Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Post

Sallie Krawcheck, founder of Ellevest, a virtual financial advisory geared toward women, grew up in Charleston, S.C., in a household of six with one bathroom. As a young girl, she’d wake up at 5:30 a.m. to carve out some time of her own—and during heatless winter nights, would get fully dressed and then back under the covers to stay warm. Those early days fed into Krawcheck’s dogged pursuit of success, she said, as she walked Fortune through her early career and the building of Ellevest. “I always wanted money. I had my little savings account, and I could earn 25 cents an hour by filing papers for my father. That’s where I started,” Krawcheck recalled. “I can’t think of a time that I wasn’t working.” That work has led Krawcheck, 59, to become one of the most powerful women—and people, period—on Wall Street. bit.ly/3RLz3ky

Before this weekend, did you know who was running the Secret Service? bit.ly/3LscQUW Her name is Kimberly Cheatle. She’s a longtime veteran of the agency and a former PepsiCo security exec who got the job almost two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to her official bio, she’s “responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protection and investigations by leading a diverse workforce composed of more than 7,800” special agents and other personnel. Of course, Cheatle is now in the political hot seat following the shooting of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, which left two people dead (including the gunman) and two seriously wounded. The assassination attempt has raised questions about how the shooter got so close to succeeding; the building where he set up was outside the Secret Service’s perimeter and would have been the responsibility of local law enforcement.