Today we’d like to introduce you to Jessica Weaver.
Hi Jessica, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I joined my father’s financial firm in 2010, and quickly felt like I didn’t belong in the boys club that makes up the financial industry. Within a few years, I began to carve out a community for women to learn, invest, and grow not just their money but their careers, businesses, and identities. In 2022, I left my father’s firm to launch the Women’s Wealth Boutique, now the Wealth Boutique to take our community to the next level. In the first 2 years, we brought on 6 female advisors in different states from Alabama, to Michigan, to New Jersey. While this was all taking place, we built our productions company: Pinkfix Productions publishing my own 3 best selling books: Strong Woman Stronger Assets, Time to Refine, and Confessions of a Money Queen. We landed a TV deal with E360 Network in the fall of 2023, and just celebrated our second season of our show. I initiated a scholarship fund to welcome more women into the financial industry, and we raised $5000 for a young woman who wishes to study finance. Our goal is to continue our scholarship award every year and to build out an internship program to accompany these women. Only 10% of advisors make it beyond their first year, and only 18% of advisors are women. We have a lot working against us, so we are doing our part to bring more women into the industry and to keep them here! Our productions company is working on several more anthology books, podcasts, and TV shows with a possible entire channel dedicated to our productions team!
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I’ve struggled with people pleasing my entire life, since being a young girl and trying to keep my parents happy and proud. As I began my journey to becoming a thought leader, CEO, author, and now TV show host, I had to heal from my childhood trauma to end my cycle of people pleasing, imposter syndrome, and all the guilt that so many women feel. My mother always told me growing up that her mother picked her career while my own mother picked being a mom. I internalized this as you cannot have both, and if you do, you will let someone down. The guilt being a new mom was quite hard to cope with, and sent me into post partum depression and anxiety. I learned to reach out for help and to be more honest with my husband and with myself. I was driven to not sacrifice my business because I wanted to have children after witnessing so many women putting their career and business growth on hold while raising their family. I wanted to grow my business and be a good mom. The issue is there aren’t a lot of role models to show us ladies of this generation how to do it so it was a lot of trial and error on my side while finding my tribe of women who could relate. I’ve dealt with family members shaming me for my work, friends who disconnected from me as my success rose, or putting my work down to make them feel better about themselves. Being a CEO can be very lonely, and it’s taken me a while but I strongly feel I have found amazing women and men who support me and want to see me succeed, my husband included.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Pinkfix Productions?
At Pinkfix Productions we make sure women know and understand that their story and their voice matters! We want you to step into being a thought leader and making change in this world because let’s face it, you won’t feel satisfied until you make your mark on the world! We accomplish this through several channels, podcasts, book publishing, our annual magazine, TV shows, and events. We take you through the 5 step process to becoming a thought leader from getting clarity over your mission, confidence to use your voice, to leveraging the media to declare your voice, aligning with strategic partners, and how to leave a legacy. We help build your platform for you to make ignite your revolution!
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
IF you asked me to define success even 2 years ago I would have said by how much money you make and how much assets you manage. Today I view success quite differently, success is balancing between taking action, being creative, and trusting where God is leading me. Can I be happy in the season of life God has planted me? If yes, then I am successful. If no, where am I in resistance? When good things happen to remember to celebrate and when bad things happen, get curious as to why they are present in your life. Your vibration today sets your future, and your energy of the past sets your today.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.jessicaweaver.com and www.thewealthboutique.com
- Instagram: @pinkfixmymoney and @womenswealthboutique
- Facebook: @pinkfixmymoney and @womenswealthboutique
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-weaver-cfp%C2%AE-cdfa%C2%AE-cfs%C2%AE-76538733/
- Youtube: @pinkfixmymoney
Image Credits
Nick Ellis