Meet PAM: The Key to Authentic Business Growth & Success
Discover the power of PAM—your Peers, Audience, and the Media—in growing a business and brand you truly love. Discover effective strategies to engage with your community, build trust, and evolve your brand in a way that aligns with your passion and values. Learn how authenticity can drive lasting success and personal fulfillment.
Jamila Souffrant is the author of Your Journey To Financial Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness and the host of the Journey To Launch podcast.
She is considered a go-to thought leader in the personal finance field and her work has been featured in BuzzFeed, ESSENCE, Refinery 29, Money Magazine, CNBC, CBS, Business Insider and more.
The Journey To Launch Podcast has over 4+ million total downloads and was listed by the NYTimes as a podcast to help you get better with your money.
Jamila and her husband saved $169,000 in two years, is also a mother of three young children and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Connect with Jamila:
• Podcast
• Website
B.A.N.K. Your Brand: 4 Keys to Negotiate Contracts Without Selling Yourself Short
Learn 4 keys to negotiating your rate and contracts as a content creator. Mandi will cover her 4-step B.A.N.K. strategy to help creators set their partnership rates, decide when to increase them, how/when to tell their partners their rates are increasing, and how to negotiate common contract tripwires like exclusivity clauses and noncompetes.
Mandi Woodruff-Santos is the award-winning cohost of the Brown Ambition podcast and founder of the MandiMoney Makers™️, a one-of-a-kind leadership & career coaching community that helps empower women of color to build resilient careers and strong negotiation skills.
Mandi spent more than a decade building a successful career as a financial journalist, educator, editorial leader, and content strategist.
She co-founded the five-star rated Brown Ambition Podcast in 2015, which is regularly listed in the top 100 business podcasts on Apple and has won dozens of accolades, including three consecutive WEBBY awards for Best Business Podcast.
As a career and negotiation expert, Mandi’s advice has been featured on Good Morning America, The New York Times, TODAY, CNBC, CNN, The Dr. Phil Show, ABC World News, CBS This Morning, Business Insider, Essence and Teen Vogue.
Mandi is currently writing her first book on strategically quitting throughout your career (Hachette, 2026).
She lives in New York with her husband and two sons.
Connect with Mandi:
• Website
• Podcast
Paula will lead Creator Conversations, focused on finding balance as you create content. With over 12 years of experience as a financial content creator, Paula will share her insights and guide discussions at your table on: • Balancing evergreen content vs. timely content • Balancing creating vs. consuming as a creator • Staying within your niche vs. expanding to adjacent verticals You’ll not only learn from Paula’s experience but also gain valuable perspectives from others in the group.
Paula Pant is the host of the Afford Anything podcast, an award-winning show with more than 30 million downloads. It was named by the New York Times as one of “7 Podcasts Your Wallet Will Love.”
She is also the founder of Afford Anything, a personal finance brand with more than 75,000 newsletter subscribers.
Paula was a Knight-Bagehot Business and Economics Journalism Fellow at Columbia University.
Paula is frequently featured in financial media including Money Magazine, the Washington Post, Oprah.com, CNBC, Fortune, Marie Claire, Marketplace Money, Men’s Health, Real Simple, Outside Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, and more.
She’s spoken at the Talks at Google series and guest lectured at Georgetown University.
She lives in New York City.
Connect with Paula:
• Podcast
• YouTube
Meet Bernadette Joy, the dynamic force behind Crush Your Money Goals®.
As the eighth child in a family of nine and a first-gen Filipina-American, Bernadette intimately understands the struggle of those who missed the money memo.
Boasting two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, and a decade of Fortune 100 and startup experience, Bernadette’s real street cred comes from paying off a staggering $300,000 of debt in three years and investing her first $1 million in her 30s!
Currently, she serves as the CEO of Crush Your Money Goals®, a personal finance training company that delivers education with a side of pizzazz.
Featured in Forbes, CNBC, and CNET, Bernadette has graced over 30 podcasts, radio, and television shows.
With her highly anticipated book set to drop in 2024, Bernadette now dedicates 20 hours a week to relishing her financial freedom through K-Pop, yoga, karaoke, and spoiling her nieces and nephews as their traveling rich auntie.
Today, she shares simple strategies nationwide, guiding thousands through her 5-step secret recipe for financial peace.
CONNECT WITH BERNADETTE JOY:
• Website
• YouTube
• Podcast
Hear inspiring talks and participate in networking opportunities with other female Money Nerds.
Welcome Reception presented by Gainbridge
Kick off Women in Money by enjoying drinks together on the 10th floor terrace overlooking Times Square.
Share a multi-course meal in small groups curated by niches, platforms, and/or experience level.
You’ll also get the opportunity to create content in Nasdaq’s studio the next morning on Tuesday.
Spend an entire day focusing on your creator business with other like-minded creators.
You’ll be grouped based on similar levels of experience. Guided by a mastermind facilitator, you’ll work together through problem areas and access frameworks to enrich your work.
Hear inspiring talks and participate in networking opportunities with other female Money Nerds.
Welcome Reception presented by Gainbridge
Kick off Women in Money by enjoying drinks together on the 10th floor terrace overlooking Times Square.
Share a multi-course me in small groups curated by niches, platforms, and/or experience level.
You’ll also get the opportunity to create content in Nasdaq’s studio the next morning on Tuesday.
Spend an entire day focusing on your creator business with other like-minded creators.
You’ll be grouped based on similar levels of experience. Guided by a mastermind facilitator, you’ll work together through problem areas and access frameworks to enrich your work.
Yes, we have a very small room block at a hotel near the venue. The room block link and hotel info will be included in a confirmation email after you purchase your pass.
You can email us at admin@finconexpo.com or you can check the box on your order form and we’ll follow up with you after purchase.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer childcare. But we have hopes of doing so at future women’s events.
Yes, there will be a room for nursing/pumping.
We will do our best to accommodate your dietary needs. There’s a space on your registration form to enter any dietary restrictions. If you have any additional concerns, email us at admin@finconexpo.com.
Tickets are non-refundable but are transferable until May 24. There will be a $50 admin fee for transfers.
If you haven’t started creating content yet OR if you just started within the last 6(ish) months OR if you’re not consistently creating content yet, then you should consider attending FinCon.
While Women in Money is specifically designed for women Personal Finance creators who have requested their own space to connect and collaborate, men can also support the event in several ways — promoting the event on their social media channels, telling other women Personal Finance creators about it, and providing scholarships so more women can attend. If you’d like to provide a scholarship, email us at admin@finconexpo.com.