About
CA. CFA. CS. Three qualifications, one underlying obsession: I want to to know what's actually happening, not the version that's easiest to explain.
That's the thread that runs through everything I do. I ask what's going to happen next, and why. When I'm wrong, I want to know exactly where the thinking broke down; feedback isn't optional for me, it's the whole point. Markets are the best teacher I've found for this, because they don't flatter you and they don't lie, even when everyone around you is doing both.
I'm process-oriented almost to a fault. I'd rather build a proper SOP once than solve the same problem from scratch every time it resurfaces, in trading, in client work, in how I run my own day. Systems free up the mind for the harder thinking; they're not the boring part, they're what makes the interesting part possible.
Swing Trading and Investing is where I test that thinking with real consequences. But the discipline didn't start in the markets. It started on a karate mat. Twelve years in, second dan black belt, and the lesson never really changes: show up, do the boring repetitions, and the results take care of themselves eventually.
I like sharing what I've learned. If you're the kind of person who'd rather understand the "why" and the "how" than just be handed an answer, we'll get along.
Women & wealth
Somewhere along the way, a lot of women got told, gently or otherwise, that money isn't really theirs to understand, that it's someone else's department.
I don't buy that, and I've spent my career proving it's not true, one client and one conversation at a time.
I want women to understand their own finances, not delegate them, not glance at a statement once a year and hope for the best, but actually understand where their money is, what it's doing, and why.
Financial confidence isn't a nice-to-have. It's independence, and it's overdue.
This is the work I care most about, whether that's a client who wants a real financial partner, an organization looking for someone to talk straight about money to a room of women, or a collaboration I haven't thought of yet.
If that's you, or you know someone it should be, this is the conversation I most want to have.
Let's talkOff the clock
I've been in a dojo since I was young enough that karate felt more normal than sitting still, twelve years, second dan black belt, and a permanent respect for anyone who shows up to train on the days they don't feel like it.
These days it's a rotation of cricket, badminton, table tennis, pickleball, and strength training, with running as the newest, humblest addition to the list. Ask me to join in on any given evening, and I'll probably say yes before you've finished the sentence.
I read. I notice things, the kind of small, specific details most people walk past, and I'm slowly working my way toward doing a lot more traveling, which is very much a "watch this space" ambition rather than a finished chapter.
None of this compounds annually. I like it anyway, consistency and discipline don't stop for me at the market's edge; I find myself relating almost everything, sport included, back to some larger lesson about life.