Christopher J. Lyman, CFP® ChFC®

Financial planning can feel overwhelming. The questions seem endless, the stakes feel high, and it's easy to wonder whether you're really on the right path — or just hoping you are. If that resonates with you, you're in good company. And it's exactly the kind of uncertainty that Chris Lyman has spent his entire career helping people work through.

Chris doesn't believe his job is to hand you a plan and send you on your way. He works tirelessly to be a Guide, a Guru, and a Gladiator for not only his clients, but for all the people his client’s love and care about.

He's been doing this work since the very beginning of his career in 2011, first at 1847Financial and then, starting in 2021, as part of the team at Allied Financial Advisors, LLC, and now, supporting Educators First Financial of PA.

Chris lives in Bucks County with his wife, Catherine, and their three children. If you want to understand what drives him, look at how his family spends their free time: together, outdoors, and always working toward something. Their ongoing mission to visit every National Park in America is more than a bucket list — it's a shared family commitment built one trip at a time. Nine parks down, with Yellowstone standing as a personal favorite — a place that has a way of reminding you just how vast and worth protecting the natural world really is. Chris has been a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club since 2011 and a supporting member of the National Park Conservation Association since 2012, commitments that reflect a genuine ethic of stewardship, not just recreation.

Away from the trail, Chris is a reader — the kind of person who is always in the middle of something and always has a recommendation ready. He's currently learning piano and Spanish, two pursuits that share something in common: both require consistency, humility, and the willingness to sound imperfect before you sound good. It's a mindset his clients recognize in how he approaches financial planning. And then there's his ongoing training in Jiu Jitsu — a discipline that teaches you to stay composed under pressure, think clearly when things are uncomfortable, and trust a process that doesn't always show immediate results. Those lessons don't stay in the gym. They show up in how Chris sits with clients through uncertainty, how he helps people resist the impulse to react when markets get difficult, and how he stays steady precisely when steadiness is hardest. It's not a coincidence — it's character.