Why Finance Needs More Stories and Fewer Spreadsheets - Morgaine Conway Grim

Aug 19, 2025

Morgaine Conway Grim, the founder and CEO of Hawks and Doves, shares her unique journey from a reception desk to advising on $4B in assets at JP Morgan. She discusses the necessity of financial literacy and how storytelling can demystify complex markets. Morgaine emphasizes making finance accessible, the importance of emotional awareness in investing, and the need for transparency. She also highlights her efforts with the Young Investors Society, aiming to empower future generations with vital financial knowledge.

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From Reception Desk To Founder

Morgaine went from a reception desk to advising on $4B at JPMorgan and later launched Hawks and Doves to democratize finance education.
She left corporate life when she realized she had few responsibilities and a long-held entrepreneurial goal to pursue now or never.

ADVICE

Start Simple And Diversify

Start simple when you begin investing and prefer diversified, regulated providers over picking single stocks.
Build knowledge gradually and avoid getting lost in valuation weeds at the start.

INSIGHT

Bridge Rigor And Accessibility

Financial education usually sits at two extremes: academically robust but dry, or social-led and potentially misleading.
Bridging rigor with accessibility is essential to prevent misinformation and improve outcomes.

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In this episode of The Blunt Dollar, Ignacio sits down with Morgaine Conway-Grim, founder and CEO of Hawks and Doves, a finance education company making investing fundamentals accessible to everyone.

Morgaine’s path to finance began not on Wall Street, but at a reception desk, before she went on to work at some of the largest financial institutions in the world. In 2024, she launched Hawks and Doves to cut through jargon and empower both institutions and individuals with capital markets fluency.

We cover Morgaine’s career leap from corporate finance to entrepreneurship, her philosophy on financial literacy, and the role of storytelling in making markets relatable. She also shares candid insights from a decade inside the financial machine and her work with the Young Investor Society.

Highlights from the episode:
💼 From reception desk to heights of institutional finance - Morgaine’s unconventional finance career path
📚 Why financial education needs both intellectual rigour and accessibility
🎯 How to explain complex markets without oversimplifying them
🌍 The problem of “assumed knowledge” in financial institutions and how to fix it
🤝 Using capital markets fluency as a relationship-building superpower

If you’re into finance education, career pivots, and real talk on markets without the jargon, this one’s for you.

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