While other children played on playgrounds and read picture books, I spent my childhood in a place few kids ever entered - a corporate meeting room. Every afternoon after school, I quietly sat in a corner of my family’s company. I watched my father and his colleagues discuss numbers that didn’t just change charts, they changed lives. To me, finance was never abstract. It was significant. It had consequences. It came with responsibility.

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One day, noticing my curiosity, my father leaned over and said, “Every curve on this chart is a decision made by people, affecting people.” That statement changed everything for me. I didn’t understand terms like ROI or capital structure yet, but I grasped that finance was more than money: it was strategy, discipline, and impact. Those quiet hours in the meeting room planted a seed in me - not just a fascination with financial systems but a desire to navigate them with purpose.