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Founder | Father | Family Advisor
Helping high-earning families build, protect, and transfer wealth across generations.

10/30/2026

Base salary: $120K.

Bonus and commission: $180K. (Hypothetical example.)

Your group disability may only cover your base.

That could be $6,000 a month.

Your mortgage, car and daycare were built on $25,000 a month.

Your life insurance is 1x salary.

Your family gets $120K.

That's less than five months of your real life.

And you renewed all of it by now clicking "same as last year."

Your lifestyle got a raise, but your safety net didn't.

If most of your income comes from bonus or commission, I can help you protect the paycheck your family actually lives on.

10/29/2026

The old 401(k) from two jobs ago is still sitting there.

The IRA is in whatever you picked when you opened it.

The brokerage app is mostly the stock your buddy told you about.

The savings account has no job.

The HSA has thousands in cash and nothing invested.

Every account looks fine on its own.

Together, nobody's driving.

If you've got money in multiple places and no idea if it's working together, I can help you turn it into one plan.

10/28/2026

“Whole life insurance is a bad investment.”

It was never supposed to be one.

It's the part of your plan that doesn't care what the market did this year.

It builds cash value you can use down the road, so when the market is down, you're not forced to sell low.

It protects your family and your portfolio.

Northwestern Mutual just announced an expected $10.4 billion dividend payout for 2027… the largest in its history.

Dividends aren't guaranteed. But 156 years in a row says something.

Worried what a bad market could do to your retirement? I can help.

10/15/2026

Nobody's called with a new idea since you signed.

Taxes were never part of the conversation.

Life insurance never came up.

Nobody has a plan for when the market drops right before you retire.

Nobody's mapped out how that account turns into a paycheck when you stop working.

Legacy planning? Nope.

Good returns don't fix any of that.

If you're a high earner and you feel like a number to your advisor, we can help.

10/14/2026

Your 401(k) is still at the 6% you picked on day one.

Your life insurance was sized for the paycheck you had three raises ago.

Your work disability plan has a monthly cap. Everything you earn above it isn't covered.

You make too much for a Roth IRA, so you figured that door was closed.

Your emergency fund still covers your old bills, not your new ones.

You learned how to make the money. Nobody ever taught you the second skill.

If your income grew and your plan stayed the same, I can help you catch it up so every raise is actually working for you.

10/13/2026

26.2.

I'm officially a marathoner.

I told myself I'd do it, and I did.

And thanks to so many of you, I hit my $2,200 goal as a St. Jude Hero.

My longest training run was 13.5 miles, a week ago. I definitely wasn't ready.

Mile 15, my knees, ankles, and feet quit.
Mile 18, every step hurt.
Mile 21, I saw my family with a sign: "Hurry up, Amara is hungry." 😂

Seeing them was the push I needed.

I believe hard things now make life easier later. Today I got to prove it to myself.

And show my daughter what that looks like.

Thank you to everyone who donated, tracked me, and messaged. All the love carried me more than you'll ever know.

Might be crazy enough to do it again. 🏅

10/10/2026

Your investments might be in the wrong accounts.

Your most aggressive stocks are in a traditional IRA, where all that growth gets taxed as income later.

Your 401(k) is too conservative with 20 years until retirement.

You own crypto because a guy at work heard about it online.

Meanwhile you’re exposed.

To taxes.

To down markets.

To a paycheck that stops the day you can't work.

Returns get all the attention.

But if something happens to you and there's no protection in place, your family has to cash out those returns just to get by.

Maybe right in the middle of a down market.

The holes are what cost you.

If your money's invested but nobody's watching the whole picture, I can help you find the holes.

10/09/2026

You make $15K in a good month.

You spend like you’ll make $15K every month.

Then a slow month hits.

Your savings are gone.

Your credit card becomes your emergency fund.

The problem isn’t your income.

It’s that your lifestyle depends on your next commission check.

If you’re in sales making $100K+ but still relying on your next commission check to stay ahead…

I can help you build a plan that puts you back in control.

10/08/2026

401(k) in a default fund HR picked.

Life policy with a death benefit nobody calculated.

Brokerage account full of a coworker's stock tips.

Too much cash in the bank losing to inflation.

Every piece works. None of them work together.

If you're a high earner with accounts scattered everywhere and want them all working toward the same goal, we can help.

10/08/2026

I’ll be honest…

Life insurance isn’t fun to talk about.

I used to be afraid to even bring it up during meetings because I didn’t want to be seen as the “life insurance guy.”

Since starting my practice, I’ve had a few people I knew pass away.

People I had talked to about life insurance but eventually stopped following up with because I worried about being too persistent.

Every one of those families ended up starting a GoFundMe to help with expenses.

Looking back, I wish I had cared less about how I was perceived and more about having one more conversation.

Address

3 W Hawthorn Pkwy Suite 400
Vernon Hills, IL
60061

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+18153826116

Website

http://ricardoespinosa.nm.com/

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