FridayWinsLive! Unstoppable Leadership in Mortgage & Fintech, A Conversation With Cecelia Raine

If you are a woman in mortgage, servicing, or financial services who has been “the change agent” for years, this one is for you.

In this episode of #FridayWinsLive, we sit down with Cecelia Raine, a visionary mortgage executive and culture builder whose career spans Fannie Mae, Lender Processing Services (LPS / Black Knight), Black Knight Financial Services, and Freddie Mac, where she most recently served as Vice President.

Cecelia is known for:

Leading large scale transformation in servicing, customer experience, and default

Turning strategy into execution, not just slideware

Building cross functional teams that actually like working together

Leaning into AI and tech ecosystems as tools, not threats, and teaching others to do the same

Championing the next generation of women leaders in mortgage and fintech

In this conversation we cover:
💡 The impact she loves to make at work and why “nothing worth doing is done alone”
🏗️ How she builds programs from scratch, from idea to adoption, inside complex enterprises
🤝 What great customer first companies get right in servicing and operations
🧠 How she taught herself AI, led early AI use cases in servicing, and what leaders get wrong about it
🌱 Why believing in yourself, asking for honest feedback, and raising your hand for change work are non negotiable
🔥 The kind of company and culture she is excited to help elevate next

If you are:

A recruiter or hiring manager looking for a proven VP / SVP level leader who can bridge business, tech, and customer needs

A woman in financial services trying to navigate layoffs, pivots, or the next level of leadership

A younger professional who wants to understand how real careers get built in this industry

…you will get a masterclass in mindset, strategy, and staying human in the middle of massive change.

🎧 Hype song: Cecelia’s walk on song is “Unstoppable” by Sia, so we added it to our Athena’s Council Hype Me Up Spotify playlist to keep you fired up before big interviews and meetings.

👭 About Friday Wins Live
Every Friday, Molly Dowdy (founder of Athena’s Council) and Audra Agen highlight women in financial services who are in transition or leading through change. We want recruiters and hiring leaders to see beyond the résumé and for women in this industry to know, without a doubt, that they are not alone.

✨ If you are between roles or rethinking what is next in your career in mortgage or financial services, connect with Molly on LinkedIn and ask about:

Athena’s Council (private network for women in financial services)

Between Roles, Together (weekly support and strategy call)

LinkedIn Squad (monthly visibility and content lab)

Hit subscribe, turn on notifications, and join us every Friday as we keep shining the spotlight on women who are, in Cecelia’s words, truly unstoppable.