Nora Castro

Nora Castro, a financial advisor and managing director at Castro & Associates, a financial advisory practice in Austin, Texas, has been the recipient of Forbes’s Top Women Wealth Advisors award every year since the award’s inception in 2018. Castro received a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Southern California and entered the financial services world at eighteen, joining a work-study program during college at a financial services firm. It was there Castro discovered a love for the industry and became that firm’s youngest registered representative. Throughout her career, as a woman in a male-dominated industry, she has been ignored and belittled, yet she found a way to overcome the hurdles and open the barred doors she encountered along the way. As she will tell you, “The battles I fought and indignities I endured have left deep and everlasting scars. Hopefully, this book will make other women’s career journeys less challenging.” Her career has been profiled in Forbes, and she speaks regularly at industry events for women’s empowerment and at various charities, such as Texas Women for the Arts. Open Your Own Doors is her first book. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Robby.