Pay less in taxes. Worry less about everything else.
Learn the 7 tax planning opportunities many high-earning women overlook and how to coordinate your investments, retirement accounts, and taxes into one strategy before those windows close.
✦ The low-tax window most women never use. There's a stretch of years between your last big paycheck and required withdrawals at 73. There's a stretch of years between your last big paycheck and required withdrawals at 73.
✦ Why a great CPA isn't a tax plan. Filing looks backward. Planning looks ahead. The most expensive tax decisions happen in the months when no one's looking, and this guide shows you where that gap is costing you.
✦ The three buckets that determine your retirement tax bill. Two women with identical net worth can face completely different tax bills in retirement. Where your money lives decides which one you are.
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Keep more of what you earn
One tax or retirement move at a time, in plain English: what it is, who it's for, and when the window opens and closes. So savings stop slipping past you unused.
Clarity instead of worry
Short videos that explain what actually matters for your situation, the way I'd explain it across the table. Most financial uncertainty comes from unanswered questions.
Your money, finally coordinated
How taxes, investments, equity comp, and Social Security fit together into one picture. Because a good decision in one silo can quietly cost you in another.
Made for women whose financial lives have become more complex than anyone realizes.
✦ You lead at work and you're the financial decision-maker at home. Everyone counts on you to get this right, and you'd rather have a real strategy than cross your fingers.
✦ Your financial life has grown into pieces: 401(k), equity comp, brokerage, maybe deferred comp. Each one is fine on its own. Nobody is making them work together, and you can feel it.
✦ You’re not worried about paying the bills. You’re wondering whether you’re making the smartest decisions with everything you’ve built.
Hi, I'm Hazel. I help women stop managing money and start enjoying it.
I'm Hazel Secco, CFP®, CDFA®, founder of Align Financial Solutions, a fee-only fiduciary firm for women in leadership.
I typically work with women executives in biotech, pharma, and tech whose financial lives have become more complex as their careers have grown. After years of watching accomplished women overpay taxes simply because no one showed them the timing, I wrote this playbook to help you recognize the planning opportunities that often go unnoticed before retirement.
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The tax savings you miss this year don't come back next April.
15 minutes now can change what you pay for years. Get the free playbook and see which of the 7 moves applies to you.
