Michelle Ash, Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of PARAGON Wealth Strategies, is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional and specializes in retirement planning, comprehensive wealth management, and assisting clients with specialized planning in areas such as tax planning and pension vauation calculations.
Michelle helps clients in or nearing retirement to ensure their assets and their planning are structured to provide them comfort and success. As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, Michelle believes in a holistic approach to helping clients plan and live their dreams. Michelle believes that the better she can help a client to mesh their life dreams with their finances, the more successful, and happy, their overall life will be.
When not working with clients, Michelle conducts educational courses on retirement planning through the University of North Florida’s LearnJax program. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor with Florida State College at Jacksonville, teaching courses on various financial matters.
Michelle is a 1995 graduate from the University of Louisville in Kentucky, receiving Magna Cum Laude accolades. She began her career in financial planning in 1998 and obtained her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) certification in 2005. She is also a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Women Business Owners (WBO) of Northeast Florida.
In her free time, Michelle enjoys spending time with her husband, their two children, and her cat, “Dilly”. She is a fitness fanatic, spending time almost daily doing one of many fitness activities, which include spinning, TRX, pilates, yoga, and running. She also enjoys hobbies of nutrition, clean-cuisine cooking, and reading. Though she’s originally a native of Louisville, Kentucky, being near Jacksonville’s beautiful beaches since 2002 has brought Michelle to call Jacksonville home.
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