Hello and welcome to The River Foundation Podcast! We continue our discussion today with Mary Nita Thompson as she and Dan unpack her professional journey spanning decades of banking experience. Mary Nita reflects on how the thread of "God's economy" has strengthened throughout her career no matter how the industry changed around her, and how working at First Southern in particular has served as a catalyst for deepening and expanding her faith. She also walks us through some of the day-to-day work she and her colleagues do in the bank's Operations branch, and how that work affects every other branch.

Episode Highlights:

[0:20] Dan provides an overview of Mary Nita's long and sprawling career in banking.

[1:18] Mary Nita reflects on entering the banking field straight out of a technical school where she learned "things that are not relevant anymore" and experiencing the world of banking evolve ever since.

[2:58] Adding machines, keypunch operators, one big computer – Mary Nita and Dan look back on the world they entered into when they started working.

[3:57] "In the early years of banking, that's when I learned how to handle finances God's way." Mary Nita details how her faith has intertwined and grown with her career every step of the way.

[4:58] "First of all, we've got to give back to God – give to God." We learn Mary Nita's personal theology of God and money.

[7:04] Mary Nita shares some of the ins and outs of working in Operations, and how she and her colleagues' work fits into the bigger picture of First Southern. "It's all the things that happen quietly that if they don't happen, people will notice."

[9:48] Dan and Mary Nita explain how and why they "Pray for Operations on Tuesdays,' as well as why the first of the month is always a big day.

[12:05] We close today with Mary Nita taking to the pulpit to give some well-earned advice from her decades in the banking industry.

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