Empowering Women Clients: Michelle Petrowski Interview
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
Release Date: 04/27/2022
14 Years Of Serving Military Clients And Building An Ensemble Financial Planning and Tax Preparation Firm with Curt Sheldon
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
I’m excited to welcome Curt Sheldon on the podcast today. He is the founder of C. L. Sheldon and Company, a flat-fee RIA focused on serving senior military officers. Curt first launched this firm more than 14 years ago and offered flat fee engagements with investment management long before this became more common. His firm also prepares more than 300 tax returns. In this wide-ranging interview Curt shares how his early interest in finances started during his academics studies during undergraduate, masters, and CFP coursework while on active duty. Listen for his story about a bad experience...
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MQFP Live Exam Prep Course at MilMoneyCon25
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
In this short bonus episode, Paul Allen rejoins us to share the exciting news about the MQFP live exam prep course coming up at MilMoneyCon25. We chat through what that looks like, what you can expect to learn, how much it costs, when to plan travel, integration with the MilMoneyCon conference schedule, and a special opportunity for some scholarships! Hope to see many of you listeners there!
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Leveraging Military Spouse Skillsets and the Scary, First 6 Months of Firm Launch with Stacy Miller
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
I’m excited to welcome Stacy Miller on the podcast today. She is the founder of Bayview Financial Planning, a flat-fee RIA focused on serving women, widows, and military and veteran families. Stacy is a military spouse to a retired U.S. Army officer. Married for over 30-years to her husband, Jody, who served 28-years in the military, Stacy has experienced many positive and negative transitions. She has seen firsthand how those transitions can impact women, widows, and military/veteran families. Together, her military family moved 14 times during their service, and as a result, Stacy was...
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Finding the Right Culture Fit and Serving the Military Community with David Evetts
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
In this episode, I’m joined by David Evetts, who serves as the President of the USAA Educational Foundation. Since 1986, The USAA Educational Foundation has served the military community by helping service members and their families become informed financial decision-makers through every life stage. USAA, the founder and sponsor of The USAA Educational Foundation, is a San Antonio, Texas-based financial services company that provides auto, homeowners, and life insurance products and, banking and investment services. While USAA is the sponsor, The USAA Educational Foundation does not endorse...
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Financial Education, Working for a Nonprofit, and Serving the Special Ops Community with Drew Stamp
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
I’m excited to welcome a friend and colleague who has a little bit different career track today. Drew Stamp serves as the Chief Operations Office for the Donovan and Bank Foundation - a, nonprofit organization that focuses on helping special operators transition to a life of peace, balance, and contentment. We chat about Drew’s early personal finance experiences, how he learned he loved to teach and help other with financial literacy, what studying for the CFP exam was like even though he had never worked in a traditional job in financial planning before, and how he found his way to...
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Finding the Right Firm, Fit, and Focus with Matt Stephens
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
Today on the podcast I’m joined by Matt Stephens from Willow Chute Financial. Matt has had a winding career path that has taken him to a variety of roles, firms, structures, and responsibilities. During his career in financial services, he has also served as an officer in the Army Reserves since 2008. In our discussion, we chat about the pros and cons of a variety of financial services compensation and service structures and how that factored into his career decisions. Given the variety of structures as well as front and back office roles, I ask Matt about the traits he found for those that...
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Walking the Walk along with Talking the Talk of Military Transition with Heather Walrath
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
I’m so grateful to have Heather Walrath joining us on the podcast today. She currently serves as financial education and accredited financial counselor at the Navy Mutual Aid Association. As part of the Education Team, Heather speaks one-on-one with servicemembers and spouses and provides group presentations to servicemembers and families across the country to increase their knowledge and understanding of financial matters. Her areas of expertise include military and survivor benefits, including VA benefits and Survivor Benefit Plan. Heather talks about her early career interest...
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Tax Preparation alongside Financial Planning, Teaching CFP Classes, and MQFP Update with Paul Allen
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
I’m excited to have Paul Allen on the podcast today. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss his first exposure to the financial services industry which rubbed him the wrong way and sparked an interest in doing his own financial planning work. Later on, Paul wanted to help educate fellow members of his military community so he got his CFP so he could teach financial literacy classes, all the while wondering if there was a way he could just get paid to give financial advice instead of selling financial products. Paul shares how he stumbled into the world of fee-only RIAs and tax practice...
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Learning About the Planning Profession and Building College Planning Expertise with Mike Hunsberger
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
In this podcast episode, I sit down with Mike Hunsberger to learn more about his career journey across an Air Force career and launching his own RIA, Next Mission Financial Planning. He shares about his early experiences with being sold permanent life insurance and high fee mutual funds which led him to get more interested in personal finance. Thanks to many years of his own good financial decisions, including building lots of spreadsheets to analyze his own military career analysis, gave him options to consider financial planning as a second career. As part of his exportary foray, Mike...
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Cross-border Planning and Military Spouse Careers with Stephanie Higgins
Military to Financial Planner Podcast
In this podcast episode, I’m joined by Stephanie Higgins to talk about her journey into the financial planning profession. As a military brat as well as military spouse, she has spent a great deal of time overseas so we talk about the challenges of employment and building a career while OCONUS. I love hearing about her personal journey of learning about finances as she took over her household money management and the blending of that with her prior career background and education in psychology. Stephanie shares how she pursued the AFC and MQFP as well as currently preparing for the CFP...
info_outlineMichelle Petrowski joins us on the podcast to share about her journey as a career changer into financial planning, her work as a CFP and CDFA in the divorce space, the opportunities she had to help military families along the way, and what her firm is like now working with empowering women with both financial planning and life coaching. What I loved here is how transparent Michelle was about the personal experiences that mirrored the professional, how she had to restart so much of her life and career on several occasions, and the ways in which the power of networking and relationship-building repeatedly opened up doors for her.
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