“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. 10X IRONMAN guide for blind triathletes and Avantis Investors Vice President Caroline Gaynor sat down with NAPFA’s Marie Swift to share lessons learned from her athletic endeavors that equally apply to serving planning clients including [Podcast]: Anticipating obstacles on your journey Not being defined by failure Maintaining focus in difficult environments “I was feeling really, really good. Then, about halfway through the swim, I took a stroke and noticed that our tether was no longer there. … Suddenly, I’m not connected…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (February 5-6, 2022)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Anna N’Jie-Konte, Dr. David Rhoiney, and Emlen Miles-Mattingly share their inspiring stories and thoughts on representation, equity, and more [Podcast or Video]: “It just means opportunity. We’re an example: it doesn’t matter your background and it doesn’t matter where you come from. You are born with these abilities, intelligence, and the skills that you need to be successful.” Anna N’Jie-Konte, Dr. David Rhoiney, & Emlen Miles-Mattingly On Self-Determination & Representation [Dasarte Yarnway, The Human Advisor] Penny Phillips with six non-traditional KPIs…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (January 1-2, 2022)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. ICYMI: Michael Kitces and Carl Richards discuss “impostor syndrome” including [Podcast or Video]: Why impostor syndrome matters and a common definition Recognizing incremental expertise is all that is required How impostor syndrome correlates to opportunities How to deal with impostor syndrome “Michael: The part that has stuck for me was someone who had said, ‘Just remember, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.’ You don’t have to know more than anyone in the world. Because the leading…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (December 25-26, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Brittney Castro covers all things marketing including [Podcast or Video]: The importance of investing in your personal brand How to develop your voice Her content marketing strategy And more… “Quite frankly, like with most of the opportunities that I get, they just found me. They found me through social media and the content I was developing. So, I have been very fortunate that most of the clients that when I started the RIA and a lot of the speaking and brand…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 16-17, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Two pieces of content on the topic of empathy to kick off this week: Investopedia’s Caleb Silver hosts Gary Vaynerchuk and the two discuss when Gary realized the importance of empathy and how it has made him a better businessperson [Podcast at 26:30-mark]: “I had a lot of emotions and feelings – but they were my superpower. And I knew as I got older and older and older it became very clear to me how to harness it. I’m so proud…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (October 2-3, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Meg Bartelt, founder and lead planner of Flow Financial Planning, and Alex Cavalieri discuss [Podcast]: The “90/10” ratio that forms the basis for all of her content marketing The important difference between a “market niche” and a “service niche” How she iterated on her original niche And more… “I didn’t try to create my own pond and invite the fish over – that’s way too ambitious for me. I went to where there was already a pond of my target fishes…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (September 25-26, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Xena Financial Planning founder and financial advisor Danika Waddell shares the blueprint behind her extraordinary growth including [Podcast with Transcript]: What she attributes to gaining 60 clients in her first 12 months When she chose to hire a business coach How she has built her support team And more… “So actually creating some of the workflows and things like that, it’s just not my natural ability, so I hired somebody really early on that, you know, is a business coach, but…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 28-29, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Taylor Schulte discusses the processes behind his firm’s success and more [Podcast or Video]: How he ditched the typical printed financial plan deliverable and what he uses instead The steps he takes to set up “surge meetings” How he transitioned non-niche clients in a way that felt natural to him The ideal target market size that makes for a good niche Finding Your Financial Planning Niche With Taylor Schulte [Ross Marino, Shaping Change] Jerry Kauffman gives an overview of the “Entrepreneurial…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (August 21-22, 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Recently hitting $100M in AUM and growing his podcast to over 1M downloads in 2 years, Benjamin Brandt sat down with Samantha Russell to share [Podcast or Video]: mistakes to avoid when first launching a podcast what metrics are important and which are superficial the “stair-step” approach to his value-driven sales funnel and more “I came out of the barrel smoking hot – I got two or three episodes in, every week I was going, and then I got like four…
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Weekend Content for New Financial Planners (May 29-31 2021)
“Weekend Content for New Financial Planners” is a collection of articles, podcasts, videos, etc. that I’ve been consuming regarding breaking into financial planning, industry trends, career development, and more. Industry recruiting veteran Shannon O’Toole with excellent, all-encompassing advice for your next interview [Podcast: 28-minutes]: “I think it’s an interesting time right now to be a candidate. I do, from my perspective, think that the industry has a shortage of talent. You can be a little bit more picky right now as a candidate. So, just as I tell a firm owner that they really need to think about who it is they want to hire and what those values and…
