Kevin Estes
Financial planner helping tech professionals and families live their best lives.
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Financial planner helping tech professionals and families live their best lives.
Areas of Focus
- Education Funding
- Equity Compensation Options
- Financial Life Planning
- Real Estate Investing
- Retiring Early (F.I.R.E)
About Kevin Estes
Hi, I’m Kevin, CFP®, CCFC, MBA.I’m an hourly financial planner located near Seattle, WA.
Before starting Scaled Finance, I worked at Amazon and T-Mobile. My experience included nine years in T-Mobile’s Financial Planning & Analysis department.
Coworkers kept asking me financial questions. I couldn’t find any financial planning firms dedicated to helping them so I decided to:
✅ complete a personal financial planning program,
✅ pass the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® exam, and
✅ found Scaled Finance, LLC in early 2022.
On a personal note, I live in the Seattle area and when I'm not working, I enjoy bicycling, sailing, and spending time with friends and family.
FREE VIDEO COURSE:
📺 Scroll down to view an introductory video with more information about the 11-session video course I created to help everyone, not just tech professionals. There's no cost to take the course and I will share with you the best financial independence resources I've either found or created.
🔗 You will find a link to the video course in the Highlights tab, just below my profile.
Professional Designations
- Certified College Financial Consultant (CCFC)
- CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER ®
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
CCFC Areas of Specialization
- Education Funding
Affiliations
- Advice Only Network
- CFP Board
- Fee Only Network
- FinCon
- Measure Twice Planners
- National Association of Personal Financial Advisors
- XY Planning Network
Primary Location
12819 SE 38th St, Suite 214 Bellevue, WA 98006
Video
Meeting Options
- Video Conference
- Online Courses
- Webinars
Compensation Methods
- Fee Only
- Hourly Rate
- Offers Advice-Only Services
- One-time Financial Plan
- Package Offers
What to expect in the first meeting
Click the 'Book Intro Call' button to schedule a free, no-obligation consultation. This is an approximately 45 minute video conference for us to mutually determine fit. This meeting will prioritize you and your family to focus on your challenges, opportunities, and questions. I look forward to speaking with you!About Scaled Finance, LLC
At Scaled Finance, I help tech professionals and their families live their best lives. My definition of family is broad! Your family is whoever matters most to you.I’ve been blessed with incredible opportunities throughout my life. Now, I have the privilege to help people doing what I love. I feel a deep responsibility - a calling - to help you and your family live your best lives.
I’m located near T-Mobile’s Bellevue, WA headquarters. Scaled Finance operates virtually, allowing me to serve clients nationwide.
Our Guiding Principles:
💡 Clarity Creates Confidence: Harness your deeper why. Clarity of thought leads to elegant simplicity.
🛣️ No Judgement, Just Tradeoffs: No one can be behind on their path. Reviewing tradeoffs helps you choose how to live your best life.
🫵 Clients' Best Interest in Mind. Always: Proactively avoid conflicts of interest. Limit and discuss the unavoidable ones.
➕ Expand Options: Help you nurture your considerable capital (human, creative, financial...) to give you more options.
🔍 Extreme Transparency: Create the plan, incorporate feedback, and celebrate wins together!
🐢 Turn the Turtle: If making a little effort can help someone back on their feet, do it! We can all use a little help on our journey.
Education
University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business, MBAUniversity of California, Los Angeles, BA, Political Science and Economics with a Specialization in Computing
Hobbies and Interests
- Board Games
- Camping
- Cycling
- Eating Out
- Exercising
- Family
- Movies
- Reading
- Running
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Swimming
- Traveling
- Volunteering
- Working Out
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View DisclosureWho We Serve
- Attorneys
- Baby Boomers
- BIPOC
- Blended Family
- Business Owners
- Christians
- College Graduates
- Couples
- Data Scientists
- Democrats
- Disabled Community
- DIY Investors
- Dual Income Family
- Engineers
- Families
- Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE)
- Foreign-Born Individuals
- Gen X
- Gen Y / Millennials
- Gen Z
- Hispanic | Latino
- Immigrants
- Individuals
- Intergenerational Families
- Investors
- Jewish
- LGBTQ
- LGBTQ Couples
- Living in Retirement
- Muslim
- Newly Engaged / Newlywed
- Parents
- Real Estate Investors
- Remote Workers
- Retail Industry
- Sales Professionals
- Single Women
- Technology Professionals
- Women in Transition
- Women Professionals
- Women’s Finance
- Young Families
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