Liane K. Chong

Liane was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She received her BA in business management from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, and lived in Portland, Oregon, before moving back to Hawaii to build her career.

Liane has spent the last 20+ years building her businesses as a Financial Planner and Employee Benefits Consultant.  She built both businesses from the ground up as she dealt with the loss of her dad, coordinating care and finances for her mother, failed exams, miscarriages, and giving birth to and raising a son with special needs. 

While most people strive to find balance between work and career life, Liane shows it can be accomplished despite any hardship encountered along the way.  As a young female trying to make her mark in the world, she had to find ways to boost her confidence, prove herself, work hard, never give up, and to trust that she could make it in a career she was so passionate about, despite the odds against her.  Through those life experiences she learned firsthand how what she does as an advisor impacts a person’s life and those closest to them.  She continues to advance her skills and knowledge with on-going education, additional planning capabilities, and resources to help as many people as possible take care of their financial health and well-being.

Liane is married and a mother of two children—a teenage daughter and a son in elementary school who was born with a rare chromosome abnormality. Her son has multiple special needs that include cortical blindness, hypotonia, cerebral palsy, autism, and is unable to walk or talk. In addition to taking care of her children, Liane has been a caregiver for her physically incapacitated mother since 2008. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, dancing, exercising, golf, volunteering for her high school, helping with the family Chinese lion dance club, reading, crafting, and traveling.