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Michelle is a practicing financial planner, teacher and author. Michelle partners with wealth advisors to formulate and recommend strategies as well as produce financial plans specific to client needs. Michelle also teaches graduate financial planning courses at the University of Georgia and has authored various financial planning books, including The Fundamentals of Writing a Financial Plan, The Psychology of Financial Planning: Practitioner Resource Guide, and The First 50 Years of CFP® Certification: The Standard for Financial Planning. Her research has been published in Financial Planning Review, Journal of Financial Planning, and Journal of Financial Therapy. She has also been quoted in articles by Investopedia, CNN Underscored, WalletHub and CBS News.
Ph.D in Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics, University of Georgia
Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, University of Georgia
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