Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

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How do various cultures differ on their views of wealth and propensity to openly discuss financial matters?

What are some of the unique financial concerns and strengths faced by immigrant families?

Financial preparation takeaways from coronavirus and other disruptive, unexpected events.

For many first generation families, owning property is a sign of financial success and a big priority - what is the genesis of this belief, and how does one counsel their clients to take a more diversified approach?

What practices could American money culture adopt from immigrant cultures to strengthen our approach to investment and savings?

Web - www.opus-pc.com
LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/iv%C3%A1n-watanabe-2185a49/

Justin Castelli is a financial advisor and the founder of RLS Wealth Management. RLSWM was founded in 2015 with the belief that independent, unbiased financial planning and investment management should be available to everyone looking for it. In addition to working with clients regardless of their asset level or income, Justin runs the financial planning blog ‘All About Your Benjamins.’ He loves spending quality time with his family and listening to hip-hop.

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What does authenticity look like in a brand and in personal life?

How to maintain a balance between personal and professional content in branding

How authenticity effects likability

How to maintain a characteristic “thing” or focus without it becoming a shtick

What elements make up a good online community and what elements can derail it?

Ways to balance an organic, grassroots approach to business while remaining solvent

Web - www.justincastelli.io

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What impact from coronavirus is Ashvin seeing on his clients?

Which workforce sectors are getting hardest hit, so far, by Covid-19?

Potential approaches financial professionals can take when there are unprecedented levels of uncertainty

What the concept of “bucketing” means within a financial plan and how this can encourage positive investment behavior

How to counsel a client set on sending money home to family abroad without having their own stable financial house

While every person’s financial situation is unique, how in general do the financial concerns of a first generation American differ from say, a fourth generation American?

What are some unique financial planning considerations for clients on a work visa?

Follow up with Ashvin: https://www.ashvinchheda.com

Dr. Joy Lere is a psychologist with a practice focused on the merger of money and mindset. She has worked internationally with driven, achievement-oriented professionals who are motivated to reach the next level in their careers and finances.

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What is “an existential boundary experience?”

How we can hold on to, and harness, the clarity that moments of hardship and grief can afford us

How saying “no” more often can help you lead your best life

What to consider when saying “no” or “yes” at crossroads in your life

What is ‘imposter syndrome?’

How to overcome imposter syndrome

Web - www.joylere.com

Kyle specializes in connecting the dots between the future of technology and finance, building strategic relationships and connecting people. He’s currently working with SS & C Advent and is focused on shaping the Black Diamond Wealth Platform for large financial service firms. Kyle lives in Georgia with his wife and 4 children and he’s passionate about golf, craft coffee, southern cooking, the ATL falcons and charitable works.

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What we can learn from financial failures

Why a fintech revolution/upheaval likely won’t replace the role of financial professionals

Why a “one click” approach modeled on tech giants like Amazon, Netflix and Uber may not be suitable for behavior-based financial technologies

How financial professionals could become even more crucial l in a world where trades happen with increased ease and convenience

How to start a conversation around charitable giving with your clients

Why you shouldn’t be afraid to humble brag

Twitter: KyleVanPelt

Lisa Brenneman is the Behavioral Finance and Strategic Innovation leader at TD Wealth. She created the TD Wealth Personality Assessment Tool using the Five Factor Model of Personality, enabling clients and advisors to identify their financial and investing blind spots.

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What are the “Big 5” measures of personality?

What lessons can financial advisors learn from the Big 5 personality elements?

How openness to experience impacts one’s financial decision-making

How gender plays into potential biological markers of financial success

How to think about extroversion in financial terms

How advisors should think about their clients inclination towards agreeableness

twitter - @LBrenneman_TD

Jack Forehand is a partner at Validea Capital and is responsible for the firm's overall operations and portfolio management. Working in conjunction with founder John Reese, Jack led the development and optimization of Validea Capital's quantitative investment models. He is also the co-author of The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies. Jack graduated from the honors program of the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in Economics and is a CFA charterholder. Prior to founding Validea Capital, Jack spent five years developing quantitative models for an Internet research company. He also worked as a controller for a small company and an analyst for a Big Five accounting firm. Jack co-founded Validea Capital in 2004.

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if the market is truly unsolvable

if trying to solve the market is actually detrimental to performance

how big data could effect value stocks

why value investing is a bet against technology

Web - www.validea.com

Paul Hebert is the Vice President of Individual Performance Strategy at Creative Group, and is widely considered an expert on motivation and incentives focused on influencing behaviors that drive business results through employees, channel partners and consumers. Using tested behavioral economic and motivational ideas he has driven engagement programs at Michelin, Chrysler Service and Parts, Toyota Financial Services, AT & T, Goodyear and a variety of other Fortune 1000 companies.

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why we are built to avoid numbers and hate uncertainty

how uncertainty impacts employees in the workplace

practical tips for facing uncertain, but rewarding, situations

how social proof can be used in the client/investor relationship

Email - phebert@creativegroupinc

Bio: Dennis Moseley Williams is an entrepreneur, founder of DMW Strategic Consulting and author of ‘Serious Shift: How Experience Staging Can Save Your Practice.’ He’s also a certified expert of the Experience Economy (Pine and Gilmore). He lives with his wife Sherri, two daughters and a yellow lab. He loves spending his winters skiing as much as possible. In the summer he spends time with family at their cottage, Pine Lodge, in the Quebec wilderness.

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how luck plays into personal and financial success

how one’s personality factors into how "lucky" they are

the difference between customer service and customer experience

how financial professionals can create experiences which help transform their clients

how using a niche to define your client base improves business

lessons from the experience economy for our relationship with a significant other

Web - www.moseleywilliams.com & www.seriousshift.com