Top Women in Finance: Kamillah El-Amin.

Byline: Kate Leibsle

[dropcap]K[/dropcap]amillah El-Amin learned from an early age that being an entrepreneur who is involved with and giving to her community would make her successful. Her parents were both business owners: Her mother was a master seamstress and her father, who had several businesses, was most known for The Fish Wagon food truck, then a brick and mortar El-Amin's Fish House.

El-Amin didn't walk a traditional career path. She doesn't have a college degree; instead, after becoming a mom at 17, she started working her way up the professional ladder. Working as a clerical specialist, she availed herself of any training opportunities and was soon an executive administrative assistant. As she became more educated about her finances, she wanted to help others.

Her goal with her company, MainStax, is to help women, primarily in her community, to understand their finances and how to create generational wealth for themselves not just pay the bills.

El-Amin works with her clients to establish or re-establish good credit, become financially educated and discover how to grow their own wealth. She offers classes and one-on-one help that, while applicable to anyone, she gears towards the North Side community, and primarily women.

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