Lauren began her career in finance at the age of 17, working for World Savings Bank & Loan in San Antonio, Texas, quickly moving through the ranks to a front-line manager by the age of 20 in the back office mortgage department. Surviving two bank mergers and the mortgage meltdown in 2008, she became the sole operations analyst for a well-known bank. Lauren departed Wells Fargo after eleven years in 2014 to relocate to Scottsdale, Arizona and join the WSAG team.