Amanda Holden is, in her words, an “ex-finance bro”. She landed a job in investment management right out of college and was earning a six-figure income by her early 20s. But after five years of “letting grown men scream at me about their money”, she desperately wanted out. So she committed to saving enough to quit and travel – and to leave the world of finance for good.
But a year later, Holden went back to the field, this time with a different mission. If her old career was, as she put it, “helping rich men get richer”, her second act would be using her hard-earned expertise to level the playing field. Holden is the founder of Invested Development, a blog-turned-online-course that encourages students (mostly women) to gain financial independence through investing. She says more than 25,000 people have taken her course.
