Amy Colton’s Stories, Lessons & Insights

Amy Colton shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Hi Amy, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
There are two things outside of work that bring me joy.

One is to get away and relax without a cell phone or laptop. I go to a place where I can take classes of a spiritual nature such as astrology, tarot card reading, visit with a psychic, etc. I also can go for hikes, swim, practice yoga and meditate.

The other thing that I like to do is play mah jongg competitively, so I will partake in large and small tournaments around the country.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Amy Colton is a Wealth Advisor with Forefront Wealth Partners and a divorce guide at Your Divorce Made Simple. She comes to the financial planning industry after a successful career of more than 40 years in sales, management and business development in the technology and pharmaceutical industries. During that time, she spent more than 20 years at International Business Machines (IBM) as an executive in sales and management.

In 2011 Amy Colton joined New York Life as a Financial Services Professional and then in 2013 she joined Forefront Wealth Partners as a Wealth Advisor. In 2020 she co-founded Your Divorce Made Simple which seeks to protect assets and negotiate equitable distribution settlements between spouses during divorce.

Amy is committed to her personal mission of helping to empower women to take control of their own finances and general wellbeing. Through mentoring, sharing personal experiences, and providing sound advice, she wants to encourage women to get their financial house in order and to make decisions from a place of strength not fear. She wants them to move forward with confidence and optimism and encourages her clients to choose their destinies and not be a victim of circumstances.

She has devoted both practices to assisting women through life’s biggest transitions, which are the death of a loved one, retirement, and divorce. All of which need financial planning.

When a family law attorney grew tired of the emotional stresses of working with couples breaking up, the attorney began to send her clients to Colton. It was her job to help them work out the details and get the couple to come to agreement. The lawyer would then file the necessary papers with the courts and write the divorce decree. That led Colton to start Your Divorce Made Simple. But she didn’t see herself just sitting in as a financial advisor. She believed that she could serve her clients more efficiently and fairly if she was better equipped in other ways, and so she became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) and a family law mediator. Now she guides individuals and/or couples through the divorce process, including tax and financial planning, which are critical long after divorce.

She is currently working on her book about her divorce process called “The Kitchen Table Divorce” and expects it to be available by the end of this year.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
The thing that breaks the bonds between people is trust. If you can no longer trust someone close to you the relationship is broken and needs to be repaired. In order to restore the relationship both parties must be open to looking at why the relationship broke down in the first place and be willing to work on the repair. This is not an easy thing to do and both parties must be willing to work on the relationship. If one party is not willing, then it is likely the relationship will not be repaired.
Once trust between two parties is broken, it is not always easy to get back to the way things were before.

If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
To trust yourself and your instincts. Too many times my intuition has been correct but I ignored it because I didn’t have confidence in my ability to make good decisions.

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes. What you see if what you get. I have always been an open and honest book. I really don’t like people who are superficial or not genuine.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
If I knew I had only 10 years left I wouldn’t worry about spending too much money. I would work less and travel more.

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