Our Story

Two worlds, one mission.

Scrubs & Suits started with two people who came at the same problem from opposite ends of the room. Neill spent his career at the bedside as a nurse. Glenna spent hers in operations and HR, guiding people and companies through change. Different worlds, but we kept seeing the same thing: hardworking families left without clear guidance at exactly the moment they needed it most. So we set out to fix the part nobody was teaching.

The Scrubs

Neill Papa

Neill's path didn't start in finance, it started in service. For more than a decade he worked as a long-term care nurse, looking after elderly patients through the hardest stretches of their lives. He saw the physical toll up close, but what stayed with him was the financial and emotional weight on families who hadn't been prepared. Meanwhile he was working long, draining shifts with little to show for it, stuck in a cycle that didn't add up.

His wake-up call was personal. Like a lot of people, he tried to get ahead by jumping into investments, in his case crypto, without a real strategy, and ended up roughly $20,000 deeper in debt. Instead of walking away, he went all in on understanding how money actually works: studying, finding mentors, rebuilding from the ground up. What he learned was that the problem was never a lack of opportunity, it was a lack of education and strategy.

Today he brings the same instinct to a family's finances that he brought to the bedside: check the vitals first, never act before you understand the person, and explain everything in plain language. As he puts it, finance isn't really about money, it's about the choices and opportunities money creates.

The Suits

Glenna Marie

Before Glenna ever sat down with a family about their money, she spent nearly two decades inside the rooms where people's lives actually change, leading HR, operations, and consulting through growth, layoffs, reorganizations, and the quiet, high-stakes decisions that come with all of it. Again and again, she watched good people get left without clear guidance at the moment they needed it most.

Moving into financial consulting wasn't a pivot so much as a continuation. The same instinct that made her great at operations, bringing order to complexity and helping people decide calmly under pressure, is what she now brings to families trying to make sense of their financial future.

Her frustration is with how much of the "standard" playbook quietly works against the people following it: tax-deferred accounts with taxes waiting at the worst time, fees buried where you'd never look, and money locked away until you're nearly 60. Glenna's work is helping families step out of that cycle, and she leads with education first, no pressure and no jargon.

Glenna Marie, operations and consulting partner

How we work

Put those two backgrounds together and you get how we do this: the care and patience of a nurse, and the clarity and structure of someone who's spent two decades bringing order to complicated decisions. We don't sell from a script. We teach first, show you the math in writing, and only recommend something if it earns its place in your plan.

Our focus is people in their 50s and 60s who did the saving right and now want a plan for the part nobody covered, turning what you built into income that lasts, protecting it from a bad market year, and keeping more of it from the taxes waiting on it.

Life beyond work, done on purpose.

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