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Welcome to Investing Insights. I'm your host, Ivana Hampton.

Women are often caught in a whirlwind of conflicting messages about money. They're told to spend on this,

but not that. They're reminded to save for emergencies and invest for their future. But how can

they create the financial life? They envision for themselves. Tori Dunlap, the founder of her

first 100K, believes employers, communities, and families must play a role.

She says it's her mission to make women rich and that the world would look better if they were.

Here's our conversation.

Welcome to investing in Sites, Tori.

Thank you so much for having me.

So you've built your financial

reputation with an impressive feat, saving 100K by 25 years old. That takes grit. Can you share a couple

of other decisions that you made since then that's had a big impact on your life?

Oh, yeah. I mean, it's hard to believe that my 100K at 25 story,

which was the beginning of her first 100K, was almost five years ago. I'm 29. I'm almost 30 now.

So yeah, a lot's happened since then. When I saved that first 100,000 at 25 years old,

I was still working a corporate job. Her first 100K was just a side hustle. It was 2019. It was pre-pandemic,

right? So a lot has changed both globally and also personally in my life. So, I mean, one of the

biggest decisions I made after that 100,000 goal was set was taking my business full time and

investing in myself full-time. It was one of the reasons I was able,

you know, or motivated to save that $100,000 was so I could become a full-time entrepreneur and

be able to impact women's lives every day. And I think making that decision was both obviously

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