Financial Advisor Success

Ep 009: From Medicine to Holistic Financial Planning Using A Complexity-Based Retainer Model with Carolyn McClanahan


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Today on Financial Advisor Success, I'm excited to host Dr. Carolyn McClanahan of Life Planning Partners. Carolyn is a physician and financial planner based out of Jacksonville, Florida, where her truly holistic ensemble practice works with 80 clients and maintains more than $1 million a year of stable recurring income.

In this episode, Carolyn lays out the infrastructure & beliefs of her firm and shares the client standards document that ensures she only works with considerate, responsive, all-around awesome clients. Carolyn also talks about how she adjusts her complexity-based fee for each client, why she doesn't want to grow beyond 100 client families, the hard lessons she learned about hiring, and the parallels she sees between medicine and financial planning. We wrap up with a discussion of her new company that plans to make it easier for financial planners to navigate working with aging clients to ensure their long term financial stability.

Get the full show notes and transcript for this episode at: https://www.kitces.com/9

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