Steve Repak – Military Personal Finance Expert, Author & Financial Literacy Advocate

Personal Notes

When Steve Repak was growing up, his family didn’t have much money.  After graduating high school, Steve enlisted in the Army. There, he was just like most people, spending everything he made, living paycheck to paycheck, and not saving.  When he left the Army after 12 years of service, he had racked up more than $32,000 in credit card debt.

Through a contact he made in the military, he was offered a job in finance.  By observing what his wealthy clients did differently from the ones how were struggling, he discovered that is isn’t how much you make but how you think about money that determines wealth. Once he began to change the way he thought about money, he was able to formulate his own plan to get out of debt and build his wealth.  Steve has the desire to help others do the same.

Steve Repak Bio

Steve Repak is one of NFEC’s lead instructors of the Certified Financial Education Instructor course, in addition to being a Certified Financial Planner™, Professional Speaker, Army veteran, and author. His works include Dollars & Uncommon Sense: Basic Training For Your Money and most recently the 6 Week Money Challenge: For Your Personal Finances. Steve is a military financial literacy expert and was selected for the 1995 Fort Bliss, Texas Non Commissioned Officer of the Year and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Management Communications from Amridge University.

Steve has been a frequent guest on Fox and Friends, Fox Business, 700 Club, and CNN Headline News.  Steve has been interviewed on NPR, Bloomberg Radio, Market Watch Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, and many other National and Regional Shows. Steve’s work has been featured in Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, BusinessWeek, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance & USA Today.

Steve was a preferred presenter responsible for the facilitation and lesson development for the Department of Defense Financial Fitness Roadshows conducted at major military installations across the United States. Steve conducted seminars/workshops and afterwards met face to face to address individual and family financial matters. Steve provided professional individual financial planning consultation and financial education services including assistance with money management, credit and debt liquidation, analysis of assets and liabilities, and establishing and building savings plans.