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Your Financial Partner

Your financial life is more than a spreadsheet. I bring academic depth, real-world experience, and a genuine interest in your story to every client relationship. Let's figure out the next chapter together.

Your Financial Planner

My name is Jay Sexton. I have been advising and educating clients since 2014 on topics including household budgeting, investing, taxes, insurance, retirement, estate planning, and financial counseling, with a particular focus on financial literacy and behavioral change. I am an instructor of finance and economics at Millikin University, and I hold an MBA along with a graduate certificate in Personal Financial Planning from Kansas State University, where I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. I'm a licensed Illinois life insurance producer, and CFP® Professional. I'm also a member of the Financial Therapy Association, the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, and the Financial Planning Association, and the author of Bleeding for Ghosts: A Memoir of Money, Identity, and Margin, and When the Ghosts Still Whisper: More on Money, Identity, and Margin.

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For fun I like to hike, forage for mushrooms, read, write, and I'm a licensed pyrotechnician!

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Books by Jay Sexton

Bleeding for Ghosts: A Memoir of Money, Identity, and Margin and When the Ghosts Still Whisper: Life in the Margin are both now available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.

 

They explore what financial transformation really costs and who it makes you on the other side, built around an original Warrior, Keeper, Sage framework for life after financial crisis.

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Waitier, There's an Elephant on My Plate: How to Do Big Things One Bite at a Time is now available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover.

 

It explores how to manage a full, demanding life without losing yourself in it, built around an original Energy, Exposure, and Practice framework for identity, paired with a practical one-bite-at-a-time approach to daily execution.

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The Lighthouse

"The lighthouse serves as a beacon to help guide you through unfamiliar waters, as well as to warn you of risks ahead. It establishes a point of stability in an ever-changing environment. This is my commitment to you as your financial advisor and mentor."

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