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Joshua Brooks, CFP®, is the founder of Exponential Advisors, a fee-only fiduciary financial planning firm serving military leaders, veterans, and their families. With more than two decades of military service and current service as an Army Reserve chaplain, Joshua understands that leaving the military is more than a career change. Decisions involving the Survivor Benefit Plan, Thrift Savings Plan, VA benefits, insurance, taxes, civilian compensation, and family priorities often arrive at the same time. He founded Exponential Advisors to help military families coordinate these decisions through a disciplined planning approach called Operational Wealth Stewardship. Joshua advises clients on retirement income, TSP and employer retirement plans, survivor planning, investment management, tax-aware planning, insurance, charitable giving, estate coordination, and the responsible role digital assets may play within a diversified financial plan. His experience as an enlisted Infantryman, officer, combat veteran, chaplain, husband, and father shapes the way he works: listen carefully, clarify what matters most, explain the tradeoffs in plain language, and develop a practical course of action. His objective is not to predict markets or chase financial trends, but to help clients coordinate their resources with greater clarity, discipline, and purpose.

Carman Kubanda is a financial advisor with Innovative Wealth Building LLC in Fort Worth, TX, holding a Series 66 license and six years of industry experience. Prior to joining Innovative Wealth Building in 2023, he worked at First Command Financial Planning, Inc. and several other firms. Kubanda is also the owner of Wellbeing Financial, LLC, which provides insurance services and lead generation. Innovative Wealth Building LLC offers portfolio management and financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and charitable organizations. The firm employs long-term trading strategies guided by fundamental analysis and modern portfolio theory, managing accounts on both discretionary and non-discretionary bases.

Michelle Vargas, Certified Financial Planner™ is the President of Waymaker Financial Planning, a Fee-Only firm that provides transparent and accessible financial guidance. She enjoys helping clients navigate and plan all aspects of their financial life so that they will worry less about their future and free up more time to spend doing what they love. After earning a degree in Finance from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1990, she moved to Florida and started her career with Harcourt Brace Publishing. Her journey into personal finance began when she signed up for her 401K and wanted to learn about additional options to plan for retirement. This eventually led to working as a financial advisor and completing the extensive education requirements for becoming a CFP® in 1998. She believes her experience as a young professional searching for unbiased advice enables her to better serve Gen XY professionals because she remembers what it was like being in their shoes. As a former homeschool parent and the wife of a federal employee, she is passionate about helping women, homeschool families, and federal workers plan wisely for a comfortable financial future. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking in Colorado, barbecuing with family, and working in her garden.

Lacy Rogers is a CFP® professional with 11 years of industry experience, currently operating as the sole advisor at The Dedicated Dollar since 2021. She previously worked at Hilltop Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo Clearing. The Dedicated Dollar is an independent, state-registered investment adviser serving individual clients, including high net-worth households, with tailored portfolio management and a variety of financial planning services. The firm employs a Modern Portfolio Theory-based approach using passive asset-class portfolios and offers both project-based and ongoing planning, including business-planning consulting for small business owners.

Ryan Mc Lin is a CFP® with seven years of industry experience, currently serving as the sole advisor at Impact Wealth Group in Fort Worth, TX. His prior experience includes roles at Ameriprise Financial Services, LLP/Clearfork Wealth Management, and Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation, as well as nearly a decade with the City of Plano. He serves as an unpaid board member for the nonprofit HopeKids, participating in fundraising and event coordination efforts. Impact Wealth Group provides ongoing portfolio management and financial planning services to individual and high-net-worth clients, developing Investment Policy Statements tailored to each client's goals and risk tolerance. The firm employs a long-term trading orientation using various analytic methods and manages accounts primarily on a discretionary basis.

Edward Whelan is the principal of EMW Capital Advisors, LLC, an independent firm based in Fort Worth, TX. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 20 years of industry experience. In addition to his advisory role, Whelan serves as Chief Financial Officer of Bobby Cox Companies, Inc., a holding company with operations in restaurants, real estate, and ranching, and as Treasurer for CNR, Inc., a holding company with interests in chemical manufacturing and distribution. EMW Capital Advisors serves individual and trust clients through separately managed accounts and acts as adviser and general partner to a pooled private fund, also accepting corporate clients. The firm employs a value-oriented equity approach combining fundamental company analysis with a macroeconomic overlay and a proprietary ranking framework, implementing both long and short positions in portfolios tailored to client objectives.