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Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://www.annebjohnston.com/createdwealthadvisory daily 0.75 2025-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6230fc465be75965a05f15ca/be44b61f-a2d2-4a5f-8529-bbc681472e94/rachel-artime-photography-9586_websize.jpg Created Wealth Advisory - Wealth is Created For 12 years I worked in corporate wealth management. I received world-class training in the technical side of finance. But I always felt there was something missing: the human dimension. My clients weren’t just numbers, they were people with real goals, dreams, and concerns. And I thought, “There has to be a way to blend the best of both worlds.” What if there was an independent wealth advisory that combined the best from the technical and human sides of wealth management? To realize that vision, I founded Created, a boutique wealth advisory. Created’s modern, holistic approach combines the best strategies and tools from the human and technical sides of wealth management to guide, plan and invest for clients so that they can create lives and legacies that light them up. As the Managing Director and a Wealth Advisor practitioner, I do financial planning, investing and special needs consulting (CFP®, CIMA® and ChSNC®), and coach on life design and the human side of money (CeFT®, RLP®). To discover all that Created has to offer, click here. 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Then I “played” Imagine by John Lennon on my new green guitar to an audience that included former classmates I hadn’t seen since elementary school. Soon afterward, I got together with my friend, Erik, (also a financial planner and fellow southerner) who had also always wanted to play guitar and struggled to find the time (busy business, two kids) and together we started the FREE BIRD CHALLENGE, where we traded weekly videos as we attempted to learn the song Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd. As time went on, it became less a way to learn Free Bird, and simply a way to express our own individual ideas of freedom and the joy of creative practice without perfectionism standing in the way. 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I walk down long corridors of offices filled with bull and bear artwork (unofficial Wall Street mascots representing rising vs. declining markets) and men in blue blazers on headsets talking about interest rates while swinging a golf putter or a baseball bat. They talk about investing like sports statistics — proclaiming, oracle-like, and loudly, what the market will do and why people should listen. I notice that clients leave meetings intimidated, which is how I feel, too. The next few years I did everything I could to learn and grow my business. I got to the office at 6 AM to hear the stock market report “at the open,” I cold called, I networked, and fielded calls from advisors and clients rocked by the financial crisis. It was world-class training. But every day was a gauntlet. I called my father, an attorney in Georgia, and asked him for advice (cue southern accent), “Some of the best lawyers I know are black belts in karate or jiu-jitsu. You might try something like that and see if it helps you in business.” HA! Not the answer I was expecting. An absurd idea… or was it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6230fc465be75965a05f15ca/d19dd342-5f50-4504-a987-bdfa73c0fa28/IMG_1458.jpg Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - Later that day I found myself Googling “jiu-jitsu near me.” I was intrigued when I saw that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (“BJJ”) is a martial art that you do mostly on the ground. Instead of relying on brute force to overpower your opponent, you focus on leverage, angles, pressure, timing, and knowledge of human anatomy to achieve a non-violent submission. Jiu-Jitsu is just as much a mental chess game as it is a physical sport and you don’t have to be the biggest or strongest to prevail. I dug that. The next week I headed to the gym. When I walked in, there were six guys tumbling around on a blue mat. “Hi, I’m here for the Jiu-Jitsu?,” I said, still questioning myself. I got a white “gi” uniform and a white belt and started training. In the following years, I earned higher jiu-jitsu rankings and became the first female brown belt in my class. As my confidence grew outside of the office, I gained command in my voice, values, and technique as a financial advisor, and built a thriving practice. I also learned 5 core lessons from Jiu-Jitsu that increased my financial clarity and command. What I learned gave me the tools to found Created, a boutique wealth advisory. 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