In August 2025, MyCashlessClass founder Dawn Nelson appeared on the Sunbeam Chats Podcast with host Arlene M. Holman for a wide-ranging conversation on her career, the founding moment for MyCashlessClass, and what she set out to build.

On 18 August 2025, MyCashlessClass founder and CEO Dawn Nelson joined Arlene M. Holman on the Sunbeam Chats Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation. The episode — Digital Disruption & My Cashless Class — traced Dawn’s career through her decision to step away from her Sciences background into business and fintech. Her national-level payments and innovation work as VP of Financial Sector Transformation, and how that shaped the founding moment for MCC — a phone call from her son in school, who needed extra money for a purchase they had both forgotten — and how that led her to start the Caribbean’s all-in-one school transaction management platform.

On what the conversation surfaced

The discussion captures Dawn’s thinking at the formative moment — the why behind the platform, and how her commitment to advancing digital and financial inclusion informed the design architecture.

The conversation traces the runway that MCC stands on and its destination of institutional partnerships and regional reach across the Caribbean, as it aims to become the single platform connecting parents, schools, and students to everything that school transactions touch.

Listen to the episode

The full episode is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Also available on Apple Podcasts.