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Our Process

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Here at Sound Mind Financial, LLC, we use a 5-step process called IDEAL.

Click through to see our process.

IDEALIntroduction:
  • What are you looking for in a financial adviser?

  • We share briefly about our vision, process, and use a unique list of questions to understand your goals.

  • Goal of introduction: Determine if it's a good fit to take the next steps of Discovery and Explore. If yes, we give you surveys to complete and a checklist of items to bring.

Schedule an Introduction Meeting

Discovery:
  • Dig deeper into the details of your total picture and clarify your goals.

  • Then we have our homework - to develop an overall financial, retirement, or estate plan.

  • Goal of Discovery: Make sure we get a clear understanding of what's important to you.

Discovery Survey

Discovery Checklist

Explore:
  • We discuss strategies, options and recommendations on how to meet your goals in a clear and concise way.

  • All of your costs to work with us are straightforward and will be discussed at this meeting.

  • Goal of Explore: Arrive at the best scenarios to meet your goals. Then the decision will be yours to become a client.

Action:
  • We complete any necessary forms.

  • We review timelines of any pertinent transitions, various strategies and initiate the process of becoming our client.

  • Goal of Action: To make sure all of our transition processes are clear.

Lifetime:
  • Establish desired rhythm of regular review meetings.

  • We present you with a storage binder for keeping your financial plan up to date.

  • Goal of Lifetime: Know what to expect and how much fun you will have being a client of Sound Mind Financial, LLC.

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