She met her husband Franko, now was-band (but still friends), at a Renaissance festival in Pennsylvania and married a year later.  In Nashville, before the birth of her second daughter, she landed her first full-time role as a benefits analyst at HCA.  After six years at HCA, Wendy craved a new challenge and moved into underwriting at Cigna.  A layoff from Cigna during the Great Recession was ultimately a blessing in disguise which led her to pass her first actuarial exam at the age of 45, more than 20 years after her father's urging.   This led to a job in the specialized world of reinsurance brokering, a field she where she still works today. Along the way, she continued tackling the notoriously difficult actuarial exams. Taking most of these exams on her own time and own dime without being in actuarial role eventually paid off with her achieving her ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries) designation, a major professional milestone.