The Authority Business Show

Comfort feels good in your portfolio until you see what it cost you.

Returning guest Andrew Parrillo, founder of Parrillo Investors, answers what you really own and whether your advisor is serving your goals or their model.

Andrew covers the three risk questions to answer first, how to compare your returns to an index fund in dollars, and why being too conservative can hurt as much as being too aggressive.

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🌐 Website: www.parrilloinvestors.com
📘 Book: Beat the Wealth Management Hustle (Amazon) 
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewparrillo/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewparrillo1/

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You are not broken; your subconscious is running the show. If you know what to do and still get in your own way, this episode shows you why.

Dr. Leah Marie, founder of You Ignited, is a clinical hypnotherapist and PhD researcher in mindset transformation.

After losing movement in her arm at 18 and living with injury for 13 years, she became a multi-time national and world champion bodybuilder.

She reveals why perfectionism and people-pleasing are self-worth in disguise, how productive procrastination keeps you stuck, and why real change starts with compassion, not force. Plus, her daily practice to reprogram the mind.

📣 Access her Subconscious Success challenge for FREE using the code "ADVISOR": https://leahmarieperformance.com/success

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🌐 Website: https://youignited.com.au
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/withleahmarie/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-leah-marie-705221420/

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Long-term care is the retirement expense almost no plan accounts for, and one fall or diagnosis erases decades of saving. A sixty-five-year-old faces a seventy percent chance of needing it, yet most families find out mid-crisis. The gap is not planning; it is that Medicare was never built to cover this.

Mark Kollar, a retirement income and estate planning specialist with thirty-five years guiding retirees, lays out the five ways families pay for care. Listen before the cost lands on your spouse and children.

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CONNECT WITH MARK KOLLAR
🌐 Website: https://www.retirementincomestrategies.pro
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markakollar/
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkKollarRetirementExpert
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kollarinsuranceservices
📚 Book: The Retirement Navigator, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2ZRYGLF
📥 Free Report: 7 Mistakes Retirees Make, https://sevenmistakes.subscribepage.io/
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Only about 1 in 5 employees worldwide is engaged at work, and AI panic is making it worse.

Marcus Mossberger, who works at the intersection of people, strategy, and workforce planning at LYTIQS, makes the case that hope is not fluff but a measurable psychological advantage.

He breaks down the five A's that create it: anticipation, alignment, agency, ability, and achievement, and shows how leaders can guide teams through disruption with honesty instead of false reassurance.

You will hear why fear-based work destroys performance while hope-based work builds loyalty, why the four-day workweek may be closer than you think, and how to build transferable skills so your career survives a world with no job for life.

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Self worth slips away in small moments at work. A boss who does not smile back, a promotion that goes to someone else, a meeting you replay all evening. None of that is proof you are not enough. It is an old habit of handing your worth to other people.

Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, explains how self acceptance and even joy can be learned. Leave knowing the approval you need starts with you.

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If you feel stuck, under-resourced, or one bad month away from panic, this one is for you.

Ella Rivkin knows what starting from zero looks like. She arrived in America with $100 and no English, worked for free to break into accounting, and went on to found ERPS Group, a full-service advisory firm covering accounting, tax strategy, and CFO services.

In this conversation, she separates being busy from building real passive income, walks through how to find your financial security number, and explains why cash flow decides whether an investment survives.

She also opens up about the accident that reset her priorities and the belief that kept her moving when quitting would have been easier.

Remember: Your starting point does not determine your ending.

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Emotional regulation is the one skill your career never trained you for. You can name your pattern, understand exactly where it came from, and still send the email at 11 pm. That is not a discipline failure. The part of the brain storing the charge has no language capacity, so talking yourself down was never going to move it.

Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer for two public companies and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, gives the three-step process. Leave with something to actually do.

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Stuck, behind, or like an imposter, even though you have done everything right? Career change for women rarely follows the plan, and the rules that worked in your 20s stop working somewhere in your 40s.

Sandy Kapell brings executive HR, operations, and transformation experience from Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, MetLife, and AIG, and now leads Trakehner Leadership.

She breaks down what shifts in each decade, why women feel lost when their goals change, how imposter syndrome and self-talk quietly sabotage smart women, and what it takes to move through a career transition on purpose instead of getting swept along.

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🌐 Website: https://www.trakehnerleadership.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-kapell/

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Emotional triggers at work rarely last as long as the fallout. Someone questions your work or leaves you off the invite, and you are still replaying it at midnight. Research says the emotion itself clears the body in ninety seconds, so everything past that is the story you keep telling.

Susan Schmitt Winchester, a former Chief Human Resources Officer for two public companies and co-author of Healing at Work with Martha I. Finney, has the thirty-second interrupt. Leave able to stop the spiral before it starts.

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Your marketing got faster, but does anyone still believe it?

Eleanor Kubacki, CEO of EFK Group, has spent nearly 30 years at the intersection of marketing, technology, and human-centered strategy, and she explains exactly where AI earns its place and where it quietly damages your brand.

Learn why AI should reclaim baseline work instead of leading creative, the real exposure that comes with AI-generated copy, imagery, and open-source information, and how to build governance rules that protect clients, teams, and proprietary data.

If you are a founder, marketer, or agency leader adopting AI, this gives you a practical framework for doing it without becoming generic.

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🌐 Website: https://efkgroup.com/

💼 LinkedIn (Eleanor): https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanor-kubacki-6ba4a04/

🏢 LinkedIn (EFK Group): https://www.linkedin.com/company/efk-group/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/efkgroup/

👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/efkgroup

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