Guest: Eleanor Blayney, CFP

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Guest: Eleanor Blayney, CFP

The fourth of four girls, Eleanor grew up in a “very traditional” New England family. After graduating from Mount Holyoke, the nation’s first college for women, she earned degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Chicago. But her first real job as a government consultant in Washington, D.C., left her dissatisfied: “My clients were government agencies, and the possibility of making a real impact was slim.  I wanted to work with real people.”

She set up informational interviews with DC financial planners, listened and learned, and earned CFP certification in 1990. The firm she co-founded, Sullivan, Bruyette, Speros and Blayney, became a success. “I’ve always enjoyed the intersection between numbers, technical information, finance, and the language that we need to explain this to our clients, to people who need to understand,” Eleanor says. “Financial planning was a perfect way to bring right-brain thinking—literature, language—to the more practical areas of knowledge like numbers.” She is now the CFP Board’s Consumer Advocate.

The Lange Money Hour episodes with this guest:

Episode 63 – October 19, 2011
Financial Advice for Women with guest Eleanor Blayney, CFP
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