Pattie Ehsaei is a director of mergers & acquisitions financing at a major lending institution, and the author of “Never Date A Broke Dude: The Financial Freedom Playbook.” She has led many teams in the financial services industry, ranging from commercial banking to investment banking, where she was managing partner and head of business development at GRID Partners. She regularly provides commentary on personal finance topics to a variety of media outlets, including Good Morning America, Huffington Post, Yahoo, BBC, and on her TikTok channel, @DuchessOfDecorum; she holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in Chicago.