Flowerstone Financial
Planning for Your Future Together
We can help simplify your life beyond investments
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What’s Keeping You from Working on Your Plan?
If one of the scenarios below sounds familiar, you may be the perfect fit for Flowerstone Financial. We’re a premier financial planning firm in Northern Virginia focused on helping successful individuals and families plan for their goals. We help the busy professionals take their savings, investment, and financial planning needs to the next level.
Not Enough Time
Not Confident
Not Sure
Who We Serve
Each family we serve has their own unique priorities, goals, and timeline. We’ve discovered that many couples share the following characteristics listed below. Our best relationships include both husband and wife, equally engaged in the planning and strategy process for their family. When both perspectives are shared, it supports a collaborative process built on clear communication and strengthens our partnership together. Our service model tends to attract busy professionals who are balancing successful careers and a family.
Challenges
- Repurposing your time before retirement
- Defining who you are beyond what you do at retirement
- Managing cash reserves, cash flow, and spending to and through retirement
Passions
- Family & friends
- Health & relationships
- Animals, dogs & cats are awesome!
Values
- Trust
- Transparency
- Clear communication
Interests
- Controlling more of your time
- Increasing confidence in all decisions
- Understanding what’s possible and having choices
Worries
- Taxes
- Sustainable income
- Integrating financial decisions and accounts
Families
- Approaching age 50 and beyond
- Balancing a full family calendar and successful careers
- Couples who both engage in the planning and strategy process for their family
How We Are Different
Working with a CFP® professional
You have many choices when it comes to finding the right financial professional, and there are many designations and licenses available. But only those that have completed the rigorous training and experience requirements may call themselves Certified Financial Planner™ professionals. As a CFP® professional, our founder Ryan Stille is skilled at providing comprehensive, holistic fee-only financial advice that incorporates every aspect of your life.
Each CFP® professional:
- Is required to have 6,000 hours of financial planning experience prior to sitting for the CFP® exam
- Undergoes testing in eight knowledge categories, including financial planning, risk management, estate planning, tax planning, retirement, and more
- Adheres to a strict code of ethics and standards of conduct
- Is ethically bound to act as a fiduciary, working only in your best interest
- Must complete 30 hours of continuing education every two years
Ryan Stille, CFP®
Founder, Financial Planner
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Advisory services through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor. Cambridge and Flowerstone Financial are not affiliated.
1900 Reston Metro Plaza, Suite 600
Reston, Virginia 20190
Give Ryan a Call: 571-489-7181
Give Taylor a Call: 571-489-7186