Shehara Wooten, CFP®

Shehara L. Wooten, CFP®, is the founder of Your Story Financial Academy and Your Story Financial, where she helps high-achieving, ambitious mid-career professional women leaders design and intentionally plan meaningful sabbaticals without sacrificing their long-term financial security.

Shehara helps them shift from feeling financially constrained to being in control, using a values-based, behavior-driven approach that aligns their money with the life they actually want to live. Through her signature framework, the P.A.U.S.E. Sabbatical Lifestyle™ Method, clients learn how to tell their money what to do, create space for intentional rest, and build sustainable wealth that supports both their present lives and future goals.

Before becoming a financial planner, Shehara, a native of Columbus, OH earned her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University and eventually navigated her own career pivot, which fuels her passion for helping others make aligned, confident financial decisions.

She is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professional, speaker, and author of In the Meantime: Own Your Financial Narrative. She has presented workshops for organizations including Intel, Electronic Arts, Society of Women Engineers, National Society of Black Engineers, Black Women in Data Summit, Black Women in Science and Engineering, Dress for Success, American Business Women’s Association, National Black Bar Association, The Links, Inc., and countless other organizations.