A disabled founder with a traumatic brain injury and stutter becomes the developer of her own fintech startup, because she can't afford to hire one. In Episode 6 of Building Financial Joy, Ruby "SunShine" Taylor, founder of Grean Wealth and Financial Joy School®, woman founder, social worker, and stutterer, builds the Financial Joy Index™ with $0, an AWS Social Impact support team, and her Technical Advisor, who tells the room: "She is the developer."

This week: starting to code and test in VS Code, a Codex that connects to the wrong one, and a seven-week countdown to Thanksgiving, when AWS support from Darasimi wraps up. Can a non-technical founder learn to code, build on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and launch a financial wellness platform between naps? Ruby also shares the hunt for a credit union pilot partner and a new discovery, Filene, the nonprofit doing research and accelerators in the fintech and credit union space.

And life doesn't pause for a woman founder. Ruby heads to the Bronx to support her parents through her mother's surgery, balances motherhood and caregiving, and talks about what it's really like to be a woman founder with a disability building a company with no funding.

This is startup building, entrepreneurship, financial wellness, fintech, learning to code, and disability advocacy with nothing smoothed over. Wins, setbacks, and faith, told as they happen.

A note before you listen: Ruby is a stutterer, so you will hear her stumble a time or two. She also lives with a traumatic brain injury that has impacted her entire life, and she keeps living and dreaming anyway. Yes, yes, and yes.

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