Financial Joy School

About Financial Joy School

A disabled founder, four months and counting, races to raise capital, build a team, and launch the Financial Joy Index™, a shame-free financial wellness check-in designed with the disability community in mind, because so many financial tools weren't, and built for everyone traditional fintech leaves behind. Licensed to credit unions, CDFIs, and banks with zero safety net or runway left. Building Financial Joy follows Ruby "SunShine" Taylor, founder of Grean Wealth, as she documents her startup journey in real time. Experience unvarnished pitch meetings, grant applications, and hiring decisions as they happen. This is raw entrepreneurship, fintech, and disability advocacy with nothing smoothed over. New episodes every Tuesday. Disclaimer I am a stutter so at times I will stumble and I will keep going because I am thriver not a complainer.

Publisher

Ruby "SunShine" Taylor, M.S.W.

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Apr 2020

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   A Disabled Founder Earns an A for Agency

   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 humi...

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   The Price of Dreaming from a Disabled Founder

   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 deposi...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Sometimes Founders Must Lose to Win Again

   Sometimes founders must lose to win again, and this week, Ruby "SunShine" Taylor did. Zero votes at a real pitch competition. A bruised ego, no spin on it. In Episode 3 of Building Financial Joy, this disabled founder building a fintech startup gets honest about the loss, and what came right alongside it: a blessing from a VC's mother, learning to code for the first time, and the best compliment she's received yet from a potential customer, "I need this now, I wish my bank had it." This episo...

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