Kirstin Elaine Martin
Founder, Globond Financial • International Trade Representative • Host, TBOAW
Kirstin Elaine Martin is the founder and President of Globond Financial LLC, a financial strategy and wealth protection firm focused on long-term stability, intelligent growth, and real-world financial resilience.
Her career began internationally. After college, she was invited by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work for the Government of Yamanashi Prefecture, and later worked in Tokyo with Sumitomo Life Insurance. She went on to live and work in Mexico and Brazil, building a strong career in international sales, marketing, and emerging markets — serving startups and high-tech companies as Head of International Sales & Marketing.
She later built her own boutique firm providing business development, PR, marketing, fundraising, and strategic growth services, and served as a judge for multiple Boston-based startup competitions, advising founders, executives, and high-net-worth individuals across industries.
During COVID, two major clients failed to pay $75,000 in contracted fees — a turning point that forced a hard realization: despite strong credentials and a career spent helping others become thought leaders and multi-million dollar earners, her own income was unstable and exposed. She obtained her life insurance license out of necessity — and it changed everything.
Over the past five years, she has built a financial practice centered on structure, not product sales: protection, liquidity, tax efficiency, long-term growth, and intergenerational planning. Today, she helps professionals and business owners move from income dependency to wealth stability — not just earning money, but protecting it, growing it, and preserving it across generations.
Kirstin holds a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Simmons College in Boston. She speaks five languages and is a licensed life insurance and annuity agent in 25 states and counting. She lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts — America's oldest working seaport — with her two rescue dogs, Hunter and Maggie. She is a new grandmother and a recent widow.
To help high-responsibility professionals build financial systems that are as strong, resilient, and well-designed as the careers they've built themselves.