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Caption: It was 2016, and I was in a strategy meeting at IBM. Some guy wouldn’t shut up about blockchain. Loud. Intense. Too much, honestly. “Mute that guy,” someone whi… more It was 2016, and I was in a strategy meeting at IBM. Some guy wouldn’t shut up about blockchain. Loud. Intense. Too much, honestly. “Mute that guy,” someone whispered. But I remember thinking: no one at IBM is ever that excited about anything. So I got curious. After work, I walked to Barnes & Noble in Union Square and picked up Blockchain Revolution. I read it in two days. I didn’t fully understand the tech, but the use cases were so compelling, I knew I had to be part of it. That spark became an obsession. I was sneaking into empty cubicles to read Reddit threads, white papers, and blog posts. There wasn’t much out there, but I consumed everything I could find. I even took on a side project at IBM focused on blockchain for financial markets. It wasn’t part of my day job — I just couldn’t not do it. Eventually, I found ConsenSys in 2017 and interviewed for a role. When the offer came, I sat down with my roommate to talk it through. It wasn’t the “safe” move. It wasn’t what people at IBM did. She reminded me, “You have to take it. You haven’t stopped talking about crypto since you discovered it.” And she was right. Crypto had lit something in me I couldn’t ignore. So I followed it. Even when it didn’t make sense. Even when it wasn’t the logical next step. And that curiosity didn’t stop. In 2019, when DeFi started taking off, I was fascinated. Once again, I couldn’t stop learning — following every protocol launch, testing new tools, asking questions no one around me could answer. And as I did, I thought: More women need to understand this. That curiosity became the fuel behind every SheFi cohort, every lesson, every course I built. It kept me motivated — even when the market crashed, even when it was hard, even when no one was paying attention. So if you’re asking yourself what to do next — start with what you’re curious about. That’s where the most exciting opportunities live. That’s where real alignment begins. It’s how I found crypto. It’s how I built SheFi. And it’s how I keep showing up, even now. Because the things that light you up? They’ll take you exactly where you’re meant to go. less
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