"From the time I was hired on Oct. 24, 1983 until I was let go in 2008, I was largely the only female car designer at the company. I was doing all this work but I was not getting promoted. I was watching Ford hire male designers and seeing them get promoted. They even started hiring female designers that were getting promoted before me,”"

"I find the moms who are having challenges balancing work and life, are the ones who just can’t bring themselves to say anything to their circle other than “I’m fine.”"

"I understand that not every mother is lucky enough to be in this position."

"There are periods where you are not spending as much time with your kids due to work, and there are times when your work is pushed to the side because you need to walk away from the company."

"I know what that feels like."

"That’s easier said than done and even I struggle with that, but to balance your worlds, you’ve got to ask for and accept help."

"It always ebbs and flows."

"I often hear due to household responsibilities that moms have very little time left for sponsorship and networking."

"After returning to work from maternity leave, I had to pump in a bathroom stall due to a lack of nursing accommodations from my employer."

"I help progressive, family friendly companies design comfortable and hygienic mother’s rooms."

"Crypto and NFTs are a path to financial independence, so it's important that women and girls know about them"

"NFTs give people who haven't had the opportunity to invest in or sell their art the traditional way."

"Our study proved that 1 million new American jobs could be created with just a small incremental increase of support for Black owned businesses from a small part of the Black population."

"When I first heard about blockchain, I didn't think it was for me."

"Their value is a lot less volatile, because of the underlying currency that's backing it if stable coins are backed by U.S. dollars, their value is going to be roughly around the same value as a dollar."

"I was attracted to the art, and realised artists can be a part of this, and that it can be an inclusive space for women and people of colour."

"Blistering. Honest…[O]ffering clear-eyed perspective on how African Americans got to where they are today and what they can do to support black business owners."

"Decentralized cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Ethereum these are exchangeable and they can be spent."

"That’s one of the things that differentiates it from paper money."

"They have a value that's consistent across the world, across markets."

"You also have something called stable coins, virtual currencies that are mapped to government-issued currencies."

"It could actually be cheaper in the long run for you to use crypto to move money to people across the world."

"an effective probe into how African Americans spend so much money that overwhelmingly leaves their communities.”"

"I am the Co-Founder of Block4Hire.com, a platform that connects blockchain talent with budding entrepreneurs and companies."

"I am a founder, blockchain engineer, technologist, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience."

"I am the CTO of Black Wall Street, a cryptocurrency wallet and community aimed at empowering investors of color."

"I am the Founder and Creator of Guapcoin, a cryptocurrency focused on closing the wealth gap and providing access to crypto for African Americans, Latinx people, and the global African Diaspora."

"Once you send it, that's it, unless they send it back to you."

"The biggest challenge I faced was one of the exact adversaries I was attempting to solve."

"This was my second startup, it was during my first startup, a company called 'Safe2meet', a P2P verification platform, that I discovered that Black women get less than 1% of VC or capital funding for their companies."

"It is the access to funding for founders of colors."

"It really is less red tape than moving money, therefore making it more affordable than services like Western Union or MoneyGram."

"It was disheartening that my partner and I despite being two successful black women in tech could not raise the money we needed to scale our MVP."

"It is usually distributed through a blockchain, which is referred to as decentralized."

"People have created value with those things."

"Cryptocurrency is peer to peer, so you're not having all of these middle processors like banks involved, and transactions are faster."

"If they want them and there is a demand, then it will naturally have value."

"If you are using your debit card or your credit card, it's really not instant settlement."

"I would describe it as digital money or virtual currency."

"It's very, very close to the virtual currencies we use in gaming."

"I found myself managing hundreds of servers and also having to provide tech support all while running an organization for some time."

"There are games that actually have virtual currency that have real value in the real world, Second Life’s in game currency, Linden dollar, is trading in the real world against other currencies."

"I had to hire offshore resources on a shoestring budget."

"After all crypto Guapcoin is essentially money, and as the days go by, it becomes closer and closer to becoming accepted as legal tender everywhere."

"This led me to launch Guapcoin, which I felt could eventually open up more capital and more options for people like me."

"My final challenge was finding blockchain talent and resources to support our project."

"Blockchain resources are scarce in our industry because technology is evolving at a fast pace."

"They make it look like it, but it's not that's why people can file chargebacks or have pending transactions."

"What crypto does is provide instant settlement,"