The Opening of the New Office!

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Hello everyone! We are excited to share the opening of our new office in the prospect neighborhood. We’re looking forward to meeting with you in our new space, and cannot wait to share the next step of the adventure with you! Today is also the first day of work for our new Wealth Planner Assistant, Emily Green. Emily has several …

Paying and Getting Paid What You’re Worth

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About a year or so into being a financial planner, I was given an opportunity to speak to the Women’s Community within the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. I had a fifteen-minute block, alongside an investment adviser from Boulder and a disability insurance saleswoman, who had their own fifteen-minute blocks. The investment adviser gave some good, if perhaps a bit off-base …

Uncle Sam Wants His Share

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One of the most common frustrations of a financial planner, really, of any financial professional, is when the client does things backwards. They make a big financial decision and take a big financial action, then afterward, come to the professional seeking advice on how to mitigate the consequences of their decision. “How was I to know that selling that condo …

Attracting Talent to Your Team

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We have gotten a huge number of applications for our financial planner assistant position and almost as many questions from our fellow financial planners: “How did you get so many people to apply to your financial planner assistant position?” Well, today we thought we’d share both the elements of the job posting and the elements of how we screen candidates …

Pick Two

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As the old expression goes: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” Yet it seems there are cultures both among aspiring financial planners and financial planning firm owners that attempt just that. Students and career changers have casually shared with me time and time again that they’re looking for a position for two or three years that will …