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

It's Monday, December 9th. I'm your host Jason Moser and if you remember on last week's show we revisited our own Matt Frankel's list of bold predictions for 2019

and how those have worked out so far given that we're getting ready to wrap up in 2019.

Well, this week we're jumping into Matt's bold predictions

for 2020, and I think you're gonna like them.

But first, today we have another installment

of Between Two Fools.

Caroline Feeney is CEO of Individual Solutions for Prudential Financial, which provides

financial advice and other outcome-oriented solutions for consumers.

Feeney began her career with Prudential in 1993 and currently serves as Prudential's

representative for the National Association for Female Executives and serves on the Executive

Roundtable.

Caroline, I've been looking forward to this interview because we get to talk about something

that it feels like it's starting to gain some serious traction and that is the evolving

role of women in finance. the challenges and the opportunities,

what's working and what's not.

So let's go ahead and start with the idea that traditionally, historically the financial services

industry has been a male dominated industry.

Given that, what have been the biggest drivers that have helped you succeed in the industry

today?

Yes, so, uh, Jason, I had the opportunity to start with Prudential about 25 years ago and

started on the sales and distribution side and so certainly as you do say it's

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