The first time I heard the word “reinvention”, I thought it was one of those new-age words designed to make me feel guilty about the way I was living my life, a concept created by people who thought they knew better than I did what was right for me.
Back then, I was running on life’s treadmill full force, trying to balance being a single mother of two kids and climbing the corporate ladder at a regional bank. I didn’t have a shred of interest in changing my life and I cringed when I heard terms like “life is a journey” and “connect to your Higher Power”. I just didn’t have time for that!
One day a culmination of events made me actually LOOK at my life… something I hadn’t ever really done before. I recognized I was living a life of perceived financial security and happiness. I had accumulated nearly $30,000 of credit card debt, my kids were suffering from a lack of attention and I was a complaining, blaming victim at work. Behind the lavish vacations, dinners out, expensive clothes and home furnishings, there sat a woman in denial about the financial grave I’d dug for myself. I made a decision to change my life and learn how to reinvent myself from the inside out!
From the place of human failure, I have reinvented my life and you can reinvent yours too!
Reinvention is getting the dream out of your head and into your life.
Tresa Leftenant CFP®
Tresa is a Certified Canfield Trainer of The Success Principles and a Behavioral Finance Advisor (BFA™), an education process that helps clients align their values and goals with their actions. Tresa is a popular speaker for women’s organizations, radio programs, and Podcasts and her live speeches and workshops have been standing-room only.
Tresa Leftenant is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Professional with over four decades of comprehensive financial planning and wealth advisory experience. Before opening her own business, Tresa served with a multinational financial services company as a Wealth Management Specialist, coordinating a team of financial advisors, private bankers, and trust officers serving the wealth management needs of high net-worth individuals.
Tresa opened a private financial planning practice in 2003 and is fiercely committed to guiding women to pursue their version of a passionate and purposeful life and to create the financial resources they need to support their dreams. She has helped thousands of women pursue their financial goals for over forty years and has created education programs highlighting how a woman’s relationship with money can block her financial success.
Reinventing Her, Helping Women Plan, Pursue, and Capitalize on Their Next Chapter, available on Amazon, is Tresa’s masterwork; a handbook for women who truly want to change their life. Tresa is committed to teaching women how to upgrade their lives by learning and living the steps she created to change hers. Tresa openly shares her transformation with money, relationships, and career, of being a chronic shopaholic and amassing tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt, of marrying and divorcing three times, avoiding critical responsibilities at work, and blaming everyone else for her problems.
One day Tresa had a life-changing epiphany. She became aware of a whole new way of looking at her life and she set off on a journey that led her to understand the steps that she is passionate about teaching now. Tresa paid off all of her credit card debt, started her own business, met and married the man of her dreams, and now enjoys a prosperous, passionate, and joyful life. She knows from personal experience how to turn around unwanted life results, and she has the training to help her clients utilize the best life-changing strategies available today.
“My personal reinvention in my 40s is the drive behind my books, workshops, and speaking topics. It is not only my passion to pass on what I’ve learned; it is also my responsibility. I am very clear there is no way I could even think about helping women reinvent their finances had I not done the work in my own life first.” ~Tresa Leftenant