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

It's Monday, May 6th, I'm your host, Jason Moser on today's show.

Have a little bit of a different spin on things here.

We're bringing in Dylan Lewis today for a real life financial,

I don't want to call it a crisis, but it's a situation.

And we want to learn more about what's going on there and how we might be able to help them

We've as always got one to watch for you this week, but we're beginning this week with another installment of Between Two Fools.

You may have heard a few months back we brought four new analysts onto our investing team

with Motley Fool and what better way to introduce you to them than through the magic of the podcast and

between two fools. This week we're introducing you to Maria Gallagher. I hope you

enjoy our conversation. Okay Maria Maria, first things first.

Tell us who you are and tell us how you got here to the fool.

Well, hello, my name's Maria Gallagher.

I think I have kind of an unique and interesting story. I got into investing a lot later than most people.

So I in college studied psychology, I had a pretty specific track about what I wanted to do.

And then I did an internship in that and I didn't actually like it

the way I thought I would.

And so then I did another internship and ended up being at an investing firm and I kind of fell in love with it and

that was my senior year of college and so as I was graduating college I was applying to a

bunch of jobs and internships and I ended up getting an internship here last

summer so as an intern down in the asset management department and I ended up getting an internship here last summer.

So I was an intern down in the asset management department.

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