Sensei Angie Grainger
CPA/PFS, Karate Instructor
CA, USAs a CPA, Financial Expert, and Speaker/Author
After returning from India in 2015 with a new perspective on wealth, Angie transformed overnight, a 20-year career as a financial expert and CPA. She closed the doors on her investment & financial services firm and realigned her business with her true purpose.
Within one week, she had her first six-figure CFO/Social Impact client where she restructured the financial foundation of the company to align with a greater social impact to follow the conscious capitalism movement.
Angie now focuses on clients who are ready to define wealth by the number of lives impacted, rather than the number things acquired.
As Black Belt/Martial Artist
Angie is known as Sensei Angie not only because she is a 2nd degree black belt in Shotokan Karate who teaches karate and self-defense, but she integrates the wisdom in the principles of karate in all that she does.
She has overcome major obstacles in life including living on the streets of L.A., sexual assault, domestic violence, and drug addiction…and has challenged through a complete life-makeover to become a successful business leader and role model for many others.
Learning martial arts and becoming a Karate Instructor, gives her a structured foundation to take risks, gain courage, build confidence and have the internal (and external) strength to live a 'kick-ass' life!
Angie uses these character development principles of Karate (such as non-violence, courage, endeavor, focus, and discipline) with her decades of financial experience as a CPA, CFO, and Financial Specialist to transform businesses and individuals from ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY.
Credentials
- Certified Public Accountant
- Personal Financial Specialist
- Certified Money Coach
- Master's Degree, Financial Planning & Taxation, GGU
- Author, Wisdom of Wealth and The Joneses are BROKE!
- Founder, DKA International, Inc., CFO/Social Impact Consulting Firm
- Former Certified Financial Planner®
- Past Chair, CalCPA's Personal Financial Planning Committee
- Past Chair, CalCPA's State Financial Literacy Committee
- Tax Manager, Moss Adams, LLP
- VP and Managing Director of Financial Planning, Exchange Bank Wealth Management
- Social Impact Chief Financial Officer
Background
- 2nd Degree Black Belt, Shotokan Karate
- Karate Instructor
- Certified Yoga Instructor
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
- Multi-Discipline Certified Chaplain
- Sanskrit & Eastern Philosophy Student
- Teen Group Facilitator
- YWCA Finance Committee
- Youth Business Week Chairperson
- Financial Literacy Facilitator
- 40-Under-40 Leadership Recipient
- Community Service Award, SSU
As a CPA, Financial Expert, and Speaker/Author
After returning from India in 2015 with a new perspective on wealth, Angie transformed overnight, a 20-year career as a financial expert and CPA. She closed the doors on her investment & financial services firm and realigned her business with her true purpose.
Within one week, she had her first six-figure CFO/Social Impact client where she restructured the financial foundation of the company to align with a greater social impact to follow the conscious capitalism movement.
Angie now focuses on clients who are ready to define wealth by the number of lives impacted, rather than the number things acquired.
As Black Belt/Martial Artist
Angie is known as Sensei Angie not only because she is a 2nd degree black belt in Shotokan Karate who teaches karate and self-defense, but she integrates the wisdom in the principles of karate in all that she does.
She has overcome major obstacles in life including living on the streets of L.A., sexual assault, domestic violence, and drug addiction…and has challenged through a complete life-makeover to become a successful business leader and role model for many others.
Learning martial arts and becoming a Karate Instructor, gives her a structured foundation to take risks, gain courage, build confidence and have the internal (and external) strength to live a 'kick-ass' life!
Angie uses these character development principles of Karate (such as non-violence, courage, endeavor, focus, and discipline) with her decades of financial experience as a CPA, CFO, and Financial Specialist to transform businesses and individuals from ordinary to EXTRAORDINARY.
Credentials
- Certified Public Accountant
- Personal Financial Specialist
- Certified Money Coach
- Master's Degree, Financial Planning & Taxation, GGU
- Author, Wisdom of Wealth and The Joneses are BROKE!
- Founder, DKA International, Inc., CFO/Social Impact Consulting Firm
- Former Certified Financial Planner®
- Past Chair, CalCPA's Personal Financial Planning Committee
- Past Chair, CalCPA's State Financial Literacy Committee
- Tax Manager, Moss Adams, LLP
- VP and Managing Director of Financial Planning, Exchange Bank Wealth Management
- Social Impact Chief Financial Officer
Background
- 2nd Degree Black Belt, Shotokan Karate
- Karate Instructor
- Certified Yoga Instructor
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
- Multi-Discipline Certified Chaplain
- Sanskrit & Eastern Philosophy Student
- Teen Group Facilitator
- YWCA Finance Committee
- Youth Business Week Chairperson
- Financial Literacy Facilitator
- 40-Under-40 Leadership Recipient
- Community Service Award, SSU
