🚨 International Women’s Day is a farce.

Not because I don’t believe in it.

Because one day is embarrassingly insufficient for the scale of the problem.
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I have sat in enough meetings and boardrooms to know the truth. The idea that gets dismissed when she says it gets celebrated when he repeats it twenty minutes later.

I have seen it happen in real time. I have probably benefited from it without realizing.
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My co-founder Jyotsna (Jo) Dixit never waited for the room to catch up.
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Raised by a single mother in a deeply patriarchal society, Jo was handed a script she never agreed to read.

The message was clear from early on.
Stay smaller. Expect less. Be grateful for the room they let you into.

She ignored all of it.

Not with anger. With evidence. Every role at Microsoft, GE, and EY was another data point she was building against the narrative. She walked into rooms where the expectations for her were quietly lower but she performed at a standard that made that embarrassing for the room, not for her.

She mentored other women not by telling them to lean in, but by showing them exactly what was possible when you refuse to internalize someone else’s ceiling.
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What I know about Jo after building BricksFolios | Wealth-Tech for Tech Professionals together shows up in how decisions get made, not how they get announced.

It is a standard she holds herself and everyone around her to. A refusal to accept shortcuts. An intellectual honesty that does not move when it becomes inconvenient.

The women who do this work are relentless. They refuse to make themselves smaller so others can feel bigger. They bring a quality of thinking that raises everyone around them.
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Jo is that person.

That same energy is what she brings to the women we work with at BricksFolios. Women who are high earners, sharp thinkers, and still somehow underserved by an industry that was never designed with them in mind.
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Yesterday was for celebration of International Women’s Day.

Today is for the harder question.

⁉️Who is actually in the room when decisions get made, and whose ideas are being attributed correctly?

That is the work. It does not fit in a day.

If you’ve read till here, thank you.
Please help me with a question:
👋What would you do differently with your income if you had a clear roadmap and no one to answer to?

#IWD2026