Level Up Financial Planning specializes in serving tech professionals. I understand the importance of finding balance between having an awesome life today, but being confident and excited about your future possibilities.
Level Up offers comprehensive financial planning with an educational approach that will help you gain clarity on where you stand today, help prioritize your goals, and create a strategy that allows you to take action and maximize your hard earned savings and investments
Education is a big part of the value when it comes to Level Up’s approach to financial planning.
Not only will you have clear actions, but you’ll have a clear understanding of how those actions move you closer to reaching your goals.
You are likely making the most money you ever have and you simultaneously have less time to figure out a plan.
Leverage Level Up Financial Planning’s Strategy Guide Process to avoid critical mistakes, have clarity on how to achieve competing goals, and start taking action.
You’re building wealth, but are not totally sure how it works or how it translates to you reaching your goals. This optional add on service allows you to have confidence that your investments are being optimized for achieving your goals.
Financial Planning is required to have your Wealth Managed
When it comes to your finances and more specifically your life, you deserve someone who will work along side you.
Trust is the cornerstone of any valuable relationship and the trust that my clients have in me is not taken lightly. It may start initially as a feeling, but throughout the Level Up process, it will be backed up as I work with you to ensure that you are not only on track but Leveling Up as a result of our partnership.
Transparency is a critical component of establishing a trusted relationship. As such, I am an open book and provide my pricing directly on my site so you can begin to identify the cost of investing in my services.
As a fee-only financial planner. I am never paid by an outside party to influence the service you receive. Also, not all financial advisors are financial planner. While financial advisors typically only work with your investments. Financial planners help you plan for your current reality and guides you on how to best achieve your goals.
This isn’t general financial advice or rules of thumbs that you can find in a Google search. It’s customized to you and your unique background. I’ve exclusively served tech clients for over 10 years, allowing me to develop expertise on your unique experiences and employer benefits—especially employer stock and tax planning.
A fiduciary standard is the highest level of care for clients. Being a fiduciary requires that your interest are always at the heart of every plan and recommendation.
The collaboration process is ongoing and is what breathes life into your financial strategy guide. Before I can help you optimize a plan that empowers you to live your best life and be excited about your future, we need dig into what really matters.
Lucas Casarez is a Certified Financial Planner™ and Founder of Level Up Financial Planning, Power Up Tax Planning Services, and the Techie Personal Finance Bootcamp Podcast.
Lucas’s biggest “why” is his family: his wife Brittany, his son Avery & daughters Emma & Eleanor & Adley.
It is because of his family, that he first started to realize that money is not the goal. Wealth is not the goal. Living an amazing life is the goal. This is reflected in the way Lucas approaches financial planning for his clients.
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