Rise Up For You

ABOUT: Liz Edlich is a self-made entrepreneur, published author, and philanthropist who splits her time between Little Exuma, Bahamas, and Malibu, CA. She grew up on a farm in Virginia, the daughter of a world-renowned reconstructive surgeon who dedicated his life to helping others through his biomedical inventions such as Steri-Strips and dissolvable sutures. Inspired by her father’s work, Liz put herself through college while working odd jobs, and volunteering her time in the non-profit sector. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and became paralyzed from the neck down, she saw her family come to the brink of financial ruin and was inspired to go into finance to help her family and protect others from a similar fate. With no formal education in business or finance and through sheer determination and perseverance, she became a stockbroker and eventually a partner in an investment firm where she helped raise over $1 Billion dollars, before selling the firm to a bank and going into Venture