Describe your advisory firm, including how long you have been in business. Identify your principal owner(s). Guardian Wealth Management, Inc. was founded in 2010. Currently, Guardian has three wealth managers working directly with clients and client accounts; and a client service manager who works with our clients on servicing issues but who provides no investment advice or management. Joshua R. Kirby is primary owner of Guardian Wealth Management, Inc. and is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Mr. Kirby is a graduate of the University of Illinois. Mr. Kirby has recently joined the financial services industry. Mr. Kirby purchased Guardian Wealth Management from its founder, Ron Kirby. Mr. Kirby has no disciplinary events or history to report. Julie A. Evans is an Executive Wealth Manager with Guardian Wealth Management, Inc. Ms. Evans studied at Illinois Central College. Ms. Evans has been in the financial services industry since 2000. From 2000 until 2010, Ms. Evans was a registered representative with Investment Planners, Inc. From 2007 until 2010, Ms. Evans was a wealth manager with IPI Wealth Management, Inc. In addition to Guardian, Ms. Evans maintains a registration as a Registered Representative with Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, a FINRA registered broker/dealer. When acting as a Registered Representative, Ms. Evans is compensated through securities commissions derived from those transactions. Ms. Evans has no disciplinary events or history to report. Describe the types of advisory services you offer. If you hold yourself out as specializing in a particular type of advisory service, such as financial planning, quantitative analysis, or market timing, explain the nature of that service in greater detail. If you provide investment advice only with respect to limited types of investments, explain the type of investment advice you offer, and disclose that your advice is limited to those types of investments. Guardian Wealth Management, Inc. offers two different types of advisory services. First, Guardian offers Investment Advisory Services. Investment Advisory Services are where Guardian manages and supervises the investment, allocation, and monitors the performance of securities held in the client's account in exchange for the payment of a fee. The relationship is ongoing until terminated by either party. All clients are eligible to select Investment Advisory Services if they feel it meets their needs. The amount of time spent on each client will vary based on the complexity of the client's financial situation. The larger and more diversified the client's account, the more time required to monitor the account. The second is Investment Planning Services. Investment Planning Services are where Guardian provides an investment plan to the client for his/her own implementation for a fixed payment. The relationship is not ongoing and is limited to the production of a plan for a fee. All clients are eligible to select Investment Planning Services if they feel it meets their needs. The number of hours spent preparing the client's investment plan will vary based on the complexity of the client's financial situation. A client opting for Investment Planning

Services will be given an estimate of how many hours will be necessary to gather the necessary information and to prepare an investment plan before agreeing to enter into an Investment Planning Services Agreement. All of the investment management services are designed to the individual Investment Policy Statement (IPS). The IPS is designed after completing a personal Investment Questionnaire, which covers such topics as time horizon, risk tolerance and other personalized information. The IPS is used to provide a means for Guardian to manage the account within the standards established for the account. The IPS is reviewed annually with clients as a means to evaluate if any changes have occurred that would perhaps lead to an investment modification. Other Non Advisory Services Guardian also attempts to evaluate the investments with respect to each client in the areas of income taxes. This normally includes the clients need for annual income, ordinary income treatment and capital gain income. We do not provide tax counseling, we do attempt to assist in coordinating the investments with the personal income tax situation for each client when possible in conjunction with the clients accountant. Lastly, Guardian also assists clients in the area of estate planning. While Guardian does not provide legal counseling in this area, we do encourage, work with and many times assist in coordination of estate planning for clients. The estate planning many times has an impact on the titling of investments which are managed by Guardian. The firm does not receive any compensation for any assistance in this area from clients or attorney's fees. Explain whether (and, if so, how) you tailor your advisory services to the individual needs of clients. Explain whether clients may impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of securities. In either type of advisory service arrangement, Guardian will collect information related to the client's objectives, goals, family situation, risk tolerance, and net worth. In the case of Investment Advisory Services, the information gathered will be used to establish an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) which guides the client's investments and allocation going forward. Should the client's situation change, the client needs to update Guardian on those changes so that the IPS can be updated and any necessary investment alterations can be recommended. If you participate in wrap fee programs by providing portfolio management services, (1) describe the differences, if any, between how you manage wrap fee accounts and how you manage other accounts, and (2) explain that you receive a portion of the wrap fee for your services. Guardian does not participate in wrap fee programs. If you manage client assets, disclose the amount of client assets you manage on a discretionary basis and the amount of client assets you manage on a non-discretionary basis. Disclose the date "as of" which you calculated the amounts. As of February 12, 2024, the firm has assets under management of Discretionary: $ 142,217,892 and Non- Discretionary: $58,872,973.