The only problem, as the Huffington Post pointed out, is that she's not a real person.

A reporter at HufPo was tipped off by another reporter that Russell was somebody had who had responded to many inquiries on HARO, a service called "Help A Reporter Out", that connects reporters to experts in various fields.

When one reporter, Elizabeth Aldrich, finally decided to write about Russell, she couldn't find any online presence for her aside from her website, FinanceMarvel, where she claimed to be a certified financial planner. Additionally, the photo on her site turned out to be a stock image. 

Aldrich said:  "I emailed her asking for a LinkedIn page, and she said she had zero social media profiles. But while I was waiting for her to respond, I reverse-Google-image-searched her photo to see if I could find her profile on my own, and it's a stock photo." 

Shortly thereafter, a LinkedIn profile mysteriously popped up. 

"Now she has a LinkedIn [profile], which she created right after I told her I couldn't use her responses," Aldrich said.