Get to Know Carly

As a Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual (NM), Carly Kozeal enjoys the relationships she gets to make every day. Carly began her career at Northwestern Mutual as an intern in the fall of 2021 with a background in business and finance, as she attended Doane University, majoring in Economics & Business Administration with a minor in Agri Business. 

Carly became interested in finance at an early age. After digging into the subject, she found that there was a lot of advice out there that was contradicting; that’s why it is Carly’s goal to become a trusted and reliable resource that helps guide hard working individuals and families in her community. Carly and her team provide their clients with education they need to make empowered financial decisions and help them build a strategic and achievable financial plan. Carly enjoys working with clients to fully understand their unique situation, build strong and very personal relationships, and ultimately help define and achieve financial success! She and her team take a holistic approach that focuses on building their legacy through risk mitigation, wealth accumulation, and preservation. Young families, business professionals, and farmers and ranchers have found value when working with Carly and her team. 

Outside of helping individuals with financial planning, Carly is often referred to as an “old soul,” as she loves listening to old country music, including Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. She has always had a passion for sports, as she was a 3-sport athlete growing up and spent time coaching youth basketball for a number of years. She comes from a small town (Sargent, NE), grew up on the farm, and was involved in FFA. She has appreciation for small-town values, including family, a strong work ethic, and integrity. 

Lending a hand in my community.

As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)

ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.

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My Areas of Expertise

Financial Planning

Insurance Protection Strategies

Life Insurance Strategies

Retirement Planning & Income Strategies

Education Planning & Funding

Disability Planning

Multigenerational Planning

Estate Planning

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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