Generational Curses are misfortunes that tend to happen again and again across generations of a family - trauma, abuse, poverty, etc. This talk provides practical steps that anyone can deploy to change the trajectory of their lives. Sindy Wilson is a serial CFO who rose the ranks of Corporate America from an unlikely childhood of generational trauma. She's teaching others how to do the same. Sindy Wilson is the former CFO for Kickstarter, the go-to crowdfunding platform for creative projects. Sindy is a strategic and transformational finance executive with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in performance improvement and building finance, transformation, and analytics organizations that unlock scalable growth through partnership and shared accountability. Most recently, Sindy was the VP, Finance Transformation & Analytics at Lyft. Prior to joining Lyft, she led finance for Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, led business transformation and accounting operations for Oldcastle Infrastructure, and was in strategic finance management consulting at EY.Sindy holds a BS in Business Administration from Limestone College, received her MBA in Finance from Emory University, and pursued her Master of Accounting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School.Sindy was the recipient of the Emory Alumni Association’s 40 Under 40 Award. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx