George MacAllister, of The Next Level Solution, shares how financial advisors and RIAs can use storytelling techniques to increase their success rate when trying to acquire another advisor's book of business or acquire an RIA firm. The use of stories is also valuable in the sales process for clients according to George and he shares several examples and strategies that you can implement in your business.

Matt Reiner of Benjamin, a digital virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence joins Mike Langford to explore how automating repetitive tasks can save time and free advisors up to serve their clients better.

Jason Gallagher of ViewPointe Strategies Group and Terry Mullen, CEO of Truelytics join Mike Langford for a deep-dive exploration of the current state and future of the OSJ model for independent financial advisors and the broker-dealer ecosystem.

Tammy Robbins, Vice President of Business Development at ProEquities shares how she and her team rapidly adjusted to the new reality of working from home while also helping the firm's clients, a distributed population of independent financial advisors who rely on them for support, make the adjustment as well.

Shauna Mace, a consultant and coach who help RIAs achieve higher levels of growth shares how focusing on small, incremental process improvements often leads to the biggest gains.

Runik Mehrotra and Samir Vasavada, Founders of Vise join Mike Langford to share how financial advisors can deliver custom portfolios to their clients without spending countless hours selecting stocks and tinkering with asset allocations. Instead, Vise uses artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting. As a result, advisors can have custom portfolios that fit each client's specific needs with the ease of implementation that is usually only reserved for model portfolios.

Terry Mullen, CEO of Truelytics explains how RIAs can dramatically improve their performance by focusing on four key areas of their business.

Why is it that we encourage individual financial advisors to focus on niche markets but RIA firms and smaller broker-dealers still roll with the mass market approach? The benefits of target marketing are available at the firm level as well. In this episode, Mike Langford explores how you can transform your business by focusing on a target market for your advisors and the clients they serve.

Dan Cuprill of Advisor Architect and host of The Profitable Advisor Podcast joins Mike Langford for an exploration of how financial advisors can become their own wealthiest clients by focusing on improving the profitability of their business.

Owen Dahl, of the Dahl Consulting Group, joins Terry Mullen, CEO of Truelytics, and Mike Langford for a conversation about how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect valuations, deal structure, and the volume of M&A deals for financial advisors.