Why I Mentor

Cathy Curtis’s financial planning and investment advisory business took off when she started to market directly to her favorite clientele: women. Her practice is dedicated to helping women, their families and their businesses prosper. Prior to becoming a Certified Financial Planner and an entrepreneur, Cathy worked as a sales and marketing executive for Fortune 500 Companies and private companies in the consumer products industry such as General Mills,Borden,Torbitt & Casleman and Bradshaw,Inc. She honed her business skills, but like many women she became disillusioned with corporate life and jumped ship to pursue her passion– personal finance and investing – on her own terms, as an independent fee-only advisor.

Cathy passionately believes in Financial Literacy and educates consumers through her award-winning website (http://www.curtisfinancialplanning.com, her blog "Of Independent Means" (http://blog.curtisfinancialplanning.com/ and her facebook page "Women and Money"(http://www.facebook.com/Women.and.Money .
Cathy also is a frequent guest blogger on personal finance sites and a speaker for organizations such as the Financial Women’s Association, Women’s Environment Network, and the Commonwealth Club of California.

Amongst her hobbies is anything to do with Food & Wine. In fact she plans culinary programs for the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco as a volunteer.

Cathy’s Fall Hatch Network Pod was a great success – and she is looking forward to the next one beginning in February 2010. Please contact her for more information.