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Wealth Manager
Wealth Strategy Group

Elaina Shemeta, CFP®

Team Lead & Wealth Manager

With over 15 years of experience in the financial services space, Elaina specializes in client management and wealth planning. Her mission is to use her knowledge and resources to provide our clients with peace of mind, allowing them the freedom to enjoy the things in life that are most important to them.

A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP™) professional, Elaina holds her Washington State Life, Disability, Long Term Care and Variable Annuity insurance licenses and graduated from the University of Washington, Foster School of Business, with dual degrees in Finance and Marketing.

Elaina lives in Seattle with her husband, Mike, and three young children, Alexa, Jordan, and Jackson.

Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. owns the certification marks CFP®. CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP® in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.

THE MOST TREASURED THING I OWN

Family pictures. I have several printed albums of old family photos in addition to albums for each of my children’s first year of life. I can’t tell you how often we/guests look at these and smile.

ONE PIECE OF ADVICE

I’m adamant about having our clients plan ahead and coordinate with legal, tax, insurance counsel, etc. Waiting until life altering events happen can be enormously distracting, stressful, and often results in a less than ideal outcome.

HOBBIES

I love spending time with my family, traveling, and taking part in a broad range of outdoor activities. I’m also a huge sports fan, have season tickets to Husky football games, and watch every Seahawks game I have the opportunity to catch!

COLDSTREAM SHAREHOLDER

Coldstream is an employee-owned financial services firm. We believe that by having broad employee ownership, we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent – in turn furthering our mission of enhancing people’s lives.

Recent Article Contributions

July 24, 2026

The Professional Athlete Blueprint: Taking Ownership of Your Enterprise

What’s in this article: Outline Your “Personal Model” “New Architecture of Athlete Compensation Key Playbook Strategies: Protect and Structure Your Wealth Master the Intangibles & True Team Integration Institutional Guardrails How Coldstream Can Help Entering the ranks of professional sports represents a historic, life-changing moment of wealth generation. Today’s athletes are stepping into an [...]

Contributions from: Elaina Shemeta, CFP®

June 12, 2026

From Tip-Off to Legacy: Navigating a New Era of WNBA Wealth

The financial playbook for professional athletes has officially been rewritten. Driven by groundbreaking Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) and massive league expansions (hello Portland Fire!), the WNBA is one area of sports that has entered a historic era of wealth generation. Because an athletic career offers a highly compressed window of peak earning potential, athletes can [...]

Contributions from: Elaina Shemeta, CFP®, Katie Quick, CFP®

August 21, 2025

Navigating Medicare Open Enrollment: Your Guide to Making the Right Choices

It’s that time of year again. The leaves are changing, the weather is cooling, and Medicare Open Enrollment is right around the corner. For many, this season brings a mix of confusion and stress. So many plans, acronyms, and deadlines—it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But it doesn’t have to be. Think of this as your [...]

Contributions from: Elaina Shemeta, CFP®