working hard and giving back, few
compare to his mother.
Armed with degrees in neurosci-
ence and psychology he’d earned at
the University of Texas at Arlington,
Hagains worked in research at first.
Then, his love of people drew him in
a different direction.
“I have a fascination with people,”
Hagains said. “I’ve always worked to
better understand how the brain func-
tions.”
In time, the finance and insurance
industry beckoned to Hagains and
he exited the field of science to help
others in a different way, and is now
with New York Life.
“Being in life insurance, I end up
talking to a lot of people about their
health, about the future. It gives me
an extra layer for helping people,” he
said.
Although Hagains is reluctant
to name his favorite Parker County
charity, like Prince, he is enthusi-
astic about supporting a number of
nonprofits that help those in need.
“I tend to volunteer as a need
comes up,” he said. “New York Life
has a number of charities they are
helping with. … I try to stay engaged
and look for gaps in the community,
things that need to be improved.
I keep that in mind in whatever I
do. The world is a weird place and
people don’t engage as much as they
should. I think it’s important, even
when we don’t see eye-to-eye with
someone, to just do good things for
people.”
Saving and planning for the future
is something that few people focus
on enough, especially millennials,
Hagains said.
“Making the adjustment from
science to helping people make
decisions about their finances was a
challenge,” he said. “But, it’s been a
lot more rewarding than I expected.
Saving money is a lost art today.”
Educating people to be equipped
to establish a firm financial foun-
dation, to assure they’ll enjoy a
comfortable future is top priority for
him.
Making headway in that mission
is important to him, but it’s the long-
term relationships in his life that bring
him the greatest happiness.
Many of those were established
while living in Parker County. “I
came out here when I was 17,” he
said. “It was a wonderful place to
spend a difficult time in your life. I
did a lot of soulsearching and devel-
oped a deep relationship with God.”
These days, you mostly will see
him wearing a suit and tie during
business hours, but at heart Hagains
is most comfortable in a T-shirt and
blue jeans.
Hagains’ favorite recent novel is
Ernest Cline’s “Ready Player One.”
“I read it with my son on an audio
book,” he said. “It took a lot of car
time to finish it. We both loved it and
talked about it in-depth after. I don’t
know if I liked it so much because I
got to spend all that time with my son
or because of the content or both.”
Hagains’ favorite place in Parker
County isn’t a park or a restaurant.
“Most places that I love, I love
because of the people I’ve been there
with,” he said. “My mom’s place is
my favorite. I love it because of the
people that I’ve been there with.”
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