Rob O'Donnell

Small Business Owner, Father, and Volunteer in Queensland, Australia

Like many others I’ve spent my working life doing something I never thought I’d do. When I was at school I wanted to do something medical - but didn't really know what. Long story short I didn’t get the marks I needed for Medicine, did a Commerce degree and my first real job was working for a Bank.

While we all like to knock the banks, it was actually a great place to start a career and get exposed to finance, law, property, investments, people, goals and achievement.

I moved out of banking and into Financial Planning 22+ years ago looking for a way to be in control of my own destiny - tick. And low and behold - now I do what doctors do - tick.

• I see lots of patients (clients)
• I find out about their (financial) health and goals
• I give prescriptions (strategies) that help them get well and
• I get them to buy into the solutions so they can stay well long term.

Things I love about the Financial Planning are

• people think finance is complicated and I get to show them it's much simpler than they thought
• I get to use my nerdy side and come up with strategies that make a difference
• we show people how to be in control of their own future.

Outside work I enjoy learning French, good food red wine and coffee with friends, the occasional surf, hacking up a golf course and noodling on my guitar.