You can manage a multi-million dollar corporate budget with your eyes closed. So why does looking at your own personal bank account make your stomach drop?

It doesn't make sense, right? But it’s incredibly real.

In this solo episode of Catalyst Conversations, we are pulling back the curtain on a secret a lot of women are hiding: why brilliant, first-generation high earners keep six figures just sitting in a regular checking account, earning next to nothing.

The bank calls it "extreme liquidity." In reality? It’s just a high-priced security blanket. When you are the first person in your circle to bring home the big checks, the pressure to not screw it up can feel crushing. So you hold onto that cash for dear life, terrified that one wrong move will tear down everything you’ve built.

It’s time to stop hiding behind  ...