The Good Life Companies announced the hiring of Todd Esh as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of The Good Life Companies, Midwest Region. Esh has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. As Good Life Companies Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Esh will be responsible to recruit advisors to Good Life Advisors, a federally registered RIA and building Good Life Advisor branches. He is tasked with ensuring advisors know the value of going independent and that they can still have superior support and service while being independent business owners. In 2008, Todd joined Waddell & Reed as their National Executive Director of Recruiting for the Choice Platform. He trained, educated and assisted the field leaders in all experienced advisor recruiting efforts. In 2015, he was recruited to Park Avenue Securities where he helped train, develop and collaborated with more than 60 independent firm owners to grow the wealth management revenue of their respective firms. Esh started his career in the financial services industry in 1997.