Working Women Mentor

Stop Waiting Until You’re Ready, You Already Know Enough to Start

Episode Notes

You’ve been telling yourself you need to know more before you start. More research. More certainty. More money in the bank. LaKeisha Tomlin thought the same thing, and then she looked around her house, counted the Apple products, checked the five-year stock chart, and made her first investment.

LaKeisha is a technical leader with a career spanning aerospace and tech, degrees from St. Louis University, Johns Hopkins, and Yale, and a self-taught investing and trading practice that now makes up the bulk of her income. She didn’t have a financial mentor growing up. She built it herself, step by step, following her curiosity.

In this conversation, Rani and LaKeisha talk through:

• Why shifting from outcomes to inputs is the mindset move that changes everything
• How she lost tens of thousands in a single week — and what that loss forced her to learn about mentorship
• The simple, zero-jargon starting place for any woman who wants to begin investing
• Why “the work will speak for itself” is one of the most expensive myths working women believe
• What it actually looks like to treat your career like a business

This episode is for the woman who knows she should be doing more with her money and her career, but keeps waiting for the moment she feels ready. LaKeisha is the permission to stop waiting.