Lizann Lightfoot raised five children on an enlisted Marine’s salary. She knows the financial stresses that come with being a military family.

“There were definitely moments where we were struggling, and if I had known a little bit more about financial terminology and some of the options and the products out there, it would’ve made me feel like I had more options in some of those very stressful situations,” Lightfoot said. Lightfoot is the Vice President of Marketing at GoVA Foundation, a nonprofit providing financial education and literacy resources to military families and veterans. Its goal is to help the military community shore up their financial well-being from active duty through retirement.

“Our family definitely experienced a lot of the common financial challenges that military

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