Bridging the Gap Between Academic Research and Industry Expertise Where Do You Get Your Advice?
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Live from Joe's mom's basement. It's the stacking Benjamin ship
I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and today's your lucky day. We're exploring the places you find good advice
Do you dive into the internet higher advisers ask friends or some of each do you dive into the nerdery or get your hands dirty?
Here to give us the nerd's eye view on this topic is the guy financial planners turned to for advice
CFP Michael Kitzes also on our panel a lady who makes her own luck while helping clients reach retirement
She's the queen of sensible money CFP Dana on spot and the man who's always got a winning financial plan and a taste for the finer things
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There's quite a few in the collection, but you are right on with never winning
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Only because you changed the rules halfway through the game
Oh, I forgot there's a new rule. There's this rule
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But I have to take issue with that. Oh gee. I do forget rules, but I would win more often if I if I if it was
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But we were so happy that this woman she's been on enough that we can call her frequent contributor to the show
Data on Foxback. How are you? I'm doing great and I have to say board games aren't really my thing either
No, but last time you were here something a game that is your game is
Walking while you talk, but I don't you're not moving today for people not watching us on YouTube. You know what?
Let's see I can turn my under the desk treadmill on there we go
But I played three hours of pickleball yesterday
So I was like, I don't think I need to walk while I'm at my desk today, but you know
My first day with the treadmill was the last episode I was on so here we go. I'll walk
Well, maybe no board games, but pickleball so you're into the real games the real games. Absolutely. Yes
So did you just call all board games not real?
I just offended
We only needed the munchkin players and now we just got everybody in the hope board games community
I just offended all my people Michael all my people and that voice you here
He hasn't been on we were just talking about it might have been seven or eight years since he's been your Michael Kitzis is back
How are you my friend? I appreciate the opportunity to join you doing well. It's doing well
It has been a long time now
We know what Dana does sensible money helping retirees you have not one but two podcasts one of which is with our our friend of the show
Carl Richards, how do you and Carl start working together? So we originally cross pass on the the proverbial speaking circuit
So Carl does a lot of
Training out to financial advisors and client communication. I do a lot of training out to financial advisors on tax retirement
I I do I love deep nerdy stuff
So I go deep on on that and so Carl and I started crossing up at a lot of conferences where we were both doing trainings for financial advisors
And got to know each other as we would like cross pass at one city after another
A number of years ago and so at some point Carl actually reached out. He was like, you know
We both really have this passion for seeing like the good advisors do well and the not really advisory people go away
You know Carl calls them a secret society of of real financial advisors
I call them financial advisors like that subset of people who aren't in the sales business like they actually give advice because that's a
Hope quite my of our industry. Maybe we'll get to talk about later
But Carl is like look we both believe in the same things
But we kind of approach from different areas because it's like he wants to do everything with a conversation
I want to pull out a spreadsheet
And so he's like we should do a podcast and just talk about like the things that we're both dealing with because we are so
Completely different in how we approach everything even though we have the same mission that other people will probably find it interesting to listen
And he was right we've done a hundred something episodes picked up a million downloads and like it's going strong
That's fabulous and you have a second podcast, which is the advisor success podcast
correct
This was saw my first ray in a podcasting we're almost seven years into this now, which I guess is
Not that early podcasting standards, but was really early by financial advisor podcasting standards because
Our domains very very regulated. We do everything like five years after the rest of the world
So I've been doing that podcast for a long long time
We just we bring on financial advisors have them share their paths of success
What they've done how they built their businesses. We're kind of a long form hour and a half similar to what what you guys do here
So we we really get deep into the details of how they built their businesses
And it build up a really wonderful following in the advisor community
Just sharing out stories and trying to help advisors be more successful
Well, I take a little bit of issue what you said Michael where years goes deep if we ever get really deep
We run into trouble because that is not that is not our job here
Our job is introducing people to stuff
You know, it's funny is that you say you make you know these podcasts are really for advisors
I don't know when I've listened to them
I also think that if somebody's just out there listening to us
If you're looking for good advice, I've seen Michael
There's so much and we're going to talk about this a little bit today
There's so much misunderstanding about what really happens in the good financial advice industry just listen to few those
Yes, we share a lot of those dynamics as well as I know well
We may even talk about this a little bit today. You know, we
We cover particularly with the podcast they do with Carl like
The advisor version of some of these same challenges of
How do we deal with challenging client situations?
How do we try to navigate these scenarios where
Clients are not following advice that we believe is good advice might really really be good advice right?
We've all had those situations just in life in general right a family or friend or loved one is doing a not ideal thing
And like you're trying to give them advice to do the thing better and they won't take your advice
And they keep doing the thing that's not so great for themselves and from our end like
Yeah, my career is giving people advice and helping people and they pay me for it
And they still won't take the darn advice gets to actually like a whole interesting level of frustration for us as advisors
So we we cover some of that and of it on on kitchens and Carl as well. It sounds like it's therapy
Sounds like it might be therapy for you. Oh wow
I think a lot of the episodes basically are Carl providing meat therapy through my spreadsheet challenges
So yes, there's definitely a little bit of that
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Today we're going to take some inspiration from a piece Michael that you wrote on your nerds i view blog that you'll find it kitsus.com
The piece of from late July is academic research versus industry experience
Evaluating the value of practice management advice and i know
Michael what you were talking about here is advice for advisors and really how to run a practice
I thought though
In terms of a construct for an episode there's a lot that the three of you can help us with here
As people that often use financial advisors because i want to read from the executive summary
As a financial advisor there's many potential sources of advice on running a practice and serving clients
From fellow advisors to coaches to academic researchers and others
Sometimes it could be tempting to rely solely on the advice of those with quote in the trenches perspective
As these individuals have actually lived out a similar experience it can appreciate some of the nuance challenges
That an industry outsider might not and as i thought about that Michael
I thought about the number of people i've run into since i went from financial advising to financial media
Who now get all of their advice from community groups on facebook from going to
Well, we had Stephen Boyer here from camp five which is a fine operation
But people go there and i think they think that's my financial advisor
When you were actually putting this together
Why was this piece important for you and why is it so timely today for financial advisors in the domain of financial advisors
The challenge that crops up look we live this world where we have to both
Figure out how to give good advice to clients and figure out how to run good advice businesses
The advisory industry overwhelmingly and increasingly these days is more and more
Channels of independent advisors that are running and building their own businesses
And so as small business owners we have the proverbial you got to spend time working in your business as well as time on your business
And so when it comes like working on your business we have fear like okay
What are the best practices about how to actually run my business?
And the challenge that we have not unique to the financial advisor world is
Basically like there's a lot of hucksters out there right there people are like
I've got the system. I'll sell you the system to do the thing
And then you spend a much money and buy the system and it sounds like it sounds like
SEO social media people for for us
Yes, so we do with our challenges around that and so what happens once
Almost any of us have kind of been taken in in that version at some point
You tend to go one of your two directions
You're like darn it. I just realized the person that sold me the thing like all they do is sell the thing
They've never done the things they have no idea what they're actually talking about so like from now on
I'm only going to find people who've really done the thing and have treaded the path who can speak from real experience
And that's where I'm going with advice some people go the other direction and they say I like I got taken about the person
Doesn't know anything so from now on
I'm only going to the people who actually have the data and I'm going to go find the data and the people who have the real numbers
Who have done the analysis who can give me the quote quote the right answer and that we sort of proverbially call that the academic route
And the interesting thing to me that I I see in our space is
Most people seem to have like a natural inclination of whichever of those two paths they go and whichever path they go
They tend to really not like the other one. Yeah, right?
Yeah, like if you like people who have got and we've done you know lived in the trenches and done it
We tend not to like academic experience right?
It's like you y'all are in your ivory tower
You don't know how things are in the real world is usually the criticism
And then the folks that like the more academically driven approach like yeah, you're telling me all these things you did that made you successful and like
You don't actually know what made you successful like you could be a case scenario of one
It could have been like two percent what you said and 98 percent luck like you know it reminds me
There there was an article that had come out a couple of years ago not specific to our industry
But it was this like profile on someone who had made this wonderfully successful
Entrepreneurial endeavor and the question was like, you know, what did you do?
How do you do it?
And I forget what exactly what the details were was something effective like I got about it at five a.m. Every day
I'm hustled. I built a great team around me
I established a wonderful mastermind group I borrowed $550,000 for my parents and I drink green smoothies
And it was like we we we think
Did was that like borrowed $550,000 for my parents in the middle of that right and they're like
Up on this platform of let's look at like the amazing best practices of this person who's built this business
I'm like dude you you had someone to borrow $550,000 from that might have influenced the outcome more than perhaps
You're realizing slightly because a lot of us don't have
Parental access to half a million dollar loans, right? And so just that phenomenon
Now I mean to knock that in people who've been successful. There's a lot that goes into building business
Beyond that, but just this phenomenon that
You will often see stories for people talking about like here's what I did to be successful
And it's like maybe that wasn't the thing or the only thing or maybe you're not even recognizing
What's actually different about your experience versus ever analysis that makes you successful
Which for a lot of people then brings you back into the okay, so I got to look at it academically
Candidly I tend to be a fan of a little bit of a both and I think there's a place for both and not trying to equivocate just
I nerd out on both paths for their respective reasons
But that's really why we were trying to queue it up as I'm finding this in our
profession
This debate is starting to crop up more and just there's some structural stuff around how
The advice business has evolved over the past 10 and 20 years that more advisors are not in the business to selling products now
They're really building ongoing businesses with advice which tends to make bigger businesses
Which means more of the need practice management advice and so this is starting to crop up a lot in our industry
Well, let's take this because everything that you talked about happens is you know with people that take this advice
Our stacker community OG you were saying that it's not just in that realm
With your example, Michael you're talking about the chain of events that help that person be successful
Just on article in um, I don't know if it was in Forbes or something
You know that has a little advisor profiles and it was like is you know this person super successful
And you know one of the youngest people in the universe to be really successful manages
Billions of dollars is really young and energetic and buried in the paragraph is
Inherited practice from dad who worked 30 years and it's like yeah, okay, I mean
Uh-huh there that might have had an impact right like just a little yeah, that might have an impact like look
You if you want to look at what it's like to run a business that size like cool
I love your input if you're gonna give me advice on how to grow a business that size like
Maybe that's not going to be the best source of advice right
Let's flip this and talk about the stackers because I think there's a parallel universe here
That we're getting advice from the wrong places that sometimes if we prefer one type of device to your point Michael
We poo poo the other side
You know as mom says we go nah, I don't really like that
Michael writes Dana that it's often tempting to talk to people in the trenches right people going through what you're going through
Is there any danger in asking people going through retirement or they're paying for kids to go to college now?
How they did it? Absolutely. There's danger. I mean
We each have our own perspective based on our circumstances. I mean, it's the exact same analogy
You know you talk about someone that got $550,000 from their parents will how they went about is gonna be completely different than the next person
You know, I remember running around my house unplugging outlets to keep my electricity bill down while I was starting my business
Right it's a completely different perspective
So when you're talking about retirement
Yeah, you don't know there are circumstances you don't know whether they worked or their spouse worked whether they inherited money
The age of their children whether they got lucky and went to work for Apple or Google or Microsoft at the right time or
You know whether they got lucky and bought a house at the right time and had a you know incredible increase in home equity
There's all kinds of circumstances that flavor the way we think about money and whether we think it was easy or not easy
And of course that's gonna impact how we withdraw the money whether we pay for the kids college all of those things
You're only getting that one person's view unless you went around and sampled
Lots of people and and that's one of the things we
Yeah, we talk about you know, we've helped hundreds of people retire
So you get all these different perspectives then I think you you can pick and choose
There's so there's no love large numbers and like colloquial evidence doesn't equal truth
I think it's kind of what you're saying
Yes, yeah, but oh gee. I don't think we should we should tell stackers not to talk to people going through retirement
Because I do feel like you know hearing those stories like the humanity of what you're going through and how the road might be
Bumpier than you thought still can can provide some helpful tips
Yeah, and I and I think it's also important just to think about like the perspective Dana said this about
The perspective of what other people have done and I'm thinking about this in the context of
Real estate investing versus equity investing, right? There seems to be like this pretty big divide between
I'm going to be wealthy financially independent by buying a whole bunch of single-family houses is wrenching
Mount or Airbnb and being them or whatever versus I'm going to take that capital and invest it in
The equity markets and and kind of go down that path and the reality is is that if you talk to somebody who's
Been wildly successful with real estate. There was probably a lot of hard work there. There's probably a lot of
Fortunate timing, you know if you were successful some things just happened to go your way
And so they're gonna have that perspective
That's gonna that's gonna I don't want to say cloud their judgment
But it's gonna have that lens that they're gonna be able to see
Their perspective and share that with you just like you know, you couldn't say well, what about like Warren Buffett like he's
He doesn't own any real estate. He has all an equity 100% equity portfolio. Surely that's a big enough proof to to be successful that way
Well, one might argue that he happened to have some pretty good timing, you know relative to some pretty cyclical
Bull markets as well
So everybody's perspective is gonna be viewed through the lens of their own personal success
And so if that's one of the dangers of the Facebook groups or the you know following somebody on Instagram or I mean
You could do this for anything whether there's money or health, you know
You're trying to lose weight right there's 52 ways to do that eat less carbs eat more carbs. Don't exercise
You know
Now you can just take a shot and lose weight
You know, there's like a thousand ways to do it. I'm waiting for the Edadona program. Yeah, I'm stuck on the more carbs
Edadona lose some weight, you know
But everybody's body chemistry is gonna be different. So what works for you
Isn't necessarily gonna work for somebody else
And so you gotta be careful what kind of what kind of circle you have around you because it turns into a pretty impactful echo chamber very quickly
I think
Well, this is this is where I love that where that's going OG because I think this is where trust comes in
And and Michael as as you well know because you deal with this
Every week when you're talking to these advisors. You're talking to with Carl about servicing clients
There's so much distrust of professional help out there. There's so much. Is that distrust?
Deserved and how do professionals? You know if if Dana knows the law of large numbers and yet people don't want to talk to Dana
Because she's a pro because they don't trust pros like how do we start working around that?
Well, I mean sadly, I think it is deserved for just our I mean can they are our industry has a lot of issues
even aside from like general
Consumer backlash from the financial services industry. Yeah, the the financial advisor domain
Has some unique challenges because when you drill down to it
Like the actual like the label financial advisor and holding out that way is not really actually regulated
Despite the fact we're a ludicrously regulated industry because if you if you go back to the roots of all of financial services
Like a hundred years ago when a lot of the regulation was put in place
Banks started coming up. So states regulated the banks that insurance companies started scrapping up
So states regulated the insurance companies then the stock exchange and market started cropping up
Did some not so great things in the late 1920s early 1930s?
So we made some federal regulators around them the SEC finna
And so what we ended up with is is this world where one set of people regulate insurance
So if you provide advice that has to do with insurance to answer them
Yeah, one regulator handles investments
So if you manage portfolios you have to answer them another regulator handles the sale mutual funds
So if you sell some of those you got to answer to them and all these different regulators regulate the different things that
Financial advisors might implement and nobody actually regulates financial advisors as financial advisors
And so the end result of what's happened with that particularly over the past 20 to 30 years
Is the industry and particularly the the the product for manufacturing and distribution side the industry
Right the folks that make insurance and investment products have figured out that if you tell people
You're going to give them advice and the advice is to buy your product
It sells a lot of product right like if you give people a copy of it's a plan and it always results in your product at the end of it
It turns out a lot of people buy your product and so
20 30 years ago everybody stopped putting insurance agents and stockbroker on their business card
And they started putting financial advisor financial consultant on their business card
But they legally they never actually stopped being product sales people
It's still their job. It's still how they're regulated
It's still the standards that they're held to it's still the educational or comments are lack thereof that they have
Because there basically is no material educational or carbon to be a financial advisor
And so we go down this road where within the industry now there's basically this bifurcation
There's a subset of people who are really in the business of advice
They tend to pursue advanced education on their own. It's not a requirement
You do it because it helps you actually give people better advice
They pursue some of the channels that have higher regulatory standards where you're actually accountable for the advice
Because it's good for consumers and it turns out you get better advice when people are accountable for it
And then you've got a second segment of the industry that continues to live in the product sales and distribution side
They get paid to sell product they work for companies that manufacture and distribute the product
And they all call themselves financial advisors
And if you just look at like a total census of financial advisors in the industry
Literally the majority like more than 50% actually still work for product companies that manufacture and distribute
And only a minority of them are actually in the business of advice
So again, this is what Karl calls his secret society real financial advisors. I call them financial advisors
And so for the average consumer who throws a stone and tries to find a financial advisor
Or like the mathematical odds is you are going to find someone who is a product salesperson
And if you've had a couple of those experiences
You probably don't think very highly of financial advisors for good reason
Like just if you need to buy a thing
I'm fine to find a salesperson sell it to me
But if you go to a salesperson for advice you tend not to be thrilled with it
Like I know when I go to the closed store and they say it looks good on me
Like they're not giving me fashion advice
They work on commission on the floor
They're like you should wear a blue shirt
Yes
Which of course is always the right advice because all I wear is my shirt
Michael I'm a guy of a certain age and there used to be these stereo stores all over
And I remember job one was when the stereo sales dude said
I have this at my house that meant I wasn't buying it
I got to care what you have at your house
Like no way
Guy best buy comes up to me
Oh, I love this one
Okay, let's go look over here then
Which by the way Dana
We talked about maybe the bad news about a person with one story
But we've heard this phrase the wisdom of crowds
Right the wisdom of the crowd
We also know that there's value in surround sound
When I we moved to Texarkana at first
I had never run a marathon
And then all my friends in Texarkana are marathoners
Now I've run 11 and I'm prepping for another half
And hopefully my final full marathon coming up
But I wouldn't have done any of that if I wouldn't have had the surround sound
It seems to me that with these Facebook groups
There is some value there in in surround sound
Or are they more dangerous than good
If you're not taking that as okay they said do this check
So I'm gonna do you know
Are you saying just take what happens there with a grain of salt
Like maybe my buddy Troy shouldn't be giving me
Workout advice just because he's in my marathon group
Exactly
We get this on our webinars
So we do webinars about every four to six weeks
And we get all kinds of people that will ask very specific questions
You know
They'll give us two pieces of information and say what should I do
Well we would need a lot more than those two pieces of information
And so we'll try to guide them
You know we would need a lot more
If your situation looks more like this
Here's the things to consider
If your situation looks a lot more like that
Here's the things to consider
And I think that's what you can get from these Facebook groups
From from these online communities
Is what are the considerations in some of these decisions
But it's completely different than having a one-on-one conversation
With someone who knows your financial situation inside and out
And we talk a lot about it's not just the spreadsheets
Like I'm a spreadsheet geek like Michael
Like spreadsheets make my heart sing
They really do
But there's also the values side
So we can run through all the numbers in the world
You know I was on with the woman the other day
But she's just terrified about what happens if her husband passes away early
And she's going to be okay
But you know you can't address that emotional concern with a spreadsheet
There's there's value to having a conversation
And and so many factors that go into these decisions with money
Aren't really you know logical
We're not all like Spock
We have an emotional component to them
It's funny OG Dana brings up a great point
That over the last 25 years
I feel like there's more psychologist in the good financial advisor space than there used to be
From the advisor and we literally added it to like the official CFP curriculum two years ago
Like there's a section of client psychology
That did not exist as part of the core curriculum
And is getting added in now
Wasn't there yeah OG
It's interesting your perspective of 25 years
Because July 1st was my 25th year
And I was just talking with somebody
About how this has changed over the years
Michael was talking about how financial advisors air quotes used to give advice
And it just kind of as long as the advice
Sold the product that you had access to sell
It was it that was the that was the intent of the advice
And I started working like you did Joe at American Express
And I think we did a pretty fair job
Of providing that advice piece
But a lot of times it kind of fell right into the the products and services
That were super easy for for the advisor to sell
But the reality is is that now
Products are so ubiquitous and it's so easy for consumers to
To shop these different things
I mean you can look at all the commissions that have gone away
And and trading costs and all that other sort of stuff that's kind of
Gone through the industry
That it has to be more about advice and it has to be more about
That personal
Relationship or the personal experience that that that individual is working through for their you know
Their unique goals because at the end of the day
There's no right answer and it's really
I think it takes a pretty big person to say
You know there's 15 ways to solve this problem
And I think that's almost a great place to leave it before we go to the break
And everybody in the second half of this
We're going to start talking about what we look for in good advice
And really the traits of good advice
And went to trust good advice
And we'll talk about the different channels where people find advice
But before we get there
I want to ask you guys about
Just individual stories that you know
Will retract names
But of where somebody got bad advice
And really about how much money it cost them
I remember when I was leaving financial planning and I'll go first
I had somebody who decided because I was leaving
And we were in the middle of
Just coming out of the 2007-2008 crisis
And things were just starting to rebound
They decided that they wanted to completely get out of the stock market
Because they didn't know about anybody else giving them advice
And they took all their money out of all their IRAs
And I called them and I said what did you do
And why didn't you call me first
And they said well you're leaving
And we just think that you know we don't need the stock market up and down
Like we just went through
We lived through it
We're through it
We just took all the money
And I said you could just move it to CDs inside the IRA
You don't have to take
They took $300,000 guys out of their IRAs
Because they didn't want to be in the stock market anymore
And the person at the bank by the way who was doing the CDs
Absolutely let them do it, right?
All these people just let them do it
And I tried to explain to them
You earned $300,000 this year
That's going to be this is going to be ordinary income
And they said well the horse is already out of the barn
I'm like no it isn't
You've got this type frame where you can put it back in
I swear you can
And they wouldn't do it
Bad advice cost them
I don't know how much buddy attacks
It's I mean just maybe multiply that by 30%
Just maybe they'd like the stereo salesman
And there was something in it for you
That's still out of my entire career in financial planning
That gives me the biggest pit
But Dana, a story names retracted of somebody getting bad advice
And it costs them a lot of money
Yeah I mean I don't know if it's exactly advice
But I definitely see clients that will listen to
Political things one way or another
We had a client year and a half ago now
And this in this climate that doesn't happen
Never, right?
I don't know what she was listening to
But she called us up year and a half ago
And said she was terminating services
Because you know Fiat currency was going away
And whatever she was listening to
You know had said like she needed to get her money out
So you know it was really a hard conversation
I was like well what are you going to do with the money
Well I'm going to put it in cash
And I'm thinking but if Fiat currency is going away
Like how is that going to work for you
But there was no logic
So I'm going to put it Dana
I got to put it all in Fiat currency then
I got to put it all
Exactly, it's going away
So I'm going to take it out of stocks
And put it all in Fiat currency
So that's what she did
And terminated services
Now I don't know how that played out
But I know the portfolio she would have had
Has obviously done quite well
Over the last year and a half
And so I've seen so many things
Like that over the years
Where people I have some horror stories
I have one person who lost four million dollars
You know just truly horror stories
Signed it all away on two promiseary notes
It turned out to be bad real estate investments
And poof it was all gone
And so yeah I mean I could go on and on
But yeah you have to be really careful
About letting the things you're listening to
Completely skew your point of view
Where you're not being objective and balanced anymore
I feel I don't know
We have a member of our team
Who said that her grandparents
Just sitting front of political TV all day
And her angry like all day long
And I just can't imagine Michael
A horror story about bad advice
So mine comes from the very start of my career
So I started 23 years ago
In spring of 2000
Like the absolute peak of the tech bubble
And so the number one
Perfect starting time by the way
Oh yeah fantastic starting time
So the number one advisor air quotes
In the office and the agency where I joined
It was it was a sales organization
His big thing like he was bringing in more assets
Than anybody else by a country mile
And the reason was
Everybody he met got the munder net net fund
So for anybody that doesn't know
Munder net net fund was like
The absolute high flyer of the peak
In the late 1990s tech bubble
I forgot the number was like
Munder net net fund was up something like
150% just in 1999
Like the fund went up 105% in one year
Because tech stocks were going to the moon
And so everybody he met
It was like the thing sold itself
Like buy fund went up 150% last year
What are you invested in?
So that got the money
So he was on a pedestal
In that office because this was a sales organization
That literally had a white board
That had everybody's name
And how much they've sold
And you tried to get to the top of the board
And then the board would reset every month
So what have you done for me lately?
Number one agent
Drove an immense amount of money
Everybody went into the munder net net fund
And munder that fund
I think lost something like 90%
In the next three years
When the market crashed came
In part like that's where some of my
I guess like particular jadedness around
Sales people who called themselves financial advisors
Comes from like
He was literally next to my cubicle
He had very very nice office
My cubicle was on the end
That's where the offices were
He was right next to me
And I would just watch him like
Client after client walking to his office
And phone call after phone call
And everybody left with the munder net net fund
And his name was at the top of the board every month
And all those people lost 90% of what they invested
With him in less than three years
Just selling returns
Yeah and he doesn't have to get back anything he made
Right that's the commission gig
He kept 100% of his commissions
While his clients lost 90% of everything they invested with him
And there were literally zero
Zero consequences
Like you signed that brokerage form
That says you acknowledge what you're doing
He at least found people who agreed
They were willing to tolerate some level of risk
And so he had literally zero consequences
Because he wasn't actually accountable for it for advice
Even though he said
You're going to be able to retire early on this
Like that was not really retirement advice
It was a sales pitch
And so to me like that's what drives off this
Right is the person you're talking to
Actually in the business of advice
Or is the reality that they're in the business of sales
Like look if I want to buy me internet funds
Like go talk to the dude
He's really good at doing the paperwork
Go get it for you
Nice and quick
But like people weren't going to him to buy the fund
They were going to him to figure out what to invest in
And what he sold them was the thing that made the commission
And made the money train run for him
OG how about you cost of advice
Well the story that comes to mind for me
Is more of a third party perspective
During covid I had a really good friend
Who was working at a local bank
In their financial advisor department
Whatever you want to call that
And we talked almost every day
You know from the beginning of covid
And he had no real decision making
Abilities in terms of client relationships
But was privy to all of the stuff that was going on
And at this small regional bank
They managed something like about 600 million dollars of client assets
And you know the problem with merging financial advisors
Airquote with banks is that generally speaking
The the people who are at the bank
Who are interested in financial advice
Generally don't want anything that's risky
Right but again kind of you think about the history of
2010 through 2020 the spring of 2020 before covid
Market went pretty much straight up
So like to Michael's point with the fund
You could do you know I'd say I mean you're somewhat conservative
It's 60 40 it's 70 30 whatever
And so a lot of the consumers
Are customers of this bank's financial advisor department
Were invested in more than conservative investments
Anyways the account everybody got pretty freaked out
As you might recall market went down 34%
In 17 trading days
And the bottom of it was March the 23rd
And we were talking at noon
My my friend and I
And you know that day the market was down 11%
And it was just kind of a really rough day
And I had gone on a walk with my wife that day
And I was thinking my goodness
This is like the third one of these right
The 2000 time frame the the 2007 to 2009
And now this and we were just kind of talking about it
My friend said well the VP here
Has decided that everyone is going to cash by nightfall
Because you know we're going we're going down like crazy
Everyone everyone's going to cash by nightfall
Because the but you know I mean the world is going to end
It's pretty obvious at this point
It's down you know the market's
Crashing today
And he told me that and I said I said well just so you know
Today's the bottom and it totally when when professionals
Capitulate at that level 600 million dollars
All to cash in one trade
You know you kind of knew
That that we're kind of just had to be sort of toward the bottom
Interestingly so they did this and interestingly
Most of it was mutual funds so mutual funds close
At the end of the day right so you don't get to trade it
Throughout the day like an ETF and go well you know
I was only down 5% that day because I sold at 11 a.m.
Nope they sold out at the end of the day
Down 11% for the day
Maybe you guys know but what do you think happened the next day
Rebound it went up 10%
600 million dollars sitting in cash
I'm pretty sure that there are some lawsuits that kind of transpired from that
but
Back to kind of the overarching theme of a lot of this is that when
You're in a relationship that's that's driven around
Selling and it's driven around products and not around
Goal attainment and not around how do I help this person or how do we collectively
Get to the thing that's most important to you
Then the only thing you can do is work on the day-to-day
You know like look at the day-to-day stuff
And so that was the impact of those decisions, you know roughly you know 40 or 60 million dollar
Miss basically big big bad day just if they would have waited one day right wait one day
And you would have seen a recovery and maybe that would have you just had enough
Of your lips above the water at that point
Yeah, and I also think I just go back to Dana's point about everybody's different
And when we're calling our shot for everybody across the entire branch
No matter what your financial situation that we're all getting out
Like how crazy how bad is is that advice and you'll see the same stuff in online forums
I'm like what are you talking about using gold as your cash reserve like that's ridiculous
I can shame a piece of it. I actually saw the trivia talking about
Talk about gold real fast Joe. I actually saw a video because you know one of the arguments that we talk about is
Well, how you know you can take a slab of gold and and go sell it
There's actually videos now on YouTube about this and how quote easy it is to go cash in a
sliver of gold off your gold bar
You just kind of chisel a little bit off if you need some money and then you you go into this
You know place in New York City and they weigh it and they give you cash. So
Just tell you do it's way better than going all fiat currency
That's what Dana your person should have gone just about gold bars and a little chisel to chisel some off
Hey coming up in the second half of this
I really want to start seeing if we can solve some of these issues that we brought up
But before that we have our year-long trivia competition going on among our three frequent
contributors
Len Penzo who has the week off Paula who I mentioned earlier had
A last-minute
Obligation so Dana nice enough to sit in so your team Paula pant today
Michael you are as our guest of honor your team Len Penzo and OG of course playing for himself
So Michael you haven't played this game before
Which means I should go over you've got some good news and some bad news do you want the good news first or the bad news
I'll take the good news first
Well, the good news first build me up a little the good news is you are tied for first
My friend because the score is you have 11
Team Paula, which is Dana today has 11 and OG who's our two-time returning champion point to the for people on YouTube point to the trophy
OG that's our dollar store trophy we're playing for right there guys
Karen got the ugliest trophy we could possibly find that goes out style. So he's had it twice two years in a row
OG's got seven. He's down by four. So OG fallen behind him by the way
Paula pant is usually everybody knows Paula is one of the smartest people on earth
She's always in last place. So how the hell you guys are in first
She doesn't know nobody knows. She's had a great string of wins. So no pressure Dana. No pressure at all
No pressure
I'm kind of feeling like we're in an equal pressure bucket here at a dead top
So well in the bad news is this because team landed better than team Dana last year that means unfortunately Michael
You're gonna have to guess first which I don't like our guest having to do but for that we need a trivia question Doug
What do we got on tap today? What's going on? My goodness. I thought we'd never get here Joey
There's stackers on Joe's mom's neighbor duck it big moment alert
I am currently in the process of
Rowing the new manager down at the tasty freeze she and she alone has the power to free pour that twisty creamy goodness
Who needs US Senators now that's a powerful person to have in your back pocket
It's futile for her to resist my charm
It's only a matter of time until I have free ice cream on demand and then the envy of all local men
They speak in a getting wooed on this day in 1949 the Dessler brothers were the talk of their town when their bitter feud
Led to the split of their footwear company and the founding of their rival shoe brands
Puma and Adidas
Both went on to go viral with Adidas becoming associated with hip-hop music
Run DMC wooed an endorsement deal with the company by having attendees at their Madison square garden concert
Hold up one shoe and Adidas executive was so impressed they gave run DMC a one million dollar endorsement deal on the spot
Also why I'm holding up my shoe as I read this you know
Oh mine yeah
Come on Adidas I'm right here another legendary endorsement deal with a shoe company is back in the news
Because of the movie air
According a legend directed by Ben Affleck the movie is about Nike sports marketing executive Sunny Vicaro
Who courted a shoe partnership with Michael Jordan that would make Nike forever associated with basketball
The air Jordan would go on to earn
126 million in revenue in its first year and begin a lucrative relationship between Jordan and Vicaro
So here it is not you got all that background my trivia question for you today is
During Michael Jordan's basketball career. How much did he earn in total from endorsement deals
Facilitated by sunny Vicaro
I'll be back right after I spray myself down with cologne
I want Miss tasty freeze to know when I've arrived and the scent of me to linger long after I leave that's how you keep them talking about you
Yeah, one way one way or another and polo bottles getting low for me if that doesn't if that doesn't work
I know what I know idea what will Doug
Michael unfortunately you have to go first here
So sunny Vicaro and Michael Jordan how much money that partnership make
I'm just trying to make sure I follow all the names of who was where
Can I ask follow-up questions for clarification? That was like done through a lot of are you related are you related to OG?
Because that's his department you deal
I try to give you so much info to like throw you off the scent. I know and I'm sure you had it before that Michael
So yes follow-up away
Yes, so I'm worried about I think I'm hearing is that
The company did the split into Adidas and Puma and Adidas says thing with run DMC and sunny Vicaro tried to get
Michael Jordan on with with Puma to do his thing and my recollection is Michael Jordan kind of did a thing with Nike
So does that mean he didn't do with Puma and the answer is zero
Well the questions about sunny Vicaro who worked for Nike. Oh who worked on the Nike side
Yeah, he worked on the Nike side. So there was some cash there. So I will say that zero you can go with zero
Searching for the trick here
We're not above the trick Michael. We've done that before but he said sorry you're locked in
But I will tell you there there was some money here. He's the Nike guy
all right
Man, I don't know. I feel like this is either a really big number or not very big number
Because he didn't sign a good deal
But Michael Jordan seems to have done well. So like is this a like get closest without going over?
Are we like prices right? Just close this just close this not without going over just closest
Got it. It's got to be a big number Nike kind of kind of did well over the years is my impression
So let's go with 200 million dollars
200 million dollars for team
Kits is Penzo
All right Dana you got 200 million as the starting gate. What do you think about that?
Well, I've seen the movie air. It's phenomenal
There's this scene with played by Ben Affleck who plays the Phil Knight the founder and CEO of Nike where
You really
Frames how your risk decisions change from a startup company to a more established company. Oh, just fabulous movie
Has to do with some of the conversations we started off with on this
Spreadsheets in the in the movie Dana. You're getting really getting excited about this. I'm guessing there's spreadsheets
No, probably was spreadsheets in a sunny's mind. I would guess that's right. Yes
Seems like Jason Bateman was more of the spreadsheet guy
Sonny was kind of the seat of his pants guy played by
Uh
Not Ben Affleck the other guy. Oh, you know in the movie it was Jason Bateman who was the most influential and getting Jordan to sign
No, it was it was not not Ben Affleck. It was it was who's the guy who does movies with me did the Martian. He did
Matt Damon. Matt Damon. Oh, oh, yeah. Yeah, Matt Damon. Sorry. Matt Damon. Yes
So but Sonny Vicaro was Matt Damon. So that's kind of a seat of the pants kind of guy but Jason Bateman came across like your spreadsheet guy
Yeah, he did but he was all for the decision. I believe maybe I'm remembering you wrong
Nope, I think he was once it worked out. Yeah, but anyway, let's work out your answer
So I'm gonna guess. Oh, this is hard. Do I go over a billion or just under a billion? I'm gonna go 900 million
900 million dollars. So significantly more of the Mr. Kitzes
So oh gee got 200 million. You got 900 million
Is this the amount that Jordan received?
How much did Jordan earn in total from endorsement deals facilitated by Sonny Vicaro?
We don't we didn't we're not netting it out. Oh gee. We're not backing out his lunch receipts and all of his expenses
You know, I just didn't know that was the total deal that he gets a part of
assuming there's an agent who did really well on this because you know, you only get the net
Yeah
All right, so 900 million in the movies hilarious too 900 million 200 million
uh
I feel like I just read something that said that Tiger Woods was about to be the second billion dollar person
Which would lead me to believe that Jordan was the first
I just got to take the over there statistically more numbers over 900 million then between 900 and 200
So 900 million and one cent
And and that's the way we can't cap Dana at the knees right there
All right, uh, we got our numbers locked. We'd love to tell you who wins. We'll be right back with that
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Michael you opened up the bidding here with 200 million it looks like both Dana and OG said screw that
Like it was more than that you feeling confident though if it's a number
Honestly, I'm not feeling confident at all like if you give me a chance with the spreadsheet
To go through numbers and do some projections of Nike's growth over time like I would I would come back to this
But you know, I'm the I'm the spreadsheet guy. So I will confirm. I'm also not the pop culture guy
So I will confess I am not feeling terribly confident
But I do at least like the spread you do here, right? I feel like like Dana's kind of boxed in
I at least have a multi hundred million dollar range to cover here
So I'm at least I'm liking my options
But I'm not feeling very confident. Yeah, Dana 900 million you were feeling good for about I think about three minutes
Yeah, yeah, so OG beat me out by a penny
OG think it's the over you feeling good?
Think so again, there's more numbers above 90 good all year and it's not been year-year though
He's got the trophy. Don't call to come back
All right, we'll call it come back season. Well, let's see if there is a comeback, Doug
Hey there stackers. I'm envy and dorsor and ladyweuer
Joe's mom's neighbor Doug and in 1984
Sunny Vicaro began courting Michael Jordan to partner with Nike to produce what would become the iconic air Jordan
The partnership has lasted decades and has been a cash cow for the shoe brand and basketball legend
My question was during Michael Jordan's basketball career. How much did he earn in total?
From endorsement deals facilitated by Sunny Vicaro
Well, I will say this
Mike slash land was off by just 1.1 billion
Dana was off by about four hundred million and OG was off by like three hundred and ninety nine million nine hundred and ninety nine
You get the point throughout his basketball career Michael Jordan earned over one point three billion dollars from endorsement deals
With Sunny Vicaro wonder if he's any relation to Brenda and
Sunny did Michael a solid that means OG is all with wow
OG did we say that now don't call it a comeback don't call it a comeback and here for years you know has eight only three away
But uh, yeah great movie Michael. I'm assuming that you haven't seen the movie area yet. No, no
I have not I've got young children. We're a mostly Disney household these days
Well, I will give it if you ever get a chance to just get away big thumb up
I think OG you've seen it Dana seen it Doug. You've seen it right never saw you haven't seen it. Oh, you'd love it to OG
Yeah, good stuff. I haven't seen it. I'm putting on my list. You already won. He doesn't need to see it now
I already know what happens
That's in the past
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For more all right, let's dive into
Advice and where you get it. I want to talk about all these different platforms
Dana let's start off with Facebook groups with groups
What type of good things? I want to go through the good things from these groups
I got three CFPs here people are going to go get professional advice get good professional advice
But I want to talk about what the good is that you can get from these things all right
So let's talk about Facebook groups. What's a good thing that you can get by joining a financial
Facebook group? I think like a lot of groups you feel like the kind of questions you're asking are
Normal you know, you think oh, I'm not the only one wondering this wow
There's people that think about these things. I also think it can give you context
A lot of people are afraid to come talk to a financial advisor because they don't feel like they understand the
Lingo or they don't feel like they even know enough
You know that shouldn't necessarily be a reason
But if that's the way you feel and you're trying to gain some background knowledge
You start to dive in and ask questions
There's lots of people willing to point you to beginner articles and things where you can learn and you're just gaining context
I think that's one of the positives of these types of groups. We did talk already about the negatives
if you take this and go this definitely applies to me without
any second
Follow-up buyer beware
Absolutely
I might go on to ask you about master classes like I have a subscription to master class
I learn a bunch from it
These are people that have done the thing before they they know and you'll see some of these very responsible courses online
Dana talked about she has webinars. So if I just sign up for webinars. I take the master class
What's the good I can get out of that? What's the buyer beware?
Well, so I mean think the good around master class is just the opportunity for the pure educate
I mean first of all it's just the pure education right
I'm going to learn about things that I I just literally don't know about
Ideally, I may be even gained some perspectives about it from someone who's tread the path
And me like even even more ideal world like I'm actually getting someone that can essentially role model
What it looks like right not just I'm giving you perspective on the other side
But I have done the journey
And you can see what my journey was like and and learn from it
And me like all of those are valuable perspectives
I don't call any of them advice in a literal like
You should do this based on your situation
But education to me is very relevant getting perspective
Just like I want to know what it's like on the other side of the mountain because I've never been there before
Is incredibly powerful for us and and finding role models
I do think is very powerful for a lot of people right there's you know
It's hard to visualize what it would be like to do the things successfully
If you haven't seen other people that have done it successfully
role models have impacted a lot of domains
And I think it absolutely applies in the context of a lot of our
I'll just say our financial lives overall
Because the reality again if you want to bring the the psychology back into it
Right part of it is knowing what to do
And part of it is having the confidence and belief that if you try to do it
You would actually be able to succeed right
The psychological construct is self-efficacy
If we don't have confidence and believe that trying it would lead to success
We don't bother to try we give up or we self-sabotage
We don't go down that road and so seeing someone who's done it
And being able to see it and saying wow
They tread the path they made it through
I think I can do it because I've seen that it can be done now
Is incredibly powerful for lifting self-efficacy when tied to education
Like now you know what to do
Or at least you know more information about it
And you know how to you know that it can be done
And that's incredibly powerful for helping a lot of people move forward
I mean I think that's why master classes often get the momentum they do
Yeah seeing the top of the mountain before you climb
Increases the efficacy of getting there I would think
Absolutely absolutely
OG I want to pivot just a little bit because at the beginning of this
In Michael's piece for financial advisors we talked about people that have
That are on the path right now right the groups that we talked about
Or maybe even the master class stuff that we were just talking about
But then also the scientific advice
And people prefer one way or the other
How do we start to discern which way to go like as an example
We've talked before on the show that you know you've got to if you've got a mortgage
It to 3% interest rate the math says
That you know what I should probably arbitrage and invest money
And get higher than 3% but the behavior shows
The happiest retirees and I see Dana smiling the happiest retirees are ones that don't have any debt
So how do I start to parse between the tried and true pay off your debt
Versus the spreadsheet math of 3% a great interest rate don't mess with it
I think ultimately it just depends on what kind of person you are
Right, I mean this is the same thing as like as it relates to
Let's say you have credit card debt and you go do I need the motivation of the snowball method where I'm like
See in progress every six weeks where I'm lopping off bills even though it's the not the most efficient way of doing it
Or do I find the most success in my life by following a rigid very specific plan
I think personally that financial planning is so much behavioral
Above and beyond all of the data because we all know what to do my favorite phrase recently as if if information was all that was required
We'd all be millionaires with six packs
I don't I don't know where I heard that from but I love it and I say it all the time because we all know what to do
Right spend less than you earn save some money invest it don't touch it
You know diversify like all of these kind of buzzwords. We know what to do
But it's the act of actually doing it and sometimes we need a group of like-minded people
You know we were talking you're talking about like Facebook groups or whatever online groups one of the benefits of that is
Just the pure motivation. I know when I had a ton of debt
I remember listening to Dave Ramsey going this dude's motivating me to pay this stuff off
And now I listen to Dave Ramsey and I go man. He's kind of a jerk
You know, but it was the message and messenger at the right time
And so a lot of these decisions I think are around your personal motivation and around what what will drive you to be successful
And that's going to be different for everybody
From a professional standpoint. We're working with somebody who's like Michael and Dana super analytic into the spreadsheets and and graphs and all that sort of fun stuff
We better come with it, you know
Because I can't just talk about rainbows and sunshine with those two and go it'll be fine guys and you know
Right, they're not going to be super excited about that. They're not going to believe. Let's just hug it out
It'll be okay
But by the same token and we've talked about this I don't know Wednesday on Wednesday show if you have a partner or somebody in the planning relationship
Who's not that and that's all you do is just jam spreadsheets down, you know, Adam then you've lost them too
You know, so I think the best way to handle this from a personal standpoint is quite literally to get
Know thyself what gets me going is it the analytic very specific stuff or is it the motivation and the the view from the other side of the mountain like Michael said that somebody else can provide me
You know, do I need somebody to pull me or am I going to push it myself?
I think you did a great job OG of setting up what I want our guests to help us with and which I think is a question that you already
Answered which is ultimately around us. We're trying to make better decisions
Which for me has always meant I want to have this board of directors on my team, right?
I want these people that are smart people and it's funny whenever I read the non-financial media people talking about this
The people that are talking to the the people that listen to stacking measurements
They was talking about okay, make sure they're fee-only make sure that they're they're a fiduciary
And I'm like that crap is all fine
But I want people I know who are in my corner who seriously have my back and that's going to be my
My team like I look at advisor even more I guess more holistically than just this checkbox thing that the industry provides or you know
How they're Michael you talked about how they're regulated
That's all finding good. I need deeper than that. What is a thing?
I'd like both of you and Dana will start with you
Give us a trait that I should be looking for for somebody who's going to be on my board of directors if I'm starting to put that together
What's the trait I really want on my team?
I think you want to be able to know they're going to communicate to you in a way you can understand
So we actually say this that I haven't some of my articles or materials like you should go into an advisor
With a set of questions some of which you know the answer to I mean it could be something simple like you know
How do you decide my ratio of stocks to bonds or should I pay off my mortgage or something that you have some perspective on
And you just want to see how they answer the question
And you know are they answering in what you consider a you know a broad way are they covering all of the bases?
Are they talking in language you can understand?
Or are you kind of thinking wow they just went spinning in circles and I don't really know what they just said
You know we talk a lot in terms of you do the math a lot of financial questions can be answered
analytically and a spreadsheet we can come up with an answer
But that's not always the answer sometimes the difference between paying off your mortgage or not might make five thousand dollars difference over a ten-year period right you go
Really does that move the needle? No, so then you know
You have to be able to separate that from the emotional side and and you want someone that can communicate
Across those different dimensions and in someone that you can understand they're not just talking lingo and talking down to you
I always got frustrated when I would hear people say you know I meet with my financial advisor
I have no idea what the other talking about like I have no idea they're showing me these charts and graphs and I just kind of nod my head and
Hey, it looks like we're doing good looks like we're great because I feel stupid if I
That's exactly
I feel you know and and definitely you should be in a in a situation where you don't have to say well
I don't want to feel stupid so I just nod my head like that's horrible
But I also think they know why you're talking you know when you're bringing up those examples
I like it when the person on my team answers my question with a question
Because that means they actually want to know more about me right
Should I pay off my mortgage or should I invest? Well, let's talk about you first. Oh, yeah, that's a great perspective
You know if you ask a question and they just spout off an answer without having gathered any data about you at all annuity
You
Munder net net
Exactly, does that think you've got like merged out of existence a long time
I mean at loss based on all its assets after a loss 90% of its value
And I that's like a blaster in the past like the one hit wonder bands that you'd see and you're like what happened to munder net
He literally had like a poster on his walk because he was one of their
Big song I was like munder sent a poster. I think you have like a giant like a three-foot poster of this thing
On this wall like a store remember the vision of it
Like what's another trait we should look for and in people that are gonna be on our board of directors
Well, Dana took my primary ones like everything she said
I'll add to that by saying
Education and expertise matters. So
Again, like from the legal perspective for financial advisors like
We need a two to three hour regulatory exam. You can study four in a couple of weeks
And that's it
You don't need any classes and finance or advice to be a financial advisor like that's the really sad actual truth of it
So if you're finding someone to get advice. So I'm like to be on that team
You need someone that actually chose to go get some additional education beyond that
So that starts with designations like CFP certification
There are now a growing crop of I call them like the post CFP designations for advisors that go even deeper in that direction
You know retirement folks have things like RMA or RICP folks working with ultra high net worth have a CPWA designation for them
Investment nerds go after CFA or SEMA
So there's a lot of different
Additional designations out there, but to me it starts with sort of two pieces one like do I see some education
That says they've gone above and beyond the the regulatory minimum. So that's either degrees right?
You can get financial you can get undergraduate and graduate degrees in financial planning now
You couldn't 20 years ago
So more experience advice just probably won't have them because they literally weren't around
But do they have degrees or do they have designations that show
Material effort of study above and beyond the regulatory minimums?
I distinguished that a little bit from expertise
Expertise is okay like I'm glad you have the book knowledge you do need that like I want my doctor to have gone to medical school
But I also want them to actually have experience working with people like me
So to me like the there's an education and expertise component education is essentially if you got in the book knowledge and invested that far
Because sadly not requirement
The expertise question is
Tell me about other people like me that you've worked with can the advisor answer that question?
And like it's not because you're supposed to do what their other client to do right in the nature of advice is
Is individual the person but when we get back to those comments earlier of like I go to my Facebook groups
My master classes in part because I want education. I want perspective of people have gone the journey
So if I'm getting an advisor like I want an advisor who's actually had the perspective of seeing lots of people
Yeah, do this journey so they can actually be a meaningful guide for me as I go on this journey
So beyond the communication and that that Dana highlighted like that's where I would go next is do they have both education?
If they invested in their learning to
No more advice things to be able to share and and they actually have expertise in working with people like you because
There is a wide range of folks out there. There are a wide range of advisors
And there's there are wonderful advisors who don't know about your situation and your needs and problems right like
I know a wonderful neurosurgeon
I'm not gonna ask him to operate on my knee if I hurt my knee like I'm gonna go find a knee doctor
Not the most brilliant brain doctor because they just do different things
They can be really really good doctors and not be able to help you with your problem the same thing applies and financial
Well, like OG said that it really if it starts with you right and then Dana communicating and then you've got the background and knowledge
So I love all three of those I'm at a fourth of my own that I really like
I think that your advisors should challenge you and challenge your thinking without disrespecting you
Like where you clearly know they're on your team, but they go I think you're messing this up
Because the last thing I need is another person going Joe you're brilliant Joe. That's great like I know that doesn't really help me often
So you could use actually
You can't see that up for us man. I just got to tell you guys I could hear that a little more frankly
But I think it's a great place to leave it
And by the way, we've had other episodes where we've talked about hiring advisors and things to look for
We'll have those on our show notes page stack your measurements
Let's find out what's happening with all of you this weekend
OG you and I are headed for podcast movement. We're going to Denver. Oh, that's right. We're
Feel in the jet as we speak
Well, maybe maybe not hopefully Monday morning. Hopefully Monday morning. We will be there
We'd love to have a meetup, but unfortunately, we're not going to be able to do that
So Denver next time we will hit you when when we're there
We'll have our guest of honor Michael go last Dana
That doesn't mean you're not a guest of honor. It just means you're the frequent flyer here
What's going on? What's going on a sensible money right now?
Well, since you brought up masterclass. I will say I have a course on the great courses
I think of it as like masterclass before there was masterclass
Right the OG masterclass sometimes I've called the great courses like masterclass, but not quite as cool
Just their branding is you know, it wasn't quite there
But yes, it's called how to plan for the perfect retirement and uh, so if anyone's looking for more
They can find that and I will also add I am getting married September 1st
If you ever want to do an episode on pre-nubs
We've made it through that process and uh, fascinating and so I would highly advise it and it's it's kind of a cool topic
Dana, I'll indicate it on my response card, but chicken for me and my plus one
We'll do the chicken not the seafood
Have not that you would dug her BFFs. Yes, his plus one is the tasty freeze
Banditure by the way
Just let you know
Michael, thank you so much for joining us again. It's been too long man. Yes, it has it has
We'll figure out how to do this and not quite seven-year interval
I can get this going a little bit more frequent
I hope so because I think our stackers got a lot out of you being with us today and thank you very much
What's going on on your two podcasts? Let's talk about it. Oh man um
We're just continuing to chug along
You know kits is in Karl end of things just
One episode after another digging deep into as you said like we we are sort of bordering on on business owner
Entrepreneur therapy at this point is I think a little bit of what the
The podcast is morphing into and all the all the challenges that we face on the
On the advisor end
You know financial advisor success we're coming up on episode number 350
Seven plus years freaks me out a little bit
You know, we've hundreds of hours now
For folks that are exploring financial advisor world if you heard like the good version of this and you're actually curious about
More of what it's like just a big piece the podcast for us is to what you said earlier
It's that perspective piece of if you really want to know what it's like from people in the trenches
Just that's what we do one conversation after another for you really get to see the other side of the desk
You get to see the life from the other side of the desk. It's super interesting
We'll link to both podcasts on our show notes at Steki measurements.com
You haven't had the best advisor on yet though. Oh gee you're you're saving OG for like the 400th episode or something
Absolutely like we got to save but you got to do big milestone guests on miles you run a podcast
Big guests on milestone episode
Absolutely
All right, that's gonna do it for today
Doug man lots of takeaways, but what are our top three? Well Joe first go with what works
Behave your wins the day every time even if the science tells you something else is optimal
Second eating a dozen donuts every morning might have helped that one guy lose weight
But it doesn't mean it'll work for your lazy butt same goes for financial advice
Make sure you weigh the advice against your unique goals to see if it'll benefit you
Now what the hell go ahead and eat the donuts
Third Joe you're brilliant. I could listen to your sage wisdom all day long
But the big lesson
Okay, look I know this has nothing to do with today's episode
But learn from something I just learned speaking of air
It's probably a good idea to ask before hanging clothes to air dry in the neighbor's line
Some people get a little utsi when they come home to another man's clothes drying in their yard
I'm like look lady the wind and the sun were better in your backyard
I don't think she would have been so upset if she didn't have a guilty conscience
And I think it was the size of my inseam that upset her husband
Oh my god
Thanks to Michael Kitzis for joining us today. You'll find Michael Kitzis and Carl's podcast and is financial advisor success podcast
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