It’s a trend I’ve noticed over the last 3 years. Whether I’m talking with independent financial advisors who rely on third-party custodians like Raymond James, Stifel, Fidelity, or Schwab, I run into something I’ve come to call the Big Heart, Small Story Problem. Almost always, these financial advisors are highly relational and extremely mission driven. […]
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Over the past five years, I’ve spent lots of time and lots of money on business strategy – somewhere in the ballpark of at least $30K on business coaches alone, all who showed up with the promise to one-up the last business coach and help me build a system that would attract more clients and […]
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When a story changes the way you think, the way you move through the world, and the way you see yourself and others, that’s when it takes on the role of something bigger. It’s no longer just plot and theme and character. It’s more than the formulaic circle of the hero’s journey. It becomes alive […]
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To play on the words of Karl Marx, deconstruction has become the opiate of the marketer. Or slightly more practical, we marketers have become drunk love with criticism. And as I dig into WHY that might be, I think it all circles back to Darwin >> We’re all fighting to survive, believing that if we […]
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This isn't how-tos or AI-written ideas.
It's my curious heart + mind connecting to your curious heart + mind as we try to find and make meaning in this ever-changing world.
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