Episode 47 Tommy Williams - ”Shreveport-Bossier: My City, My Community, My Home”

Tommy Williams, President and Founder of Williams Financial Advisors, LLC, sits down with Jeffrey Goodman, Director of Marketing and Development for the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, to answer the following questions:

 

0:31 1. Tommy, we will get to more of your accomplishments and background in future questions but let’s start here today. You were born and raised in Shreveport and have seen Shreveport go through many changes and many ups and downs.

 

How is Shreveport-Bossier doing in 2023 from your perspective?

 

2:06 2. You are an active community leader and have served on numerous boards including, to name but a few, President of the Financial Planning Association Ark-La-Tex Chapter, Chairman of the Allocations Committee for United Way of North Louisiana, Co-Chairman of the fundraising campaign for Community Renewal International, a board member of Live Oak Retirement Community, a board member and Chairman of the Membership Committee for the Committee of One Hundred, and for nine years you chaired the Junior Achievement of North Louisiana Business Hall of Fame.

 

Where does this intense interest and commitment to making our community better come from?

 

5:58 3. From your perspective, how do we get more people from my generation or even the generations coming behind me to take an active role, like you have, in pushing our community to reach its fullest potential?

 

12:25 4. You are a Wealth Advisor and Founder of Williams Financial Advisors. Every Sunday since 2009, you have authored a column on the front page of the business section of the Shreveport Times entitled “Financial Fundamentals”.

 

You are a great financial mind in this community and a wealth of knowledge. Would you mind sharing just a few of your financial fundamentals or financial words of wisdom?

 

19:49 5. What’s holding us back from becoming one of the next, great small cities in America?

 

32:35 6. What makes you optimistic about our community’s future?