January 30, 2019
Ep #189: Life as the CEO of a 30+ Employee Firm - The Career of Chip Munn
In this episode, you'll get to hear what it's like being the owner of a large firm. Chip Munn of Signature Wealth Strategies joins us to share his journey and transition from teaching to building a fast-growing firm with multiple locations and thousands of clients. He has a lot of gre …
January 23, 2019
Ep #188: Evolving the Vision for Your Firm From Solo to Growth – The Career of Jeremy Walter
Jeremy Walter had a unique experience breaking into the financial advising world. In this episode, he shares his uncommon career path, including his transition from working at a firm he enjoyed to starting his own firm—and how he cordially navigated the change with his boss. He also g …
January 02, 2019
Ep #185: From Serving in the Marines to Building a Hyper Growth Financial Planning Firm - The Career of Steven Fox
Making the shift from serving in the Marines to navigating the financial services world is not the easiest transition, but Steven Fox managed it and ended up owning his own successful firm. In this episode, he shares how he initially learned about the financial planning field and deci …
November 28, 2018
Ep #180: Diving into XYPN's 2018 Annual Benchmarking Study with Michael Kitces
XYPN co-founder Michael Kitces is back on the show! For the second year now, we have collected data from our member firms to help us better understand their businesses and how they’re operating, and Michael joins me today to talk about what we found.
November 21, 2018
Ep #179: From Managing a Hedge Fund to Building an RIA - The Career of Michelle Gass
XYPN member Michelle Gass has had quite a unique path into the financial planning world. After starting her career as a tax accountant, Michelle transitioned into a family office, and then ended up launching and running a successful hedge fund for over twenty years. It wasn’t until af …
November 07, 2018
Ep #177: Running Two Successful Businesses As Siblings - The Careers of Danna Jacobs and Rob Colon
Danna Jacobs and Rob Colon are an impressive brother and sister duo that went from launching a firm in 2013 with just one client—who happened to be their grandfather—to running not just one, but two successful businesses. The founders of Legacy Care Wealth and Inspired Vision Accounti …
October 31, 2018
Ep #176: Serving Homeschool Families As a Homeschool Parent - The Career of Wakefield Hare
Todays' guest decided to start his own firm just six months after buying into a partnership to become the succession plan for a retirement-age advisor. Now the founder of Greater Than Financial, Wakefield Hare began his journey to starting his own firm after he learned about XYPN in 2 …
September 12, 2018
Ep #169: Building a $220k Revenue Business in 4 Years - The Career of Martin Lundgren
Entrepreneurs view risk differently and Martin Lundgren is the perfect example of this. We’ll chat about his career journey into financial consulting and eventually his own successful business. He talks about the unique challenges and risks involved as an immigrant and shares many tip …