Do Business. Do Life. — The Financial Advisor Podcast — DBDL

When clients feel understood, everything gets easier. When they don’t, even the best advice falls flat. In this solo episode, I break down three lessons we can borrow from good doctors that make a huge difference in your meetings as an advisor. Just like in medicine, the best advisors don’t rush to solutions. They slow down, ask better questions, and explain things in a way people can actually fol...

What do fighter pilots and financial advisors have in common? More than you might think—especially when it comes to performing under pressure. In this episode, I sit down with Carey Lorhenz—the first female F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot in U.S. Navy history—to talk about how the Navy trains people to perform in high-stakes environments without leaving success to chance.  We get into simulation tr...

What do you do when doing the right thing gets you fired? That’s the question at the center of this conversation with Keith Leverentz. Keith started his career as a high school science teacher before being recruited into a captive financial firm. He quickly became the number one producer in the organization—but he was doing something most advisors weren’t. He was putting clients first, even when i...

Every advisor is looking back at the year — what worked, what didn’t, and what’s worth carrying into 2026. So I pulled the analytics, reviewed the conversations, and rounded up the five moments that advisors like you rewatched the most. Each clip reveals something different: how to build real structure inside your firm, how to scale yourself out of the bottleneck, how to create a compelling worksh...

As a coach to independent financial advisors, I see a lot of advisors struggling with the same issue—they blend in with the advisor down the street. And when prospects can’t see what makes you unique, it becomes a lot harder for them to understand why they should choose you over anyone else. That’s why I loved today’s conversation with Glenn Street. Glenn built one of the most differentiated busin...

Advisors everywhere are feeling the pressure to scale, hire, and prepare for a wave of retirements that will reshape the industry. At the same time, firms are struggling to attract women, keep next-gen advisors engaged, and build teams that actually create freedom instead of more work. That’s why I wanted to bring Lindsey Lewis on the show. After building a $200M book in her first year at Vanguard...

A few years ago, Triad members Dana and Tyler Dunkelberger were gathering $35M in new assets with a four-person team. And like most advisors, when growth started ramping up, they kept their foot on the gas. They ran 100+ dinner seminars a year, added clients as fast as they could, and tried to solve capacity issues by adding more advisors to the team. But the harder they pushed, the more obvious i...

Are you struggling to attract and close more high-net-worth clients? What if the reason has nothing to do with your financial plans and everything to do with your office design? In this solo episode, I share one of the most surprising lessons I’ve learned in 20+ years of coaching advisors: the design and intention behind your office directly impacts the clients you attract and the culture you crea...

Live from Future Proof, I sat down with Jason Early, Founder and CEO of RISR — an AI platform that’s helping financial advisors rethink how they serve business-owner clients. Here’s the truth: for most entrepreneurs, their business is their biggest asset — but most advisors just ask, “What’s it worth?” jot down a guess, and move on. Jason and his team built RISR around a simple belief: business ow...

Live from Future Proof, I sat down beachside with Eden Ovadia, Co-Founder and CEO of FINNY—the AI-powered marketing platform helping advisors solve one of the biggest challenges in wealth management: organic growth. For years, the industry has relied on market returns and acquisitions to drive scale. But when the market slows, most firms discover they don’t actually have a growth engine—they have...

In this episode, I got to catch up with three amazing Triad members — Gary Hansen, Jaris Hansen, and Josh Cumrine — to break down how they turned a founder-led firm, Retirement Planning Center of the Rockies, into a team-driven business that’s tripled in size over the past three years, now closing in on $40 million of new assets in 2025. Gary started this thing back in the ’70s as a one-man insura...

Live from Future Proof , I sat down with my friend Dr. Daniel Crosby to talk about the psychology behind the fastest-growing advisors in our industry. Daniel had spent time with a number of Triad members who were doubling, tripling, even quadrupling their firms — and he wanted to understand what was driving that kind of growth. What he found wasn’t a secret tactic or marketing hack. It was mindset...

If you don’t know your core values, you’ll likely build a business that looks successful on paper but leaves you burned out and misaligned in real life. That’s why I invited my friend Robert Glazer on the podcast. He’s an entrepreneur, bestselling author, and someone I always learn from when it comes to leadership. Robert built a global business that won dozens of “Best Place to Work” awards, writ...

Most advisors I know have felt that tug-of-war: do I grow my firm, or do I show up at home? The truth is, you don’t have to choose. At our Founder’s Retreat in Maui, I sat down with two guys who really live this out: Daniel Crosby , a behavioral finance expert, and Jason Khalipa , a CrossFit Games champ turned entrepreneur. They’ve both spoken at Triad experiences before — not as “fly-in, fly-out”...

In the early days, Matt Rowley was doing whatever it took to keep his firm alive — running 60+ seminars a year, making 13-hour road trips, and pushing forward with a business model that was unsustainable. Everything shifted when he made the scary decision to hire his first full-time employee, Daveda Phillips , who took a leap of faith and accepted the position for only $25K a year. She didn’t say...

Garrett Gunderson has worn a lot of hats—New York Times bestselling author, financial educator, entrepreneur, and even stand-up comedian. And in this episode, he connects the dots between all of them to give advisors fresh tools for both business and life. We explore what advisors can borrow from stand-up comedy to level up their presentations, how the Rockefellers built a system to preserve wealt...

If you’re an advisor who loves golf, here’s the truth: the game teaches more about winning clients and building lasting trust than most people ever realize. That’s exactly what I dive into with today’s guest, Marisa Messana. She went from leading Clemson’s women’s golf team to the national championship, to competing as a professional golfer, to now coaching Fortune 100 companies, investment firms,...

Michael Jordan. Kobe Bryant. Two of the greatest to ever play the game. But what set them apart wasn’t just physical talent, it was the mental game. The mindset that pushes past pain, silences doubt, and wins long after the body wants to quit. They had an obsession to improve, to compete, and to dominate at the highest level. Where exactly does that come from? Well, one guy who had a lot to do wit...

Scaling a financial advisory firm can come at a cost—endless travel, long hours, and precious time away from family. That’s where Triad Member Devin Choules found himself a few years ago: 60,000 miles a year on the road, burned out, and questioning the life and business he had built. Everything shifted when Devin stopped trying to do it all himself. For years he had stayed understaffed and tried t...

Advisors spend a ton of time and money putting on seminars… but let’s be honest, a lot of them leave frustrated when the room doesn’t convert. The #1 mistake I see? Going off-script instead of sticking to a proven process. That’s where Nick Whitaker comes in. Nick’s a former advisor who’s run 250+ seminars, and now he coaches advisors inside Triad on how to actually make these events work. His app...

What if the #1 reason you feel burned out is because you’re unknowingly doing three completely different jobs? In this solo episode, I break down the Triad Advisor Model—the exact system top firms are using to scale without sacrificing freedom. You’ll see why trying to run your practice alone is like running a Chick-fil-A by yourself—taking orders at the register, cooking the food in the back, and...

What if 80% of new clients were ready to work with you before they ever met you? That’s the reality Marcus Sheridan created when the 2008 recession almost bankrupted his pool business. The crisis forced him to rethink his marketing strategy–a shift that transformed his struggling company into the most visited swimming pool website in the world. How? By answering every customer question, even the u...

From protecting quarterbacks to protecting retirements, Triad Member, Terence Brown never stopped being a left tackle. After a career playing Division I football at BYU and a stint in the pros, he transitioned into financial services and brought his team-first mindset with him. Today, he leads Left Tackle Advisors—a fast-growing planning firm where protecting people’s blind sides isn’t just a tagl...

So, you’ve built a team… but you’re still the one putting out fires, making all the decisions, and carrying the whole business on your back. That’s because most leadership models are built top-down. The founder makes the calls. The team waits for direction. And over time, the business becomes more dependent on you—not less. Keith Ferrazzi has spent two decades helping leaders break out of that tra...

Why do most financial advisors keep hiring the wrong people, despite their best efforts? After 20 years in this industry, I can tell you it’s one of the biggest challenges advisors face: finding and keeping the right talent. And if you’ve ever felt like you're stuck with the wrong team, constantly putting out fires, or doing everything yourself… you're not alone. In this episode, I’m breaking down...