ABOUT

Charity Pennock

Co-Founder + Personal Finance Coach

Charity is the Co-Founder of Launch to Financial Wellness. As a personal finance coach, Charity guides Launch participants in goal setting, budgeting, and troubleshooting through one-on-one coaching. Prior to Launch, Charity’s career was based at the intersection of business and the nonprofit sector including an economic development think tank and two clean energy business trade associations. These experiences helped Charity to use and refine her abilities in seeing the big picture, understanding people’s motivations, asking productive questions, creating actionable plans, and walking with people through conflict and emotionally taxing situations.

Charity enjoys hiking, reading, traveling, and spending time with her family. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband Andy and their four boys.


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Andy Pennock

Co-Founder + Seminar Leader

Launch to Financial Wellness was born out of an annual workshop Andy started in 2017 at the University of Virginia helping soon-to-be graduates learn how to manage their finances. In addition to being a Launch to Financial Wellness Co-Founder and Seminar Leader, Andy is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Virginia’s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

Andy loves adventuring with his four boys in and around Charlottesville. He and his wife, Charity, love to cook, read, garden, travel and have good conversation whenever they can.


Launch to Financial Wellness is a program of the North Street Group LLC and is not affiliated with the University of Virginia.

The Launch to Financial Wellness program nor its leaders promote or advise participants on specific investments or financial products.