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Tennessee Retirement Planning

8:18 Financial Team

Retirement is personal. You’ve worked hard to save and invest your money and now it’s time to optimize and protect your savings to provide for your retirement and your loved ones thereafter.

8:18 Financial Team is an independent financial services firm, specializing in helping individuals and families prepare for, plan, and live in retirement. Our approach focuses on tailored retirement planning strategies and insurance solutions to provide our clients with guaranteed lifetime income, asset protection, and achieve tax efficiencies in support of a holistic approach to their finances.

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Our Planning Process

Our three-step planning process works to help identify and implement suitable financial strategies for helping our clients meet their needs and achieve their goals and objectives for retirement.

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Start Smart

02

Apply Discipline

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Communicate Progress

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Start Smart

Get a Clear Understanding of Your Financial Life

First, we gain a thorough understanding of your current financial situation, goals, objectives, risk tolerance, and the key considerations that should be addressed in your retirement strategy.

Six Fundamental Financial Planning Considerations

Six key financial planning considerations can impact your financial goals now and in the future. The question is not if these will affect your finances, but to what degree. We evaluate your sentiment toward each consideration and quantify the potential effects on your assets over time. This allows us to build customized strategies to help you achieve your financial objectives for retirement.

Longevity

Longevity

Outliving financial assets as the result of a longer life.

Inflation

Inflation

Reduction in real purchasing power as the result of increasing cost of living.

Mortality

Mortality

Loss of financial assets as the result of a partner’s or spouse’s death.

Liquidity

Liquidity

Limited access to assets to meet life’s unexpected financial needs.

Market

Market

Unexpected reduction in the value of financial assets at the time of withdrawal.

Taxes

Taxes

Decreasing income and assets and/or the impairment of legacy assets from increasing taxes.

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Apply Discipline

A Retirement Strategy Designed for You

Next, we design a retirement strategy that actively works to help optimize your wealth and protect your finances, keeping your goals and objectives at the forefront of our planning process.

Our Services, Your Future

We take the time to thoroughly explore your needs no matter the stage of life you are in to help provide a custom tailored solution that we continue to monitor and adjust until the end of time.

Increase you or your loved one’s future retirement income with a tax-efficient, capital leveraging strategy.

Ease the financial and emotional toll of long-term care with early planning so you can retire with peace of mind and dignity.

Support your retirement income plan with accumulation and tax-free distribution strategies in retirement.

Understand the benefits you are entitled to and how to maximize Social Security income in retirement.

Design an income plan that delivers dependable income and financial security throughout your retirement.

Protect your estate and loved ones from unnecessary taxation and probate with proactive estate planning strategies.

Develop strategies to protect assets against the effects of inflation.

Ensure access to assets to meet life’s unexpected  needs.

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Communicate Progress

Our Commitment to You

Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive
outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

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Meet The Team

Jesse Reynolds

Founder

Brandon Forbes

Team Leader

Amy Hazard

Director of Operations

Shannon Winzenread

Team Member

Doak Stewart

Team Member

Marissa Gianakas

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Rachael Deboy

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Brenda Dunville

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Will Gregory

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Cindy Anderson

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Lastly and continually, we work to ensure transparency of your income plan by providing visibility, proactive outreach, and accessibility to our team throughout our working relationship.

Our Upcoming Events

Events in March–May 2026

  • There are no events scheduled during these dates.

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