1814: The Untold Fight for Women’s Financial Freedom

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today, we’re diving into an extraordinary story of defiance and determination—how a group of bold women in Denver turned financial discrimination into a catalyst for change by founding the first women-owned bank in the country. Our guest is Grace L. Williams, a trailblazing financial journalist whose work has appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. She brings her signature clarity and depth to her new book, Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation.

The book tells the riveting story of the Women’s Bank of Denver, founded in 1978 by pioneers like Carol Green and B. LaRae Orullian. In an era when women couldn’t even get a loan without a male co-signer, this bank became a radical act of financial empowerment—and a powerful symbol of what women can build when they back each other.

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1:04.8	with Grace L. Williams, author of Give Her Credit. You're listening to So Money with award-winning money guru Farnoosh Torabi.
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1:35.3	But it goes to show you that money transcends a lot of things, right? So you don't necessarily need to have
1:44.0	feminist leanings to say, I would like to know
1:46.7	how I'm going to be at the end of the month financially. I would like to know how to invest.
1:52.0	I would like to get an access to a line of credit. I would like to start a business, right?
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