In this episode of Core Sample, Sydnie examines the gap between winning a strategic opportunity and being ready to absorb it. The race is no longer only about securing critical minerals, contracts, or federal capital. It is about execution.

In This Episode

* The proposed $1.5 trillion FY2027 defense framework

* APFIT= the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program and its role in moving mature technologies into operational use

* The potential ten-year, nearly $7 billion Oracle enterprise software agreement

* A targeted $7.1 million Defense Production Act investment in domestic space solar-cell coverglass manufacturing

* Cyber Shield 2026 and the growing importance of operational-technology resilience

* International efforts to connect mineral resources, processing, public finance, and advanced manufacturing

* Why organizational maturity may become the next major industrial-base bottleneck

Money Does Not Build Organizations

Capital can fund a facility, create demand, or help a prototype move into procurement. It cannot immediately create experienced operators, trusted suppliers, disciplined program management, or a board prepared to govern rapid growth.

A company may win a major defense contract or receive federal financing before it has the internal capacity to deliver. Rapid growth can place pressure on working capital, quality, supplier oversight, technical-data protection, insurance, legal obligations, and board governance.

What Has to Be True for the Strategy to Succeed?

A capable organization needs more than impressive résumés.

It needs:

* Technical leadership that understands what can be built

* Program leadership that can deliver on schedule

* Finance leadership that protects liquidity

* Supply-chain leadership that identifies production chokepoints

* Legal support that understands contractual obligations

* Security and operational-resilience leadership

* A board capable of challenging management before problems become crises

The strongest teams combine trust with independent judgment. They know how one another works under pressure, but they also have clear authority, defined accountability, and the confidence to surface problems early.

Three Board Models

The Early-Stage Strategic Supplier

Designed for a small company entering the defense supply chain or receiving its first significant government-backed opportunity.

The board combines founder vision with operating, finance, procurement, and independent risk expertise.

The Scaling Defense Contractor

Designed for a company managing growing backlog, multiple programs, and increasing customer scrutiny.

The board prioritizes program delivery, capital discipline, manufacturing, supply-chain resilience, cyber risk, and independent oversight.

The Capital-Intensive Critical-Minerals Company

Designed for a mining, processing, or advanced-materials company moving into construction, qualification, or production.

The board connects operations, project finance, permitting, customer qualification, construction, and operational risk across the path from resource to finished product.

The Core Sample Takeaway

Everyone is talking about where the money is going.

The more important question is whether organizations are prepared to use it.

Money can fund the opportunity.

A trusted, capable, and accountable team turns it into performance.

The race is not simply for critical minerals.

It is a race for capability.

Disclaimer

Everything on Core Sample is provided for informational and educational purposes only.

Nothing in this episode constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

Sturnella LLC is a capital-markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm. It is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer or financial institution.

Always conduct your own research and work with licensed professionals who understand your particular circumstances before making an investment or financial decision.

Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

In this episode of Core Sample, Sydnie connects the suspension of CMMC Phase II with the proposed $1.5 trillion national-defense budget, the Office of Strategic Capital’s new financing pathways.

The central question is not simply how much the government is spending but how taxpayers are expected to receive a return.

(As always, this is not investment advice. It is an exercise in reading public budgets, contracts, company filings and capital structures.)

In this episode

* How current deficits compare with the Biden era, Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq, and World War II

* Why CMMC Phase II’s suspension reduces compliance costs without eliminating cybersecurity obligations

* How the Office of Strategic Capital is combining public leverage with private investment management

* Why a falling mining-equity price does not necessarily mean the underlying resource has lost strategic importance

* Why rare-earth processing and magnet production are not simply mining and why they potentially remain the central supply-chain chokepoints

* How gold can decline while central banks continue to accumulate it

* What Ukraine and the Strait of Hormuz reveal about the difference between political timelines and industrial timelines

* Why patience is not passive

Resources

* Sturnella

* Sturnella Signals

* Core Sample on Instagram

* Sturnella on YouTube

* Myrtus

* Myrtus free career resources

* SEC EDGAR

* SEDAR+

* Department of War

* Office of Strategic Capital

* Department of War Investment Intelligence Center

More Links -

* Department of War, Forging the Arsenal of Freedom: Department of War Suspends CMMC Phase II Requirements. (https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4542329/forging-the-arsenal-of-freedom-department-of-war-suspends-cmmc-phase-ii-require/)

* White House, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2027.

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/budget_fy2027.pdf)

* Congressional Budget Office, The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036.

(https://www.cbo.gov/publication/62105)

* White House, Analytical Perspectives, Fiscal Year 2027

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/spec_fy2027.pdf)

Disclaimer

Everything on Core Sample is provided for informational and educational purposes only.

Nothing in this episode constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

Sturnella LLC is a capital-markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm. It is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer or financial institution.

Government investments, loans, guarantees, warrants and procurement agreements involve substantial financial, political, operational and execution risks.

Always conduct your own research and work with licensed professionals who understand your particular circumstances before making an investment or financial decision.

Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

In This Episode

What critical minerals mean for defense, energy, AI, and advanced manufacturing.

How abandoned mine lands and tailings may fit into the domestic mineral security conversation.

Why mineral security is not only about new mines.

The policy changes that could improve U.S. mineral security.

What may drive future demand for critical minerals.

How to balance environmental remediation, mineral recovery, and community trust.

What investors and leaders may be missing about the physical economy.

Resources:

• Critical Mineral Resources Network -  www.cm-rn.com

• Denee Hayes - https://www.linkedin.com/in/denee-emma-hayes/

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

• Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com

Connect

To connect with Sydnie or learn more about Sturnella’s work in capital markets cybersecurity and governance, reach out at [email protected].

Disclaimer

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm and not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

We hit 1,000 downloads recently, so a big thank you. In this shorter Fourth of July episode of Core Sample, I’m reinforcing two signals that matter right now.

First: gold tested the $4,000 level, commodities are still feeling heavy, and the tape is uncomfortable. But the strategic thesis hasn’t changed. Government-backed financing, uplistings, DOE awards, loan commitments, and public-market positioning are still showing us where the physical economy is being pulled closer to national security. Volatility is not the end of the story.

Second: as government and defense-adjacent capital moves toward critical minerals, energy, and industrial companies, the governance expectations move with it. Boards need to understand CMMC, Federal Contract Information, Controlled Unclassified Information, and the cyber contracting perimeter before they are forced to under pressure.

In This Episode

• Core Sample hits 1,000 downloads, a big thank you!

• Why commodity volatility is not the same thing as the thesis breaking

• Gold at the $4,000 level, commodities under pressure, and the fear-and-greed cycle

• Where strategic capital is still flowing: DOE pilot projects, Office of Strategic Capital loans, uplistings, and re-domiciles

• The better questions to ask: real assets, strategic relevance, capital access, and the government’s priority map

• Why boards need cyber fluency before defense-adjacent capital arrives

• CMMC, NIST controls, SPRS scores, and why a senior person signing an affirmation is governance not IT

• The board-level questions every critical minerals and industrial company should be asking right now

• Trust as an asset in capital markets

Sources Referenced in This Episode

• Department of War Investment Intelligence Center (war.gov)

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• DOE coal-to-critical-minerals pilot project selections — up to $75 million

• Energy Fuels $725 million Office of Strategic Capital conditional loan commitment

• Nova Minerals U.S. re-domicile and NYSE American listing

• Idaho Copper U.S. capital-market positioning

Resources

• EDGAR: sec.gov

• SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

• Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal: dodsbirsttr.mil

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

• Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com

Disclaimer

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

On June 25th, the Department of War released a PR email about the Investment Intelligence Center, a public dashboard tracking more than $6.5 billion in national-security capital across hundreds of investments. In this episode of Core Sample, I walk through what the map shows, what it confirms about the industrial-base rebuild thesis, why the recent commodity selloff doesn’t break the signal, and what critical materials companies need to understand about the governance and cyber expectations that come with moving closer to defense contracts.

In This Episode

• What the Investment Intelligence Center is and why it matters for anyone tracking industrial-base capital

• The focus areas the government has flagged as national-security pressure points

• Why government capital is a signal, not just money

• The fiscal constraint: rebuilding industrial capacity under rising debt and defense spending

• Why the selloff in gold, silver, and oil doesn’t end the thesis and the better questions to ask

• The missing capital-markets story: why resource and industrial-base companies aren’t getting the IPO attention they may deserve

• CMMC phase mandated November 2025, now managed by ISACA what that means

• Why cyber readiness is operational readiness, not a side project

Sources Referenced in This Episode

• Department of War Investment Intelligence Center press release, June 25, 2026 (war.gov) - The link in the press release - https://www.businessdefense.gov/investments.html

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter — news.sturnellahq.com

• ISACA — Information Systems Audit and Control Association (isaca.org) (https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cmmc)

Resources

• EDGAR: sec.gov

• SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

• Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal: dodsbirsttr.mil

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

• Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com

Connect

To connect with Sydnie or learn more about Sturnella’s work in capital markets cybersecurity and governance, reach out at [email protected].

Disclaimer

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm and not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

At one point this year, the United States reportedly had roughly two months of rare earth supplies left for the materials that go into precision munitions, radar, night vision, and the F-35.

In this episode of Core Sample, I show you how the public documents connect rare earth processing bottlenecks, the Strait of Hormuz crisis, the largest defense budget request in US history, federal small business grants, and the recent military cyber workforce announcements into a single coherent signal.

This is not investment advice, it is about reading what’s publicly available.

In this episode:

• Why processing, not mining, is the real rare earth bottleneck.

• What the Strait of Hormuz closure is teaching the world about chokepoints in real time

• SBIR and STTR and the federal funding pathway for small companies in the critical minerals supply chain

• The Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay and Cyber Registered Apprenticeship Program announcements and why the workforce signal is the materials signal

• Governance questions every critical minerals operator should be asking right now

• Why women in this industry are standing in the middle of this story, not adjacent to it

Sources referenced in this episode:

• Department of War Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay release (war.gov)

• DoW Cyber Registered Apprenticeship Program announcement, April 28, 2026 (dodcio.defense.gov)

• DOE Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation: Regional Consortia announcement, June 3, 2026 (energy.gov/cmei)

• DOE Rare Earth Demonstration Facility program, $134 million NOFO, December 2025

• Covington Inside Government Contracts: Federal Push for Critical Minerals Stockpiling, 2025 in Review

• Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal (dodsbirsttr.mil)

Resources:

• EDGAR: sec.gov

• SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

• Defense SBIR/STTR Innovation Portal: dodsbirsttr.mil

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

• Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com

Speaking at:

I was recently at the Elko Mining Expo in Elko, Nevada, presenting on When a Cyber Incident Becomes a Disclosure Event: What Gold Producers Need to Know About SEC Item 1.05. If you missed it and want to connect, reach out at [email protected].

Disclaimer:

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

SHOW NOTES:

Title: Run Your Own Race

Subtitle: Joan Benoit Samuelson broke away from the pack at mile three and won the first women’s Olympic marathon mostly alone. I just spent three days at the Elko Mining Expo, and what I saw there told me something the tape didn’t. Going it alone isn’t always wrong.

There is something deeply uncomfortable about being the only person walking in the opposite direction from the crowd.

In 1984, a runner from Maine named Joan Benoit Samuelson broke away from the pack at mile three of the first Olympic women’s marathon. The rest of the field didn’t follow. They thought she’d burn out. She’d had serious knee surgery earlier that year. She ran most of the race alone and won the gold medal.

The crowd was wrong. The lone runner was right.

In this episode of Core Sample, I’m talking about what it actually looks like to read the data when the crowd is moving the other direction.

Gold dropped nearly 4 percent this past week. GLD closed Friday at $396.24. Year to date, it’s essentially flat but anyone who chased the February peak at $494.56 is down close to around 20 percent. The headlines drove it in my opinion: a blowout jobs report, stalled Middle East peace talks, and a repricing of Fed rate expectations.

But I just spent three days at the Elko Mining Expo, on Friday I gave a talk. Booths were packed, job postings were real and vendors appeared to be filling orders. The price signal and the operational signal are pointing in opposite directions.

In my experience as a former equity trader, investment banker, and capital markets professional the people on the ground tend to know something the market doesn’t.

This is not investment advice. You have to do your own research. But this is what reading the data actually looks like.

In this episode:

* Why going it alone feels awful and why it isn’t always wrong

* The 1984 Joan Benoit Samuelson story and what it teaches about conviction under uncertainty

* Gold’s 2026 round trip GLD’s February peak, this week’s drop, and what the chart actually says

* The divergence between the commodities tape and the operational reality on the ground at Elko

* Why the miners on the ground tend to know something the market doesn’t

* Oscar Wilde, the lone sheep, and what trusting your own research actually looks like

* Why this is not investment advice and why you still need to do the work

Resources:

* Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

* Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

* Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com

Disclaimer:

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

I started my career as an equity trader straight out of college at an asset management firm. Later I went into investment banking and then hedge funds. Long before cybersecurity, I was reading the data.

And the data right now is telling a story most people aren’t hearing.

In 2025, gold returned over 63 percent. Silver between 140 and 180. Energy is outperforming broad equities. The US debt is over 39 trillion dollars. China controls 86 percent of critical mineral refining. The DofW Press Releases are indicating contracting for capabilities that won’t come online until 2035.

The market is pricing one story. The procurement contracts are telling another.

In this episode of Core Sample, I’m walking you through how I read this picture as an equity trader, an investor, and a strategist and why patience is the most underrated discipline in any cycle.

I’m also being honest about the SEC environment the way I see it, what’s shifted under Chairman Atkins, and what it means for the work I do at Sturnella. The rules are still in force. The timing has shifted and reading that distinction is exactly what this podcast is about.

This is not investment advice. You need to do your own research and talk to a qualified professional who knows your situation. But it is an invitation to read what’s actually happening and to recognize that the women in this industry already have the foundation to do it.

In this episode:

* Why I read Department of War procurement contracts before I read the news

* What the 2025 returns in gold, silver, and energy are actually telling us

* The divergence between market sentiment and procurement signals and why it matters

* Why the SEC enforcement environment has shifted and what it means for cyber governance

* The difference between believing in your work and reading the timing

* How the Myrtus framework, Pivot With Purpose applies to careers, investments, and businesses

* Why women in mining, resources, oil and gas, and defense already have the foundation most analysts don’t

* Patience as a discipline and what to do while you wait for the catalyst

Resources mentioned:

* Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

* Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

* Myrtus career strategy: myrtushq.com, Free Resources available here https://myrtushq.com/resources

* EDGAR: sec.gov

* SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

* US Debt Clock: usdebtclock.org

* Department of War: https://www.war.gov/

Speaking at:

I’m at the Elko Mining Expo in Elko, Nevada. June 3rd through the 5th.

My technical session is Friday at 10am: When a Cyber Incident Becomes a Disclosure Event: What Gold Producers Need to Know About SEC Item 1.05. If you’re there, come say hi. Agenda can be found here - https://web.cvent.com/event/d71285ce-0ea4-4b99-be64-f50e9c3005ac/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-b2c0-f201a0bfc6ce?rt=0XZjrdHKyU2kWDt5t7MnZA

Disclaimer:

Everything on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Sturnella LLC is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm — not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Always work with a licensed professional who knows your specific situation before making any investment decision. Pull up a chair — and do your homework.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

Jumping in to add a note - I know these recordings are not perfect, they are not supposed to be but the information needs to be shared and that is why I’m doing this.

Show Notes:

There is a specific feeling that shows up when you’re standing at a crossroads. A career that stopped fitting. A sector shifting underneath you. A hunch you can’t quite name yet.

That feeling is loud. And it makes it very hard to think clearly.

In this episode of Core Sample, I want to show you something that helped me more than any career coach or personality test ever did. Public filings. Free data. Numbers that don’t have opinions.

When your emotions are loud, the numbers will tell you where to look.

I’m walking through EDGAR and SEDAR+ — the free public databases where every listed company has to put the truth — not as investing tools only, but as career intelligence tools. The same research you’d do before putting money into a company, you can do before putting your career into one.

This episode also introduces the Pivot With Purpose framework from my career strategy practice, Myrtus — because the women in this sector are already positioned at the intersection of everything the macro cycle is pointing toward. You just need the signal.

In this episode:

• Why the loudest moments of uncertainty are exactly when you need to go to the data

• What EDGAR and SEDAR+ are and how to find any public company’s filings in under five minutes

• How to use a company’s annual report as career research — not just investment research

• The three financial signals that matter most without a finance degree — cash, debt, and dilution

• How to read management’s tone in the MD&A and why your industry knowledge gives you an edge no analyst has

• What material event disclosures tell you about governance culture

• Why cybersecurity filings are one of the most underread signals for both investors and career professionals right now

• The Pivot With Purpose framework — read the signal, find your position, move before the crowd

• Your homework — one company, three sections, starting today

Resources mentioned:

• EDGAR: sec.gov

• SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

• Myrtus — Pivot With Purpose career strategy: myrtushq.com

• Myrtus — Free Presentation and Resources https://myrtushq.com/resources

• Sturnella — Thought Leadership - https://sturnellahq.com/the-silence-in-the-filing-record

• Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

• Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

Before I let you go — a quick word on something important.

Everything I share on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. I’m here to talk about ideas, share what I’ve learned, and give you tools to ask better questions. But I don’t know your specific situation — your finances, your risk profile, your legal circumstances — and nothing on this show should be taken as investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument.

Sturnella is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm. We are not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Women seeking investment decisions should work with licensed professionals to understand their risk profile and receive qualified advice.

The information I share is based on publicly available sources and my own experience and perspective. I believe it’s accurate — but I’m not guaranteeing it, and things change.

Now — with that said — I’m really glad you’re here. Pull up a chair. See you next time.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com

I started this episode differently as yesterday (5/14/2026) I gave a talk to ISACA Phoenix and I wanted to make the presentation available to this audience. The link to the PDF presentation with the worksheets is on page 5 and 17. The worksheets help guide a career pivot and this may be relevant if you listened to Episode 3 and are interested in how Cybersecurity connects with mining, resources and defense. The link can be found in the middle of the page - https://myrtushq.com/resources.

I recently came across some numbers that showed women represent 8-17% of the global mining workforce don’t quote me but I think it came from a study by McKinsey in 2021. But some studies suggest that women lack specialized financial education to take on the investment risk but what I’ve seen recently is that women want to get involved.

That tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. Women in mining and critical minerals are ready. They have the industry knowledge, the operational instincts, the sector fluency. What they’re looking for is the language and the tools to connect all of that to their financial decisions.

This episode is one piece of that puzzle. And I want to start somewhere that costs nothing, requires no license, and is available to anyone with an internet connection.

EDGAR. And its Canadian counterpart, SEDAR+.

These are the public filing databases where companies disclose what they are required to tell investors — and a lot of what they’d probably prefer you didn’t read too carefully. In this episode I’m walking you through what these databases are, how to find a company’s filings, and specifically what to look for in the cybersecurity disclosure sections that the SEC now requires every public company to file.

Here’s why that matters as an investor: since December 2023, every U.S.-listed public company has been required to describe in their annual report exactly how they assess, identify, and manage cybersecurity risk — and how their board oversees it. That’s Regulation S-K Item 106. If a material cyber incident occurs, they have four business days to disclose it publicly under Form 8-K Item 1.05. I am starting with that as we have been discussing it on previous podcasts.

What those filings say — and how they say it — tells you something real about a company. Is the disclosure specific and detailed, or is it boilerplate? Does the board have actual cyber expertise, or are they checking a box? Has the company disclosed a prior incident, and if so, how did they handle it? Is there a pattern?

You don’t need to be a cybersecurity professional to start reading these. You need to know where to look and what questions to ask. That’s what this episode is about.

We’re starting simple. We’re starting free. And we’re building from here.

In this episode:

* Women are increasingly showing up to learn more about investing and what it signals about this moment

* What EDGAR is, what SEDAR+ is, and how to find any public company’s filings in under five minutes

* The specific cybersecurity sections now required in every U.S. public company annual report

* What strong cyber disclosure looks like versus boilerplate box-checking

* The questions to ask when you’re reading a filing as a potential investor

* Why reputational and operational cyber risk is a valuation question, not just a technical one

* How to use this as one lens in your broader due diligence — not a replacement for professional advice

Resources mentioned:

* EDGAR: https://www.sec.gov/search-filings

* SEDAR+: sedarplus.ca

* SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules overview: sec.gov

* Sturnella Signals Newsletter: news.sturnellahq.com

Find Sturnella: sturnellahq.com

Disclaimer:

Before I let you go — a quick word on something important.

Everything I share on Core Sample is for informational and educational purposes only. I’m here to talk about ideas, share what I’ve learned, and give you tools to ask better questions. But I don’t know your specific situation — your finances, your risk profile, your legal circumstances — and nothing on this show should be taken as investment advice, financial advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security or financial instrument.

Sturnella is a capital markets cybersecurity and governance advisory firm. We are not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or financial institution. Women seeking investment decisions should work with licensed professionals to understand their risk profile and receive qualified advice.

The information I share is based on publicly available sources and my own experience and perspective. I believe it’s accurate — but I’m not guaranteeing it, and things change.

Now — with that said — I’m really glad you’re here. Pull up a chair. See you next time.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sturnellahq.substack.com