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hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

Obviously, everything is a giant storm right now.

And I think we need a ray of sunshine.

I think we need a little bit of hope.

And this happy hour, I'm going to

talk to a young man who completely changed his life in order to help other people find love.

And you're like, oh, is he a matchmaker? Does he sit in an office and look at headshots and create

algorithms? No. He was a well-off, well-heeled finance bro who left Wall Street,

invested in a petty cab. He pedals around with single people and helps them find other single

people he thinks might match them well. And it's all about alchemy.

I always say it.

You got to look people in the eye.

You got to smell their fairmoans in order to know whether or not that person is the right partner for you.

So this episode of Kennedy Saves a World toasts Walker Ward.

Cheers.

Welcome to the podcast, sir. Let's go.

And it's a bit of a mule.

Yum. Cheers, everybody. Might be a little gray goose in there. Good. For old time's sake. I love it. Yeah, that's right. The goose is loose in the studio. So you were doing well on Wall Street. Was it soul crushing? What was it about your time there that made you want to leave and completely reinvent your life?

I was. First of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. I just came, it's Fashion Week here in New York, between us girls, as we know. And I just came from my first ever runway show, which was cool. So I'm a little more dressed up than usual, and I'm excited to be here. But long story short, I am, well as a relative term, but yes, I was doing well on Wall Street, cell side. And I actually did not leave on my own volition. I was fired. Oh, that sucks. I was let go July of 2003. Okay. And then so about two years ago. You think you're fine. You've made it through the pandemic. A lot of people still want to stay home. You're like, I'm one of the brave ones. I'm still here. I'm good to go. And I had been there for about six years. So it's not like I was, you know, brand new to the firm and everything. But whatever. You know, everything happens for a reason, that kind of thing. I was let go and my girlfriend, about a month later, I'm looking for similar jobs. You know, I'm like, okay, let's go find competitors I could apply to or

leverage my network that I built. And my girlfriend, who's amazing, she was like, Walker, you've

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