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In this keynote delivered to one of Winnipeg's largest annual business gatherings, Liz traced the arc from an unwanted daughter born in South Korea to a private equity backed CEO overseeing nine figures in enterprise value, not as a triumph narrative, but as a honest examination of what it actually costs to build something from nothing.
Drawing on her family's history across three generations, the Korean War, immigration, and financial hardship, Liz challenged the audience to rethink what wealth creation actually means. She introduced a holistic framework that extends beyond financial freedom to include community, knowledge, relationships, emotional health, and experience. Woven through the personal story was a larger call to action: stop trying to break glass ceilings and start breaking ground entirely, building new systems rather than cleaning up the mess left by broken ones.
The session introduced her concept of the privilege equalizer, a commitment to using hard-won access and influence to create pathways for the next generation of first-generation wealth creators. Grounded in the Indigenous Seventh Generation Principle, the talk asked the audience to make decisions not just for today but for the seven generations who will live with the consequences.
Venue: Winnipeg Convention Centre
