You make six figures. You still feel broke. Find out why in 2 minutes.
You make six figures. You still feel broke. Find out why in 2 minutes.
Nobody sat me down and told me. The math just did.
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I was a young engineer in Washington, D.C. Officer in the Army Reserve. Finishing my master’s in systems engineering at night while working full days. I was doing everything the playbook said to do.
Then the world handed me the chapter nobody writes down. When you’re first-generation, you aren’t just building your future. You’re funding someone’s past.
My father worked his whole life. He never had a pension. He never had a portfolio. What he had was me.
So I did what first-gen professionals do: I kept going. Finished the master’s, then an MBA in 2017, and kept climbing at work while quietly running a second household’s finances in my head. Eventually I moved my father in with me.
Those years taught me something no financial advice column ever addressed. The standard playbook assumes you’re only responsible for yourself. Max the 401(k), buy the index funds, stay the course. All of that works fine when nobody is counting on you.
If you’re the first in your family to earn real money, you’re two households. Sometimes three. You are the emergency fund and the executor for people who never had access to either, and you’re expected to build your own wealth at the same time.
I looked for an advisor who understood that. I couldn’t find one. So I became one.
Lampados is Greek for torch. Someone carries it first through the dark so others can follow.
That’s the job here. I work with the first generation of wealth in a family, and every plan covers your household plus the parents who got you here.
Engineers, physicians, nurses, and tech professionals from immigrant families. First-generation earners who look successful on paper and still feel like they’re guessing. People juggling money, career, and family obligations all at once, with no playbook, no inheritance, and often nobody in the family they can even ask.
If that’s you, you already know your parents’ finances are your finances. Their estate is your estate problem. I build plans that treat that as the starting point instead of a footnote.
Flat, transparent fees. You always know what you’re paying and why.
You can start small. Take a free 2-minute scorecard, book a free Blueprint Session, or begin with a single flat-fee engagement before ever committing to an ongoing relationship. When we’re a fit, there’s a clear path from first plan to full delegation: Plan. Implement. Delegate.
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