Let's talk about money and other taboo things entrepreneurs like to say we talk about and keep a lot of the things behind the scene. Not today. We are talking with the financial feminist, her first 100K, a person who I have watched from a distance and expand beyond entrepreneurship, beyond personal finance, and really stepped up as a voice for people to be represented in the financial markets. I couldn't be more excited to have on the podcast, Ms. Pori Dunlap. So excited to be here. Thanks for having me. I am happy you're here. I am so happy you're here. Okay. So right before we started, I had said, I see the podcast happening into into acts. But oftentimes on the podcast, it takes its own. Okay. So in the beginning,

I really want to talk about personal finance. Great. People who are watching and listening,

entrepreneurship, we want to talk about money. And one of the things that initially struck me was

her first 100K. That is your Instagram handle. And I heard a story about how you set out to document you getting your

first 100K. And I want to tear apart a little bit of those details. So let's start with the

beginning and then I like to dig in for the story elements. Yeah. So in 2016, I graduated college

with degrees in communication and theater. So I did not study finance. I did not study business.

And I thought, okay, I'm going to

work my way up the corporate ladder in marketing. That was the dream. So I was going to stomp the pavement and have my little like briefcase and my pencil skirt. And that's how I know it's a fantasy. I've never worn a pencil skirt and my gosh dang life. Have you, have you carried a briefcase though? I don't think so.

No, I don't know if anybody does that anymore.

But that was the vision.

Like I was going to girl boss my way up to VP of marketing by 30.

Graduated college got into jobs and realized very quickly, especially with my first job, that I was in a very misogynistic work environment.

Like, I was in a environment of just a lot of toxic culture where there was open bars at every

office and, like, just, I was watching other friends of mine who were women get passed over for

opportunities and, like, male superiors were saying just weird, you know, sexually harassment

stuff to me. And I was like, this is not what I dreamt of doing for 35 years.

Because I was 22 and I was like, what am I going to do with the rest of my life? And also a lot of

things are happening politically at that time. And so I just kind of started asking,

what kind of person do I want to be? What do I want to build both for myself and that also makes an impact? And I was the friend, all of my friends were coming to for advice and guidance around money. Because? Because I had a great financial education for my parents. So my parents were really diligent because they both didn't grow up with a lot to make sure that I knew, here's how to not overspend on credit cards, here's how to save money.

And I just took that for granted because that was all I had known. I thought, oh, everybody

knows how to do this until I realized, of course that's not the case. But I was also becoming

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