The Elite Advisor Blueprint®: The Podcast for World-Class Financial Advisors

In today’s conversation, I finally get the chance to sit down for a long overdue conversation with Bo Eason. Bo has one of the most unique back stories of any guest we’ve had on the show. After college, he was drafted by the Houston Oilers and played safety for them before a premature knee injury ended his career. After the NFL, Bo aspired to become the best stage performer of his time and spent time personally mentoring under Al Pacino before writing and starring in his one-man Broadway...

In today’s conversation, I grab some time with Carl Richards. For those of you unfamiliar with Carl, he is a CFP and creator of the Sketch Guy column, which has appeared weekly in the New York Times since 2010. Carl and his work have also been featured on Oprah.com, and Forbes.com and he frequently keynotes at financial planning conferences around the world. Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand and these sketches have served as the foundation...

In today’s conversation, I sit down with Bryan Miles. Bryan is the co-founder, along with his wife, Shannon, of Belay Solutions (formerly known as EA Help). Belay provides virtual assistants to help business owners and C-level execs in a number of industries grow without the added stress of having to do everything on your own. I was introduced to Bryan through our mutual friend Michael Hyatt who started out as a client of Belay, and in turn, Michael put Belay on the map with a single tweet....

This week, we’re doing something a little bit different. In celebration of Father’s Day, I appeared on the Generation.Mom podcast. Their podcast rarely features fathers as guests, so it was an honor to talk to Lara and Jenn about how to prioritize parenthood and where to start. Like many fathers, I felt underprepared when my first child was born. As my kids got older, I worked hard to find the right balance between being a parent, a partner, and a business leader. In today’s podcast, we...

David Bach is back for round 2!! David is one of America’s most trusted financial experts and bestselling financial authors of our time and previously appeared on Episode 21 for those of you that missed it. Today, we discuss the journey behind his new book The Latte Factor, which has already become an international bestseller. David shares his story of a dinner with Paulo Coehlo, author of The Alchemist and one of my favorites, that led to him finally writing this story after putting it off...

In today’s conversation, I speak with Pat Quinn. Pat is a presentation coach and the head speaking trainer for Advance Your Reach, where he’s coached some of the best speakers in the world, including New York Times bestselling authors, 6 former Olympians, and pastors you see on TV every Sunday. We first connected through Advance Your Reach founder Pete Vargas. Pete invited me to what I would call the American Idol of speaking, where I saw Pat coaching speakers and literally tweaking their...

Today I’m throwing in a bonus episode as this is a guest appearance I had on The Adviser Gap Podcast. It’s hosted by James Mousley and Sean Banks from, as they say, “across the pond” over in the UK. I continue to be blown away by the power and reach of podcasting as I connected with the two of them after they gave a few of my episodes a listen over in the UK. They’ve created their podcast to address the lack of training out there to help paraplanners bridge the gap into a true financial...

Hal Elrod is back for round 2 on the podcast! If you're unfamiliar with Hal and his Miracle Morning book and the morning routine that’s created a movement for millions worldwide, be sure to check out our first conversation, it's Episode #32. Hal last joined the podcast back in 2017, it was literally his first interview since being diagnosed cancer free. Since then, in addition to finishing his new book (which we’ll dive deep into today), he’s also wrapped up a soon-to-be-released documentary...

In today’s conversation, I’m humbled and blessed to be speaking with Phillip Stutts. Phillip is the founder and CEO of Go BIG Media and Win BIG Media, two award-winning, disruptive agencies that use political digital strategies to get major results for clients in and out of politics - including financial advisors. Phillip is also the author of Fire Them Now - an excellent new book that identifies the lies marketing agencies use to try to get (and keep) clients. His book is full of powerful...

Happy Thanksgiving! On a day where we should sit back and reflect on all that we are thankful for, I am humbled to share this conversation with you all. My buddy, John Israel, is the author and founder of The Mr. Thank You Project: A Journey to Elevate the Level of Gratitude on the Planet.... One Card at a Time. Over the course of a year, he wrote 5 thank you cards a day, EVERY day – that’s 1,825 handwritten thank you cards over the course of a year!!! His new book tells the story of the...

In today’s conversation, I get to sit down with James Clear. James's career arc has had a few twists and turns along the way as he got his start as a travel photographer and has worked in over 30 countries. Today he focuses much of his time on writing and speaking having launched one of the most followed blogs on the internet at jamesclear.com - he also shares much of this wisdom out on Twitter and as of this recording has 110,000+ followers. In this conversation, we cover a number of...

As the leader of AE Coach at Advisors Excel - Gina Rainey specializes in “total practice management” where she set out to help advisors bridge the gap between the process-driven brains of their employees and the quick start entrepreneurial mentality many independent advisors operate by. Over the last decade, she's helped offices struggling with high turnover and lack of structure become high-performing organizations, she’s empowered advisors to learn how to better utilize their time and...

I’m thrilled to speak with Hilary Hendershott, founder of Hilary Hendershott Wealth Management. She’s also the host of the Profit Boss Podcast, which has become her primary source for acquiring new clients. In fact, it’s worked so well, that she’s generated over $37M of new assets in the last 10 months! She receives an average of 1 lead via her website per day, and is currently seeing 1 high net-worth lead - which she defines as $500,000 or more of investable assets - come in every 6-7...

As the founder of Track That Advisor, Erica has created a business that solves one of the biggest problems I’ve seen financial advisors face over my last 11 years in this business… Here’s how the conversation typically goes: I hop on a coaching call and the first thing the advisor asks is, “How do I get more qualified appointments on my calendar?” My response: “How are your current marketing funnels working? What’s your cost per appointment? What’s your closing ratio per funnel? What’s...

Today's guest is New York Times bestselling author Greg McKeown. He’s the author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. This book quickly became one of my top reads of all-time as it truly spoke to me with something I've struggled with and I'm sure many of you have as well, balancing everything we want to do in business with the things that truly matter in life. I highlighted passage after passage, then I realized something… As financial advisors, if there’s one thing we need,...

I’m thrilled to speak with my friend - and the best-dressed person I know - Pellegrino Castronovo, the owner of Pellegrino Castronovo Fitted Tailoring. Pellegrino is a world renowned custom bespoke tailor who has fitted professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB, many of the top brass in Formula 1 racing, Sugar Ray Leonard, and many other notable celebrities. Today, we discuss fashion tips for financial advisors. We get into the brilliant, yet simple things that you can do to...

Greg Salciccioli is the CEO of CoachWell - an executive coaching service that specializes in Professional, Team, and Organizational development. Greg is also the author of The Enemies of Excellence, which explores why high achievers so frequently struggle with broken relationships, self-indulgence, disorientation, disarray, and a lack of professionalism. During our conversation, Greg and I dive deep into the biggest problems he’s seen in his 18+ years of coaching financial advisors and what...

In today’s conversation, I sit down with a legend in the world of finance, Mr. Roger Ibbotson himself. In 1977, Roger published the first edition of Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation, a collection of historical returns dating as far back as 1926 - in a sense, he was ahead of his time as no one had compiled this historical market data all in one place before, in a way that was easy to understand. Based on the positive response from this landmark study, he founded Ibbotson Associates in the...

In today’s conversation, I’m speaking with The Retirement Answer Man himself, Roger Whitney. Besides being a CFP and having just about every other designation a financial advisor can have after his name, Roger is one of the few financial advisors in the US who has cracked the podcasting code and is actually using his weekly show to drive substantial assets to his firm from all over the country. Not only is Roger landing clients nationwide, but he recently even signed a US citizen living in...

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations with financial advisors looking for the best ways to grow their firms, and I’ve been encountering one question more than just about any other: “How can I spend the least amount of money to maximize results - and get appointments on the calendar?” There are lots of things that independent financial advisors can do to generate leads. There’s public events, like seminars and workshops, as well as full-blown advertising campaigns, including TV and...