Erin Schmidt, MS | SpeakerHub

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Bio

Erin Schmidt is a Financial Advisor and Investment Adviser on a mission to help others, especially women, to attain financial freedom. She is in the process of getting her book "The American Dream on Life Support" published and hopes to spread hope and a guiding light on how we can fix our Economy and help people to repair their personal finances to get back on the road to living the American Dream.

After my own personal struggles with financial setbacks following a difficult divorce, I can easily connect with the audience on how to get past setbacks in your personal finances and find hope for a brighter future. I am also the mother of a 11 year old daughter with Autism, so I understand that people are facing difficult challenges in getting ahead and helps to inspire those who might be feeling defeated in life to get back up and keep fighting!

My upcoming book "The American Dream on LIfe Support" examines how our Economy has stacked the cards against the Middle and Poorer Classes to the point that most Americans are barely getting by every month. My book helps to guide people to a better financial future and looks at the deeper issues of how we got to where we are in our Economy.

I hope to inspire, enlighten and help others to Thrive, no matter what our Economy our the Stock Market is doing!

Current position (1)

VP, Financial Advisor and Investment Advisor

Brady Wealth Management

Achievements (4)

Investment Adviser

Financial Advisor

Life Insurance Advisor

Speech-Language Pathologist

1998 to 2013

Degrees (3)

Psychology

University of San Diego

1991 to 1993

Master's of Science, Speech-Language Pathology

University of Nevada, Reno

1996 to 1998

Investment Adviser

Kaplan Financial University

2015 to 2016

Presentations

Presentations (4)

Women and Wealth: How to be Powerful and Confident with your Money

Women often struggle with feeling completely confident in handling their money and investments. This often leads to indecision and many costly mistakes along the way. Erin helps inspire women to feel powerful, confident and in control of their financial future. Erin also speaks from her own personal experiences on rebuilding your finances after a Divorce, credit issues and finding a way out of crippling debt or spending & "Shopping addictions".
Main Topics:
- Dealing with Societal and Embedded Limiting Beliefs about our own Abilities to handle money
- How to Take Control of your Money & Finances (or Share control with a Spouse who has been handling all the money)
- Tackling Debt the right way!
- Overcoming Bad Spending Habits and potential "Shopping Addictions"
- Rebuilding your Finances After a Divorce
- Protecting yourself against a Potential Divorce
- Ways to deal with Stress and Anxiety over Money and Investments
- Specific Issues related to Women & Money with aging

Personal Finances: How to get Back on Track

As a Financial Advisor, Erin helps clients to protect the money they have worked so hard to earn. She also helps others to get out of debt, prepare for paying for college and get back on track after a Divorce or Credit difficulties.
Main topics:
- Dealing with debt the right way
- Creative ways to Save Money and Invest
- Building up your Tax-Free Retirement Savings to get to a Wiser Retirement
- Tactical Portfolio Management vs. Passive or Strategic Portfolio Management
- How the "Buy and Hold" investment philosophy can devastate your Portfolio over time.
- Debunking the "Old Ways" and Conventional Wisdom about paying off your house, car or other big ticket items
- Making tough choices to get your Financial Freedom back- such as not paying out of pocket for your kids College education, not paying off your house or selling and downsizing your home vs. a Reverse Mortgage
- Will Social Security be around for Retirees in the Future?

To Medicate or Not to Medicate? That is the question. Parenting a child with Autism

Erin Schmidt discusses her journey as a parent and also as a Speech therapist working with children for 16 years. Her doubts about using medication, and then Having tried several medications for her daughter to help with her anxiety, aggression and other behaviors related to her Autism.
Erin wishes to help parents who are also struggling deal with these difficult decisions and also find support in a confusing and frustrating labyrinth called Autism.

Retirement in the New Economy

Many people today are faced with planning for Retirement without a pension and Social Security may not cover enough of their expenses. Erin discusses how to "catch Up" with your retirement savings and how to protect your Retirement nest egg against rising taxes in the future, Stock market mayhem, economic difficulties and rising inflation rates in the future.
- Tactical Portfolio Management vs. Passive or Strategic Portfolio Management
- How the "Buy and Hold" investment philosophy can devastate your Portfolio over time.
- Building up your Tax-Free Retirement Savings to get to a Wiser Retirement
- Debunking the "Old Ways" and Conventional Wisdom about paying off your house, car or other big ticket items
- Making tough choices to get your Financial Freedom back- such as not paying out of pocket for your kids College education, not paying off your house or selling and downsizing your home vs. a Reverse Mortgage
- Will Social Security be around for Retirees in the Future?

Past talks (3)

Women, Wealth and Wine

Women and Wealth Dinner Seminar

Santa Barbara, CA

September 21, 2018

Taxes and Retirement

Retirement and Taxes Dinner Seminar

Santa Barbara, CA

September 20, 2018

Taxes and Retirement

Taxes and Retirement Workshops

La Canada, CA