Voices Of Impact With Ryan France

Taking A Holistic Approach to Financial Planning By almost all accounts, Kevin Douglas had exactly he wanted … everything that he’d studied and worked for. A good job. A great salary. Nice benefits. And yet, after almost a decade as a financial analyst — working for three different companies — he made the decision to essentially risk it all and start over from scratch. Why? Well that story begins with a shift from Great Expectations. The book by Charles Dickens, to be exact. “What struck me as I finished that book by Dickens,” Douglas told me, “was here is this guy who wrote a book while he was alive … that some kid in Austin, TX read a couple hundred years later … that shifted that kid’s perspective on how he viewed the world. His life’s work was spent creating something greater than himself that would have a positive effect on another human being many generations afterward.” That reflection led Kevin to start questioning his own ideas on the concept ‘legacy.” Not unlike my previous guest, Alicia Hoffman, Do