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Episode 16 – Being a Gifted Leader During Challenging Times – with Mark David

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Mark David is a nationally recognized sales and management consultant, author and executive coach. He created his latest book, The Gifted Leader, to inspire and support individuals to become the best leader they can be, and to open people’s minds to new ideas and ways of looking at leadership.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Mark discuss how to lead your company, team and family during these challenging times.

  • How to better your relationship with your team
  • The cornerstone skill leaders must demonstrate every day
  • The importance of living in the present moment and modeling the behavior you want
  • How to create a strong, focused and positive mental mindset
  • How to be an excellent communicator
  • How to create a positive culture to support individual and company success

Mark has a special offer for IRIS.xyz readers. When you order The Gifted Leader, he will be delighted to have a personal conversation with you about how you can apply the concepts presented in this podcast and his book to help you be the leader your company, your team, and your family needs.  

RESOURCES: The Mark David Company | Order The Gifted Leader

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Episode 15 – Projecting Your Personal Power Over Videoconferences – with Bill Acheson

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When you participate in videoconferences, you invite people into your home. Every element of the videoconference is revealing, so you need to make sure you prepare, position and present yourself as strongly as possible. In this episode of Power Your Advice Doug Heikkinen talks with Bill Acheson, the Body Language Expert, about personal power – what it is and how you can best manage and project it in today’s videoconference world.

  • What is personal power, and how do we project it?
  • What the space behind you on video conferences reveals about you. How can you arrange it so that people focus on you, not on your tchotchkes?
  • Why you should minimize your movements while on camera.
  • How to manage intrusions during videoconferences and how to capitalize on them as an opportunity to demonstrate personal power.

RESOURCES: Bill Acheson’s website | Who’s Zooming Who Blog

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Episode 14 – Strategies Financial Advisors Can Use to Help Clients with Divorce – with Nancy Hetrick

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Nancy Hetrick became a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®) to help couples and individuals benefit from the lessons she learned while going through her own complicated divorce. In this episode of Power Your Advice, She and Doug Heikkinen discuss strategies financial advisors can introduce to their clients who may be struggling in their marriage. They talk about how financial advisors can continue to act as fiduciary and remain a trusted resource to both spouses by introducing a CDFA to help unwind the complicated intricacies of their joint financial life. Nancy also introduces tools and resources she has developed for financial advisors who want to learn more about becoming a CDFA and building a practice around divorce planning.

About Nancy Hetrick

Nancy founded Smarter Divorce Solutions in 2011 after going through her own less-than-optimal divorce. She has been a financial advisor and planner since 1999. She provides full-service financial planning and investment management with Better Money Decisions in addition to her role as a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst at Smarter Divorce Solutions. In 2016, Nancy founded the Divorce Financial Planner Training Center to offer continuing education to CDFA® holders everywhere.

Nancy is a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics, (MAFF™), a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®), an Accredited Wealth Management Advisor (AWMA), an Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS), a Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor (CMFC) and is trained in both mediation and Collaborative Divorce.  Nancy is on the board of directors with the Collaborative Professionals of Phoenix, an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association of Professional Family Mediators, was the Finance Director for the National Association of Women Business Owners, 2014 and 2015, the 2015 NAWBO Business Owner of the Year, the 2014 Finalist in the BBB Business Ethics Awards, and was on the 2014 National Board of Advisors for the Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts.

In her free time, she enjoys hiking, riding motorcycles, and spending time with her 4 children and 3 grandchildren.

RESOURCES: DivorceFinancialTraining.com , Smarter Divorce Solutions

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Episode 13 – Passion for Serving Financial Advisors – with Tom Wagner

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IRIS Media Works is pleased to welcome Tom Wagner, our new Vice President of Business Development, to the team. In this special episode of Power Your Advice, Doug and Tom have a great conversation about trends Tom sees across the industry during the era of COVID-19, the growing importance of digital media and communications, why he switched from being a “big company” guy to be part of a smaller team, and what IRIS does that matters most.

About Tom Wagner

Tom brings more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. Most recently, he served as Vice President, Key Accounts at DWS Group for a decade, where he built and deepened relationships with his clients by cultivating an understanding of their needs and delivering solutions to help them achieve their goals. Tom also spent 21 years at Fidelity, where he served in various sales, relationship management, client service and product management roles, with a focus on supporting Fidelity’s institutional, brokerage and financial advisor relationships.

Resources: tom@imediaw.com | 617-335-4723

 

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Episode 12 – Four Steps for Tough Conversations – with David Wood

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This episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and David Wood, CEO of Tough Conversations International and Play For Real, sharing perspectives on working from home, how the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the whole world a shared experience, the importance of looking for beauty and love, and how you should be reaching out to your clients as we go through this experience together.

In this podcast, you will learn about:

  • How to take away the power of fear by giving yourself and your clients the space in which to name it
  • How you should be reaching out to your clients right now
  • The importance of connecting deeply and being with your clients as they go through their full spectrum of emotions
  • How David’s 4-Step Tough Conversations Blueprint™ can help you structure meaningful conversations (not monologues) with your clients.

 

RESOURCES: Play For Real, 4-Step Tough Conversation Blueprint, Tough Conversations with David Wood Podcast, Get Real Game

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Episode 11 – The Case for Investing in Farmland – with Carter Malloy

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This episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and Carter Malloy, Founder & CEO of AcreTrader, discussing how AcreTrader helps investors invest in farmland:

In this podcast, you will learn about

  • How Carter’s background in farming and software development led him to start AcreTrader
  • How AcreTrader works
  • Farmland’s consistent long-term performance since 1990
  • Why you should consider portfolio diversification through non-correlated asset classes for your clients

 

RESOURCES: AcreTrader

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Episode 10 – Differentiating Yourself in Changing Times – with Dan Weiskopf

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Recorded live at the GTE Wealth Forum XI, this episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and Dan Weiskopf, Portfolio Manager at Toroso Asset Management, discussing:

  • Toroso’s commitment to looking at the financial services industry with a 360-degree view using ETFs
  • How security selection can be a differentiator for you & your practice
  • Where you can best spend your time to build your business
  • What Dan thinks the next 10 years in our industry and the next generation of Advisors looks like

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Power Your Advice is about discovering ideas that help you do and be more for your clients. In this podcast series, IRIS Media Works seeks out and chats up industry innovators to help you understand who they are, what they do, why it matters, and why you should be paying attention. 

We recorded our first 12 Power Your Advice podcasts from our pop-up podcast “studio” in the Discovery Data booth at the GTE Wealth Forum XI. Thank you to Discovery Data, Global Trend Events and to our guests for an amazing learning experience. We hope you enjoy and learn from these conversations as much as we did.

RESOURCES: Toroso Asset Management| Toroso Twitter| Discovery Data | Global Trend Events

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Episode 8 – The Importance of Value Investing – with Cathy Howse

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Recorded live at the GTE Wealth Forum XI, this episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and Cathy Howse, Vice President at Schaefer-Cullen Capital Management, discussing:

  • Schaeffer-Cullen’s history
  • Why they focus on long-term value investing vs. chasing short-term returns
  • Why you should think about finding a dividend manager in your portfolio strategies
  • Cathy’s career at Schaeffer-Cullen, in which she progressed from assistant to Vice President at by taking every opportunity to learn & grow from those around her

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Power Your Advice is about discovering ideas that help you do and be more for your clients. In this podcast series, IRIS Media Works seeks out and chats up industry innovators to help you understand who they are, what they do, why it matters, and why you should be paying attention. 

We recorded our first 12 Power Your Advice podcasts from our pop-up podcast “studio” in the Discovery Data booth at the GTE Wealth Forum XI. Thank you to Discovery Data, Global Trend Events and to our guests for an amazing learning experience. We hope you enjoy and learn from these conversations as much as we did.

 

RESOURCES: Schaefer-Cullen Capital Management / Cullen Funds | Discovery Data | Global Trend Events

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Episode 7– Rewarding the Long-Term View – with Chris Hedges

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Recorded live at the GTE Wealth Forum XI, this episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and Chris Hedges, Managing Director at MFS Investment Management, discussing:

  • MFS’s history and evolution from starting the first mutual fund to being a full-service, full fund family
  • The importance of taking a long-term approach to investing
  • Chris’s observations on recent trends and challenges Advisors are facing
  • How MFS places doing what’s right for Advisors & their other clients above everything else

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Power Your Advice is about discovering ideas that help you do and be more for your clients. In this podcast series, IRIS Media Works seeks out and chats up industry innovators to help you understand who they are, what they do, why it matters, and why you should be paying attention. 

We recorded our first 12 Power Your Advice podcasts from our pop-up podcast “studio” in the Discovery Data booth at the GTE Wealth Forum XI. Thank you to Discovery Data, Global Trend Events and to our guests for an amazing learning experience. We hope you enjoy and learn from these conversations as much as we did.

 

RESOURCES: MFS Investment Management | MFS Twitter| Discovery Data | Global Trend Events

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Episode 6 – Leveraging Intangible Capital– with Bryce Coward

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Recorded live at the GTE Wealth Forum XI, this episode of Power Your Advice features Doug Heikkinen and Bryce Coward, Deputy CIO & Portfolio Manager at Knowledge Leaders Capital, discussing:

  • Why Knowledge Leaders seeks out the most highly innovative companies they can find all over the globe
  • How accounting for intangible assets has evolved in the past 50 years, and how Knowledge Leaders leverages companies with those types of assets within their ETF and mutual fund products
  • How they leverage their own intangible capital to drive business through digital content 
  • Knowledge Leaders’ commitment to delivering concierge-level service to their clients

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Power Your Advice is about discovering ideas that help you do and be more for your clients. In this podcast series, IRIS Media Works seeks out and chats up industry innovators to help you understand who they are, what they do, why it matters, and why you should be paying attention. 

We recorded our first 12 Power Your Advice podcasts from our pop-up podcast “studio” in the Discovery Data booth at the GTE Wealth Forum XI. Thank you to Discovery Data, Global Trend Events and to our guests for an amazing learning experience. We hope you enjoy and learn from these conversations as much as we did.

 

RESOURCES: Knowledge Leaders Capital | Knowledge Leaders Capital Blog | Knowledge Leaders Capital Twitter | Discovery Data | Global Trend Events

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