Andrew D Mehan

One of my favorite memories from childhood is of saving money. Every time we would come home from the grocery store, my parents would give my sisters and me their pocket change to place into a gigantic plastic soda bottle-shaped piggy bank. It would take us almost a whole year to completely fill it. This was one of the many life lessons that I learned about money as a child. Investing takes patience over a long period of time.

After college, I served in several Dodge County communities as a teacher in multiple capacities. Many of the same attributes I applied...