May 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Dr. Vanessa Tyler accepts and invitation to Wall Street. Dr. Lisa Wicker, founder and CEO of Career Mastered Women's Network, organized an exclusive group of professional women to visit the New Your Stock Exchange. Here they discuss the importance of networking, empowerment, diversity and the history of women on Wall St.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
When Wall Street was wild, traders yelling in the language
of the floor orders only insiders could decipher to buy
or sell one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
More trades at six parlf one there, what's that man
down there?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A woman on the trading floor once rare. Today things
are different. It's much quieter. Computers replaced ticker tape, and
on this day I join a group of women as
we walk the New York Stock Exchange floor.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think that it is absolutely pivotal that women are here,
because this country is showing us that they really don't
care for women. But now we're showing as women that
we are everywhere. We're in the c suite, we're in
the Stock Exchange.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A history making visit to the trading center of finance
on black Land and now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
As a brown person, you just feel so invisible.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Where we're from.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I welcome you to this joyful exaya. We celebrate freedom.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Where we are, I know someone's heard something and where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We the people means all the people.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The black information that Worth presents Blackland.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
With your host Vanessa Tyler, let's get the old bells
and I feel like it's the opening bell. Lately, it's
been all eyes on Wall Street.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
It is a wonderful opportunity of a lifetime for me
right now, it's like an out of body experience because
moments happened so fast and we tend to take them
for granted. So this is a gift of presence, the
presence of being in the building of the New York
Stock Exchange on May first, where a lot of the
(01:47):
history took place.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
As we learned today.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Doctor Lisa Wicker, founder and CEO of Career Mastered, an
organization of professional women, organized this visit to Wall Street.
A small group of us accepted her invitation, people like
Beatrice Kelly, who is in the financial services industry at
Comerica Bank.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Well, the Dow is up today, so that feels really
good to be here during this time and we're here
with twenty other women, and so I think women we
have to own, take our ownership and our place in history.
And so what better way to celebrate May first and
to be here with twenty other powerful women on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
For oh, I think this is an incredible opportunity and
the ability to network and make connections with other women
around the country. Who's Mastered their careers and able to
make connections and make relationships.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Women reaching out and pulling up other women. Marcia Mickle,
director of plant operations for Aro Homes, says, it's the
networking that is the special sauce of the organization.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
I'm so excited to be here. One of the real
advantages for me career Masters offered is a real high
powered group of women, a very diverse group of women.
They're at varying stages on their career, at the point
where I am in my career, you know. Unfortunately, sometimes
it can be very difficult to find mentors, to find
(03:17):
women experiencing similar things, to be able to talk through
things with. And this group is just so strong and
so powerful. I really value the relationships.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
Meeting people and meeting new people and building relationships matters tremendously.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Pat Hedley is an investor. She believes women must meet
as many people as possible personal connections, build careers.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
And as women and certainly have been in this position. Myself.
Life is busy with family, with work, with other obligations,
and sometimes you think I don't have time to meet people,
and I would flip that and say do it with
something you're already doing. If you have time to eat,
you have time to meet.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Her latest book titled Meet one Hundred People, a how
to guide to the career and life edge everyone is missing.
Speaker 10 (04:09):
The title of the book is both a little bit
literal but certainly in your own time frame, and I
talk about that in the book, but it's also metaphorical.
It's just this idea of thinking about meeting people as
something that is a habit, something that you do regularly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
These women are about business. They refuse to be left out.
They too want to make big money deals and drew
inspiration from being here at the center of the financial
world and the history of women at the New York
Stock Exchange.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My application turn the street upside down, and they said,
we've never had a woman apply. Nobody would dare to apply.
That was creating something no one had ever done before.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's Muriel Siebert, the first Lady of Wall Street. She's
started as an entry level analyst in nineteen fifty four,
but when she realized, no matter how well she did,
she would never make the same as a man, she
tells makers in a twenty fourteen interview, That's why she
did what was never done. In nineteen sixty nine, she
(05:16):
founded her own Wall Street firm. It was not easy.
She needed a sponsor a current member. Nine out of
ten men she asked refused to help her. The tenth
one said yes. Still, she had to raise four hundred
and fifty five thousand dollars, a fortune, especially at that time.
Then finally she did it, the first woman member of
(05:38):
the New York Stock Exchange.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Some of the men thought a woman had no place
on the floor of the New York Stock has changed,
and yet there were men who bent over backwards because
I saw I was serious and I was doing the
job that I wasn't there to play around.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Muriel Siebert, one tough trailblazer.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I had to have two languages. If I was dealing with
the trader, every other word had to be a four
letter word. So I learned that language and still use it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Cancer took her life in twenty thirteen. She was eighty
four years old. There's a conference room named in her
honor at the Exchange, the very room where we gathered
during our career mastered Wall Street.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
Visit yes well. As an African American woman. I come
from a long line of entrepreneurs, creatives, and educators.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Robin Wilson is the founder and owner of Vesey Lane Goods,
a stationery company that specializes in greeting cards gives a
home decor.
Speaker 11 (06:43):
However, my ancestor's history in this country did not begin
that way, and for me being able to be here
with other women who are impact leaders and thought leaders,
it means a lot to me because in my family,
you know, the goal is always for each generation to
do more, even than the last.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The diverse members of Career Mastered are ambitious and want
to make sure despite who's in the White House, women
continue to push.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Ahead and it's not going backwards.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Cindy Burrell also part of the Career Mastered group. She's
the president of Diversity in Boardrooms. She reminds women the
importance of joining boards, especially corporate ones. Boards are places
of influence and power.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We already have people of color and women on corporate boards,
so they will be the ones to continue this going forward.
More so so we've broken through and it will continue.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They know the politics of the moment, President Trump refusing
to embrace the diversity of DEI, but women like Marie McLucas,
the CFO of Prime ex Properties, a commercial real estate
investment firm says the commitments.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
I think everybody's still doing the work. It may not
be calling it the same thing. I'm part of another
organization and we talk a lot about this and just
staying steadfast to the mission and giving those opportunities. Heard
saying we're moving instead of DEI, we're calling it opportunity,
(08:20):
replacing the equality and equity with opportunity. And heard some
reference today with community impact and belonging. So no one's
abandoning the mission, just changing the optics so we can
keep doing the work.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Are you optimistic about where women are in this country
and where we're going right now?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
This is the year of the woman, and so this
is our time to shine. We need to lockhands and
lift each other up, and we can only go up
from here. I am optimistic, enthusiastic about what we will do,
and I don't have any young girls. I have all boys,
but I'm always reaching back and lifting our young ladies up.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Doctor Sabrina Jackson agrees women must embrace what's next.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
There's always a reason for hope, because hope is necessary
because we've lived through challenging times before, and absolutely a
challenge come so that a setback is a setup for
a come up, and so we're ready to come up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Almost time for the closing bell. As we wait, doctor
Lisa Wicker, founder of Career Mastered, reflects on the impact
of this day on so many levels.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Being here for the ceremony ringing of the bell. It
is historical for Career master because we celebrated ten years
this past year, and then as we move into the
next decade, it only gets better. And this is a
signal that we're starting this next ten years on getting better.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I'm Vanessa Tyler on Wall Street at the New York
Stock Exchange. A new episode of Blackland drops every week
When Wall Street was wild, traders yelling in the language
of the floor orders only insiders could decipher to buy
or sell one.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
More trades at six parlf one there, what's that man
down there?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
A woman on the trading floor once rare. Today things
are different. It's much quieter. Computers replaced ticker tape, and
on this day I join a group of women as
we walk the New York Stock Exchange floor.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think that it is absolutely pivotal that women are here,
because this country is showing us that they really don't
care for women. But now we're showing as women that
we are everywhere. We're in the c suite, we're in
the Stock Exchange.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
A history making visit to the trading center of finance
on black Land and now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
As a brown person, you just feel so invisible.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Where we're from.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Brothers and sisters.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I welcome you to this joyful exaya. We celebrate freedom.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Where we are, I know someone's heard something and where
we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We the people means all the people.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The black information that Worth presents Blackland.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
With your host Vanessa Tyler, let's get the old bells
and I feel like it's the opening bell. Lately, it's
been all eyes on Wall Street.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
It is a wonderful opportunity of a lifetime for me
right now, it's like an out of body experience because
moments happened so fast and we tend to take them
for granted. So this is a gift of presence, the
presence of being in the building of the New York
Stock Exchange on May first, where a lot of the
(01:47):
history took place.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
As we learned today.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Doctor Lisa Wicker, founder and CEO of Career Mastered, an
organization of professional women, organized this visit to Wall Street.
A small group of us accepted her invitation, people like
Beatrice Kelly, who is in the financial services industry at
Comerica Bank.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Well, the Dow is up today, so that feels really
good to be here during this time and we're here
with twenty other women, and so I think women we
have to own, take our ownership and our place in history.
And so what better way to celebrate May first and
to be here with twenty other powerful women on the
New York Stock Exchange.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
For oh, I think this is an incredible opportunity and
the ability to network and make connections with other women
around the country. Who's Mastered their careers and able to
make connections and make relationships.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Women reaching out and pulling up other women. Marcia Mickle,
director of plant operations for Aro Homes, says, it's the
networking that is the special sauce of the organization.
Speaker 9 (02:56):
I'm so excited to be here. One of the real
advantages for me career Masters offered is a real high
powered group of women, a very diverse group of women.
They're at varying stages on their career, at the point
where I am in my career, you know. Unfortunately, sometimes
it can be very difficult to find mentors, to find
(03:17):
women experiencing similar things, to be able to talk through
things with. And this group is just so strong and
so powerful. I really value the relationships.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
Meeting people and meeting new people and building relationships matters tremendously.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Pat Hedley is an investor. She believes women must meet
as many people as possible personal connections, build careers.
Speaker 10 (03:41):
And as women and certainly have been in this position. Myself.
Life is busy with family, with work, with other obligations,
and sometimes you think I don't have time to meet people,
and I would flip that and say do it with
something you're already doing. If you have time to eat,
you have time to meet.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Her latest book titled Meet one Hundred People, a how
to guide to the career and life edge everyone is missing.
Speaker 10 (04:09):
The title of the book is both a little bit
literal but certainly in your own time frame, and I
talk about that in the book, but it's also metaphorical.
It's just this idea of thinking about meeting people as
something that is a habit, something that you do regularly.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
These women are about business. They refuse to be left out.
They too want to make big money deals and drew
inspiration from being here at the center of the financial
world and the history of women at the New York
Stock Exchange.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
My application turn the street upside down, and they said,
we've never had a woman apply. Nobody would dare to apply.
That was creating something no one had ever done before.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's Muriel Siebert, the first Lady of Wall Street. She's
started as an entry level analyst in nineteen fifty four,
but when she realized, no matter how well she did,
she would never make the same as a man, she
tells makers in a twenty fourteen interview, That's why she
did what was never done. In nineteen sixty nine, she
(05:16):
founded her own Wall Street firm. It was not easy.
She needed a sponsor a current member. Nine out of
ten men she asked refused to help her. The tenth
one said yes. Still, she had to raise four hundred
and fifty five thousand dollars, a fortune, especially at that time.
Then finally she did it, the first woman member of
(05:38):
the New York Stock Exchange.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Some of the men thought a woman had no place
on the floor of the New York Stock has changed,
and yet there were men who bent over backwards because
I saw I was serious and I was doing the
job that I wasn't there to play around.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Muriel Siebert, one tough trailblazer.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I had to have two languages. If I was dealing with
the trader, every other word had to be a four
letter word. So I learned that language and still use it.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Cancer took her life in twenty thirteen. She was eighty
four years old. There's a conference room named in her
honor at the Exchange, the very room where we gathered
during our career mastered Wall Street.
Speaker 11 (06:25):
Visit yes well. As an African American woman. I come
from a long line of entrepreneurs, creatives, and educators.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Robin Wilson is the founder and owner of Vesey Lane Goods,
a stationery company that specializes in greeting cards gives a
home decor.
Speaker 11 (06:43):
However, my ancestor's history in this country did not begin
that way, and for me being able to be here
with other women who are impact leaders and thought leaders,
it means a lot to me because in my family,
you know, the goal is always for each generation to
do more, even than the last.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The diverse members of Career Mastered are ambitious and want
to make sure despite who's in the White House, women
continue to push.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Ahead and it's not going backwards.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Cindy Burrell also part of the Career Mastered group. She's
the president of Diversity in Boardrooms. She reminds women the
importance of joining boards, especially corporate ones. Boards are places
of influence and power.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We already have people of color and women on corporate boards,
so they will be the ones to continue this going forward.
More so so we've broken through and it will continue.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
They know the politics of the moment, President Trump refusing
to embrace the diversity of DEI, but women like Marie McLucas,
the CFO of Prime ex Properties, a commercial real estate
investment firm says the commitments.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
I think everybody's still doing the work. It may not
be calling it the same thing. I'm part of another
organization and we talk a lot about this and just
staying steadfast to the mission and giving those opportunities. Heard
saying we're moving instead of DEI, we're calling it opportunity,
(08:20):
replacing the equality and equity with opportunity. And heard some
reference today with community impact and belonging. So no one's
abandoning the mission, just changing the optics so we can
keep doing the work.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Are you optimistic about where women are in this country
and where we're going right now?
Speaker 8 (08:43):
This is the year of the woman, and so this
is our time to shine. We need to lockhands and
lift each other up, and we can only go up
from here. I am optimistic, enthusiastic about what we will do,
and I don't have any young girls. I have all boys,
but I'm always reaching back and lifting our young ladies up.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Doctor Sabrina Jackson agrees women must embrace what's next.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
There's always a reason for hope, because hope is necessary
because we've lived through challenging times before, and absolutely a
challenge come so that a setback is a setup for
a come up, and so we're ready to come up.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Almost time for the closing bell. As we wait, doctor
Lisa Wicker, founder of Career Mastered, reflects on the impact
of this day on so many levels.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Being here for the ceremony ringing of the bell. It
is historical for Career master because we celebrated ten years
this past year, and then as we move into the
next decade, it only gets better. And this is a
signal that we're starting this next ten years on getting better.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I'm Vanessa Tyler on Wall Street at the New York
Stock Exchange. A new episode of Blackland drops every week
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