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About Reach

Strategic Wealth Planning, Personally Delivered

We're a fee-only boutique firm specializing in concentrated stock position planning and corporate exit planning, not a big box firm offering cookie-cutter solutions.

About Reach

Strategic Wealth Planning, Personally Delivered

We're a fee-only boutique firm specializing in concentrated stock position planning and corporate exit planning, not a big box firm offering cookie-cutter solutions.

About Reach

Strategic Wealth Planning, Personally Delivered

We're a fee-only boutique firm specializing in concentrated stock position planning and corporate exit planning, not a big box firm offering cookie-cutter solutions.

Meet Zach

I'm glad you're here, here's a little about me.

I began my career in banking then moved to a "traditional" wealth management firm before founding Reach Strategic Wealth in 2019.

Around the same time my wife and I became foster parents, which began an extremely long and demanding process to care for our family.

When we adopted our boys in 2024 we decided to "pull the ripcord" and move our family to the coast of North Carolina to begin a brand new chapter.

I'm thrilled to get to focus my work on helping awesome families make smart choices about their money and leverage their resources for freedom.

Zachary Ashburn, CFP®, EA, AFC®

Founder

Meet Zach

I'm glad you're here, here's a little about me.

I began my career in banking then moved to a "traditional" wealth management firm before founding Reach Strategic Wealth in 2019.

Around the same time my wife and I became foster parents, which began an extremely long and demanding process to care for our family.

When we adopted our boys in 2024 we decided to "pull the ripcord" and move our family to the coast of North Carolina to begin a brand new chapter.

I'm thrilled to get to focus my work on helping awesome families make smart choices about their money and leverage their resources for freedom.

Zachary Ashburn, CFP®, EA, AFC®

Founder

Meet Zach

I'm glad you're here, here's a little about me.

I began my career in banking then moved to a "traditional" wealth management firm before founding Reach Strategic Wealth in 2019.

Around the same time my wife and I became foster parents, which began an extremely long and demanding process to care for our family.

When we adopted our boys in 2024 we decided to "pull the ripcord" and move our family to the coast of North Carolina to begin a brand new chapter.

I'm thrilled to get to focus my work on helping awesome families make smart choices about their money and leverage their resources for freedom.

Zachary Ashburn, CFP®, EA, AFC®

Founder

The Work at Reach Strategic Wealth

Reach Strategic Wealth is a specialized financial planning firm focused on two things: helping people manage concentrated stock positions, and helping executives and senior professionals plan their exit from corporate life.

We specialize in two technical areas. Concentrated stock position management, for clients with $1M+ in a single stock who want to diversify without handing half of it to the IRS. And corporate exit planning, for executives and senior professionals making the jump from corporate life to whatever comes next, whether that's early retirement, consulting, or starting their own thing.

If you're searching for a fee-only advisor who can assist you with your concentrated stock and corporate exit plan that's the work that we do. We can help with things like exchange funds, direct indexing, 10b5-1 plans, charitable remainder trusts, qualified opportunity zone funds, and the harder question underneath all of those: what's actually right for you, your family, and your tax situation.

The Work at Reach Strategic Wealth

Reach Strategic Wealth is a specialized financial planning firm focused on two things: helping people manage concentrated stock positions, and helping executives and senior professionals plan their exit from corporate life.

We specialize in two technical areas. Concentrated stock position management, for clients with $1M+ in a single stock who want to diversify without handing half of it to the IRS. And corporate exit planning, for executives and senior professionals making the jump from corporate life to whatever comes next, whether that's early retirement, consulting, or starting their own thing.

If you're searching for a fee-only advisor who can assist you with your concentrated stock and corporate exit plan that's the work that we do. We can help with things like exchange funds, direct indexing, 10b5-1 plans, charitable remainder trusts, qualified opportunity zone funds, and the harder question underneath all of those: what's actually right for you, your family, and your tax situation.

The Work at Reach Strategic Wealth

Reach Strategic Wealth is a specialized financial planning firm focused on two things: helping people manage concentrated stock positions, and helping executives and senior professionals plan their exit from corporate life.

We specialize in two technical areas. Concentrated stock position management, for clients with $1M+ in a single stock who want to diversify without handing half of it to the IRS. And corporate exit planning, for executives and senior professionals making the jump from corporate life to whatever comes next, whether that's early retirement, consulting, or starting their own thing.

If you're searching for a fee-only advisor who can assist you with your concentrated stock and corporate exit plan that's the work that we do. We can help with things like exchange funds, direct indexing, 10b5-1 plans, charitable remainder trusts, qualified opportunity zone funds, and the harder question underneath all of those: what's actually right for you, your family, and your tax situation.

Ready to Pull the Ripcord?

You've built wealth in corporate, and now you want to be smart with your next steps. We help equity holders and high-earners escape the golden handcuffs and transition to the life they actually want to live.

Ready to Pull the Ripcord?

You've built wealth in corporate, and now you want to be smart with your next steps. We help equity holders and high-earners escape the golden handcuffs and transition to the life they actually want to live.

Ready to Pull the Ripcord?

You've built wealth in corporate, and now you want to be smart with your next steps. We help equity holders and high-earners escape the golden handcuffs and transition to the life they actually want to live.

Reach Strategic Wealth

Based in North Carolina & Connecticut

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Reach Strategic Wealth LLC (RSW) is a registered investment adviser offering advisory services in the State of North Carolina, State of Connecticut, and in other jurisdictions where exempted. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The presence of this website on the Internet shall not be directly or indirectly interpreted as a solicitation of investment advisory services to persons of another jurisdiction unless otherwise permitted by statute. Follow-up or individualized responses to consumers in a particular state by RSW in the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation shall not be made without our first complying with jurisdiction requirements or pursuant an applicable state exemption.

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Reach Strategic Wealth

Based in North Carolina & Connecticut

© 2025 Copyright

Reach Strategic Wealth LLC (RSW) is a registered investment adviser offering advisory services in the State of North Carolina, State of Connecticut, and in other jurisdictions where exempted. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The presence of this website on the Internet shall not be directly or indirectly interpreted as a solicitation of investment advisory services to persons of another jurisdiction unless otherwise permitted by statute. Follow-up or individualized responses to consumers in a particular state by RSW in the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation shall not be made without our first complying with jurisdiction requirements or pursuant an applicable state exemption.

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Reach Strategic Wealth

Based in North Carolina & Connecticut

© 2025 Copyright

Reach Strategic Wealth LLC (RSW) is a registered investment adviser offering advisory services in the State of North Carolina, State of Connecticut, and in other jurisdictions where exempted. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. The presence of this website on the Internet shall not be directly or indirectly interpreted as a solicitation of investment advisory services to persons of another jurisdiction unless otherwise permitted by statute. Follow-up or individualized responses to consumers in a particular state by RSW in the rendering of personalized investment advice for compensation shall not be made without our first complying with jurisdiction requirements or pursuant an applicable state exemption.

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