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
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.
Join David Rutherford, a highly sought-after performance coach who combines immutable principles drawn from his intense experience in the Navy SEAL community along with actionable strategies from the world of business development and entrepreneurship. His client list is a who’s who in corporate America as well as champion amateur and professional sports teams.
Along with Duncan MacPherson, David will share his unrivaled insights and proven strategies that will revitalize your team, reframe your client relationships and reignite your ambition to serve and grow as a financial professional.
They discuss how to:
Kickstart Your Team to buy into an optimistic and elevated approach to the future
Rejuvenate Your Clients to ensure they appreciate your value fully and completely
Define Your Continuity Plan to go deeper into client families and secure your legacy
Drive Your Enterprise Value to maximize your biggest asset and life’s work
David is living his dream as an internationally known motivational speaker, best-selling author for kids and adults, world champion performance coach, and an award-wining Podcast host. His passion for motiving people is allowing him to work with the top companies in the world, averaging over 50 events a year. His specialty is helping individuals, teams, and organizations to develop a specific and focused approach to managing people and the mission. David is committed to helping people embrace their fears, forge their Self-Confidence, how live the Team Life, and live with purpose. David’s high energy, entertaining style, and endless motivation inspire all of those who come in contact with him to dig deep, persevere, and commit to the development of winning cultures.
David served 8 years in the Naval Special Warfare Community as a SEAL student, Combat Paramedic, Operator, and Instructor. Since his honorable discharge from the Navy in 2003, he has continued traveling as an international training specialist for Blackwater. Eventually, David was recruited by the CIA as a training and curriculum specialist, as well as deployed into high threat areas as a close protection and security specialist. David’s long-term service to the country at the highest levels and in many areas enabled him to develop a masterful ability to motivate and train people from all walks of life to achieve success in any environment imaginable.
Since 2006 David has been motivating audiences and individuals across America and around the world with his highly unique style of speaking, writing, and coaching. His Froglogic Concepts are derived from the 70 + years of operational successes within the UDT/SEAL community as well as 25 years of personal experience and research. He has combined his incredible personal story with the proven track record of the SEAL Teams and the CIA to create a simple, elite performance program.
The business world is forever evolving. Even the disruption of the last two years was only able to slow it down for a short time..
In this episode, Duncan MacPherson meets with Vice President and Performance Coach Kevin Bishopp for the Advisor Consulting Group at First Trust Portfolios. They discuss the growth in the business world over the last two years.
Duncan and Kevin discuss:
Marketing your business from growing down, growing up and everything in between
The three categories of solutions
Why some advisors are reluctant to make cuts
The difference between being able to design and being able to build
Kevin Bishopp is a Vice President and Performance Coach for the Advisor Consulting Group. His focus is the best practices and mission-critical strategies that propel professionals/firms to be truly unique within the industry. His insights into key metrics, resource allocation, team structure,
marketing and client acquisition equip professionals/firms to make high-quality strategic decisions that can generate dynamic results. Prior to joining First Trust, Kevin spent 12 years with Russell Investments where he held positions as Director of Practice Management, RIA
Channel Head and Business Development Director. In those roles, he focused on coaching, content creation, sales management, national account management, and business development. Before joining Russell Investments, Kevin spent 5 years as a wealth manager for The Bishopp Group LLC, a family-owned wealth management practice. In 1994, he started his career in financial services as an associate for Principal Financial Group. Kevin holds an MBA from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a BA in Finance from Eastern Washington University.
Content marketing is a powerful way to thrive in the expertise economy.
Why? Because consistently sharing your thought leadership with clients and prospects establishes credibility and makes you more referable.
In this episode, Duncan MacPherson is joined by Matt Halloran, Chief Relationship Officer and partner at ProudMouth, to explore the power of content marketing. They unpack strategies to convert your knowledge into intellectual property that puts you ahead of the competition.
Matt discusses:
How podcasting expands your addressable audience of prospects
How to compel your ideal clients to take action through content marketing
Strategies to create evergreen content and remain top-of-mind for your target audience
The extent to which you can outsource your content marketing
Matt Halloran got started in the financial services industry 20 years ago as a certified life and business coach. As he became immersed in his client’s biggest needs, he built his knowledge and expertise as a financial branding and social media expert. More recently, Matt has added podcasting to that list. Matt respects how tough it is to be great and effective at marketing while running a practice, living a life, and loving a family. He teaches advisors how to be themselves, let their passions shine through, and create strong brands that resonate with ideal prospects and centers of influence.
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.
When you build a house, you know, one day you might have to sell for a variety of reasons? What if your business followed the same format?
Just like adding a new deck to your backyard or investing in new technology to grow your business, every move you make contributes to the overall value when it comes time to sell.
In this episode, Duncan MacPherson joins Ted Jenkin, CEO of oXYGen Financial. They talk about taking your business to the next level, so you can get the dollar amount you desire if and when you decide to sell.
Ted discusses:
How to handle the negotiation of sale of your business
The three skills needed to scale your business income
The importance of looking at both short and long term ROI
Over the years, Ted Jenkin has built a reputation of being a visionary. He started his business oXYGen Financial in 2008 during the height of the stock market crash. He built his business with the purpose of providing financial advice to the X & Y generations. Using a revolutionary style, Clients could hire oXYGen from the get go and pay a monthly fee for the team to build clients their own personal financial dashboard. Ted has featured as a columnist on the Wall Street Journal and can be seen regularly on CNN/Headline News. Along with being featured locally on 93.7FM, 106.3FM, 680 The Fan, and NBC 11 Alive News. He also has six advanced designations including the Certified Financial Planner degree as well.
When your clients undergo a major liquidity event, they often expect a lot more from you than simply “investing” their newfound wealth.
That’s why it’s crucial to build a bench strength that serves your clients at all levels!
In this episode, Duncan joins Scott Hamilton, a master coach to financial advisors and part of the Pareto Coaches Network. They talk about how advisors can attract and serve high-net-worth clients through a multi-family office (MFO) experience.
Scott discusses:
How to minimize the risk of losing clients after major liquidity events
How to build a Value-Added Support Team (VAST) that fulfills your clients’ evolving needs
Ways to prepare clients for the “suddenly affluent” phase well ahead of time
The self-actualization benefits of building an MFO
Over the years, Scott Hamilton built a successful estate and tax practice and a nationally known wealth strategies firm. He now devotes much of his professional time to a select group of financial advisors who are looking to consistently attract and retain great clients, run a more efficient and profitable practice, elevate the client experience, drive enterprise value, and deploy a scalable growth model. His coaching clients now range from smaller boutique practices to a large multi-advisor RIA firm with over $2 Billion in assets under management. Scott is also certified with Pareto Systems, where he is currently deploying the Pareto process with several of his most successful clients.
Advisors often get asked by clients, “What will happen to me when you’re not around?”
If you don’t have an answer to it, it’s a sign to start your succession planning.
In this episode, Duncan joins Levi McMellian, CPA, AIF®, CEO, executive director, and founding partner at CFO4Life to uncover the secret to building a sustainable practice and scaling your business organically.
Levi discusses:
Why adversities are an opportunity in disguise for deeper client relationships
How to avoid a growth plateau through effective legacy planning
The importance of branding your process (instead of a single advisor)
As CEO and managing director of CFO4Life, Levi McMellian oversees vital business operations and pursues new business growth. However, his primary focus remains on building personal client relationships. With a passion for listening and learning about his clients’ most important goals and dreams, Levi seeks to offer thorough and impartial individualized advice.
In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant and Accredited Investment Fiduciary®, Levi has a bachelor’s degree in business and accounting from Oklahoma State University. As a founding partner, Levi’s determination has developed CFO4LIFE from a start-up to an established and respected Texas Investment Advisory Firm. He was instrumental in sculpting its vision and the revolutionary concept of a comprehensive, team-oriented financial planning firm. Levi also pioneered the concept of financial wellness benefits for executives in large corporations and comprehensive advisory solutions for retirement plans.
The financial world is very male-dominated, often leaving female advisors feeling outnumbered and undervalued.
Sherri Palle and Elaine Christakos, long-time financial professionals, Pareto Systems’ Business Coaches, and financial women’s advocates know this first hand.
In this episode, Duncan talks to Sherri and Elaine about their company, The Women are Here, how they strive to help women in finance both in their personal and professional lives and reveal useful lifestyle advice to become the best version of yourself.
Sherri and Elaine discuss:
Why they launched their business The Women are Here, and the demand they seek to fulfill
What clients will achieve when they adopt The Women are Here strategy
How going ‘off script’ in your life can be beneficial
What Sherri and Elaine expect from their male team members
Elaine is a Pareto Systems’ Business Coach, is a senior level results-oriented professional and strategist with over two decades of management and coaching experience in the financial services sector. She has designed and implemented successful and proven practice management and relationship management training programs.
Sherri is also a Pareto Systems’ Business Coach, fervently committed to helping financial professionals either fine-tune or completely reengineer their advisory practice to create success by systematizing and growing their practice. She will become fully entrenched in your business to provide the best advice possible. She is known for her high-energy calls which provide motivation, enthusiasm, and thought provoking ‘aha moments’ – making these calls something the entire team looks forward to.
The Women Are Here is an intelligent, innovative & caring alliance created to help women in wealth excel and elevate their advisory practice with the purpose of inspiring and elevating as many women as possible.
As aging clients transfer their wealth, advisors often yearn for a lasting relationship with their beneficiaries down the road.
However, getting introductions to clients’ family members can be a challenge!
In this podcast, Duncan speaks with Jackie Wilke, vice president, advisor consultant at First Trust. They unpack strategies to help you attract and retain clients for multiple generations by developing a Multi-Family Office (MFO) client experience.
Duncan and Jackie discuss:
How to demonstrate your genuine care for clients without seeming too sales-y
The “family phone call” exercise that positions you as a family advisor
Tips to help you navigate complex family conversations with clients
Content marketing ideas to create significant value for your target audience
The importance of building a multi-generational client base
Jackie Wilke is a speaker, author, consultant, and coach for select partners of First Trust, a firm known not only for its robust investment product line which includes UITs, ETFs, SMAs, and VAs (to name a few) but also for its commitment to the growth of financial advisors. Jackie’s focus is business development and innovation including expertise in helping financial professionals, teams, and the next generation of high-net-worth individuals/households and multi-generational families. She is also the author of Insights & Innovations, a business development blog for financial professionals and enterprises.
