Her services include retirement planning, investment management, distribution planning and long-term care and special needs planning.

Wealth Manager Magazine has ranked the firm as one of its top financial advisory firms five consecutive years from 2004 through 2008.īlisk provides independent financial advice and asset management to executives, retirees, women and their families and business owners. She founded The Blisk Financial Group 22 years ago and in 1997 became an Investor Advisor Representative of Legacy Advisors, LLC, (now Spire Wealth Management) in McLean, Virginia. Serving clients in more than 20 states, Brenda Blisk heads a team of six, which includes two other financial consultants, two client service representatives and a research analyst. Blisk was one of 25 women honored.Ĭriteria for the Bravo Awards include overcoming business obstacles, financially outperforming competitors, displaying leadership and work ethic beyond the workplace and using a business base to benefit community fundraising. In June 2007, Blisk received a Bravo Women Business Achievement Award sponsored by Washington Smart CEO magazine and TiE-DC, an organization dedicated to supporting the community of entrepreneurs in the Mid-Atlantic region. Shook and based on criteria such as a minimum of seven years of financial services experience and other weighted requirements, including wealth management focus and customer satisfaction. Call Brenda and start planning for the security of your financial future. She received both designations for the second consecutive year. Washington Business Journal Publisher Alex Orfinger describes these awards as representing 'leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, business savvy and just plain hard work.'Įarlier this year, Blisk was named one of Barron's Top 100 Women Financial Advisors and one of the Top 50 Wealth Advisors in Virginia. She was one of 25 women who were recognized at an Awards Banquet November 20 at the Ritz Carlton, Washington, D.C.

I would love to work with newcomer artists and world music groups, helping them to build their skills and grow their audiences in Toronto, Canada and the world.Brenda Blisk, CFP® and CEO of the Blisk Financial Group at Spire Wealth Management in McLean, Virginia, has been named one of the 2008 'Women Who Mean Business' by the Washington Business Journal. Brenda is actively involved in her church and community serving in a variety of leadership roles with The Capital Speakers Club of Washington, D.C. I recently started my journey as an Arts Manager in Toronto. Brenda’s built a solid record of accomplishments and a reputation for excellence among the Blisk Financial Group clients and colleagues. I enjoy working with female singers of different backgrounds in Toronto! My recent collaborations include: Juno nominated BRIGA, Lenka Lichtenberg, Lauren Barnett, and more! I have sung in about 20 languages. With Polky, we released our debut album Songs from Home in 2020, following our 2018 release of our EP Immigration. In 2016 I released my own EP called I float featuring original songs. My voice and music was featured by the Songlines Magazine in 2016 on their Silesian Roots Compilation, but I also lend my voice to the Polish-Celtic group Beltaine ( Miusjik, 2015), and Katowice own folk band Blokowioska ( Radio Katowice, 2014). I studied traditional voice techniques under a supervision of Witek Kozlowski, Basia Wilinska, Wronika Grozdew-Kolacinska, Tzvetanka Varmiezova, Marichka Marchyk and more!

I am also a co-founder, singer and percussionist of Blisk, an all-female world music group in Toronto featuring singers, dancers and percussionists from Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Canada. As a founder, lead singer and manager of Polky I perform Eastern European folk songs at various Canadian folk music festivals. Since then I am an active member of the Toronto world and folk music community, organizing many different cultural events. I've lived and traveled around Europe, the Middle East and Asia and in 2016 my travelling spirit brought my voice and music to Canada. I’m am also a graduate of the Arts Administration and Cultural Management program at Humber College. I hold a master’s degree in Communications from the University of Silesia in Poland, but I also studied Ethnomusicology at the University of Warsaw, focusing mostly on Polish traditional music and world music. I’m a singer born and raised in Katowice, Poland.

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