Katana Abbott left her $100 million investment management and financial planning practice to launch Smart Women’s Coaching, a global online coaching, consulting, leadership and membership resource for women entrepreneurs and women in business. Rising from a life of poverty and adversity to one of abundance, Katana spent 20 years as a senior financial advisor for Ameriprise Financial as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Certified Senior Advisor (CSA).

In February 2007, Katana retired at the age of 48, selling her financial planning practice for more than $1 million after creating systems that allowed her business to run without her. Katana had created the life of her dreams and the opportunity to pursue her passion of helping women do what they love and prosper.

Today, she teaches women how to bring their soul’s purpose to the world, create wealth, start and grow businesses, attain powerful new financial skills and simply reinvent their through an annual series of events, courses and online social networking support at the Smart Women’s Prosperity Institute™. Here, women around the world can connect, learn, network, brainstorm, develop professionally and personally, and make a remarkable difference in their communities and the world.

Katana’s nonprofit initiative, The Smart Women’s Empowerment Program, helps women and girls develop confidence, financial independence, and professional success through ongoing virtual and live events, resources and programs.

Katana and Vicky Trabosh co-host the popular the nationally syndicated weekly radio show, Smart Women Talk where they interview bestselling authors, thought leaders and change agents with over 80,000 iTunes subscribers.

Katana is a frequent speaker for national women’s organizations and a popular guest expert on radio.

Joyfully working from her beautiful lakefront home office in Michigan, Katana spends time with her daughters and husband, and lives her coaching philosophy daily. She currently is at work on her book, The New Retirement Solution:   How to Retire to Something – Not From Something.