11/02/2023
Did you know November is Financial Literacy Month? It’s a great time to teach your kids:
1. the value of money,
2. the importance of saving and
3. the impact of investing.
o I am a Sun Life Advisor. These are my personal opinions and do not constitute professional advice nor do they reflect the official position of Sun Life.
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I’m often asked by friends, family, and clients alike why is it that I decided to start my business as a Sun Life Financial advisor, out of all things. Being born and raised in the Northern Ontario mining town of Timmins to a blue collar family who mostly worked in the local mines, I always assumed growing up that I’d follow along the same path. I attended the Mining Engineering Technology program at Cambrian College in Sudbury, but after a summer of working in the mines, I realized quickly that the mining industry just wasn’t for me. What I needed was a career that offered me meaning, independence, flexibility, and the opportunity to help others as I grew and matured both personally and professionally.
After switching my program to Business Administration, I was approached by a director at Freedom 55 Financial to see if I’d be interested in learning what it is that a financial advisor does, and to see if I’d be a good fit to be offered a business contract with them. At the time I had never even heard of a “financial advisor” before, but I figured I’d hear him out just in case it was something I’d be interested in pursuing. Always be open to learning about potential opportunities!
After he explained exactly what it is that being an advisor entails, I knew right away that this was the career path for me, and I started my business with Freedom 55 in the winter of 2016. I come from a family who has seen its fair share of cancer, heart attacks, and premature death, and I’ve seen firsthand what those events can do to a family emotionally, physically, mentally, and financially. If only an advisor had approached my family before, they would’ve known about the options available to them ahead of time before cancer or death struck, and these things happening wouldn’t have impacted our financial standing so dramatically, causing untold amounts of stress that still continue to this day.
Now that I’m an advisor, it’s my job and responsibility to make sure that my client’s financial plans are safeguarded so that if illness, disability, or death occurs, their family can rest assured that they’ll still be able to pay the bills, stay out of debt, and not have to delay their retirement for years or indefinitely, and it’s a job that I’m very passionate about and that I take very seriously.