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Workshops, custom financial education and plain-English learning pages, so you can make decisions with confidence.

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As a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI®), National Social Security Advisor (NSSA®), and Certified Estate Planning Coach, Donna brings education-centered guidance to families and organizations. The goal is simple: help people understand their options before making important financial decisions.

Customized financial education curriculum can include saving, budgeting, credit, debt, insurance, risk management, income, financial psychology, entrepreneurship, retirement income, Social Security, estate planning basics, and other topics tailored to the needs of businesses, organizations, churches, and community groups.

Sample Workshops:

  • Financial Foundation
  • Debt Elimination and Budgeting Basics
  • Credit Profile and Family Money Talks
  • Road to Retirement
  • Understanding Insurance
  • Investing Basics (general financial education only)Educational only; no individual investment advice. DB2 Financial Services does not offer securities or investment advisory services.

Where We've Taught: schools, churches, businesses, military groups, women's homes, and jails and detention centers.

Educational Workshops & Custom Curriculum

Educational Seminars: Retirement Income Planning, Taxes in Retirement, The Truth About Annuities, and Estate Planning Essentials.

Custom Financial Education Curriculum: Flexible educational sessions designed for businesses, churches, organizations, employee groups, and community programs.

Popular Topics:

  • Understanding Insurance: the different types and how they work (a past workshop for school teachers)
  • Retirement Planning
  • Budgeting & Getting Out of Debt
  • Financial Psychology: understanding money in marriage, great for engaged and newly married couples
  • Wants vs. Needs (kids and adults): hands-on activities like a “mission to Mars,” where you can pack only so many items and must decide what you truly need

Also Available: Saving, Credit, Risk Management, Entrepreneurship, Financial Wellness, and more.

All Ages: more than 150 lessons available: over 75 for youth (pre-kindergarten through 8th grade) and over 70 for adults, with age-appropriate, hands-on activities for children.

Tailored to You: every workshop can be adapted to fit your audience, from basic to advanced, and your time slot, from a 1-hour class or lunch and learn to a full-day workshop. Donna also creates custom workshops built around your group's specific needs.

Community workshops are offered on a limited basis as our schedule allows.

Attended one of our workshops? Book a complimentary conversation to apply what you learned to your own plan.

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Education Center

Educational courses, workshops, and upcoming events.

Designed to help families, retirees, organizations, and business owners build confidence through education-first guidance and practical retirement planning conversations.

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Educational Course

The Truth About Annuities

A retirement education workshop focused on annuities, guaranteed income concepts, common misconceptions, and risk management strategies.

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Retirement Workshop

Taxes in Retirement

Explore retirement tax planning concepts involving Social Security, income distributions, Roth strategies, and long-term retirement income coordination.

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Custom Curriculum

Financial Education for Organizations

Flexible financial literacy curriculum designed for churches, nonprofits, employee groups, leadership teams, and community organizations.

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New seminars and webinars on retirement income, taxes in retirement, annuities, and estate planning will be posted here. Want to hear about the next one?
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Bring financial education to your organization.

DB2 offers customized financial education workshops for businesses, churches, nonprofits, and employee groups, complimentary or low-cost for the community. For example, a one-hour “brown bag” lunch and learn at your workplace, at no cost to your organization.

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Let’s understand what matters to you.

We begin with your goals, answer your questions, and explore the choices that fit your circumstances.

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