We sat down with Gabe Rissman, co-founder and President of YourStake. Gabe has created a firm with a vision of simplifying advisors' work and enhancing the client journey to drive personalized investing. YourStake began with the “NoScore” data approach in 2020 to offer a transparent alternative to traditional ESG data. Today, it offers a suite of AI-driven solutions for every part of the advisor-client relationship.

We sat down with Dr. Shay Harris-Pierre, a certified Financial Therapist and consultant with a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision. Dr. Shay’s work focuses on supporting advisors in strengthening their relationships with their clients and integrating interior finance concepts into their practices. She helps advisors work through generational family dynamics to have productive conversations, and to help people find the motivation to get past their money mindset

Masha Hodi, Partner and Client Experience Officer at Cerity Partners, has worn a lot of hats in her career, and she brings that knowledge to a conception of client experience that is built on and continually references growth. She breaks down how Cerity stays in front of an ever-changing industry, and the importance of creating and maintaining a strong culture. 

Stephanie Bogan, Chief Possibility Officer for Limitless Advisor, makes redefining success upwards - for herself and the advisors, leaders and founders she partners with - look easy. But there's a career's worth of insight, intelligence, method and practice in her coaching. Stephanie gets serious about the inspiration and the hard questions in this episode. 

Adrian Johnstone, CEO of Practifi, has spent a career harnessing technology to optimize growth. Gathering data isn't enough; it's about unlocking knowledge to create a customer experience that helps firms grow at every stage. Moving from insight to action is the challenge for advisors. Doing it consistently and at scale can seem impossible. Adrian breaks down how Practifi thinks about a rapidly evolving industry. 

Doug Boneparth is the financial voice of a generation, and over the course of his career, he's seen how the challenges his generation faced have redefined financial planning. Older millennials may make different decisions from past generations on everything from education debt for their kids to retirement to estate planning. The portfolios they need to reach their goals are very different and need to be based on a whole new set of assumptions.

Seth Streeter, Founder and Chief Impact Officer of Mission Wealth, has some very clear principles. He wants to help clients redefine wealth, and has created a service model that places inspiration, balance, and purpose at the center of a holistic process. For advisors, this means creating a collaborative culture backed up by custom tech. The goal is to ensure that clients feel a sense of shared mission that goes beyond planning, especially for clients facing transitions. 

Seth and Derek touch on a lot of areas on this episode, but you'll want more from this very thoughtful industry leader. Here's where you can find it: 

Seth Streeter TEDx Talk
www.sethstreeter.com

Paul Saganey, Founder & CEO of Integrated Partners, has cracked the code of supercharging growth. He helps advisors succeed with much larger clients than their existing books, and pairs that up with a deep understanding of how to build a COI network with the "grail" of referrral sources: CPAs.

Advisors are often asked to help solve financial problems, and some of the most difficult pertain to taxes. Our guest, Hubert Johnson, has built a business around understanding how to successfully negotiate with the IRS, and he also has some great insights on how to avoid getting to that point. 

Tim Mitrovich, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ten Capital, has built a winning event strategy by focusing on client experience. It's a unique approach that combines thematic consistency with creating events that run the gamut from great speakers to fun activities - and everything in between. Tim has seen huge growth by keeping the focus on the client - not the advisor. 

We welcome H. Adam Holt, CEO and Founder of Asset-Map. Adam needed a better way to help clients visualize their money, and his original hand-drawn prototype has become a tool that facilitates client engagement and can help advisors see where the opportunity is. Our conversation is a fascinating look at how deliberate design can create a feedback loop that helps advisors and their clients meet their goals. 

We welcome John Prendergast, co-founder and CEO of BlueLeaf. John created BlueLeaf with the vision of making an environment that allows the advisor to be fully appreciated by their clients. The best ideas are simple in articulation and complex in execution, and John gets into how they solved for that. We dive into what this means now - and in an AI-driven future. 

Jonathan Foster, President and CEO at Angeles Wealth Management, has a created a stratgic vision for his firm that taps into his deep understanding of family wealth dynamics and the unique wealth management needs of ultra-high-net worth families and individuals. As co-founder of Angeles Wealth, Jonathan played a key role in developing the platform that offers comprehensive wealth advice and institutional-quality investment solutions to generationally wealthy clients. We get deep on how he helps clients create and preserve multi-generational wealth. 

We welcome Mary Ann Bartels, Chief Investment Strategist of Sanctuary Wealth, to give us an outlook on what 2024 has in store. Mary Ann brings all the data, and wraps it into a narrative that resonates. Across markets, economics, asset classes and the historical comparisons, Mary Ann makes some great points.

We welcome Nick Rose and Emily Biehler, founders of NovaTrak, a SaaS financial planning tool they created that also helps motivate clients and demonstrates the value of the flexible financial planning fee model. It's unique, and we get into the details. 

Becky Swansburg, CEO of Stonewood Financial, has trained advisors across the country on incorporating tax-efficient retirement strategies into their practices. Becky focuses on the new reality that taxes in retirement likely won't be lower, and the tax risk to a plan is as significant as investment risk. She has some surprising insights, and a point of view on ways to introduce a conversation that has prospects and clients "all ears."

We welcome Tim Gerend, Chief Distribution Officer of Northwestern Mutual. There's a growing recognition among investors that their financial planning needs work, and that financial advisors are the most trusted resource for financial advice. Northwestern Mutual's recent study has the data, and Tim has an interesting and detailed perspective on how Advisors can harness the trends to build their practice. 

We welcome John DeVincent, Chief Growth Officer of Intention.ly, a financial services-focused marketing consultancy. John has been at the forefront of financial services marketing, leading teams at SaaS platforms that have revolutionized the industry, including eMoney Advisor. Advisors have more tech and tools than ever before to market their practices, but sorting through them and selecting the right ones is a challenge. John breaks down the fundamentals of a digital strategy, and along the way offers a lot of insight into the future of the industry. 

We welcome Greg Margolies, Partner, Ares Management for a deep dive on private credit. This alternative asset class has seen tremendous demand from retail and HNW investors, and we take a close look. Ares is a leader in the space, and Greg has spent a 35-year career in credit. He gets into the mechanics of the deals, what to look for, and how private credit can help diversify a portfolio through all stages of the economic cycle.

Jennifer Palmer, CEO and Founder of JPalmer Collective, joins us to explain asset-based lending and how it can be a solution for businesses that want to raise capital, but also want to keep equity intact. The range of eligible assets is broad, and our discussion about the true cost of capital is eye-opening. Jenn has spent a career as a leader in the space, and founding her own firm has allowed her to focus on the segment of the market that she is passionate about. This ep gets deep on financing detail, but also takes a look at the trends and growth in woman-owned businesses.

We welcome Zach Conway, Founder and CEO of Seeds Investor. One of the biggest issues for financial advisors is engaging and retaining the “next gen” investor - Gen X and Millennials. These generations realize investing is key to achieving the flexible life they want, but they want to invest on their terms. Values-based investing is a huge part of this. Zach has created an efficient and scalable way to help advisors align clients’ values with their goals. We get into detail about how advisors can tell a story beyond performance every time they talk to their clients, which is critical to mapping goals to money.

Our guest this episode is Mark Gatto, co-Founder and co-CEO of CION Investments, Advisor Lab’s parent and sponsor. Mark explains why CION created a podcast focused on the advisor community, and along the way we talk about the growing demand for alternatives from retail investors and CION’s very differentiated view of how to support the advisor community by leading with education. We also get into one of the alts asset classes that is making headlines this year: private credit.

In this episode, we welcome the team that makes up Quorum Private Wealth. Mike Barry, Kelly Milligan, Sue English Mazzetti and Melissa Yue made the decision to become independent a couple years ago, and they are finding that while the process was seamless for their clients, independence has led to some surprising results and growth avenues. The new model of financial advice is shifting towards “life advisor,” not just money advisor, and the Quorum team has found new ways to make this core to their practice.

Michael Kitces needs no introduction. One of the foremost voices in the industry, he's a financial planner in his role at Buckingham Wealth, and also a commentator, speaker, blogger, podcaster and educator. From Kitces.com, to his Nerds' Eye View blog and Advisor Success podcast, Michael leads the conversations that change the industry. XYPN, the integrated support system for independent financial advisors, is Michael's response to the problem of bringing younger advisors into the industry, and it's now celebrating ten years of helping advisors build the practice they want. We get into the bifurcation Michael sees in the industry, the role of AI, and more in this episode recorded at Future Proof. 

In this episode, we welcome Jonathan DeYoe. Jonathan combines Buddhism, academia, and advisory in a unique practice that focuses on holistic planning and becoming a better investor. The goal is to live a better life, transform relationships with money, and identify a circle of competence that improves outcomes. Sounds like a lot - but Jonathan brings it together in surprisingly tactical ways.

We welcome Jeremy Straub, Founder and CEO of Coastal Wealth, for an episode focused on the business side of building a successful financial advisory practice. Jeremy has created companies that are great places to work at by motivating and managing people to do their best. Jeremy’s story is amazing, and his point of view on steps and strategies to create a financial advisory business that the advisor enjoys is a must-listen.

Real Assets are evolving as we look to a low-carbon, ai-driven future in which geopolitics will play a bigger role. Where are the opportunities? What are choices from an investor standpoint? How does ESG fit in? We sat down with Will Thomson of Massif Capital for an enlightening and in-depth discussion. Some of the answers are surprising.

In this episode, we welcome Carl Richards, the NYTimes Sketch Guy and Chief Brand Officer for Elements. Carl and Derek get into the unique and powerful role that financial advisors play in aligning people's time, dreams, and money. It’s not easy to hold people accountable to their own goals, and supportive conversations are key. Carl also explains why Elements was a great fit - and it comes down to turning prospecting into a simple, actionable visual.

In this episode, we welcome Brendan Frazier, Founder of Wired Planning. Behavioral finance isn’t new - but Brendan has got implementing it down to a science. Our discussion with him breaks it down in ways that will resonate with advisors that are building a practice, and we also get into an interesting chat about the future of financial advice in our new AI Chat world that provides insight for advisors at all levels.

Todd Mercer, founder and Managing Partner of Mercer Wealth Management, discusses how utilizing “a la carte” technology has allowed him to increase his level of service across the board. He goes deep on how and why Mercer incorporated alternatives into client portfolios, and his outlook on the evolution of the industry. 

Katie Braden, founder and Chief Video Officer of Advisor Video Marketing makes an encore on the pod to get us up to speed on how video is evolving. We asked Katie to come back because we think video is one of most important marketing tools for today’s advisor. Katie gets into why video is so effective, how you can get started, and the best uses to grow your practice and create stickier relationships.

In this episode, we welcome Beth Hendler-Grunt, founder of Next Great Step. Finding a first job as a new college grad can be difficult. Beth’s process teaches kids the skills they need to stand out, and teaches parents how to help their kids launch. The first job is a key piece of the financial journey for both kids and parents, as parents exit the college burden and ramp up retirement planning.

Amit Dogra is President and COO of tru Independence, a platform that helps financial advisors optimize their independence with guidance, expertise and support. In this episode, we go deep into the continually evolving financial advisory landscape, the trends Amit sees now, and some very good advice for what advisors should be thinking about, from asset growth to succession planning.

Matt Middleton is CEO of Future Proof, the most innovative and disruptive event in the wealth management industry. Only in its third year, Future Proof's events, starting with the Festival in Huntington Beach, are already the foundational and definitional events for where wealth management is going. Matt gets into his vision, and how keeping it tech-enabled and human-centered has meant both massive growth and an incredibly high level of attendee satisfaction.

On this episode of Advisor Lab by CION, we welcome Brian Levitt, Global Market Strategist. We sat down with Brian to discuss his view on the volatility and uncertainty of last year, how things changed in the last few months, and what he thinks may be in store for the economy and the markets in 2023. Along the way, we hit the Fed’s terminal rate, the debt ceiling, the 60/40 portfolio, and got into alternatives. It’s a great listen to set you up for 2023.

On this episode of Advisor Lab by CION, we sit down with Josh Reidinger, CEO of Waverly Advisors. Waverly has grown organically and through acquisitions, backed with private equity. We get into how Waverly built a unique culture, what they see going forward in the independent advisor space, and how they develop niche-based offerings for clients. Waverly believes in scaling your business, but not your relationships. 

On this episode of Advisor Lab by CION, we welcome Anna N’Jie-Konte, the Founder of Dare-To-Dream Financial Planning. Anna N’Jie Konte has built a unique and successful business by looking at what attracted her, and adapting it to her own firm. She’s a firm believer in creating marketing rooted in the advisor’s personal story and value system to create client trust. We discuss Anna’s journey, and how her commitment to fitness and self-care was critical to her success.

In this episode, we welcome Jason Barsema, president and co-founder of Halo Investing. This fintech platform provides financial advisors with solutions for their clients that historically have only been available to ultra high net worth individuals. Be it bonds or equities, the 60/40 portfolios have had the worst first half of any year going back to 1932. Downside risk is on everyone's mind. Find out why Jason and Halo Investing are seeing such a huge demand for their platform and their business.

In this episode, we welcome Ann Garcia, she’s owner of Independent Progressive Advisors, and the author of how to pay for college book and course. Ann has built a pretty incredible media portfolio around the topic of college, and in this episode, we dive into how she did it while running her practice. Let’s get into the conversation with Ann Garcia.

Check out the course: https://howtopayforcollege.com

In this episode, we sit down with Joy Lere, Co-Founder of Shaping Wealth. Joy is a clinical psychologist, founder, consultant, educator, and writer - and she has an incredibly unique point of view on how advisors can create more self-awareness in their practice to improve their client relationships. 

Shaping Wealth just launched a new program, OCBO, your Outsourced Chief Behaviorial Office. You can learn more about it here: https://www.shapingwealth.com/ocbo

In this episode, we sit down with Scott Frank, founder of Stone Steps Financial, who has built a unique client experience for years leveraging new tech and different life planning approaches. We get into his experience introducing life planning into his practice and the latest tech he is using to improve his client experience and get back his time. 

Check out Stone Steps: https://www.stonestepsfinancial.com/

Check out Elements: https://getelements.com/ 

In this episode, we catch up with Callie Cox, an investment analyst at eToro who has built an incredibly engaged audience on Twitter talking all things macro and the market. Everything Callie puts out pulls and engages new readers, so we wanted to get into the details of her blueprint, personality, and thought process. We also discuss her take on what's happening in the macro economy. 

In this episode, we sit down with SEI's Head of Practice Management, Shauna Mace. We get into her experience in working with advisors on how to go from busy to productive. We also dive into the launch of SEI's Growth Lab - a place where advisors can find resources and tools to help them build their practice. 

Learn more: https://info.seic.com/welcome-to-the-sei-growth-lab

Learn more about us: advisorio.co

No matter where you are in your practice life cycle, setting goals and objectives is a major part of your practice. In this episode, we welcome Matt Spielman, Chief Performance Officer and Head Coach of Inflection Point Partners, an organizational, career, and executive coaching firm. Matt has coached folks like Alex Rodriguez to optimize their lives throughout the years. 

Find out more about Matt: https://www.theinflectionpointsbook.com/

Dr. David Kelly is the Chief Global Strategist and Head of the Global Market Insights Strategy Team for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. David provides valuable insight and perspective on the economy and markets to the institutional investor and financial advisor global communities.

David’s research focuses on investment implications of an evolving economic environment. He has developed a unique ability to explain complex economic and market issues in a language that financial professionals can use to communicate to their clients. 

Operations and optimizing your CRM is something near and dear to every advisors heart and in this episode, we welcome Kate Guillen – founder of Simplicity Ops, a firm that helps advisors fix and optimize their CRM, we get into how to clean up your CRM data and begin to extra true value for your business and the pivots you should make going forward. We cover the exact blueprint to help you do this. 

This episode is from a recent panel we did at Snappy Kraken’s Jolt conference with some others in the space, including Taylor Schulte, Matt Halloran, Emily Binder, and David Armstrong. We dove into voice and video marketing – including the ins and outs of how to get started, what you need to produce, and why your early data won’t tell you the full picture. 

We’re flipping the script in today’s episode, and in this episode, it comes from a session I recently did with Marie Swift of Impact Communications on her podcast, Swift Chat. We dive into what Advisors can be doing to market towards their niche, including how to think about your audience and persona, what kind of content you should be creating, and what you should be measuring. 

Learn more about what we do: www.thesevengroup.com

In this episode, we dive into the 3-actions to take with clients when it comes to the current market environment, including what to share, how often to share, and how you can conduct meetings. 

Check out more on out blog: https://www.thesevengroup.com/blog/