Sonia, where would you say that this vision come from?
So in my previous corporate role, I was what we call a financial planner.
I worked in corporate finance for some time.
I was a bank manager before that.
By the time I was 23, I had my first house at 20.
And then I was in commercial lending as well in the banking game.
So I got to see so many aspects before I actually became a business owner about the finance
background and creating wealth just for day-to-day individuals, not even specifically business
owners just across the board.
And I was really shocked because the financial education just isn't there in the schooling
system.
It just isn't.
Unless people are actively seeking it out or they're being presented with it at an opportunity
such as when you're in the bank, which let's be real, doesn't happen anymore because everything's
online, people just aren't getting that information and education.
So they don't know what they don't know.
And it's really detrimental to them in the long term because they're losing all this
time that they could be taking to invest.
Now I've been in business for 15 years.
I've been in multiple businesses.
My husband and I have a very successful construction business as well.
And I've just seen, even though we're turning over millions and millions of dollars, we've
had all kinds of things happen where it's heavily impacted the company financially.
And I just didn't want that to be the only thing that we had.
I just wanted to have something else as a backup so that I could still get my goal,
still get my dream and reach my purpose, which I needed to have the funds for.
But it really helped take that pressure off it being the sole entity that brought income
in.
So now I have a great wealth portfolio and I know that my children will be able to have
something when they come through.
And that's really how it really started was really from that corporate standpoint and
viewing the lack of education in this space.
And it's really concerning actually.