Welcome to the FLAG Family
Meet the financial professionals who are passionate about helping you understand where you are, identify where you want to go and show you how to get there.
Bryan Foster
Founder
Growing up in a military family as an Air Force child, Bryan always knew he was called to a life of service. For more than a decade now, he has embraced that calling by creating generational relationships and humbly helping Ohioans from all walks create holistic financial plans that allow them to enjoy passionate, purposeful lives.
After graduating from The Ohio State University in 2008 with a degree in biology and continuing to medical school, Bryan initially entered the medical profession before deciding to follow his mother into the financial services world and purchase her firm in 2013. Today, he brings the same compassion and care to his financial clients that he once brought to his patients.
“I traded saving people’s health for saving their wealth,” says Bryan, who can offer both insurance and investments products and services as he has his health, life and annuities licenses and has passed the Series 65 securities exam.
Bryan and his mom, Carol Carroll, rebranded the firm to Family Legacy Advisors Group in 2023. They’re proud to operate a family-run business centered around old-fashioned values and hard work — one that helps other families by offering “common-sense” solutions aimed at lowering costs and maximizing gains.
“A lot of financial professionals like clients to see them as greater than; we prefer our people to see us as equal to,” Bryan says. “We’re your neighbors. We’re the people next door. We’re the folks you attend church with.”
Bryan’s compassion extends far beyond his professional life. He also owns and operates A Kitten’s Place, a no-cage, no-kill nonprofit rescue shelter for cats.
When Bryan isn’t helping his clients or cats, he enjoys experiencing nature and new cultures while hiking and traveling, going to the zoo and watching movies with his mom.
Carol Carroll
Senior Vice President
With a servant’s heart and passion for developing genuine, intimate relationships with her clients, Carol has spent more than three-and-a-half decades helping people create financial strategies that give them confidence to pursue their dreams.
Carol, who began her financial services career in 1988, previously worked as a national trainer and sales director for multimillion-dollar marketing, real estate and financial companies. She founded and operated her own financial firm, CCFinancial, in 1998 before selling the business to her son, Bryan Foster, in 2013.
Carol and Bryan later joined forces and rebranded the firm to Family Legacy Advisors Group in 2023. They consider their clients extended members of their own family, and they’re passionate about helping them navigate life’s triumphs and trials and meeting them whenever and wherever they are needed.
“We are with our people for as long as they want us, and that is for life,” Carol says. “We get calls at 2:00 in the morning. Now, can I fix things at 2:00 in the morning? No, but I can wake up and talk to them and hold their hand on the phone and give them next instructions and set up when we’re going to get together and take care of things. It is very personal.”
When she isn’t helping clients, Carol enjoys watching movies, improving her fitness and helping Bryan with his nonprofit cat rescue shelter, A Kitten’s Place. Growing up in an Air Force family, she has lived all over the continental United States, as well as in Hawaii and Japan.
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