The captain announced over the PA system. Tiana Schmidt quickly glanced at her watch and wrapped up her report. The meeting in London had proven to be more successful than she had expected, with the new client happy to sign on with her investment firm. After a short rest at home with her family, she would be refreshed to deliver the strategic planning report in a few days. When she was younger, she knew was a special kind of weird because she was always fascinated with money—where it came from, how much it could accumulate, and how it was spent. Her love and passion for finance gave boost to her career as an investment banker, eventually leading her to start her own investment firm. She was already a multimillionaire by the time she reached thirty and was projected to be a billionaire by the time she was forty. Life was good. As she stared out the window of the plane, Tiana thought about her life. Her friends and family always clamored about how perfect her life was, but Tiana begged to differ.
