Hi, I’m Spenser Liszt, CFP®, founder of Motif Planning, a flat fee financial planning and investment management firm based in Dallas, Texas. I help dual-income families in their 30s and 40s who are doing well financially manage the growing complexity that comes with higher income and wealth. Most of my clients earn $250k+ while raising young kids and managing demanding careers. They have growing investment portfolios, bonuses, RSUs, stock options, deferred compensation, or other executive benefits. You may be asking: * Are we making the most of what we’ve built? * What should we do with RSUs, stock options, or company stock? * Are we paying more in taxes than we need to? * Are our investments coordinated with our financial plan? * How much should we save for college while still enjoying life today? * Can one of us step back from work someday? * What can we delegate so we have less to manage ourselves? I help bring those decisions together across your investments, taxes, equity compensation, employee benefits, cash flow, insurance, college planning, retirement, and estate planning. You get another set of eyes looking for opportunities, someone to call before a major financial decision, and fewer financial tasks competing for your attention. My goal is to help you feel confident the details are handled thoughtfully, so you can spend less time researching, monitoring, and second guessing financial decisions and more time with your family and the people you care about. Before becoming a financial planner, I spent 17 years as a professional musician performing with artists including Aretha Franklin, Frankie Valli, The Temptations, Korn, and Father John Misty. I later earned my CFP® certification through Southern Methodist University and founded Motif Planning. When I’m not working with clients, I’m spending time with my family, woodworking, or playing piano for my son. Be sure to check our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews on Wealthtender to hear directly from clients about what it’s like to work together. If you recognize your family in this profile, schedule a 15-minute discovery call. We’ll talk through what prompted you to reach out, what you want help with, and see if Motif Planning is a good fit.

Tiffany Tippins is the principal advisor at Impactful Wealth Solutions in Red Oak, TX, with 20 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and has prior experience with firms including HD Vest Insurance Agency and Evolution Health. Tippins is also the author of a financial planning book titled *Plan for IT: An Actionable Blueprint for Building Wealth & Achieving Your Dreams* and owns a boutique stationery business called Uniquely Gifted Chic Boutique. Impactful Wealth Solutions serves individuals, trusts, smaller employer-sponsored retirement plans, and corporate clients, offering investment management, financial planning, tax preparation, insurance products, and employee-benefit services. The firm employs a conviction-driven, long-term investment approach and provides both subscription-based service tiers and traditional advisory relationships, integrating third-party managers and model portfolios as part of its service offerings.

Brennan Fridley is a financial advisor at Solid Rock Capital Management in Dallas, TX, with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has prior work experience including a role as Lead Financial Analyst at AT&T, Inc., as well as service in the United States Army. Solid Rock Capital Management provides financial planning and portfolio management services to individuals, including high-net-worth clients, and small businesses. The firm emphasizes a combination of fundamental and technical analysis, diversified allocations, and long-term investment strategies, and it offers public educational seminars and flexible planning engagement options.

Thomas Wilke is a financial advisor at AnalyticEdge Finance in Dallas, TX, holding a Series 65 designation with two years of industry experience. His prior work includes positions at Goldman Sachs and United Capital Financial Advisers. In addition to his advisory role, he is a licensed agent with World Financial Group, where he sells life insurance products. AnalyticEdge Finance offers comprehensive financial planning and discretionary investment management primarily for individuals and families. The firm utilizes quantitative tools and provides estate planning, risk management, retirement planning, and small-business 401(k) advisory services.

Philip Ladewig is a financial advisor with 23 years of industry experience. He is the sole advisor at Ladewig Investment Management, LLC, an independent firm he has led since 2021. Prior to founding his firm, he worked at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC for 18 years. Ladewig Investment Management provides discretionary asset management primarily to individual and high-net-worth clients, offering tailored portfolio management that includes investment selection, asset allocation, and monitoring. The firm employs a range of strategies from long-term holdings to shorter-term trading and options, with regular account reviews focused on rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting.

Brandon Simpson is a financial advisor at Aspen Wealth Advisors LLC in Dallas, TX, with five years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and previously worked at AT&T for 13 years before founding his advisory firm. Outside of advising, he has a non-investment-related business under his own name. Aspen Wealth Advisors provides investment management and comprehensive financial planning to individual clients, combining passive, index-based strategies with selective fundamental analysis. The firm serves a small client base with tailored services that include retirement, tax, estate, insurance, and business planning.

Troy Ferguson is the sole advisor at Ferguson Financial Planning in Duncanville, TX, holding CFP® and Series 65 credentials with 22 years at his firm and 11 years of industry experience. Ferguson Financial Planning is a fee-only independent advisory firm managing approximately $74 million in assets across 169 client relationships. The firm provides discretionary portfolio management and supplemental financial planning services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, small businesses, and trusts. It employs a fundamental, long-term investment approach through five model folios on a Goldman Sachs platform and offers clients 24-hour access to account performance reporting.

David Fent is a CFP® and CFA® charterholder with 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has worked at Frost Investment Advisors, LLC and Frost Bank before founding Penn Street Capital Management LLC in 2017. Based in Dallas, TX, he is the sole advisor at his independent firm. Penn Street Capital Management provides discretionary investment management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, IRAs, trusts, estates, foundations, and endowments, typically requiring a $1,000,000 account minimum. The firm emphasizes long-term strategies and fundamental analysis to tailor portfolios based on client goals, risk tolerance, time horizon, and tax considerations.

Colby Harlow is the principal of Harlow Capital Management LLC in Dallas, TX, holding a Series 63 license and bringing 25 years of industry experience. He has worked at Arbco, LLC and Harlow Capital Management since 2005. Outside of his advisory role, he serves as Secretary Treasurer on the board of CTW Companies. Harlow Capital Management provides discretionary investment management to individuals, high-net-worth clients, corporations, trusts, charitable organizations, and pooled investment vehicles. The firm sponsors and manages private funds, including those focused on energy infrastructure, biotech, and aerospace, employing a disciplined, value-oriented investment process across separately managed accounts and private funds.

Michael Parikh is a CFP® with 22 years of experience in the financial advisory industry. He is the sole advisor and owner of M Street Capital, LLC, an independent firm based in Dallas, TX, where he has worked since 2015. His prior experience includes roles at P & W Global Advisors, Merrill, Commonwealth Financial Network, and Capital Navigation Group. M Street Capital provides financial planning and investment advisory services to individuals, trusts, and estates, including high-net-worth clients. The firm combines fee-based financial planning with discretionary portfolio management through a wrap-fee program, utilizing fundamental, technical, and cyclical analysis to tailor strategies aligned with client goals and risk tolerances.

Robert Holman is a CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYST (CFA) and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®). The former is the gold standard for the investment management profession, and the latter is useful for advising on personal financial circumstances. I'm "The Defensive Advisor" because it is essential to understand when markets are conducive to building opportunistic profits and when risk-taking should be minimized. Former positions: • LPL Financial Advisor • TD Ameritrade Investment Consultant • Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Robert is a registered investment advisor and fee-only financial planner. His investing curiosity brought real understanding of investing, surpassing what can be learned in an academic setting. His investing beliefs center around knowing the signs of the times, what should be done about them, and seeking to build wealth in both up and down markets. Robert is a summa cum laude graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. He belonged to the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi (Overall Collegiate), Beta Gamma Sigma (Finance), and Beta Alpha Psi (Business). Robert was a member of Pi Sigma Epsilon (Management) and volunteered his time as an advisor to SCORE (U.S. Small Business Administration Consulting). Robert resides in Dallas, Texas, with his amazing wife Karen and three wonderful daughters, Beth, Nancy, and Emily. He is the Stewardship Leader for his local church and an active volunteer in many church ministries, including divorce recovery and marriage counseling. Read Robert’s 2-minute biweekly stock market insights report here:  https://www.defensiveadvisor.com/blog

Matt Zumbach is a CFA® charterholder and principal at Divergent Path Capital Management with prior experience at Northern Trust, Alight Solutions, Wall Street Prep, and AON Corporation. He currently serves as chief investment officer and president of the Baylor Oral Health Foundation, a nonprofit affiliated with Texas A&M University College of Dentistry. Divergent Path Advisors offers fee-only financial planning and non-discretionary investment consulting through fixed-fee, project-based written reports for individuals, high-net-worth clients, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and businesses. The firm provides customized, tax-aware strategic asset allocation advice without portfolio management or custody of client assets.

Melissa Crockett is a financial advisor at IS Capital Management in Dallas, TX, with 30 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 66 credentials and has worked at firms including Kovack Advisors, Inc. and Trustmont Advisory Group, Inc. In addition to her advisory role, she serves as president of The Independent Security Company, Inc., a fixed insurance agency involved in sales of fixed annuities and life and health insurance policies. IS Capital Management serves individual and high-net-worth clients with conservative, income-oriented portfolios, emphasizing dividend-producing securities such as preferred stocks and closed-end funds. The firm provides ongoing investment management, financial planning, and retirement-plan rollover education, employing a combination of fundamental, technical, cyclical, and charting analyses in portfolio construction.

Richard Corse is the principal of Westmont Capital Advisors, LLC in Dallas, TX, with 21 years of industry experience. He has been with Westmont Capital Advisors since 2012 and also leads Corse Consulting, Inc., a management consulting, investment banking, and litigation support firm he has operated since 1989. Westmont Capital Advisors serves individual and high-net-worth clients, as well as retirement plans, trusts, and estates. The firm offers customized, goal-based portfolio management and financial planning, using a range of investment vehicles and providing both discretionary and non-discretionary services.

William Baxter is a Series 65-licensed advisor with Baxter Capital Group in Dallas, TX. He has experience working at Braiins, Ernst & Young, and KB Lone Star Mining prior to his current role. Baxter Capital Group provides investment advisory services primarily focused on bitcoin to individuals and high net worth clients, emphasizing concentrated, long-term holdings tailored to client objectives and risk tolerance. The firm operates on a discretionary basis using independent qualified custodians and serves both retail and high-net-worth investors.

Eric Hudson Jr. is the sole advisor at Hudson Wealth Management, LLC in Dallas, TX, with eight years of industry experience. He holds a Series 65 designation and has worked at GAF Materials Corporation since 2016. Hudson Wealth Management provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and pension consulting services primarily to employee benefit plans, institutional clients, and other entities. The firm customizes portfolios using fundamental and cyclical analysis and offers plan-level services including fund selection advice, investment performance monitoring, and participant education seminars.

Fadi Boury is a financial advisor at Investor’s Advantage with 18 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 63 designation and has worked at Investor’s Advantage since 1991, with a two-year period at Per Stirling Capital Management from 2019 to 2021. Investor’s Advantage is a fee-only registered investment adviser offering discretionary investment management and tailored advisory services to individuals, high-net-worth clients, pension plans, trusts, corporations, and a range of institutional clients including insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds. The firm employs a fiduciary investment approach that combines low-cost, market-cap-weighted index funds for equity exposure with active fixed-income management, operating without commissions and using institutional-quality custodial platforms.

Kathy Stewart is a financial advisor at Kurtin Financial Advisers, LLC in Dallas, TX, with 19 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Kurtin Financial Advisers since 2007. Kurtin Financial Advisers is an independent, single-advisor firm serving high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts, estates, and charitable entities. The firm provides customized investment portfolios and strategic wealth planning, often incorporating direct investments and cash-flow-oriented positions, and works with an unaffiliated sub-advisor for tactical trading.

Connor Davis is a financial advisor at Lake Highlands Capital Management in Dallas, TX, holding a Series 65 designation with six years of industry experience. His prior work includes roles at Sands Capital Management and PhysAssist Scribes. Lake Highlands Capital Management provides discretionary investment management through separately managed accounts and bespoke advisory projects. The firm serves a diverse client base ranging from individuals to institutional investors, employing a concentrated investment approach that combines fundamental research with technical analysis across various geographies and sectors.

Jamie Grant is a financial advisor with LPL Financial based in Arlington, TX, holding a Series 66 designation and 25 years of industry experience. He has been with JDG Wealth Management Group, LLC and LPL Financial since 2009. Grant also serves as an adjunct professor at Paul Quinn College and operates a family farm in Streetman, TX. LPL Financial provides advisory and brokerage services to a diverse client base, including individual investors, retirement plans, institutions, and high-net-worth households. The firm offers a wide range of investment solutions supported by an in-house research team and a large network of investment adviser representatives.