Liz Uible, Co-Founder

By Christine Harvey
 
Liz was a high achiever from the beginning.  At Georgetown University, with a degree in Foreign Service and International Finance and Commerce, she became the first ever business manager to gain national distribution of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.  It was here that Liz gained her strong passion for international scholarship and adventure, and went on to tour Central and South Asia in the late 90’s. 

She traveled through Taliban-ruled Afghanistan shortly after the War Lords were expelled.  While in Afghanistan she was by law dressed in a Burkha from head to toe, and made friends with the locals on a level that seems unprecedented from our Western perspective. She’s become passionate about helping people reach their economic potential and helping women, as Liz would say, “create their lives of their dreams, not just fall into life.”
 
And that’s one of the things I like best about Liz - her passion for life, also her absolute determination to stay centered within herself and maintain her own equilibrium, her constant quest for improvement of herself and all around her through reading, studying, and inspiration from others.  I treasure her for being one of the highest ‘go to’ people in the world for motivation, and I’ve known many.  If there is a positive nugget in any situation, Liz will help you find it!
 
Even this trait showed up early in life.  Liz doesn't buy "I Can't" excuses.  While in high school and college, she coached girls in basketball, and taught them self confidence. “I can’t” was not part of the allowed vocabulary with Coach Liz.  If they uttered those words, they had to run sprints as a penalty!  Liz likes to make a positive impact on people’s lives, not just for the moment, but forever. You’ll see these traits in her contribution to our Programs, events, newsletters, blog and Wealth Building Curriculum.
 
It was these traits that drew me to Liz.  (She and I are also partners in a national real estate investment company, where we specialize in analysis and due diligence.)  Liz has a distinguished early career in Wall Street, where she worked for a branch of the firm now owned by Deutsche Bank as a marketing analyst, and later for a high return hedge fund where she specialized in marketing, customer relations and business management.
 
Liz has a real passion for international connection and philanthropy, so it was a natural fit for us to work together and develop the WomenforWealth.com Foundation for MicroLending, into which donations and a percentage from all WomenforWealth.com proceeds go.  This foundation helps women in Rwanda start businesses, aimed at making them and their communities self supporting, ending the cycle of poverty. As the micro loans are paid back, the money re-circulates, and helps even more women, families and communities.
 
Now, in addition to her leadership in WomenforWealth.com, WomenforWealth.com Foundation, and our real estate consortium, Liz invests in commercial and resident property and resides near Washington DC with her supportive and entrepreneurial husband, Cyrus.