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Mary Lyons

Mary Lyons

Mary Lyons, "The Wealth Woman," is a Dallas-based financial advisor and founder of Benchmark Income Group who coaches affluent clients on wealth and life planning.

Oct 1, 2026

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back.
2:15
So, you know, I grew up with a dad who was a financial advisor from the time I was about four years old and he was also an entrepreneur.
2:23
So he started and sold many businesses along the way.
2:27
And I ended up getting to have dinner table conversation about money on a regular basis.
2:32
My dad would bring home client files with the names blacked out, and we would work on these case studies together.
2:38
and i just thought that was a normal part of growing up but i will also tell you as a 16 year old girl looking at that kind of stuff i thought to myself this is so boring this is an industry full of like old fuddy duddies just crunching numbers in a back room and i didn't really understand the full application of it because what i was doing at the dinner table was academic so if you would ask me in high school If I wanted anything to do with the world of finance, I would have told you absolutely not.
3:07
I'm too creative.

41 MINS LATER

44:21
But what do you do more regularly every day, every week, long-term, however you want to think about that? How do you build that reset into your life?

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