About Me
I've always had a passion for personal finance, but it was outside of the professional world for the earlier part of my professional career. I spent a decade working in small college athletics as an athletic communications director. It was my job to market (statistics, photography, journalism, graphic design, broadcasting, social media, you name it) a small college athletics program. I enjoyed the work, but over time, the grind took its toll on my family, and I sought a career that I could still impact people while setting my own schedule. Being a financial professional at Northwestern Mutual has fulfilled both of these desires.
I am married to the love of my life, Janel, and we have a daughter, Jesalyn, and a son, Tyus. We are active members of Crossroads Church in Cincinnati and currently reside in Wilmington (about 45 minutes Northwest of Cincinnati). My wife & I share a passion for athletics and are a split household as she's a Buckeye and I'm a Wolverine. :)
I believe anyone, regardless of income, deserves a financial plan. I work especially well with young families and those in the following professional fields: education, athletics, marketing, communications, journalism, public relations, technology and agriculture.
Lending a hand in my community.
As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)
ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.
Beads of Courage
Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.
How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.
When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.
Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.
It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.
