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Lavish Your Clients With Service with Cathi Durrell (Ep. 23)

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Aside from a prospectus, product brochure or statement, your business has become extremely virtual and complex. Adding tangible tools to your approach helps remind both your affluent clients and your prospective clients that there are two types of advisors – salespeople and consultants – and what the differences between the two are.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Cathi Durrell, owner of Lavish Cards, to discuss how one of the best strategies a fee-for-service professional can do to take their relationship management to the next level.

Cathi discusses:

  • Actionable strategies that lead to client loyalty, client engagement, and client advocacy
  • How greeting cards reinforce your image as a goal-based professional
  • What to do if you can’t find the time to send out personalized greeting cards
  • Unconventional card ideas to improve your branding
  • And more

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About Our Guest: Cathi Durrell, along with her husband Glen, who is a professional photographer, are the owners of Lavish Fine Art Cards, a company they co-founded 11 years ago. Lavish has grown extensively over the past 11 years and specializes in catering to the bespoke communication needs of their clients. The entire crew at Lavish are committed to creating and supplying the highest quality greeting cards. In her spare time, Cathi enjoys travel and exploring “the back-roads” with Glen, in search of the next image for Lavish.

 

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Preparing to Buy (or Sell) a Business with Ted Motheral (Ep. 22)

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Your business is your biggest asset — it’s your life’s work! If you want to maximize its enterprise value, you need to take action well before the time of selling it.

If you’re a buyer looking to take over a business, there are certain efforts you can take to improve your company’s growth.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Ted Motheral, chair of Walter | Haverfield’s Business Services group, to help buyers and sellers prepare for an efficient business transfer. They also explore ways to take impeccable care of your clients and employees during the process.

Ted discusses:

  • Key value drivers for a financial advisory business
  • A checklist to keep in mind before buying or selling a business
  • The importance of taking a goal-based approach toward your big liquidity event
  • The role of private equity in the current M&A landscape
  • How to organize your corporate structure and protect your intellectual property before selling your business
  • And more

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Ted Motheral is Chair of Walter | Haverfield’s Business Services group, which includes more than two dozen business and transactional lawyers. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, as well as private debt and equity financing. Ted has experience in leading transactions for multi-million dollar acquisitions and has represented borrowers and lenders in multi-million dollar debt offerings. He is also experienced in advising clients on general corporate matters, entity formation and governance, joint ventures, divestments, and reporting requirements and regulations. Additionally, Ted has experience forming loan documentation programs for public entities in the State of Ohio. Ted joined Walter | Haverfield as a partner in 2016. Prior to joining Walter | Haverfield, he practiced law at Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aranoff. He was formerly a financial consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in New York City and also worked in the general counsel office of KLA-Tencor Corporation in Silicon Valley, California.

 

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Looking to Your Liquidity Event with Denise Logan (Ep. 21)

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Every business owner will leave their business one day, voluntarily or involuntarily. It’s a matter of WHEN, not IF.

So, it’s important to start planning for this inflection point well ahead of time — both technically and emotionally.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson speaks with Denise Logan, business transition expert, professional speaker, and best-selling author of The Seller’s Journey. Denise explains how you can help clients overcome the emotional barriers to selling a business while simultaneously preparing for your own exit.

Denise discusses:

  • Why creating your own exit strategy is the first step to assisting clients in their exit
  • How to remain your client’s first-choice advisor when the time comes for the big liquidity event
  • How to prepare your team for the transition to a new owner
  • Legacy dinners, fireside chats, and other fun activities to connect with your clients
  • And more

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Denise Logan knows that to business owners, selling a business is more than a transaction. To them, it is an emotionally fraught period of transition, filled with unexpected highs and lows, with no clear vision of what waits at the end for them and their family. Her passion for this work is colored by her own experience of being an unprepared business owner who made an abrupt and choppy exit from her company, after ignoring the signs that it was time for several years.

She is the author of The Seller’s Journey: A Business Fable about Navigating the Emotional Obstacles to Selling Your Business, and has addressed more than five hundred audiences on three continents about the psychology of business owners and how to make it easier when the time comes to let go. 

Denise provides advanced training to advisors employed by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, law firms and accounting firms, helping their clients successfully transition their businesses to new owners and, most importantly, without regret.

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How To Fulfill Your Clients’ Deepest Estate Planning Needs with Julia Norman and Tom Deans, Ph.D. (Ep. 20)

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Do you know what’s keeping your clients up at night? For a lot of them, it is this question, what happens to their hard-earned wealth when they pass away?

In other words, it’s the absence of an estate plan.

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson speaks with Julia Norman, associate lawyer at Pushor Mitchell LLP, and Tom Deans, Ph.D., intergenerational wealth expert, speaker, and best-selling author of “Every Family’s Business” and “Willing Wisdom.” Julia and Tom explain how advisors can re-imagine estate planning for their clients to ensure a stress-free wealth transfer that minimizes future family conflicts.

Julia and Tom discuss:

  • The main reasons why your clients might be delaying estate planning
  • How to make estate planning highly process-driven and collaborative
  • How family estate planning meetings can help retain your clients for multiple generations
  • Why advisors should create their wills first before helping clients
  • And more

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Julia Norman is an associate lawyer with Pushor Mitchell practicing in the areas of civil litigation, family law, estate planning and estate administration. Prior to going to law school, Julia rode for the Canadian Equestrian Team in the sport of three-day eventing, training and competing throughout North America. Outside of the office Julia can be found spending time with her family, riding her horse, water skiing, or enjoying one of the many activities that the Okanagan has to offer.

Tom Deans, Ph.D.’s research and thought leadership on the subjects of wealth transfers, preparing heirs and family dynamics has made him an in-demand speaker and webinar presenter. Since the release of his first book in 2008, Tom has delivered more than 1000 paid speeches in 25 countries. He has also provided advanced training to advisors employed by the world’s largest financial institutions, law firms and accounting firms. Dr. Deans is also the Founder of the Willing Wisdom Index™ a new digital client engagement tool for advisors to share with prospects and clients.



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The Why and How of Video Marketing for Advisors 2.0 with Laura Garfield and Sharon Gottula (Ep. 19)

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Advisors have been using conventional tools for content marketing like blogs and whitepapers for years. But have you ever considered video marketing?

Videos can help you with client acquisition, establishing credibility, branding, and much more!

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson speaks with Laura Garfield and Sharon Gottula, co-founders of Idea Decanter. They explore the power of video marketing in financial services and how it can fast-track your business growth.

Laura and Sharon discuss:

  • Ways to enhance your client experience using videos
  • Tips for effectively conveying your core message to ideal prospects
  • How Idea Decanter makes video marketing easy (even if it’s your first video!)
  • How to add tremendous value to your business with video intellectual property
  • And More!

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Laura Garfield started her career in broadcast journalism learning how to ask the right questions to get to the heart of the story. Her experience, from small-market TV in Hastings, NE, all the way up through positions at CBS News in New York and then CNN in Atlanta, gives her a unique perspective on digital storytelling. In 2014, she co-founded Idea Decanter to help growth-minded financial service professionals leverage digital content to take control of their own brand.

Sharon Gottula spent 20 years as a commercial photographer, focusing her talent on everything from portraiture to architecture and food for national and international publications, such as  Newsweek, Men’s Fitness and Prevention Magazine. When she co-founded Idea Decanter, she began helping clients in the wealth sector breathe new life into their marketing strategies with video. Sharon specializes in finding visual ways to explain complex concepts and telling your story in 2 minutes or less.

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Dynastic Drivers in Estate Planning with Julia Norman (Ep 18)

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Estate planning is the one of those tasks that needs to get done but we often procrastinate to get it done. 

On This episode of Always on, Duncan MacPherson is joined by Julia Norman, Associate Lawyer at Pushor Mitchell LLP, who specializes in estate planning. She shares insights and tips on how to navigate your estate plan so you don’t have to worry when something bad happens. 

Julia discusses:

  • The three things that separates her from other estate planning lawyers  
  • Tax Liabilities 
  • The negative effects of procrastination on estate planning
  • Why people are desperate to get their estate plan done when something big happens
  • And More!

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Julia Norman is an associate lawyer with Pushor Mitchell practicing in the areas of civil litigation, family law, estate planning and estate administration.

Prior to going to law school, Julia rode for the Canadian Equestrian Team in the sport of three-day eventing, training and competing throughout North America. Outside of the office Julia can be found spending time with her family, riding her horse, waterskiiing, or enjoying one of the many activities that the Okanagan has to offer.

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How To Get Your Competition Fired With Randy Schwantz (Ep. 14)

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When you think about someone getting fired or getting someone fired, your first thought drifts to them doing or saying something wrong.

However, what if there was another way to fire someone without it being a negative experience?

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Randy Schwantz, Owner of The Wedge Group. They talk about how to fire your competition with a positive spin.

Randy discusses:

  • The exciting collaboration between The Wedge Group and Pareto Systems
  • How professional contrast and professional scarcity work off each other
  • The difference between proactive and reactive services
  • And more

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Randy Schwantz, the author of three previous books on selling insurance, is President of The Wedge® Group, business performance, and sales consulting firm. A former salesperson himself, Schwantz has spent more than 10,000 hours talking with people who sell for a living. His unique sales strategy, The Wedge, has been embraced by hundreds of companies and thousands of individual sales professionals throughout the United States and Canada. He and his wife, Lori, live with their four daughters near Raleigh, NC.

 

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How to Attract Business Owners With Tom Deans, Ph.D.

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When it comes to continuity and succession planning, family investment legacy, and all of the dynastic realities that come about when money goes into motion, business owners need a plan—and they need an expert to help them develop that plan.

In this podcast, Duncan is joined by special guest Tom Deans, Ph.D., intergenerational wealth expert, speaker and best-selling author of “Every Family’s Business” and “Willing Wisdom”. Duncan and Tom outline an approach that will help financial professionals become indispensable to their affluent clients, especially business owners looking to preserve their wealth for future generations.

Duncan and Tom discuss:

  • How to position yourself as a conduit for purposeful business succession
  • How to align yourself with business owners to become indispensable within their team
  • How you can capture additional assets outside of your process
  • And more

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Tom Deans Ph.D.’s research and thought leadership on the subjects of wealth transfers, preparing heirs and family dynamics has made him an in-demand speaker and webinar presenter. Since the release of his first book in 2008, Tom has delivered more than 1000 paid speeches in 25 countries. He has also provided advanced training to advisors employed by the world’s largest financial institutions, law firms and accounting firms.

Dr. Deans is also the Founder of the Willing Wisdom Index™ a new digital client engagement tool for advisors to share with prospects and clients.

 

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Outsourcing Your Wealth Management with Chris Garcia

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What does an advisor of the future look like? How can you adjust your process and team to elevate the client experience?

In this episode, Duncan has a conversation with Chris Garcia, CEO of the Azimont Group. They discuss Chris’ journey to building a successful Franchise Ready practice. How his focus on people, his practice, and his process have contributed to continued growth while elevating his client experience and referability.

Chris discusses:

  • The benefits of outsourcing your wealth management 
  • How professional branding can impact growth 
  • How to increase the enterprise value of your business
  • What an advisor of the future looks like
  • And more

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Chris Garcia is the CEO of Azimont Group, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC. He graduated from Texas State University with a degree in Finance and quickly found his life’s calling. Chris is passionate about helping my clients build confidence in their financial futures. He helps them gain confidence in their future, knowing that they have a plan in place to help them reach their financial goals. Knowing that they have a team of professionals helping them manage their financial lives through a comprehensive process allows them to focus on the things that matter most, instead of worrying about the things that are out of their control.

Community is very important to Chris. He and his wife, Stephanie, are very involved with their church, and Chris serves on the Board of Trustees of the Texas State University Development Foundation. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with Stephanie and their growing family, playing golf, and traveling.

 

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What It Means To Be An Advisor Of The Future With Tyson Jon Ray CFP®, CIMA®

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What does it mean to be an advisor of the future? How can advisors become more productive over the next 10 years? What is your approach to client relationships?

In this episode, Duncan MacPherson is joined by Tyson Jon Ray CFP®, CIMA®, CEO of FORM Wealth. They cover a lot of ground including how to achieve professional contrast and how to activate future pacing as a goals-based planner with your clients, but also looking down the road at the evolution of this industry. Tyson shares details about FORM Wealth’s process and how they approach client relationships. Plus, Tyson explains what makes him and FORM Wealth different.

Tyson discusses:

  • The process FORM Wealth applies to help clients reach their financial goals
  • His approach and how he views client relationships
  • Why he wrote the book “Your World Impact: As A Financial Advisor”
  • What makes him different from other authors of business development books
  • How the definition of getting out of commotized wealth management has evolved recently
  • How advisors can become more productive 
  • And more

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Tyson first learned about investing and the stock market during an economics class in his sophomore year at Badger High School, and at 16 years old, he decided to invest $100 into two different mutual funds. This was his first step on a path he continues to traverse today: using financial strategy to help make people’s lives better. He started his career in financial services after graduating from the Honors program at the University of West Florida and returning to Southern Wisconsin, where his family has lived for generations.

Over the past 20+ years, Tyson has sought to expand his knowledge and expertise through Yale School of Management, Investment Management Theory & Practice, CIMA Certification Registration Education Program, including obtaining the Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) Certification and through the College for Financial Planning for the CFP® Certification, including obtaining CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification.

Tyson has been named a 2021-2018 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisor*, 2021 Barron’s Top 1200**, and a 2021-2005 Chairman’s Council Advisor***. He is also a member of the Financial Planning Association of Wisconsin. He has been recognized for his many philanthropic endeavors in the community, including the Invest in Others Global Community Impact Award and REP. Magazine’s Advisor with a Heart Award for Sustainable Charity for his ongoing work with the Ray’s non-profit, Children’s World Impact.

Tyson is the author of “Your World Impact as a Financial Advisor”.

Tyson is devoted to his wife Jenny and their three children, Nelson, Austin, and Carson. When he has the opportunity, he enjoys spending time outdoors, hunting, fishing, and playing golf.

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