Women and the Future of Wealth: Building Power Through Clarity and Service
- Jan 5
- 2 min read
By Krystle Phillips
Founder & CEO, YES Your Equipment Suppliers (YES) & Roll Ice Cream LLC (RIC)
When people talk about women and wealth, the conversation usually jumps straight to money. But my own journey taught me something very different: wealth begins with clarity. Clarity about who you are, what you’re solving, and who you choose to become along the way.
My story starts when I was 18, running a stationery and tech retail store in Trinidad. It wasn’t a small hobby. It was a real business with inventory to manage, customers to serve, and expectations to meet. That experience introduced me to something that would quietly guide the rest of my career: procurement. I learned how to source products, negotiate, build relationships, and adapt quickly when something went wrong. I didn’t know it then, but those early lessons were shaping my relationship with independence and wealth.
As the market shifted, I moved deeper into sourcing electronics and specialty items for individuals and small businesses. Procurement became my strength—finding what others couldn’t, solving problems quickly, and keeping people equipped to run their own ventures.
I didn’t frame it as “wealth-building” back then, but that’s exactly what it was. Every time I helped someone secure the tools they needed to operate, I was supporting their ability to earn, grow, and make decisions from a place of stability rather than fear.
Everything changed the day I tried sourcing commercial equipment and saw how unreliable the market was. Hidden fees. Ghosted sellers. Damaged machines. No support. These weren’t inconveniences, they were barriers stopping people from creating income and building generational change.
So I made a decision that transformed my entire path:
If I can’t find a reliable supplier, I’ll become one.
That decision gave birth to YES Your Equipment Suppliers and later Roll Ice Cream LLC, two companies built to remove the uncertainty and confusion that so many small business owners face. We don’t just sell machines, we guide people through workflow, costing, margins, staffing, and long-term planning. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs, especially women and first-time founders, build sustainable income without being taken advantage of.
I realized something important along the way:
Women create wealth through empowerment, not competition.
The Wealth We Don’t Measure Enough
Money is one form of wealth, but other forms matter just as much:
knowledge
community
support
clarity
confidence
access
When a woman understands her equipment, her margins, and her business model, she makes better decisions. Better decisions lead to better outcomes. And better outcomes create real, repeatable wealth.
This is the kind of transformation I see every day, women buying their first machine, opening their first shop, creating jobs, or simply gaining the confidence to make decisions they once felt unqualified to make. When someone tells me, “You made me believe I could actually do this,” that is a form of wealth no balance sheet can capture.
The Future of Wealth
The future of wealth belongs to women who build with intention. Women who turn their clarity into systems, their challenges into solutions, and their experiences into opportunities for others.
Wealth isn’t just about accumulation anymore.
It’s about access.
It’s about autonomy.
It’s about elevation.
And women are uniquely positioned to lead that shift.
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