create your future
with clarity and confidence
We meet you where you are in life.
Whatever stage in life you are in, whether planning for retirement, buying or selling a business, or experiencing a life event, we can offer the financial planning and investment management, along with DMLO’s traditional tax planning and estate planning, to put you on the right track to achieve your long-term goals, and keep you there.
Retirement
Planning
Buying or Selling
a Business
Major
Life Event
Financial
Change
We meet you where you are in life.
Whatever stage in life you are in, whether planning for retirement, buying or selling a business, or experiencing a life event, we can offer the financial planning and investment management, along with DMLO’s traditional tax planning and estate planning, to put you on the right track to achieve your long-term goals, and keep you there.
Retirement
Planning
Major
Life Event
Buying or Selling
a Business
Financial
Change
The Formula.
The Daydreaming Process
As with any journey, you should be excited about where you’re heading; you must be able to articulate what success looks like. This is best accomplished by Daydreaming about what your journey has in store.
Let’s take time to put into words what you want your life – your adventure – to look like.

- Education planning
- Career planning
- Family planning
- Buying your first home
- Career & business ventures
- Funding kids’ education
- Forever home
- Funding hobbies
- Retirement considerations
- Family interests
- Memory investing
- Business succession
- Retirement considerations
- Family interests
- Memory investing
- Business succession
The Discovery Process
The Discovery Process
Once you can articulate what life looks like behind closed eyes, it’s time to Discover what current and future resources are available to help make those daydreams a reality.
Let’s take an honest inventory of your financial situation.
Assets
- Investment Accounts
- Bank Accounts
- Real Estate
- Bullion
Income
- Salary & Bonus
- Passive Income
- Social Security
- Pension Income
Liabilities
- Mortgage
- Credit Cards
- Student Loans
- Debt Obligations
Expenses
- Pre-retirement
- Post-retirement
- Philanthropy
- Insurance Premiums
The Creation Process
The Creation Process
Now it’s time to plot a course, to map your journey, to Create a plan. This third step is where what you want, what you have, and what you need to do intersect. After this step, you’ll have a physical personalized, comprehensive financial plan that will govern future financial decisions.
Your Guidance Advisor must be able to accurately answer the following questions to craft a plan that will see you to your destination.
1
How much risk do you need to take?
2
How much risk can you afford to take?
3
How much risk are you comfortable taking?
The Departure Process
The Departure Process
A dream will never translate into reality if the first step is never taken. Now that a course has been plotted and a plan is in place, it’s time to Depart on your journey, to put your plan in motion.
Here are a few things that you can expect as you start your journey.

There are a lot of moving parts, and they will not all fall into place at the exact same time.

There will be a lot of regulatory information that will be sent to your mailbox early on in the process.

It takes some time in order for investment progress to compound and to become apparent.
The Detailing Process
The enjoyment of a trip often comes from how well the components of the journey work together; from all the little Details that make or break your experience, making your daydreams a reality.
Below are a few key financial considerations that will be purposefully integrated into your personalized, comprehensive financial plan.

- Wills Trust documents
- Powers of attorney
- Healthcare directives

- Tax sensitivity
- Tax strategy
- Tax withholding

- Life
- Auto
- Home
- Liability

- Debt consolidation
- Mortgage appraisal
- Credit management
The Detailing Process
The enjoyment of a trip often comes from how well the components of the journey work together; from all the little Details that make or break your experience, making your daydreams a reality.
Below are a few key financial considerations that will be purposefully integrated into your personalized, comprehensive financial plan.

- Wills Trust documents
- Powers of attorney
- Healthcare directives

- Tax sensitivity
- Tax strategy
- Tax withholding

- Life
- Auto
- Home
- Liability

- Debt consolidation
- Mortgage appraisal
- Credit management
The Piloting Process
The moment a journey begins, so too does change; without proper navigation you’ll quickly find yourself heading someplace other than where you want to be. Through Piloting, we monitor and adjust course, ensuring your end-destination approaches.
Below are some of the ways we structure this process to ensure the correct course is maintained.
About Us.
Advice and planning to give you clarity and confidence wherever you are in life.
DMLO Wealth Planning is a financial planning and wealth management firm. The firm focuses on comprehensive financial planning for individuals, families, and small businesses.
A comprehensive plan is one that addresses immediate needs, establishes appropriate amounts of insurance and estate planning documents like trusts, wills, and healthcare directives, and sets into action an effective investment plan utilizing current resources and future income to accomplish longer-term goals such as retirement and establishing a legacy.
Our comprehensive nature is what separates a DMLO Wealth Planning Advisor from a stockbroker or product salesman. We take all elements of one’s financial picture into consideration–from taxes to special needs–when establishing the original plan and then tailor that plan as time goes on to maintain a perfect fit.
Our mission is to help you plan for your future and make necessary updates along the way until your goals become accomplishments.

Meet Our team.
Beau Handy, CFP
Beau Handy, CFP
Beau Handy is a Certified Financial Planner™ professional and a Director at DMLO Wealth Planning, a comprehensive financial planning firm. Beau is also the President and Senior Analyst at Dynamic Market Advantage, a separately managed account platform with the mission to bring an academic approach of investing to financial planning professionals and their clients around the world.
At DMLO Wealth Planning, Beau is responsible for ensuring each client has a comprehensive, customized, and detailed financial plan tailored to fit their individual needs in the areas of investment management, tax planning, risk management, and estate planning. In conjunction with the DMLO Wealth Planning Team and parent company DMLO, PLLC., Beau works to bring these vital pillars of financial wellness to all DMLO valued clients.
Beau is formally trained in financial management and financial planning, obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree and certification from the Honors program at Western Kentucky University Gordon Ford College of Business.
Since 2021, Beau has served on the Heuser Hearing Institute’s executive board and worked to help accomplish their mission to enhance hearing health in Kentucky and surrounding areas.
Stephen Gibson, CPA, NSSA
Stephen Gibson, CPA, NSSA
Stephen Gibson is a Financial Planner, Certified Public Accountant, and a Director at DMLO Wealth Planning, a comprehensive financial planning firm. Stephen is also a partner at Dynamic Market Advantage, a separately managed account platform with the mission to bring an academic approach to investing to financial planning professionals and their clients around the world.
At DMLO Wealth Planning, Stephen is responsible for ensuring each client has a comprehensive, customized, and detailed financial plan tailored to fit their individual needs in the areas of investment management, tax planning, risk management, and estate planning. In conjunction with the DMLO Wealth Planning Team and parent company DMLO, PLLC., Stephen works to bring these vital pillars of financial wellness to all DMLO valued clients.
Stephen is a Louisville native and graduated from Miami of Ohio (Miami University) with a bachelor’s in Accounting, which led him to begin work as a CPA with Deloitte & Touché in Columbus, OH. His specialty in individual taxation and planning, along with trusts, estates, and gift planning, paved the way for him to move back home to Louisville to become a financial planner with extensive knowledge in a vast array of planning topics for individuals and businesses.
Stephen also works with many non-profits in Louisville to give back to the community. Since 2015 Stephen has been a board member of the Oldham County Community Foundation and has held previous roles of both Board Chairman & Grant Chairman. In 2022, Stephen was nominated to serve on the Baptist Health Foundation board and is looking forward to helping the community by making the decisions to enhance the lives of individuals that need care in our community. In addition, Stephen serves as treasurer at Access Justice, a faith-centered non-profit that strives to give everyone access to solid legal advice that otherwise cannot afford such advice.
In 2020, Stephen was nominated and received the Business First Forty under 40 award for his business, personal and philanthropic accomplishments. In 2022, Stephen was nominated and received the 20 under 40 for Oldham County for his philanthropic work within the community and other business endeavors.