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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A disabled founder building a fintech startup completes a major technical milestone, nine of nineteen steps in a full Product and Technical Blueprint, covering product vision, security architecture, accessibility architecture, infrastructure, and API specifications, only to be told by her Technical Advisor, "What did you do?" In Episode 5 of Building Financial Joy, Ruby "SunShine" Taylor gets honest about building the Financial Joy Index™ the hard way: real GitHub cleanup, real technical humility, and a real lesson about following instructions when you're a self-taught, non-technical founder learning to code and manage a repository for the first time.

This episode also covers AWS (Amazon Web Services) and cloud infrastructure explained in plain language, a hard-won AWS Social Impact partnership, a free year of premium design services from MUI.com, and a candid reflection on building a financial wellness and member retention startup at $0, the irony of building financial stability tools while personally navigating financial scarcity as an entrepreneur.

This is startup building, fintech, entrepreneurship, women in tech, disability advocacy, and financial wellness with nothing smoothed over, the wins, the corrections, and the lessons, told honestly, as they happen.

A note before you listen: Ruby is a stutterer. At times you'll hear her stumble, and she keeps going, because she's a thriver, not a complainer. That's not a flaw in this show. It's the show.

New episodes every Tuesday. New episode drops every Tuesday on Building Financial Joy, the podcast following a disabled founder building a fintech startup from $0. Check out her Fintech Startup https://Grean.US

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A 7.7 investor-readiness score. Zero dollars in the bank. A disabled founder holds both of those truths in the same week. In Episode 4 of Building Financial Joy, Ruby "SunShine" Taylor shares a genuinely joyful week building a fintech startup at $0: a new idea for the software born out of a development meeting with her Technical Advisor, a deck score of 7.7 from the AHM Catalyst Capital Passport, well above the 7 needed to be considered investor-ready, and a real connection to minority depository institutions (MDIs) through a meeting with a major fintech company.

This episode also gets honest about the cost of building with nothing: a missed grant, mounting AI subscription bills, and literally running out of credits mid-script while recording. And it gets personal, several family members are seriously ill this week, and Ruby shares how she found peace in the middle of it. The highlight: speaking to students at Morgan State University, where she told them the line this episode is named for, dreaming is the price we pay to reach our greatest potential.

This is entrepreneurship, disability advocacy, and financial wellness with nothing smoothed over, joy, disappointment, purpose, and love, all in the same week, told as it happened.

A note before you listen: Ruby is a stutterer. At times you'll hear her stumble, and she keeps going, because she's a thriver, not a complainer. That's not a flaw in this show. It's the show.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Visit us at https://Grean.US

Support the show