David Morales is a financial advisor at First Command Advisory Services with Series 6, 63, and Series 65 licenses and one year of industry experience. Prior to joining First Command, he served in the U.S. Navy from 2015 to 2019 and received his bachelor’s degree in Finance at the University of San Diego. First Command Advisory Services serves a diverse client base including individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, and charities through a multi-service platform offering financial planning, discretionary asset management, brokerage, insurance, and banking products. The firm emphasizes advisor-led financial coaching and provides tailored professional services through structured engagement cycles.

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.

Matthew Beeby is a financial advisor at Harvest Capital Management in Aledo, TX, with 19 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and previously worked at Stephens from 2014 to 2018. Outside of advisory work, he owns and manages residential real estate investments through MHB Real Estate Investments, LLC. Harvest Capital Management provides investment advisory and planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, and pension and profit-sharing plans. The firm employs a long-term, modern portfolio theory approach with fundamental analysis, offering services such as portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting.

Chukwudi Uraih is a financial advisor at Lampados Financial Group, LLC with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has previously worked at Booz Allen Hamilton. Uraih serves in the United States Army Reserve. Outside of financial advising, he is the owner and CEO of Lampados Realty Group TX, LLC, which focuses on acquiring real estate for rental purposes. Lampados Financial Group provides fee-only financial planning and investment advisory services to individuals, families, professionals, and investors in firm-managed investment funds. The firm employs a proprietary methodology combining fundamental analysis and algorithmic cash-flow modeling to evaluate financial scenarios and emphasizes diversified, long-term, risk-aware strategies for individual accounts, alongside real-asset acquisition for its funds.

Brian Phillips is a financial advisor with Phillips Ray Capital Management, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a Series 63 designation and has 29 years of industry experience, including 24 years with his current firm. Phillips Ray Capital Management provides investment advisory services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm offers both discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, using customized investment policies and a range of instruments tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance.

Garrison Leach is the sole advisor at G.P. Leach Securities LLC in Aledo, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with five years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Cheldan Capital Management, L.L.C. and J.S. McNair Advisors. G.P. Leach Securities LLC provides quantitative portfolio management and advisory services to institutions and individual investors, offering a range of separately managed strategies executed primarily through exchange-traded funds. The firm employs a systematic, research-driven approach using proprietary models and incorporates derivatives and leverage where suitable, operating as a boutique manager with a broad and sophisticated strategy set.

You deserve simple, straightforward financial advice that you understand and trust. I’m the son of two master plumbers. When it came to plumbing, “master” is the right word. They were good at what they did. And, like all contractors and tradesmen, their business went through highs and lows. When times were good, we took amazing vacations and enjoyed life together. When times were tough, like going through bankruptcy to avoid losing everything, we had to bear the burden. This is a story told all too often, and it’s why I started Forthright Financial Services. I received a Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Masters Degree in Taxation, and a Certification in Financial Planning on my way to becoming a Certified Financial Planner® professional. I worked for 4 years at a CPA firm, where I became the lead tax associate for individuals and small partnerships. I switched careers to my original passion and worked for a great financial planning firm for 5 years. While there I became the director of financial planning and helped create and implement the entire financial planning process. Throughout my journey, I helped my dad in many different ways. After my dad passed away, I left my job and started my business with the mission to help other hard-working business owners, like him, understand their finances in order to minimize taxes, maximize cashflows, increase profits, and grow their business efficiently. As a contractor, your business and your personal financial situations are so connected that I believe you need special advice to address both of those areas simultaneously. That special guidance is exactly what we provide. Straightforward advice for all circumstances, goals, and seasons of life – that’s always a phone call away. If you’re ready to offload the stress and worry around your money and your business, now and for when your working days are done, let’s talk. Also help with: Small Business help Family Business Planning Self-Employed Individuals & Consultants planning Tax Planning Charitable Giving Business Planning Holistic Financial Planning Entrepreneurs Startup Founders Retirement Planning Cryptocurrency Financial Life Planning & Financial Coaching Family Financial Planning Social Security Optimization Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Millenials, Gen Z Christian Business Owners

Laurie Sepanski is a financial advisor at LTS Financial Group in Ft. Worth, TX, with 10 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at several firms including FRIE Financial Group, Rhodes Securities, and Meinen Financial Services. LTS Financial Group provides ongoing portfolio management tailored to individual and business clients’ goals, time horizons, and risk tolerances. The firm combines multiple analytical approaches and manages accounts on a discretionary basis, with regular reviews and detailed reporting.

Vint Stevenson is the principal advisor at Stevenson Advisory Services & Investments, an independent firm based in Weatherford, TX. He holds a Series 66 designation and has 23 years of industry experience, including prior roles at Regal Investment Advisors LLC and Securities America. Outside of finance, he owns and educates through Stevenson Firearms & Ammo, a firearms and gunsmithing business. Stevenson Advisory Services & Investments offers discretionary investment management and standalone financial planning to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, and estates. The firm employs a combination of fundamental and multiple technical analysis methods, managing a small client roster with tailored investment programs and quarterly account reviews.

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.

Timothy Dutton is a CFP®-designated financial advisor with five years of industry experience. He is the principal of Dutton Financial Planning, LLC, an independent firm he has led since 2023. Prior to founding his own firm, he worked at Commonwealth Financial Network and Colorado Financial Management, LLC. Outside of financial advising, he serves as a sales manager for Cowtown Express Logistics, a transportation and logistics company. Dutton Financial Planning provides discretionary asset management, personal and business financial planning, and ERISA 3(21) retirement-plan advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, and business entities. The firm is notable for its use of derivatives in separately managed accounts and combines outsourced model and co-advisor arrangements with in-house oversight.

Louis Presley is the sole advisor at Presley Capital Management, LLC, an independent firm based in Cresson, TX. He holds a Series 65 designation and has 18 years of industry experience, having founded and operated Presley Capital Management since 2008. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as managing member and operations manager of Mustang Lending LLC, a real estate business. Presley Capital Management provides investment advisory and financial planning services, primarily implementing portfolios through third-party money managers. The firm serves clients including trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and business clients, using a combination of fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis while maintaining client assets with independent custodians.

Todd Vandenburg is the principal of VanDenburg Capital Management in Weatherford, TX, with 22 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked at several firms including SCF Investment Advisors and Independent Financial Group before founding his current firm in 2017. Vandenburg is also a director of the H&R Peters Family Foundation and an author with book sales since 2014. VanDenburg Capital Management is a fee-only independent advisory firm serving individuals, trusts, and high-net-worth clients including business owners and executives nearing retirement. The firm offers discretionary investment management along with financial planning and educational resources, managing portfolios across a range of risk profiles primarily with ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, and alternative investments.

Robert Hamrick is the sole advisor at Hamrick Financial, LLC in Weatherford, Texas, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses with 17 years of industry experience. He has been with Hamrick Financial since 2008. Hamrick Financial serves individual and high-net-worth clients by providing investment supervisory services and fee-based financial planning, managing approximately $51.3 million in primarily non-discretionary assets. The firm emphasizes portfolio monitoring, asset allocation, and security selection aligned with clients’ written Investment Policy Statements and requires client authorization for trades.

Omar Aguilar is a financial advisor with Blue Ladder Financial Planning, LLC in Benbrook, TX, holding Series 63 and Series 65 credentials and bringing 11 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at First Command Advisory Services and First Command Brokerage Services, and he currently serves in the Air Force Reserves as an A1C specializing in Munitions Systems. He is also a board member of the Benbrook Economic Development Committee. Blue Ladder Financial Planning, LLC is registered as an investment manager offering discretionary direct asset management along with financial planning and consulting services. The firm employs a variety of analytical techniques to guide investment decisions based on documented client objectives and risk tolerances, managing accounts separately and utilizing digital custodial platforms.

Gary Wright is the sole advisor at Premier Wealth Management, LLC in Fort Worth, TX, with 18 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has managed Premier Wealth Management since 2007. Additionally, Wright has operated Premier Life Planning, an insurance and tax sales business, since 1987. Premier Wealth Management serves individual clients primarily through third-party money managers and a co-advisor arrangement, focusing on portfolio management, financial planning, and consulting services while clients retain custody of their assets. The firm emphasizes model portfolio selection and oversight, with trade execution and custody handled externally.

Davis Jones is a financial advisor at Iron Forge Financial with a Series 65 designation and one year of industry experience. He has been self-employed since 2010 and joined Iron Forge Financial in 2024. Outside of financial advising, he operates several small businesses including farm produce and livestock sales, pet waste removal, pool services, oil and gas consulting, and hunting services. Iron Forge Financial provides discretionary portfolio management and financial planning services to individual and high-net-worth clients. The firm advises across a wide range of investment instruments and employs a combination of cyclical, fundamental, technical analysis, and modern portfolio theory with a long-term trading approach.

Jemimah Stratford is a financial advisor at JOS Planning with a Series 65 credential and two years of industry experience. Her prior work includes positions at First Pacific Financial, North Carolina Central University, Texas Tech, Macy’s, and Bank of America. JOS Planning Firm LLC offers fee-only financial planning and portfolio management services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, charitable organizations, corporations, estates, and trusts. The firm utilizes third-party advisers and a turn-key asset management platform focused on asset allocation, passive investments, and Modern Portfolio Theory, with options for ESG criteria and charitable gift planning.

Robert Richardson is a financial advisor with Trinsic Capital, LLC in Fort Worth, TX, holding a Series 65 designation. He has been with Trinsic Capital since 2013. Trinsic Capital, LLC provides discretionary, fee-only investment management to individuals, trusts, nonprofit organizations, and other entities. The firm manages approximately $84 million across around 47 client relationships, focusing on value-oriented equity selection through multiple equity strategies and primarily serves both high-net-worth and non-high-net-worth individual clients.

Jarrod Warren is a financial advisor with Integrity Financial Group in Fort Worth, TX, holding Series 65 and Series 63 licenses and over 15 years of industry experience. His prior roles include positions at Northwestern Mutual and OneAmerica Securities. Warren is also licensed as an insurance agent, selling non-variable insurance products in Texas. Integrity Financial Group serves individuals and business entities, including high-net-worth clients, providing discretionary portfolio management and financial planning. The firm uses a multi-method investment approach and third-party model portfolios while managing approximately $33 million in discretionary assets.