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Financial literacy for women in medicine

A blog for high-earning professionals, especially women in medicine, who want to understand money, build wealth, and stop being intimidated by personal finance.

This is not a “boss babe/mama/wifey,” “money mindset,” GRWM, or affiliate-link-infused brand. This is financial literacy built the slow, unglamorous way: incorporation, index investing, tax strategy, discipline, politics, and some luck.

I built wealth by learning the language of money during residency. Money has been one of the biggest sources of anxiety and control in my life, and I know I’m not the only one. If you’re here to understand your numbers, make intelligent long-term decisions, and build a life that’s secure and self-determined, you’re in the right place.

This blog won’t coddle you. It won’t flatter you. It will probably come across as a little smug, because confidence is often mistaken for audacity when a woman talks about money plainly.

If you’re here, I hope it’s because you’re curious about wealth, power, autonomy, and the politics of money.

about me

I’m a Canadian physician who became obsessed with financial independence during residency. I loathed the exploitation built into graduate medical education. I hated that my time, energy, and even identity felt owned by systems that were built to profit off me.

Medical training asks for total self-sacrifice. The financial system expects ignorance. Both profit when you don’t ask questions. Learning about money became my way out of feeling owned—by call schedules, institutions, debt, and expectations. The deeper I went, the more obvious it became how opaque and manipulative most financial “education” is.

So I taught myself slowly and methodically.

I’m here because I believe women deserve to understand how money works without being sold something.