Episode No. 362 | June 01, 2023
The Benefits of Fee-restructuring & Other Mid-course Growth Decisions
A Conversation with John Underhill
If you’re interested in learning how employment contract restrictions can seriously disrupt your plans to take clients with you should you decide to break away from your broker, as well as working through growth and fee structuring decisions, this episode is for you! XYPN member John …
Episode No. 345 | October 05, 2022
The Power of Personal Experience in Finding Your Niche
A Conversation with Maggie Beach
Today we talk to Maggie Beach, CFP®, CPA/PFS, and XYPN Member who is the founder of NexJenn Financial Services—a fee-only firm servicing the real estate niche—and NexJenn CPA—an accounting firm that specializes in individual and trust taxation. Today’s podcast is full of information a …
Episode No. 339 | July 13, 2022
Building a Profitable Fee-Only Firm & Working Part-Time
A Conversation with Chad Holmes
We’re excited to welcome XYPN member Chad Holmes, founder of Formula Wealth, on the show today. Chad always knew he would be an entrepreneur and discovered financial planning in high school when his grandparents invited him to sit in on a meeting with their financial advisor. He start …
Episode No. 338 | June 29, 2022
Scaling to 100 Clients in 3 Years & Working 3-Day Weeks
A Conversation with Ryan Greiser, CFP®
We’re excited to welcome XYPN member Ryan Greiser, CFP®, founder of the Pennsylvania-based financial planning firm Opulus, to the show. Ryan started his professional career as an athletic trainer before a client recruited him into a financial planning firm, where “financial planning” …
Episode No. 335 | May 18, 2022
Building a Fee-Only Lifestyle Firm Through Good Times and Bad
A Conversation with Danielle Harrison
We’re excited to welcome XYPN member Danielle Harrison MBA, CFP®, CFT-I™, the founder of Harrison Financial Planning, a fee-only firm based in Columbia, Missouri, on the show today. Danielle was destined to be a financial planner, starting all the way back in middle school as a kid fa …
December 29, 2021
Changing Careers & Growing a Successful Fee-Only Firm
Today, Jennipher Lommen, founder of Wildflower Financial, a fee-only firm out of Santa Cruz, California, is on the show. Jennipher is a career changer and entered this industry only a few years before she launched Wildflower four years ago. Jennipher homeschooled all three of her chil …
June 24, 2020
EP #261: Jumping Careers In Her 40s And Building Confidence In The Industry While Slowly Building Her RIA, The Career Of Leslie Ransom
We’re excited to have XYPN member Leslie Ransom, owner of Indie Financial Planning, a fee-only firm in Chicago, IL, on the show today. Leslie spent nearly two decades on the sale and distribution side of the music industry, working with bands and music labels all across the nation. Le …
June 17, 2020
A Non-Traditional Approach To Building A Firm
We’re excited to have XYPN member Tyler Landes, owner of Tandem Financial Guidance, a fee-only firm in Kansas City, Missouri, on the show today. Tyler has had a really unique experience building his firm. In 2014, Tyler became a founding member of XY Planning Network, joining the then …
June 10, 2020
Lifting the Mental Health Stigma
We’re excited to have XYPN member Dave Rowan, owner of Rowan Financial, a fee-only firm in Bethlehem, PA, on the show today. Dave is a career changer; he spent a majority of his professional life at Crayola - yes, the Crayola - as the Director of Research and Development, and though h …
October 30, 2019
Ep #227: From Marketing Expert to Financial Advisor for Hispanic Clients - The Career of Miguel Gomez
Today XYPN member Miguel Gomez joins the show to share how his marketing career turned into a financial planning career. Originally from Mexico, Miguel came to the United States to work for a firm as a marketing expert before moving to a different firm and ultimately transitioning int …