How One Houston MBA Is Helping Women Over 40 Build Financial Confidence
Picture this: nearly two-thirds of women over 40 lie awake at night wondering if they’ll have enough money to retire comfortably. It’s a sobering reality that cuts across income levels and educational backgrounds. While financial literacy should be a fundamental life skill, it’s become something of a luxury, accessible to some, elusive to many others.
But in Houston, Texas, one determined MBA is flipping that script entirely.
Meet Bridgett Dickey, the driving force behind Dickey Financial Services & Wealth Management Firm. She’s not just another financial advisor with fancy credentials, though she certainly has those. She’s a woman on a mission, armed with personal experience and professional expertise, determined to transform how women approach their financial futures. Her audacious goal? Help 10,000 women create comprehensive written financial plans by 2027.
Inspiring Conversations with Bridgett Dickey of Dickey Financial Services & Wealth Managment Firm
Today we’d like to introduce you to Bridgett Dickey.
Hi Bridgett, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My story really starts at the kitchen table — or rather, in the arguments that happened around it.
My parents were married for 46 years, and for all 46 of those years, money was a battlefield. They fought constantly — not because they didn’t love each other, but because they both wanted to be right more than they wanted to win together. And in the end, they both lost. That truth broke my heart, and it planted a seed in me that I carried for years without fully understanding it.
I watched two people I loved deeply allow money — something that should have been a tool — become a wedge that divided them. And I made a quiet promise to myself that I would do something about that. Not just for my own life, but for other people’s lives too.
BRIDGETT DICKEY: Money Moves & Mindset Shifts
Let’s get one thing clear: Bridgett Dickey didn’t stumble into power. She walked in, shoulders
squared, heels planted, and purpose fully intact. As the founder of Houston’s only Black woman-owned financial services and wealth management firm, Bridgett isn’t here to simply participate in the conversation-she’s here to redefine it. And she’s doing it in rooms she wasn’t “meant” to enter, with a message Black women weren’t always encouraged to hear: You deserve a financial plan that works for you. On your terms. In your time. Period.
How Black couples are redefining finances in relationships
Whether you’re newly engaged, fresh off the honeymoon, or a decade deep into “for better or worse,” one conversation many couples dread is the one about finances.
Who pays what? Should we split everything 50/50? Is a joint bank account a sign of trust or trouble? These are uncomfortable but necessary questions that every serious relationship must eventually face.