A financial plan isn't about ending up with the biggest number. It's about turning what you've built into income designed to support the life you want, every year going forward. We answer five questions about your money, in plain language, and then keep answering them as life changes.
The Offer
Five questions.
Most of financial planning comes down to five questions. We answer them clearly, and we keep them answered.
1
Will your money last as long as you do?
2
What could go wrong?
3
Does your portfolio have a clear purpose?
4
Where are you losing money unnecessarily?
5
What happens to your money when you're gone?
These aren't questions you answer once and file away. Markets move, tax law changes, and life doesn't hold still. So we answer them at the start, and we answer them again every year you're with us.
Still building toward retirement? The first question becomes: will you get where you want to go? The other four don't change.
What We Do
What a plan with us covers
Liquidity & Cash Flow
Understanding what your money is doing today, and designing Future Cash Flow that supports your life for every year going forward.
Protection
Life insurance, disability, long-term care, and the coverage in between. A plan that holds up no matter what life brings.
Investments
Portfolios built to support the income your plan needs to produce — not the other way around.
Retirement Income
A personalized strategy to turn your savings into income designed to last.
Tax-Aware Planning
Most planning decisions carry tax consequences. We weigh them every step of the way so they're built into the plan, not handled after the fact.
Legacy
What you leave behind, and to whom, and how. Family, the people you love, the causes that matter to you.
We help people live on purpose, not by default.
How We Plan
Our planning process starts with you, not your accounts.
It begins with a free Clarity Call to see if we're the right fit. From there, the work runs through five steps.
1
Clarify Your Vision
What you want this life and this next season to look like.
2
Organize Your Financial Picture
Where you are today, top to bottom.
3
Design Your Cash Flow Plan
Income, growth, protection, legacy.
4
Put the Plan into Motion
Open the accounts, make the moves.
5
Monitor and Adjust as Life Evolves
An advisor who's still paying attention five, ten, twenty years from now.
Why We Exist
“Money on its own doesn't mean much. What matters is what it lets you do, who it lets you take care of, and the life it helps you live.”
We started One Life Advisory because we believe a financial plan should start with purpose, not products. One plan. Built around your purpose, designed to support the life you want. Not just until you retire, but for every year after.
Get Started
Ready to build a plan with purpose?
The first step is a free Clarity Call. No pressure. No pitch.
Free Guide
Not ready to talk? Start with the guide.
Work through the five questions on your own before you ever get on a call. A short, plain-language guide you can finish in ten minutes.
The Future Cash Flow Process
How we plan.
Five questions, answered before you decide anything, then kept answered for as long as we're working together.
The five questions.
1
Will your money last as long as you do?
2
What could go wrong?
3
Does your portfolio have a clear purpose?
4
Where are you losing money unnecessarily?
5
What happens to your money when you're gone?
Still building toward retirement? The first question becomes: will you get where you want to go?
Start Here
The Clarity Call
Every relationship starts with a free, no-pressure conversation. You tell us what's on your mind. We tell you whether we can help and what working together looks like. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you toward someone who is.
Once we both agree we're a fit, the work begins with Step 1.
Getting to the answers
1
Intro Call
15–20 minutes, by phone
A short conversation to see whether your situation matches what we do. We'll walk through the five questions, tell you what we'd need from you, and schedule the next meeting if it makes sense. If it doesn't, we'll say so and point you toward someone better suited. Neither of us gains from proving a bad fit slowly.
2
Discovery
Video call
Goals, concerns, and everything the documents don't show. What you want this next season to look like. What you're worried about. Who you're trying to take care of. We'll also gather the statements, tax returns, and policy documents we need in order to give you honest answers instead of general ones.
3
Analysis
Behind the scenes
This is where the thinking happens. We take what you've told us and what you've built, and run it against the five questions. Tested against bad markets early in retirement, inflation, taxes, and living longer than you planned for. You don't see a spreadsheet. You get answers.
4
Findings
Video call
We walk you through what we found. Each of the five questions, answered plainly, along with what would need to change to get where you want to go. We'll go as deep on the reasoning as you want, but we start with the answers, because that's what you came for. At the end, you decide.
Once we're working together
Everything above gets you a set of answers. Staying with us is what keeps them true.
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Getting started
We help with the setup needed to begin the relationship, including account opening and coordinating transfers with the custodian where appropriate.
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Putting the plan into motion
Once we agree on the plan, we help coordinate the steps it calls for.
7
Keeping the plan current
This is an ongoing relationship.
What a year with us looks like
Your investment strategy and financial plan are reviewed regularly, with a full review at least annually.
A typical year might look something like this.
1
Spring — the annual review
The full deep-dive. We re-run your plan through all five questions and adjust for what's changed.
2
Summer — mid-year check-in
A lighter touchpoint. Cash flow, investments, and anything life has served up since spring.
3
Fall — year-end planning
Taxes, giving, and deadline-driven moves, handled before December gets crowded.
4
Winter. Starting the new year
We can review contribution amounts, beneficiaries, cash needs, and any priorities that have changed for the year ahead.
The timing and focus can move depending on your situation. The purpose is to keep the plan current and spend time where it matters most.
Ready to see if working together makes sense?
Start with a free 15 to 30 minute Clarity Call. We'll talk about your situation, answer your initial questions, and explain what working with One Life would look like.
What We Do
One plan. Built around your purpose.
Not six separate services. One integrated plan with six parts that work together, all built on what you want your money to do. And on the work underneath all of it: turning what you've built into income that supports your life, every year, for as long as it lasts.
Before anything else
It starts with clarity.
We start by understanding what you want your money to do and what you want the next stage of your life to look like.
That gives us something real to plan around. From there, each part of the financial plan has a job.
One Plan, Coordinated
All six pieces are part of one plan.
Cash flow can affect investments. Investment decisions can affect taxes. Insurance can change how much risk the rest of the plan needs to carry. Estate decisions can affect how accounts should be owned or who should be listed as a beneficiary.
We look at those decisions together because changes in one area can affect several others.
That is what financial planning looks like to us.
Who We Help
We help people who want their money to mean something.
The work changes depending on where you are in life. The starting point doesn't. We begin with what you want your money to be doing, then build the plan around it. A plan made to produce income that lasts, whether that income starts next year or decades from now.
In Retirement
What we may work through includes:
A clear picture of how much income you can take, when, and from where
A protection plan that holds up if health changes or you need long-term care
Investments built to support the income the plan needs to produce
A legacy plan for what stays behind, and for whom
An advisor you can call when something happens
Approaching Retirement
What we may work through includes:
A grounded picture of what retirement on your timeline looks like, and what it would take to get there.
A transition strategy for the years between your last paycheck and full retirement
A look at how to coordinate Social Security, pensions, and your own savings
A protection review while you still have the most options available
A plan that turns the years you have left into the most valuable planning years of your life
Still Building
What we may work through includes:
A cash flow plan that gives every dollar a job
A protection plan sized to the life you have and the people who depend on you
Investment guidance aligned with where you're going
A foundation that turns "we're doing okay" into a real, written plan
An advisor who grows with you instead of one you replace later
Who we're not the right fit for
Ready to see if we're a fit?
The first step is a free Clarity Call. No pressure. No pitch. Just a conversation to see if the work we do matches what you're looking for.
About
A financial plan should start with your life, not your accounts.
One Life Advisory was built around that idea.
Why we exist
We started One Life Advisory because we kept seeing the same gap. People with real responsibility and real resources, but with a financial life made up of pieces that didn't add up to a plan. Cash flow that wasn't coordinated with the investments. Investments that weren't coordinated with the protection. Protection hadn't been looked at in years. Decisions made by default instead of on purpose. And a vague sense of where it was all going, but no clear answer to the question that actually matters: is this money supporting the life I want to live, now and for every year ahead?
We built One Life to close that gap. Planning, investments, protection, and the way taxes affect every move you make — all under one roof, all coordinated, all built around what you actually want out of this life.
What We Believe
The beliefs behind the work.
01
A plan should start with purpose, not products.
What you want your money to do is the foundation. Everything else is built on top of it. And every decision after that gets made on purpose, not by default or out of habit.
02
Everything connects to everything.
Cash flow affects investments. Investments affect taxes. Taxes affect what you can spend. Protection determines whether any of it survives the unexpected. We treat them as one plan because that's what they are.
03
Money is a tool, not the goal.
The goal is the life you want to live. The work we do is to make sure your money is good enough at its job that you can stop worrying about it and get on with the life.
How We're Different
We're organized around you, not around a sale.
The Team
Meet the people behind One Life Advisory.
Ready to talk?
The first step is a free Clarity Call. No pressure. No pitch. Just a conversation about where you are and where you'd like to go.
FAQ
Common questions we get about working with us.
We've answered some of the questions that tend to come up before someone decides whether to work with us. If yours isn't here, reach out and we'll be happy to talk through it.
Still have questions? Bring them to the Clarity Call.
Resources
Plain answers, freely given.
Writing, videos, and guides on the questions that decide whether your money supports the life you want. No jargon, no pitch. Take what's useful.
Start Here
The Five Questions Self-Check
Work through the five questions on your own, at your own pace, before you ever get on a call.
A free, no-pressure conversation — usually 20 to 30 minutes. You tell us what's on your mind. We tell you whether we can help and what working together looks like.
20–30 minutes
A focused conversation, not a lengthy intake.
No pressure. No pitch.
If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you in the right direction.
100% free
No commitment required. Just a real conversation.
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