Dan Herman Meckenstock

Timothy Schumacher is a financial advisor at Launch Wealth with 33 years of industry experience. He holds the ChFC® designation and Series 63 license. His prior experience includes roles at Penn Mutual and Hornor, Townsend & Kent. Launch Wealth serves individual investors and employer plan sponsors by providing integrated wealth management that combines portfolio management and financial planning. The firm employs a fee-only model and focuses on asset allocation using both passive and active strategies, with specialized retirement plan consulting and discretionary account management tailored to client goals.

Picture this – not too long ago, I found myself in the same place many of you. Eager to achieve financial freedom but no idea where to start. I was looking for the right answer in all the wrong places. Time was on my side, but I was worried I’d waste it doing the wrong thing. So, I began a journey to find a better way to build wealth. Wrong decision after wrong decision, mistake after mistake, I felt truly lost. I didn’t think I could find the right path. However, after countless hours of learning, I began to crack the code. I finally figured it out, and because of that, I’m getting closer to financial freedom by the day. It then became my mission to help guide those who were in the same situation as me. Those early in their journey towards financial freedom. I understood that not everyone wants to do it themselves. They wanted a relationship with a real human who could make them confident about their financial decisions. I thought about becoming a financial advisor at a big company, but that’s where another problem arose. These big companies (1) weren’t helping people early in their journey because they “didn’t have enough money”, and (2) even if they did have enough money, most of them were charging so much to help with so little. They required you to have hundreds of thousands of dollars to get started. They didn’t sell you an honest service; they sold products that made them big commissions. I didn’t want to go down that road, so I knew something needed to change. It was my duty to create a place where people could connect with a real human to talk about their struggles, vision, and purpose. They needed help with their complete financial life, not just one piece. That’s why I created Launch Wealth. It’s a place for career starters, business owners, young couples, and families to achieve financial freedom with a system that was built ‘for’ them. Launch Wealth is a financial advisory that provides fee-only service to the those who need it the most. We're here to help those on every step of their financial journey. The services we offer grow as your financial life does. We offer services with no account minimums, working with our clients at every step of the process and empowering them to create, plan, and achieve their desired money goals. That’s me. That’s my mission. That's my business. I'm just a regular guy making a difference in people’s (financial) lives.

Bobb Meckenstock is an investment advisor with NWF Advisory Services Inc, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 43 years of industry experience. His career includes roles at The Ameriflex Group, Independent Financial Group, and Main Street Advisor, LLC. He is a member emeritus of the Million Dollar Round Table and serves on the KU Alumni Association Board of Directors. Meckenstock is also an emeritus board member of the Fort Hays State University Foundation. NWF Advisory Services is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $6.4 billion in client assets through a network of over 100 advisory representatives. The firm primarily serves individual and high-net-worth clients, offering portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting through an open-architecture, technology-driven platform.

Kenneth Rigler Jr. is a Series 66-credentialed financial advisor with nine years of industry experience, currently affiliated with NWF Advisory Services Inc. He has held roles at OSAIC and The Ameriflex Group and operates his own business ventures, including an education consulting practice and Rigler Home Inspections. Additionally, Rigler serves as an associate professor at Fort Hays State University, teaching online courses and participating in administrative accreditation duties. NWF Advisory Services is an SEC-registered investment adviser managing approximately $6.4 billion in client assets through a network of over 100 advisors. The firm serves primarily individual and high-net-worth clients, offering a range of portfolio management programs and financial planning services via a technology-driven, open-architecture platform.

Jaden Blansett is a CFP® and holds a Series 65 license, currently serving as a financial advisor at Root Financial Partners with two years of industry experience. Prior to joining Root Financial Partners, he worked at Pandowealth, LLC and Powercat Financial. He has also gained experience outside finance, including roles in banking and construction early in his career. Root Financial Partners provides investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individuals, trusts, estates, small businesses, and select retirement plans. The firm emphasizes broadly diversified, passive investment strategies using index funds and ETFs, with portfolios tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance, and offers educational programming and paid online academies separate from advisory services.

Christine Lang is a financial advisor with Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 designations and has 24 years of industry experience. Her prior experience includes positions at Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. and Waddell & Reed. She also serves in fiduciary roles such as attorney-in-fact, trustee, and personal representative. Voya Financial Advisors, Inc. offers financial planning, portfolio management, retirement-plan advisory services, and access to third-party money managers for individuals, pension plans, charitable organizations, and corporate clients. The firm utilizes a combination of in-house and external strategists, model portfolios, and technology tools to deliver both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management.