Between Now and Success

Business & Economics Podcasts

Host Steve Sanduski, CFP® is the founder of two financial services companies, a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, executive coach, and speaker. Through interviews with top achievers and visionary voices, Between Now and Success brings you the strategies, tips, and tools you need to succeed at the intersection of business and life. In each episode, Steve's guests open up and share their journey and the lessons they learned on their road to the summit. So rope up and get "On Belay" as we climb the summit to success together.

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Host Steve Sanduski, CFP® is the founder of two financial services companies, a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, executive coach, and speaker. Through interviews with top achievers and visionary voices, Between Now and Success brings you the strategies, tips, and tools you need to succeed at the intersection of business and life. In each episode, Steve's guests open up and share their journey and the lessons they learned on their road to the summit. So rope up and get "On Belay" as we climb the summit to success together.

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English

Episodes

Working with Ultra-High-Net-Worth Families in a Multi-Family Office Structure with Pam Perskie

2/6/2023
Pam Perskie is the Founder and CEO of Seven Mile Advisory, a multi-family office that works with clients who have significant financial complexity, including business owners, private equity professionals, real estate investors and operators, professional athletes, and entertainers. Pam and I discussed how a successful multi-family office operates, the profile of clients, how her firm charges for its services, the mindset advisors need to work with wealthy (and oftentimes famous)...

Duration:00:48:34

Using Theater and Linguistics Techniques to Train, Educate, and Engage an Audience with Andrew Kaye-Skinner

1/30/2023
Andrew Kaye-Skinner is a Senior Product Trainer for Advisor Group, which is one of the country's largest independent broker dealers. Andrew and I discussed how he taps into his theater and linguistics background to deliver effective training to financial advisors. We also touch on some adult learning theory topics that will help you get your message across whether you're training your team of advisors or preparing to speak at an event.

Duration:00:30:34

A Guide to Private Equity and Enterprise Software Opportunities with Michael Fosnaugh

1/20/2023
Michael Fosnaugh is a Chicago-based Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Flagship Fund at Vista Equity Partners (Vista). Vista has over $95 billion AUM and over 20 years of experience investing exclusively in enterprise software. I talked to Michael about the opportunity in private equity and how he and his team analyze and invest in the B2B software market.

Duration:00:43:37

Deconstructing Modern Portfolio Theory to Build Better Investment Portfolios with Miguel Sosa

1/13/2023
Miguel Sosa is a research and product strategist at Bluerock Capital Markets, which has $15 billion in AUM. At the 2022 CAIS Alternative Investment Summit in Beverly Hills, Miguel and I discussed a paper he wrote on Advanced Diversification, where he used modern portfolio theory to deconstruct the three elements of diversification to quantify the benefits of each of those elements. We then discussed how to apply those three elements to build a more efficient portfolio. We get a little...

Duration:00:24:22

A Guide to Private Credit Alternative Investments with John Christmas

1/9/2023
John Christmas is Co-Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at HPS Investment Partners, a global investment firm with approximately $92 billion in AUM as of September 2022. John and I talked about how even as interest rates rise, private credit could provide a reasonable ROI with moderate volatility for clients looking beyond the traditional components of the 40 in the 60/40 portfolio.

Duration:00:18:20

10 Key Ideas From My Top Podcasts of 2022

1/4/2023
Since 2014, I’ve published 678 podcasts and the vast majority were interview shows. In 2022, I published 45 shows. Here are 10 ideas from my top podcasts of 2022 that particularly resonated with me and my audience (in chronological order). You'll hear ideas from: Full show notes: https://stevesanduski.com/top-podcasts-of-2022/

Duration:00:27:34

My 3 Words for 2023

1/1/2023
For the eighth time, I begin the New Year with 3 carefully chosen words meant to remind, motivate, and guide me on my road to making the New Year my best year yet. It’s called the My 3 Words exercise. My 3 words are printed at the top of my Daily Outcomes sheet (my prioritized to-do list) so I see them multiple times a day. By being thoughtful when I identify my 3 words and then reviewing them on a daily basis, I have a daily reminder of my key focus for the year. These words help me stay...

Duration:00:18:26

Financial Advisor Michael Bradley on Starting From Scratch and "Doing Wealth Planning Differently"

12/15/2022
Michael Bradley founded Bradley Wealth in 2002. Today the firm offers high-touch financial planning and alternative investments to high-net-worth clientele. Michael and I have known each other since my days at Peak Advisor Alliance, and I was excited to catch up with him at the 2022 CAIS Alternative Investment Summit in Beverly Hills. We talked about his evolution from being a corporate executive for 15 years to starting his planning firm from scratch at the bottom of the Dotcom bubble. We...

Duration:00:32:47

Overcoming Heartbreak Through CrossFit and Positive Psychology with Jess Bost

12/14/2022
There's no one predefined path that will lead us through the challenges and heartbreaks that we all face in life. Often times the best that we can do is learn to accept and explore our emotions while remaining open to the opportunities in front of us. That willingness to explore and grow can help us heal, and help us redefine who we are going forward. In today's adventure episode, I talk to Jess Bost, VP – Brand Partnerships at Alpha Architect, a research-intensive asset management firm....

Duration:01:15:17

Advisor Group's Shannon Larson on Scaling Shared Service and Alternative Investments

12/5/2022
Shannon Larson is the Senior Vice President, Platform Management and Product Development at Advisor Group, the nation's largest network of independent financial advisors. I spoke with Shannon at the 2022 CAIS Alternative Investment Summit in Beverly Hills about how she and her team manage a shared service model, as well as how alternative investment products are helping their advisors offer more value to a wider variety of clients.

Duration:00:17:41

Alternatives Often Shine When Stocks and Bonds Burn with David Copeland

11/25/2022
David Copeland is a principal and co-founder of Strategic Wealth Partners, an RIA firm with approximately $3.7 billion in assets under advisement as of December 31, 2021. He founded Strategic Wealth Partners in 2008 after serving as Senior Managing Director with Mesirow Financial for 21 years. He has also held investment positions with Merrill Lynch and commercial banking positions with Harris Bank. I sat down with David at the 2022 CAIS Alternative Investment Summit in Beverly Hills, CA...

Duration:00:30:16

Mountain Climbing Adventures with Skip Schweiss and Scott MacKillop

11/14/2022
You don’t reach the summit of 14,000 foot mountains more than 150 times without learning a few things along the way about life, health, and adventure. In today’s adventure episode, I talk to financial pros Skip Schweiss and Scott MacKillop. Between them, they’ve climbed mountains all over the world and lived a life of adventure while building thriving careers as executives in financial services. I’ve had the pleasure of joining them on several trips and can attest to their skill and...

Duration:01:15:49

3 Challenges Facing Financial Advisors and What to Do About Them With Ben Harrison

11/7/2022
Ben Harrison is the Co-Head, Wealth Solutions at BNY Mellon | Pershing, one of the industry’s largest custodians. I sat down with Ben at the CAIS Alternative Investment Summit in Beverly Hills, CA and we discussed the biggest challenges and opportunities facing financial advisors as well as his thoughts on what’s happening in the alternative investment space.

Duration:00:41:50

A Financial Pro's 2,800-Mile Mountain Bike Ride Down the Continental Divide in 43 Days

10/17/2022
In this series of podcasts, I'm going to talk to financial professionals about their lives outside of the office: the passions, hobbies, experiences, challenges, and accomplishments that have influenced who they are and how they think about success and fulfillment. The first episode with Ben Jones explores his trip down The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, a 2,808 mile adventure from Banff in Alberta, Canada all the way to Antelope Wells, NM at the Mexican border. It's a grueling trip that...

Duration:01:11:24

{Alts} The Case for Alternative Investments with Matt Brown

10/6/2022
Should you allocate to alternative investments? For decades, advisors to the wealthiest strata of investors offered offered access to investments beyond the traditional stocks, bonds, and real estate. And for decades, there were significant barriers to entry in the alternative space that made it difficult for independent advisors to access the best money managers in the alt space. That’s now changed. Firms like CAIS have democratized access to some of the best money managers available and...

Duration:00:41:23

2 Exciting Podcast Updates

9/20/2022
Podcasting is a wonderful way to showcase the talents, insights, and creativity of the amazing people that populate our world. In that spirit, I'm thrilled to announce two special series of episodes that I'm launching this fall. The first series of episodes is in partnership with CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform for financial advisors. To explain what we're doing, I asked industry star and CAIS CMO Abby Salameh to join me today to discuss this special series of 10 podcast...

Duration:00:10:14

Best of: Using Your Relationship to Money as a Path to Personal and Professional Growth

9/12/2022
Today's guest is Brent Kessel. Brent is co-founder of Abacus Wealth Partners, which has more than 50 employees and more than $2 billion in assets under management. (Editor's note: as of the date of this repost, September 2022, Abacus has about $3.5 billion in assets under management.) About ten years ago I was reading a Buddhist magazine and did a double-take when I saw an ad for a financial advisory firm on its back cover. Abacus Wealth has been on my radar ever since. "I have been a...

Duration:00:51:31

Best of: Uncovering Your Client’s Values and Motivations to Drive Desired Behavior

8/24/2022
My guest today, Dr. Eliott Berkman, is a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, where he directs the Social and Effective Neuroscience Laboratory and conducts field-leading, federally-funded research on goals, motivation, and behavior change. He's also the Associate Director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience, and an author who writes about psychology and neuroscience for lay audiences, including in Psychology Today. We talk about the concept of the...

Duration:00:52:06

Values-Based Financial Planning with Natalie Taylor

6/22/2022
What is the cornerstone of your financial planning process? Solid money management is table stakes, not a differentiator. What really stands out is when you help clients be thoughtful about "what's the money for" and then align their money to support the life they want to live and be in harmony with their values. Advisors who learn how to help clients make those connections will be providing a valuable service that creates clients for life. Note: This episode is an excerpt from one of the...

Duration:00:52:11

A Complete Guide to RIA Succession Planning with Paul Blease

5/31/2022
Your business may not be for sale, but it should always be salable. According to a 2019 study by J.D. Power, the average age of a financial advisor is 55; approximately one-fifth of advisors are 65 and older. If you're within 5 - 7 years of exiting the business, succession planning should be one of your key strategic initiatives. Paul Blease advises that preparing to sell your practice is a process of analysis and optimization that requires a multi-year runway. Without proper planning, you...

Duration:00:48:30

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