Fiftyfaces Focus 2025 Pride Special

Andrew Baker is the founder of Financial Haus, a financial advisory firm “for millennials” based in San Diego, CA. He has spent his whole career providing financial advice. His current client base consists predominantly of private sector employees within 15 years of retirement, government and state employees, medical professionals, the LGBT community, and young professionals seeking proactive fina...

Michael Camuñez is President and CEO of Monarch Global Strategies, a binational advisory firm providing C-suite strategic counsel on cross-border growth, government engagement, supply chains, and geopolitical risk across the United States, Mexico, and North America. He is also Chair of PRISM: The Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors. He writes a Substack called North of Ordinary where he writ...

Stuart Armstrong has had a 40 plus year career as a lead advisor with Centinel Financial Group and is based in Massachusetts. He graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a degree in Biology. Stuart has obtained various industry designations and certifications, and served a three-year term from 2013 through 2015 on the National Board of Directors for the Financial Planning A...

Jessica Hartley is a talent strategy and experience executive at J P MorganChase, and she describes herself as “obsessed” with the experience ecosystem. She is the host of the Hustle, Grind, Shine and Reignite podcast and formerly held various strategy roles. She dentifies as bisexual.  Our conversation traces Jessica's journey from an ally, describes here sisters's amazing experience as a trans a...

Allison Schmidt a CFP professional and CPA at Higgins & Schmidt Wealth Strategies, which she co-founded with Steven Higgins in 2010. She is based in Denver. Allie works with a select group of individuals and families to create customized tax-efficient financial strategies. Most recently, Allie was recognized in 2026 by Forbes as a Top Women Wealth Advisors: Best-In-State and in 2025 by Advisor...

We continue our 2026 Pride Series with this discussion with Nick Wolny who is a managing editor of branded content at Ziff Davis, where he oversees partner content for CNET, PCMag, Mashable, ZDNET, Lifehacker, and ExtremeTech. He is the finance columnist for Out magazine and the author of Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future, which...

Audrey Coulthurst is the Founder and CEO of RIA Pitchworks. She has had a long career in investment management in product management and writer roles.  She is also a critically acclaimed young adult author of the Of Fire and Stars series and Starworld (co-authored with Paula Garner). Our conversation traces Audrey's roots in music and the arts and how she channelled her writing skills in the finan...

We are thrilled to be releasing our sixth ever pride series, and are pleased to be back this year with a strong bench of compelling stories with a strong financial planning thread. We feature storytellers of every kind - from Audrey Coulthurst, young adult author and financial storyteller with RIA Pitchworks, who reminds us to stay curious. We also hear from Nick Wolny, financial columnist of Out...

Matt Cameron is the CEO of LGBT Great and a member of the board of directors at the Diversity Project. This podcast is being released as a bonus add-on to the Pride Series 2025, as part of our support of Pride 365, an important initiative supported by LGBT Great. Our conversation starts with Matt’s upbringing and his extraordinary work ethic from a very young age – we hear about the common thread...

In this podcast Nathan Richardson is speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf of Grindr, on whose board of directors he sits. Nathan Richardson has been a member of the board of directors of Grindr since November 2022. He is a partner at Joffre Capital, a private equity firm and the co-Founder of Trading Ticket, Inc., a financial technology company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer, p...

Claire William is CEO of Oasis Domestic Abuse Service, and has spent most of her career in the charity sector. We got to know eachother over LinkedIN when I responded to her popular LinkedIN post about Lesbian visibility week, in which she described her life with her partner and their six children and the changing climate and political backdrop.    Our conversation is a warm and engaging trip thro...

Meghan Stabler was until recently a fractional CMO at ThriveCart, and a member of the board of directors of Grindr since May 2022. She has had a series of marketing and strategy roles over the course of her career and is a keynote speaker on a range of topics.  Given Meghan’s expertise, we dive deep into marketing and branding as a discipline – speak about finding the voice of a brand and channeli...

Rob Smith is Founder and CEO of the Phluid Project, a brand that recognizes the shifting attitude of Gen Z and young Millennials, merging fashion with community and education. He has served on boards for over a decade, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Steve Madden, following a career in marketing in which he held a series of executive roles. He chairs the development committee fo...

Taryn Talley is a marketer with over 20 years of experience, who is currently Head of Marketing at an agency Position 2. She has had numerous marketing roles across the digital and traditional spectrum.    Our sweeping conversation takes us through Taryn’s upbringing and her career in marketing, as well as her experience in transitioning in her 20s and coming out on social media and mid-career and...

Luigi Lewin is Senior Vice President and Head of Partnerships at GLAAD. He formerly spent 25 years on Wall Street where he worked in a series of roles in sales, relationship management, operations and business development, until he left to move to the non-profit sector. GLAAD is the largest and most visible non-profit advancing LGBTQ+ acceptance.  Our conversation starts with Luigi's upbringing in...

This is our fifth Pride Series of the Fiftyfaces Podcast. We have been proud of the deeply personal stories that we have shared from a diverse group of the LGBTQ+ community – we have discussed the importance of allyship, how workplaces have changed, the gestures that matter, and have thrown in a tremendous among of career advice along the way. This year presented some challenges – as policies chan...

This is our fifth Pride Series of the Fiftyfaces Podcast. We have been proud of the deeply personal stories that we have shared from a diverse group of the LGBTQ+ community – we have discussed the importance of allyship, how workplaces have changed, the gestures that matter, and have thrown in a tremendous among of career advice along the way. This year presented some challenges – as policies chan...

Soltan Bryce is a managing consultant at Guidehouse, which is a consulting firm focused on Public Health Strategy, Application Development and Management, and was recently acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity.  He is a part time General Partner at Colorful Capital, which  focuses on “finance flowing with Pride” and aims to bring capital support and scaffolding to enterprises founded and led by...

Susan Berland is a coach for parents of LGBTQ children.  She has been VP of PFLAG in the East Bay area, PFLAG is a national organization providing support and advocacy for parents, families and allies of the LGBTQ community. Susan has been a coach for most of her life, and is the proud mother of a gay son. She has channeled her lived experience and her time at PFLAG to offer a comprehensive set of...

Fabrice Houdart is Executive Director of the Association of LGBTQ+ Corporate Directors as well as an Advisor to Fortune 50 companies and a former staffer at the World Bank and UN.  He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Georgetown University, where he lectures on LGBT inclusion within international development. He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and a Board Member of t...

Lindsey Young, is the founder of Quiet Wealth LLC, which she started to provide a comprehensive set of financial advisory services that successful LGBTQ+ professionals and their families need.  She previously spent 15 years in Silicon Valley finance, primarily as a investment banker working on M&A, IPOs, leveraged finance and other transactions for technology companies. She also advises a seri...

Mark Segal is a social activist and author, who participated in the Stonewall riots and as one of the original founders of the Gay Liberation Front where he created the Gay Youth Program.  He was the founder and former president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild, and has won various journalistic awards.  He is a lifelong activist who organized the first Gay Pride parade in 1970 and remains an ac...

Marci Bair, CFP® has spent over 30 years working with women in leadership, LGBTQ+ couples and progressive business owners to align their investment portfolios with their values and provide fee based financial and retirement planning. Based in San Diego, she was previously Chairperson of the South Bay Alliance and a Board Member of the Greater San Diego Business Association.   Our conversation trac...

David and John Auten-Schneider are a married couple who have branded themselves the Debt Free Guys, and host a popular podcast and website full of tools to help listeners and clients to “live fabulously, not fabulously broke”. They have a proprietary Wealth Builder’s Pyramid tool that they use as a multi-pronged approach to financial freedom, a solid credit score and debt-free living.  Their missi...

Dani D’Amico is a partner at McKinsey in their financial services practice. She has previously worked at Oliver Wyman in New York, where she was also a partner, and started her career in various consulting roles. Our conversation starts with Dani’s early years in Italy and how she devised various distractions to outrun her authentic self – while she always felt she was a female trapped in a male b...