Universities
The Conversation Students Need Before They Need It
Students are forming their first serious relationships and making their first independent financial decisions at the same time. Stephanie connects those two facts in a way that is memorable rather than preachy.
What you're navigating
The pressures in this room
Stephanie builds every session around the reality of the audience, not a generic version of it.
First relationships, no reference points
Coercive patterns are easy to mistake for intensity when you have nothing to compare them to.
Financial inexperience
Credit, shared accounts, and dependency form quickly and are difficult to unwind.
Programming fatigue
Students have sat through required sessions before and can identify a lecture instantly.
Bystander hesitation
Peers often notice first and rarely know what to do with what they noticed.
Why Stephanie
Why this audience trusts her
- Stephanie speaks to students as adults, which is why they stay.
- She has presented in university settings including SMU and works comfortably with student affairs, Greek life, and athletics.
- Her financial expertise makes the session useful even to students who see the relationship content as theoretical.
Outcomes
What organizers report afterward
- Students can identify early warning signs in relationships
- Attendees understand financial entanglement and how to avoid it
- Peers gain a script for checking on a friend
- Campus resources are surfaced without it feeling like a policy briefing
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What an inspiring afternoon! 💜 Thank you to all who joined us to hear Stephanie J. Bond, CPA share her powerful story. Stephanie, VP of Accounting & Finance at Perot Development Company, shared her journey of resilience—overcoming domestic violence, financial hardship, and breast cancer while building a successful 30+ year career in CRE. Her story reminded us that strength and survival go hand in hand, and that community makes all the difference.
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