Navigating Your Financial Future with Brandon Vecchio
Oct 6, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
In Episode 268 of the Women Offshore Podcast, we speak with [**Brandon Vecchio**](mailto:brandon.vecchio@axiosfg.com), Financial Advisor and Co-Founder of…
Oct 6, 2026 · 57 min · 10 segments
In Episode 268 of the Women Offshore Podcast, we speak with [**Brandon Vecchio**](mailto:brandon.vecchio@axiosfg.com), Financial Advisor and Co-Founder of…
Brandon VecchioGuestChristine McMullenHostLiz SchmidtHostSo let's get into the meat of this conversation, and I think that when we talked earlier, you mentioned that you usually ask your clients or your potential clients a question to kick off the conversation.
After I say, "Why are you here?" Right? 'Cause you gotta get those walls down.
One, one that I love to, to ask is, "What does, what does money mean to you?" Right? And, and I'll preface it in the sense of it's a very loaded question.
They're willing to sacrifice time with friends, family, and, you know, this short life we have to make more of it, and that's really, really important to understand.
So, like, turning a question onto you, I guess, like, Christine, what does, what does money mean to you?
I think that my answer, and obviously I've spent a little time thinking about this because I wasn't really able to give you an answer right off the top of my head initially, and I think it means freedom to me.
You know, money is the ability to go and have adventures, and money means that you can take the time that you want to do something and so, and have the experience.
Now, I, I do my best, like, I'll, I'll share it's like, hey, it's not my plan.
Like, I, I, I heard this from someone else, and we stole it because it's like we work in the maritime space, so, like, our clients are the captain.
But I do my best to keep my opinion out of it, right? 'Cause my job is to put the pieces together.
But if people want my opinion, 'cause we're human, it, it's the same thing, right? Like, so as I've grown a business, have I done stuff? It's like we, we are trying to create money to buy freedom, right? I, I wanna hire people so that this thing is not contingent on me showing up or being here.
So let's get into the meat of this conversation, and I think that when we talked earlier, you mentioned that you usually ask your clients or your potential clients a question to kick off the conversation.
After I say, "Why are you here?" Right? 'Cause you gotta get those walls down.
One, one that I love to, to ask is, "What does, what does money mean to you?" Right? And, and I'll preface it in the sense of it's a very loaded question.
They're willing to sacrifice time with friends, family, and, you know, this short life we have to make more of it, and that's really, really important to understand.
So, like, turning a question onto you, I guess, like, Christine, what does, what does money mean to you?
I think that my answer, and obviously I've spent a little time thinking about this because I wasn't really able to give you an answer right off the top of my head initially, and I think it means freedom to me.
You know, money is the ability to go and have adventures, and money means that you can take the time that you want to do something and so, and have the experience.
Now, I, I do my best, like, I'll, I'll share it's like, hey, it's not my plan.
Like, I, I, I heard this from someone else, and we stole it because it's like we work in the maritime space, so, like, our clients are the captain.
But I do my best to keep my opinion out of it, right? 'Cause my job is to put the pieces together.
But if people want my opinion, 'cause we're human, it, it's the same thing, right? Like, so as I've grown a business, have I done stuff? It's like we, we are trying to create money to buy freedom, right? I, I wanna hire people so that this thing is not contingent on me showing up or being here.
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