Ben Peters is a Partner and Chief Compliance Officer with Burton Enright Welch, a wealth management firm based out of Walnut Creek, CA. Ben initially started his career as an attorney, but he left that role to pursue a career in financial planning—despite having some misconceptions about the profession. Listen in as Ben shares the strategies he used to pivot from attorney to financial planner, including the strategies he used to network, how he was hired by a firm without any prior financial ...
Ep #29: Pursuing a Career in Media with Erica Crane and Matt Nelson
Erica Crane is a Senior Technical Editor and Matt Nelson is the Director of Education at Kitces.com, a leading financial planning education and media company. Both have had very unique journeys to their current roles, with Erica starting out as a Ph.D. student in Molecular Biology, and Matt as an English major before being recruited to a sales position in financial planning and eventually making his way to his current position. In this episode, both Erica and Matt share why they both pivoted ...
Ep #24: Moving Across the Country to Get the Job of Your Dreams with Coleburn Spence
Coleburn Spence is a financial advisor at Soundview Advisors in Seattle, Washington, and he joins the show today to share what ignited his passion for financial planning at the young age of 15. He also opens up about why he chose to attend a university that had a CFP program—but not declare financial planning as his major right away—and how he pivoted when he was striking out in the two job markets he had targeted prior to graduation to find his first firm. Listen in to learn what criteria ...
Ep #21: Helping Your Clients Find Their Money Quotient with Amy Mullen
Amy Mullen is the President of Money Quotient, a training and consulting firm in Portland, OR for firms who want to integrate life planning into their client service model. She joins the show today to share the empirical evidence on the life planning approach and how financial advisors using the Money Quotient tools are seeing higher levels of implementation of recommendations and overall higher client satisfaction. Listen in as Amy discusses how the steps to create an evidenced-based client ...
Ep #15: Starting a Firm Because You Can’t Find a Fit with Betty Wang
Betty Wang is the Founder and Owner of BW Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado. She joins the show today to discuss why she pursued a career in financial planning, how she secured multiple internships while in school, and the reasons she chose not to join a financial planning firm after graduation (instead opting for the institutional side of the business). Listen as Betty shares the keys to succeeding in corporate environments, as well as why she left corporate America. You'll learn what ...
Ep #13: The Basics of A Successful Succession Plan with Christine Sjölin
Christine Sjölin is the Vice President of Strategic Development and Operations at FP Transitions, a specialized consulting firm for wealth managers providing end-to-end solutions for buying, selling, and transforming businesses. Christine joins the show today to discuss the typical succession planning process, as well as how equity ownership deals are generally structured so the younger generations of owners can actually afford the purchase price when valuations can be millions of dollars or ...