Alexa Brascetta is a CFP® with more than 22 years of experience in the financial services world. As the founder of Aligned Wealth Strategies, she is on a mission to help people align their core values with their money goals and bring the values of partnership, honesty, education, fun, and empathy into her work. A graduate of Texas Woman’s University with a degree in finance, Alexa has obtained her CLU® (Chartered Life Underwriter designation) and her CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ designation.
Alexa is a Colorado native, married to a first responder and is raising two daughters. She is a lifelong learner and an avid reader, and despite living in Colorado, the beach is her happy place.
Grief, financial anxiety, and perfectionism don’t just happen in the background—they are the quiet engine driving our lives—unless we wake up. In this episode, I talk with Alexa Brascetta, CFP® and founder of Aligned Wealth Strategies, about how loss shaped her path, what it means to listen to the quiet tug of intuition, and why success without alignment still feels empty. We dive into post-traumatic growth, the shame cycle, and the pressure on breadwinning moms to hold it all together, even when it’s breaking them inside.
This is a raw, honest look at how grief can shake you awake, how financial planning becomes powerful when it’s values-based, and how letting go of perfectionism creates the kind of clarity and peace we’re really after.
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