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Breaking Through Growth Barriers in Wealth Management with Samuel Deane and Dr. Preston Cherry (Ep. 55)

Breaking Through Growth Barriers in Wealth Management with Samuel Deane and Dr. Preston Cherry (Ep. 55)

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How can financial advisors unleash their growth potential in the ever-changing landscape of the wealth management industry?

Today on The Disruption Blueprint Podcast, Shannon Spotswood interviews Samuel Deane of Deane Wealth Management, who specializes in serving founders and tech employees with equity compensation and tax planning, and Dr. Preston Cherry of Concurrent Financial Planning, who focuses on Gen X and high-income earners. 

They discuss the challenges and opportunities in wealth management, emphasizing personalized financial planning and the role of advisors as life guides. Their conversation also covers generational wealth transfer, niche-focused practices, and effective marketing strategies to attract and connect with clients.

Talking points include:

  • Their recent panel discussion at Tiburon
  • Samuel Dean’s journey of starting and growing Dean Wealth Management
  • Dr. Cherry’s background and the focus of Concurrent Financial Planning
  • Challenges and opportunities for growth in the wealth management industry
  • The importance of personalized financial planning and addressing evolving client needs
  • The future role of financial advisors as comprehensive financial life advisors
  • The impact of generational wealth transfer and the value of aligning life and money
  • Why marketing and branding strategies are so important for niche-focused practices
  • Understanding and addressing the unique needs of different generations in financial planning
  • And more!

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About our Guests:

Dr. Preston Cherry is a Wealth Advisor and the Founder and CEO of Concurrent Financial Planning. Preston specializes in empowering individuals to share stories that inform their life’s design to achieve financial freedom and well-being. He aims to help you find life and money alignment, giving your money assignment. Dr. Cherry is an award-winning financial advisor, renowned personal finance speaker, founder, podcaster, and professor to next-generation financial planning professionals. Preston has over 15 years of financial services and academic experience, including financial planning and investment management, published research in top journals, often cited and authors in recognized personal finance publications, and extensive leadership in the planning profession. When Preston is not focusing on your journey towards confidently conquering Life Money Balance®, you can find him listening to his vinyl record collection, spending time with his wife, and happily expecting their first child.

Samuel Deane is a financial advisor and President of Deane Wealth Management, a registered investment advisor for founders and tech employees. The wealth management firm specializes in financial planning, investment management, tax planning, and equity compensation. After spending some time working in an industry traditionally reserved for wealthy retirees, Samuel realized that he could provide wealth management and financial planning services more efficiently for his generation. He has worked with clients from well-known companies like Stripe, Coinbase, Airbnb, Spotify, Twilio, Etsy, and more.  Samuel is a coveted speaker and loves spreading his wisdom on entrepreneurship, personal finance, and smart investing to his community.

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Information here may be provided, in part, by third-party sources. These sources are generally deemed to be reliable; however, neither our guest nor RFG Advisory guarantee the accuracy of third-party sources.

The views expressed here are those of our guest. They do not necessarily represent those of RFG Advisory, its employees, or its clients. This commentary should not be regarded as a description of advisory services provided by RFG Advisory, or performance returns of any client. The views reflected in the commentary are subject to change at any time without notice. 

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RFG Advisory is an SEC-registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute an endorsement of RFG by the Commission, nor does it indicate that RFG or any associated investment advisory representative has attained a particular level of skill or ability.

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The Ultimate Balance: Optimizing Your Time To Do What You Love Ft. Ethan Campbell, Owner & Financial Advisor at Stones River Wealth Management (Ep. 15)

The Ultimate Balance: Optimizing Your Time To Do What You Love Ft. Ethan Campbell, Owner & Financial Advisor at Stones River Wealth Management (Ep. 15)

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Welcome Ethan Campbell to this episode of Disruption Blueprint! Ethan is Owner & Financial Advisor at Stones River Wealth Management, a financial planning practice that helps clients grow their assets, mitigate risk, create a lifelong plan, and be confident about their financial future.

Ethan is a 2012 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a bachelor’s degree in Finance. Prior to founding Stones River Wealth Management, Ethan was a wealth advisor with Edward Jones. Ethan is a 31-year-old entrepreneur and successful industry leader who is building a rapidly evolving practice. He digs deep into how he is taking the leap of independence in this episode. His secret to long-term success? Ethan is building a family legacy not only to help those from an income standpoint, but also to be better servants to the community.

To help understand your long-term goals, it helps to identify three key tactics to run a successful practice. Ethan discusses that, what the first two months of your business look like, and how his children are a big part of both his personal and professional life in this episode.

“You’ll be amazed at how profitable your business is because your business depends on your health,” says Ethan. “Maintaining intimacy with your clients, to maintaining emotional resilience; from the ups and downs in the market, from the mistakes that are made in the world and your clients’ mistakes, your mistakes, everything that comes into play.”

Strongly rooted in his Christian faith, Ethan discusses how in the book of Proverbs, a wise man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. Ethan knows when people, families, and businesses are financially healthy, communities can grow stronger.

Listen more to hear conversations about staying focused, disciplined, having faith in the system, and doing whatever it takes to make it.

Join the conversation to hear about:

  • Taking your destiny into your own hands & building your own business 
  • Cultivating an advisory practice in a metropolitan vs. small environment 
  • How to up your game and how they can be beneficial to their clients, from an educational standpoint 
  • Integrating faith into not just your business, but who you are 
  • Discipline of working towards a sustainable, scalable business 
  • Trust the team that you’ve built 
  • Opportunities, diversity & catapulting to the next level in creating a business 
  • It’s all about prospecting 
  • Generational wealth transfer and the emotional connection to money 
  • Understanding how to turn on and off the focus 
  • Stay committed, and create something really, really special 

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Content here is for illustrative purposes and general information only. It is not legal, tax, or individualized financial advice; nor is it a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any specific security, or engage in any specific trading strategy.

Information here may be provided, in part, by third-party sources. These sources are generally deemed to be reliable; however, neither our guest nor RFG Advisory guarantee the accuracy of third-party sources.

The views expressed here are those of our guest. They do not necessarily represent those of RFG Advisory, its employees, or its clients. This commentary should not be regarded as a description of advisory services provided by RFG Advisory, or performance returns of any client. The views reflected in the commentary are subject to change at any time without notice.

Securities offered by Registered Representatives of Private Client Services. Member FINRA / SIPC. Advisory services offered by Investment Advisory Representatives of RFG Advisory, LLC (“RFG Advisory or “RFG”), a registered investment advisor. Private Client Services and RFG Advisory are unaffiliated entities. Advisory services are only offered to clients or prospective clients where RFG Advisory and its representatives are properly licensed or exempt from licensure. No advisory services may be rendered by RFG Advisory unless a client agreement is in place.

RFG Advisory is an SEC-registered investment adviser. SEC registration does not constitute an endorsement of RFG by the Commission, nor does it indicate that RFG or any associated investment advisory representative has attained a particular level of skill or ability.

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