While earning my English degree at Central Connecticut State University, I also worked full-time at a restaurant.
I was able to pay for my education, a mortgage, and eventually became a landlord in West Hartford, Connecticut. Following graduation, I decided to pursue financial planning.
Outside of work, I teach a retirement and life planning course called Retirement Planning Today® through local adult education programs.
My wife, Amy CastelaTorres, teaches third grade at the Hebron Avenue School in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where we reside with our first daughter, Gisela, and younger son, Andre.