Advisory firms often use their CRM as a “digital Rolodex.” But what if your CRM could become the operational command center of your entire business?In this episode of Advisor Ally, host Vineet Mohan sits down with CRM strategist Stephanie Dannebaum, founder of Stephanie Dannebaum Consulting, to explore how financial advisors can streamline their tech stack, optimize workflows, and turn CRMs like Wealthbox CRM and Redtail CRM into powerful engines for growth.Stephanie shares her journey from financial advisor to CRM consultant, revealing how clean data, lean tech stacks, and standardized processes help firms scale efficiently. She explains how to conduct a CRM diagnostic, identify underutilized features, and implement workflows that drive accountability, automation, and client satisfaction.

In this episode of Advisor Ally, host Vineet Mohan sits down with CRM strategist Stephanie Dannebaum, founder of Stephanie Dannebaum Consulting, to explore how advisory firms can transform their customer relationship management systems into powerful operational engines. The conversation dives deep into building lean, scalable tech stacks, optimizing processes, and leveraging data to create a true “command center” for advisory practices.

The financial planning profession has long wrestled with its business model:Should advisors be paid through product sales, AUM fees, or planning retainers? And what does that choice mean for the clients they serve - or don’t serve?In this episode of Advisor Ally, host Vineet Mohan speaks with Steven Fox, CFP®, EA - a Marine Corps veteran who took an unconventional path into financial planning, founded and later sold Next Gen Financial Planning, and is now leading the advice-only movement with his new platform, AdviceOnly.

In this episode of Advisor Ally, we sat down with Jason Branning, CFP®, RICP®, founder of Branning Wealth Management and co-creator of Modern Retirement Theory, to explore the evolving world of financial advisory and retirement planning.

In the latest episode of Advisor Ally, Zach Stein shares his journey in creating Carbon Collective and rethinking how retirement savings align with climate realities.

In this episode of the Advisor Ally Podcast, we sit down with Ethan Bernhagen-Jung (He/Him), the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Abundo Wealth and Co-Founder of the Advice-Only Network.

Ethan’s story is far from conventional: he graduated in Environmental Science, discovered a passion for personal finance, and within months of joining Abundo, taught himself how to code, eventually becoming CTO and the driving force behind their technology platform.

In this episode of Advisor Ally, we've with us Oisín Breen, an award-winning Irish journalist, poet, systems thinker, and academic who's spent nearly a decade dissecting the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) space for RIABiz.From his unusual path (horse-riding in the Irish countryside, FX analyst gigs, and late-blooming academia) to his penetrating critiques of wealth management, media narratives, and artificial intelligence, Breen offers a rare, multidimensional perspective. He’s not just watching the RIA world evolve: he’s documenting its soul, its cycles, and its contradictions.

In this episode of Advisor Ally, we sit down with Brittany Brinckerhoff, CFP®, CSLP®, a dynamic and insightful financial advisor at Hilltop Wealth Advisors in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. With over a decade of experience, Brittany shares her inspiring journey from college intern to trusted advisor and leader in the financial planning world.

In the wealth management space, advice is everywhere, but understanding is rare.Most advisory platforms today are powered by backward-looking data: portfolio balances, transactions, and risk scores. These inputs make sense to systems, but not to people.Marla Sofer sees the blind spot. She started as a financial advisor, then spent over a decade inside the operating cores of JP Morgan and BlackRock. She’s helped scale product and partnership teams inside Microsoft. Today, she’s building Knowmee, a company that operates on a simple premise:

If you want to give better advice, you need better data. And not just more of it, more human data.

In the latest episode of Advisor Ally, we sat down with veteran financial advisor Jack M. Firestone, who recently retired after 37 years in wealth management and over 35 successful years at the helm of Firestone Capital Management. Jack opens up about his unexpected journey from the symphony orchestra world into finance, how he built an $800M+ client-centric advisory firm, and the secrets behind his success in cultivating multi-generational client relationships.