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Michael Kitces ยท Business

Financial Advisor Success

The Financial Advisor Success podcast brings you real success stories and insights from the most successful financial advisors, and leading industry consultants, about how to take your advisory business to the next level. Get a glimpse of what it's like behind the scenes building a successful advisory business, and how entrepreneurial advisors navigate the inevitable highs, and lows, of growing a firm. Whether you're a new financial advisor trying to get started on the right foot, or an experienced advisor who's hit a wall, we're here to give you the insights and inspiration you need to break through and reach the level of success you want to achieve. Subscribe to the show, and get even more at the leading industry blog Nerd's Eye View at www.Kitces.com.

Episodes

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Ep 491: Earning Premium Planning Fees By Demonstrating Hard-Dollar Tax Savings For Business Owner Clients with Patrick Lonergan

26 May 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 490: Attracting And Retaining HNW Clients By Being More Available For Their Multigenerational Family Needs with Liz Miller

19 May 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 489: Winning More Clients By Talking Less And Reducing Friction For Prospects with Sara Grillo

12 May 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 488: Bringing Hiring In-House To Support Rapid Growth After Doubling AUM To $600M In One Year with Joe Schmitz Jr.

05 May 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 487: Building The Team And Tech To Serve Thousands Of (Advice-Only) Clients Efficiently with Lori Atwood

28 Apr 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 486: Lessons Learned from How Mega-RIAs Are Scaling Their People to Support Growth with Lisa Crafford

21 Apr 2026
1h 29m
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Ep 485: Exercises to Help Clients Better Navigate the Transition to Retirement After Having Done It Yourself with Michael Kay

14 Apr 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 484: Scaling To $1B AUM By Recognizing Your (Rainmaker) Strengths And Delegating The Rest with Jake Falcon

07 Apr 2026
1h 29m
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Ep 483: Closing (More Affluent) Clients in The First Meeting with an "Approach Talk" Method to Create Urgency with Erin Botsford

31 Mar 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 482: Growing To $500M AUM In 7 Years by Connecting with Your Ideal Clients on LinkedIn with Justin Brownlee

24 Mar 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 481: Leveraging Technology To Rapidly Scale Growth Delivering Financial Planning To Next Generation Clients with Adam Dell

17 Mar 2026
1h 29m
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Ep 480: Growing To $660M Of AUM By Leveraging SEO (And Now AEO) To Build A Durable Pipeline Of Good-Fit Prospects with Helen Stephens

10 Mar 2026
1h 27m
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Ep 479: Maintaining Good Work/Life Balance While Adding Advisors And 4Xing The Firm To $315M with Andy Panko

03 Mar 2026
1h 30m
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Andy Panko, owner of Tenon Financial, discusses how he scaled his RIA firm to $323 million in AUM while maintaining work-life balance. He shares his decision to hire mid-career advisors for their professionalism and independence, and how he set a client capacity of 60 households per advisor based on the firm's tax-focu...

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Ep 478: Fixing Advisory Firm Marketing Funnels So The Phone Actually Rings With Prospects with Kendra Wright

24 Feb 2026
1h 29m
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Ep 477: Finding Real Uses For AI Tools Not Just To Gain Efficiency But Create More (Customized) Value For Clients with Christopher Haigh

17 Feb 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 476: Making The Decision To Add A Partner (After Leaving A Partnership Yourself) While Approaching $500M AUM with Kathy Longo

10 Feb 2026
1h 29m
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Ep 475: Adding Deeper Tax Planning Capabilities (And Generating More Google Reviews In The Process) To Grow To $600M Of AUM with Erik Brenner

03 Feb 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 474: Gaining The Skills, Experience, And Team Needed To Serve UHNW Clients Effectively with Blair duQuesnay

27 Jan 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 473: Defending Against AI By Focusing On The Uniquely Human Aspects Of (Fiduciary) Life Planning with George Kinder

20 Jan 2026
1h 30m
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Ep 472: Going Deep Into Multigenerational Planning To Better Serve HNW Clients (Not Just Retain Their Assets) with Carli Smith

13 Jan 2026
1h 27m
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Multigenerational financial planning requires more than just preparing for wealth transfer; it involves integrating parents and adult children into a cohesive, transparent service model to address complex tax and estate dynamics. Carli Smith, founder of Signal Wealth Advisors, achieves this by aligning investment strat...

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