Meet Your Path Guide
Katrina J. Kourkoutis,
Certified Financial Planner™, Enrolled Agent, Accredited Financial Counselor®
Hi, I am Katrina Kourkoutis, founder and sole practitioner of A More Certain Path. I have been working in the financial services industry for over 27 years, but it wasn’t until I discovered financial planning, more than a decade in, that my life started to take a turn for the better. Up to that point, all I knew was how investments were used to grow your net worth. That was good information for when I would be earning enough income to have some left over to invest, but it wasn’t very helpful with how to get there.
The concepts I learned from studying financial planning helped me change my relationship with money and take control of my finances. It helped me realize that while I couldn’t always control the amount of my income, there were ways to optimize its utilization. It helped me to understand the importance of prioritizing what I wanted out of my income, to be more discerning with my purchases, and always consider my future when making choices.
Of course, income optimization can only take one so far. If I wanted to get ahead, I knew I needed more income; income that I could put towards my future. I came to realize that my personal finances were essentially a business, and I needed to treat them like one if I wanted to get ahead. Once I started applying business principles to my own finances and to my life, my path to well-being became much clearer. During the pandemic my financial planning gave me enough breathing room to sit back and assess the path I was on and try to figure out a more certain way forward. It helped me realize that life was too short to limit myself by the constraints of other people’s thinking and thus A More Certain Path was born.
I am so excited to be at this point on my journey. My dream job didn't seem to exist, so I had to create it! AMCP is the intersection of my many interests — financial planning, problem solving, discovering solutions, making calculations, researching, learning, and motivating others to recognize how much they can help themselves. It is the culmination of many years of hard work, focusing on achieving well-being and living life on my own terms. I hope you will join me on my journey to living freely and abundantly. Freedom comes from living a life of your own design. Abundance comes from establishing stable and sustainable resources to ensure you always have what you need when you need it. I have learned that neither are about living a life of excess or chasing the dreams or accomplishments of others.
When I am not helping clients find their more certain path, I like to spend time on activities that bring value to my life and allow me to fulfill my purpose of living freely and abundantly. I can be a bit of a technofile, spending time online learning new skills, studying languages, and discovering new information that can enhance my life. I'm proud of the skills I've learned and the knowledge I have gained that allow me to minimize what I outsource to others and allocate resources to activities that provide a better return on my investment.
I like to balance out my tech habits by spending time in the kitchen challenging myself with a new recipe or cooking technique and sharing the successes with friends and family. My husband and I enjoy eating the failures and assessing how to improve the outcome on the next attempt. The product may not have been good enough to share, but it is always good enough to eat. Cooking helps me make new personal discoveries and social connections, and inspires me to strive to be better than the person I was yesterday.
I welcome an opportunity to talk to you about what your free and abundant life looks like and help you get on a more certain path to your vision.
