LS4 offers athletes a wide variety of professional and personal services to support you at every stage of your athletic and personal life. These services can be tremendous lifelines for you as you transition through various phases of your professional/personal life and are faced with critical, life-changing decisions.
LS4 Services :
[ Financial Services | Life and Career Specialties | Starting Or Buying A Business | Family and Health ]Financial Services
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LS4 offers a large range of financial services for short term and long term financial health. We are here to help you through the financial challenges you may be faced with when playing a professional sport. We take a comprehensive approach to working with our clients in order to understand your entire financial situation. This includes such items as Budgeting, Bill Paying, and Savings---but also include more strategic and complex areas as Investment, Risk, Retirement, Estate and Small business Planning, etc. We believe that much like an effective team on the field, it is equally important to work together as a team while engaging in financial management and planning.
Long Term Financial Planning
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Retirement Planning
LS4 will work with you to develop a complete and detailed retirement plan, customized to your personal and family goals and objectives. We begin with a complete review of your current financial situation, prepare a forecasted model of anticipated earnings and debt, then create a plan that helps you invest, save and partition enough of your income so you can retire at a point in time that meets your objectives.
Cash and Bill Management
Managing your day-to-day cash-flow, not overspending, living within your means, paying your bills on time, and maintaining a high credit score are all important aspects of leading a financially responsible life. Unfortunately, many athletes get carried away with material things and leading a lavish lifestyle that creates huge debt, deteriorates their net worth, and wrecks havoc on their long term financial plans. LS4 works closely with athletes to apply a common sense approach to managing your assets, spending and material acquisitions so you don’t overspend and end up having a huge problem to recover from.
Income Tax Planning And Preparation
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Major Asset Purchase Assistance
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Estate Planning
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Insurance Solutions
As an LS4 client, it is our goal to provide a “one stop shop” atmosphere. Life requires a ton of communication with many different resources, and our mission is for our clients to make one phone call to us and we do the leg work. LS4 is licensed to provide insurance solutions for every aspect of insurance needed. These areas include, but are not limited to:
- Home and Auto
- Business Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
Whatever the need, we will get the solution quickly and efficiently, and limit the number of calls and consultants that our clients have to interact with.
Business and Investment Planning/Analysis
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Charitable Planning
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Life and Career Specialties
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LS4 offers athletes a complete suite of professional services for career transition from sports into business or other professions. Our advisors work closely with you to assist in the development of your new career, produce strategies and programs that help you achieve success, and provide tools, techniques, and platforms that minimize risk. Featured services are:
Mentoring
As an LS4 client, you will work with a former professional or college athlete who is very familiar with the real-world stresses and challenges you face across the various life stage transitions. Our advisors will mentor you and provide valuable insights from athletes who have made successful transitions across these phases and achieved great success. These secrets to success will be part of the mentoring process to help guide you through your journey and avoid the common pitfalls many athletes experience without this kind of guidance and support.
Career Advisory Services
As you begin planning a second career, LS4 advisors can work closely with you to provide research, facts, statistics and other valuable insights on your alternatives under consideration. Once you select a new career path, we can help you develop a plan to achieve your goals and become successful in your new endeavors. Our experience, resources, and business contacts can be infinitely valuable to you as you explore your options and make these important decisions. We can put you in contact with professionals already in your chosen field or open doors that might be valuable to you.
Job Placement Assistance
In today’s economy and job market, even former athletes with well recognized name brands are not guaranteed easy access to jobs and well paying positions. The competition for these positions is intensely fierce and there are no guarantees you will be hired---no matter how successful your athletic career has been. LS4 advisors work closely with our clients to help them market themselves effectively, target key decision makers and influencers who impact the hiring process, and package you in a way that helps you get more interviews and attractive job offers. As former athletes ourselves, we know some of the effective strategies that work and can save you considerable time, frustration, and wasted effort throughout this process.
Resume Building
As part of the job searching process and during the pursuit of your new career, it is critical that you have a personal marketing strategy in place that maximizes your opportunities for success. One critical tool is your professional resume and biography. Gone are the days of simple text resumes. Social media and interactive bio’s are now quite common and new technologies for marketing yourself to potential employers are also very prevalent. LS4 advisors will work with you to develop a professional and attractive resume/bio using the latest in advanced technologies and marketing techniques to help make your search much easier.
Job Interviewing
Once you receive an interested employer or potential business opportunity, it is important that you possess strong interviewing and communications skills that help you sell yourself effectively and “close the deal”. Effective interviewing is an art and not a science, but there are proven techniques that work well and maximize the positive impression you can create with people. LS4 advisors will work closely with you to review these techniques for effective interviewing, conduct several mock interviews and role plays, and be available to conduct post-mortem discussions with you to review how well you are doing in actual practice. Our guidance will save you countless hours of frustrations and prepare you to seize the moment when an attractive career opportunity presents itself.
Starting or Buying a Business
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Many current or former athletes often look to buy a current business or start-up a new business as a secondary career path and source of income---during their playing days and after. However, many athletes are completely unprepared for the complexities and challenges of the business world and end up selling a loss or even filing bankruptcy and closing the doors of the business. LS4 provides a complete set of professional services staffed by experts who can become part of your extended business team during the planning, acquisition, development and on-going management phases of the business life cycle. Services offered are:
Business Planning
Having a strong business plan is the first and most important element to determining the opportunities/risks behind a potential new business venture, securing outside funding, and developing a blueprint for how the business will evolve. However, many athletes often skip this step and dive right in before analyzing or thinking through the potential business. LS4 advisors will work with you to develop a detailed business plan for acquiring a current business or starting a new one. We have years of experience preparing and reviewing business plans so we know the steps that must be taken. Just like you would never take the field in a football game without a game plan, you should never enter into a new business without a solid business plan. LS4 will make sure this level of strategic planning and analysis is in place so you can be comfortable moving forward.
Go-to-Market Support
Once you decide on a new business, launching your company into the marketplace is a vital step and sometimes you only get one chance---so you can’t risk missing the mark. Beyond the business plan, having a comprehensive strategic sales and marketing plan is also a critical element to success. LS4 has access to world-class marketing experts—former Chief Marketing Officers at some of top companies/brands across the country. Our advisors can help prepare this marketing plan for you and even become your outsourced marketing department. In support of the marketing plan, we also have a complete portfolio of creative resources who can develop websites, sales and marketing collateral, social media pages, press releases and media kits, and even Television and Radio commercials. We offer a complete, turnkey marketing support function for your new business from strategy through market launch.
Staffing And Recruiting
Just as in sports, having a strong team that works well together, complements each other, and is working in harmony towards the same goal is very important in the business world. Many athletes naturally recognize business is a team sport---but also a very competitive one and the talent on your team will have a large bearing on how successful you are. Recruiting and staffing your new team with top shelf talent is a vital step in the process. LS4 has access to top recruiters who can work with you to identify, recruit, and hire high quality professional talent for your business. We will work closely with you and the management team to provide a pool of candidates and help you select the very best ones for your team.
Family And Health
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As an athlete, you are likely aware of how important staying in shape is and being at the top of your game mentally, physically, and spiritually. Your body is a machine and being successful in sports or in life is dependent upon how well your mind, body and spirit work together to drive success. LS4 provides athletes with an array of professional and personal services geared to maximizing your total person and balance in life---as you cross the various life stages and transition from one chapter to another. Services provided are:
Life Coaching
Sometimes the stresses of life and being an athlete can seem overwhelming—even if the rewards are great. The media, coaches, fans, etc. Trying to find time to lead a balanced life, have a family, develop new business interests, etc., can be even more stressful. LS4 provides a professional and discrete counseling service for athletes through certified “Life Coaches” on our team who have years of experience helping individuals sort through these various life pressures and calmly develop action plans to reduce the stress and anxiety in their lives. LS4 counselors will meet with you discretely and in total privacy, helping provide you with the support and guidance from a professional. Our programs can be brief or extended or “on-call”—whenever you need us to talk or simply listen to your concerns. Athletes are supposed to be “strong and tough”, but we all know these pressures are real and having someone you can speak with in confidence on a regular basis can be incredibly valuable as you deal with these stresses as hey occur.
Health And Nutrition
Most athletes don’t have a lack of desire to exercise, lift weights, or work hard during team practices to develop their skills to the highest level. You would not have achieved the success you have if this characteristic was not in place. However, eating nutritious foods and maintaining an overall healthy lifestyle is not always a common trait---believe it or not. Fast food, eating on the go, partying, or even over-eating can happen quite often with athletes because they think they will “burn it off”—while not realizing they are creating long term damage to their bodies, cardiovascular system, and health. LS4 has former professional athletes that specialize in health and nutrition and can work with you to customize a diet and program especially for you during and after your athletic career. Many athletes really need this after their playing days are over because their exercise has been curtailed, but eating habits have not. So, you see their weight explode and overall health decline rapidly. Don’t make this mistake and leverage the expertise LS4 has to offer for your healthy lifestyle.
Training
As most athletes know, training has to be a year-round activity these days. You can’t take months off and still compete at the highest level. However, during the off-season it is harder because the team structure may not be present and strength and conditioning coaches may not be looking over your shoulder. You are on your own, so sometimes athletes lose their focus and slide away from diligent workouts. At LS4, we have advisors and counselors who will work closely with you to design an effective off-season or year-round program, or one for you after your playing days are over to keep your health in top form. Our advisors are former professional and college athletes and understand how the body works----partnering with you to design and assist you in reaching your fitness goals.
Injury Rehabiliation
As we all know, if you play sports long enough and at a high level, injuries are likely to happen. Could be a knee, pitching arm, broken bone, etc., Having a focused rehabilitation program is critical to your comeback and not letting the injury negatively impact your career or athletic future. With today’s medical advancements and current technology, few injuries are career threatening---but, hard work, dedication, and a rigorous rehab partner is vital to how well an athlete can recover. LS4 has experts on our team who can help support you throughout your rehabilitation program---designing it and helping coach you and support you throughout the life of the rehab. All our experts are certified physical therapists and are licensed to work with you and provide guidance and support.
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