Dustin Stanley

grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, in a family that did everything together: boating, swimming, and riding motocross trails with his dad on the weekends. His father taught him math before any classroom did, and that early coaching turned him into a standout student, drawing attention from national engineering programs through contests like NEAS and JETS. For 24 years, Dustin worked for his family’s business, Hytec, assuming he would spend his whole career there. When the company closed, he had to start over. He turned to something that had always come naturally to him: numbers. In 2013, he walked into a small retirement planning practice and asked for a job. Two years later, his boss made him a partner. Together they built that firm, Strategic Wealth Designers, from roughly 20 million dollars under management into a nationally recognized brand managing billions. Along the way, Dustin cowrote a retirement planning workshop that is now taught at universities across the country.

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