Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

Tune in to hear: - Why does behavioral investing often get focused on less than other elements of behavioral finance? - What role should pessimistic forecasts play, if any, in our financial decision making? - What are some behavioral barometers that can give us meaningful insights into forward return suggestions? What clues does he think these are providing in this particular moment? - If we do aw...

Tune in to hear: - What led Jeff to sometimes act inauthentically in the past and what snapped him out of this? - How does the client experience look different between those with an authentic, holistic advisor and those who have an advisor with a top producer type mindset? - What does Jeff see as the most common impediment that’s keeping people from creating a meaningful money life? - How do we ge...

Tune in to hear: - Why is understanding our own money stories such a valuable principle? What is Jamie’s money story? - Did Jamie’s dad’s career trajectory or unexpected death shift the way Jamie approached his own career? - Is it pretty typical for people to full-heartedly accept or reject their family of origin’s money scripts/styles? - Why do we frequently search for external answers, rather th...

Tune in to hear: - What is the three part formula for meaning that Derek has proposed and how do these three aspects tend to shape a meaningful life? - What is the role of money in getting these three parts to work in unison? Can money help our lives be more purposeful, coherent and significant? - Why do we sometimes seem hardwired to pursue the “thin meaning” when the “thick meaning” is often acc...

Tune in to hear: - Why do we take our autonomic nervous system for granted and why does it have such a profound effect on our ability to be successful communicators? - What are the different hierarchical states of the nervous system and what role do each of these play in determining the stories we tell ourselves?  - How would Laura’s work with a client look different than a CBT (Cognitive Behavior...

Tune in to hear: - Why are love and money so uniquely combustible? - Why do we often not give our significant other the benefit of the doubt? How can we give our partners more grace and understanding? - What do you do if a couple is stonewalling one another? - Can understanding your partner’s money type or money script play a role in giving them this grace? - How accurately are couples assessing e...

Tune in to hear: - What are some of the accomplishments of financial psychology thus far and where should we be headed next? - Why does Wade diverge from a lot of the popular thinking around insurance products and what does the industry get wrong when it comes to these products and retirement income? - Is it safe to say that a lot of the benefit of these “unpopular tools” is behavioral in nature? ...

Tune in to hear: - What are some problems that money solves well and what are some problems it does a poor job of solving? - Has Carl recently pivoted a bit in his career to focus more on the philosophical or, more broadly, “life stuff?” If so, why?  - Has Carl found any common thread between people who feel a sense of security, both financially and in a broader sense? - What are some things that...

Tune in to hear: - What might account for the very low conversion rate following viral content on social media? - Are new followers a good metric for measuring the success of a post or not necessarily? - Why is it so difficult to “engineer virality” and why does this often fall flat? - Is it smart to try to monetize a viral moment with sponsored content or is this likely to backfire? - Some adviso...

Tune in to hear: - What are some of the most common misconceptions about Anika’s work and more broadly about those on the autistic spectrum? - What is ABA and why is early intervention so important? - What might account for the precipitous growth in autism spectrum disorders? Is it superior diagnostic abilities or something else? - Why do autism spectrum disorders often go undiagnosed in girls? -...

Tune in to hear: - What about the investment world clicked for Shannon, and drew her in, at such a young age? - Did Shannon start out as an analyst for a hedge fund manager or how did her career unfold? - Was it a difficult decision for Shannon to pivot from investment banking to managing a more DIY retail business? - What does RFG focus on in-particular and what did they win a “wealthie” award fo...

Tune in to hear: - How did Kurt grow TownSquare in a span of about 5 years and to what does he attribute this meteoric rise? - How does Kurt Brown believe that their OCIO function can help wire house advisors make the transition to independence? - When should investors look for passive vs. active exposure and how can we avoid paying extra for those who are being deceptive and marketing effectively...

Tune in to hear: - What has Tim found helpful in helping clients to articulate their life purpose in a practical way? - What is an effective life planning strategy for ultra-high net worth individuals that don’t have a super specific “raison d’etre?” - How can we practically communicate to clients that they are whole and how do we create an environment that encourages them to draw from their inter...

Tune in to hear: - A criticism that sometimes crops up is: what if this advisor didn’t sign up to be a therapist? What would Ashley say to this critique and what is the baseline set of therapeutic skills necessary for the average advisor? - When should a financial advisor make a referral to a mental health practitioner? - What is circular questioning and what is an example of where an advisor migh...

Tune in to hear: - What can magic teach us about behavioral science and psychology and how does Paul marry these two worlds together? - How do magicians see the world differently? Does magic make you more or less skeptical and do you now move through the world differently as a result of knowing about the art of how the mind fools us and how we fool each other? - What are the evolutionary origins o...

Tune in to hear: - Dr. Hunt often questions - why am I hearing this now? Why is Dr. Hunt calling for greater thoughtfulness around timing? - How can we be thoughtful about “weaponized narratives” without succumbing to seeing boogeyman around every corner? - How do we think about this narrative formation process when it comes from the inside out? Is that something we should be seeking to do proacti...

Tune in to hear: - Is this an era of particularly anti-college sentiments? - How can we incentivize the shift to better align societal needs with colleges? - How should you think about and weigh the personal passion angle vs. the job security angle when counseling families on potential college paths? - On average, how does being college educated affect one’s life in a broader sense (e.g. divorce r...

Tune in to hear: - What is the role of personal myth making in ameliorating the psychological crisis of modernity that we find ourselves in? - Thinking about the current state of generalized despair at play in the world - are we consuming the wrong messages as we move through the world? - What is the 1st step in Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey? - Why aren’t we answering the call to adventure and,...

Tune in to hear: - Which of the ideas from ‘The Psychology of Money’ does Morgan find most useful in his own life? If he had to re-release the book today, what would he change about it or omit from the book? - What did Morgan expect readers to takeaway from the book and how does that contrast with the feedback he has received from readers? - How applicable does Morgan feel the lessons from his boo...

Tune in to hear: - Taylor was recently publicly criticized on social media. How did he think through how to thoughtfully craft his reaction to this and how did the community he's built help insulate him from this? - What role should community play for advisors and what can community provide that you couldn’t necessarily get through self-study or other means? - In setting up his podcast, what did T...

Tune in to hear: - What is “all duration investing” and what behavioral upside might this approach have for investors? - How can you better organize a bucketing approach to reflect those investments’ time horizons? - What about the tendency for all time horizons to become today in the face of behavioral pressure - how can we protect ourselves from this? - Why is the myth that “China owns the USA”...

Tune in to hear: - A lot of the best content creators in this industry are a bit edgy. How can very large companies create good content when they are almost, by definition, required to not be edgy? - If your brand wants to be honest about who they are - how do you begin to introspect and have that conversation? - What’s a potentially interesting brand collaboration for a fintech firm? - When is it...

Tune in to hear: - What can Alex share about his financial literacy startup, Futurvest, and what needs or gaps did he see in the financial literacy space?  - Knowing what we know about behavior, what does effective financial literacy education look like? - Is there a way we can take the fight of financial literacy to an institutional level? Also, is there any hope of having financial literacy win...

Tune in to hear: - What are some of the psychological mechanisms that make our vision of ourselves so cloudy at times? - If Melina hoped to draw out a deeply personal answer to the question “what are your financial goals,” how would she go about constructing the question? - What are the hallmarks of a psychologically sophisticated brand and what is the psychological impact of this authenticity? -...

Tune in to hear: - What does Ashvin propose as a better measure of investor success above risk adjusted returns? - What are the two main reasons why we invest? Ashvin thinks that, with a traditional portfolio, we will be disappointed with at least one of these two dimensions at any given moment - why is this the case? - What is the three-tiered investment approach that Ashvin came up with and how...