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Welcome to “Swift Chats” in the Financial Services Industry, a podcast brought to you by Impact Communications, where your hosts Marie Swift and Jonny Swift speak with interesting people in the financial services industry and the financial planning profession. Our podcast spotlights independent financial advisory firms, allied financial services institutions, and “fintech” companies that we think are adopting "Best Practices" in the industry. We also share our own tools and ideas aimed at he ...
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Derrick Kinney, Best-Selling Book Author, Keynote Speaker, and Host of the Good Money podcast, to unpack the secrets behind his success and the strategies that have helped countless individuals achieve financial freedom. He also shares advice for financial advisors who might be looking to emu…
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Jane Wollman Rusoff, Contributing Editor with ThinkAdvisor and a two-time AZBEE award winner from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Jane's career journey is as diverse as it is fascinating. From delving into consumer electronics during the tech revolution to interviewing s…
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​In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Steve Atkinson, Speaker, Leadership Coach, and Growth Expert with Admired Leadership. The conversation delves into the realm of leadership and its practical applications in the financial advisory world. Steve shares insights and anecdotes that shed light on what it means to be an effective l…
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Listen to this special conference compilation podcast episode recorded live in the T3 Podcast Station, powered by LPL Financial, at the 2024 T3 Technology Tools for Today Advisor Conference - which also celebrated the event's 20th anniversary. Host Marie Swift chats with conference speakers, industry thought leaders, and advisors about what's hot a…
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Listen to this special conference compilation podcast episode recorded live in the T3 Podcast Station, powered by LPL Financial, at the 2024 T3 Technology Tools for Today Advisor Conference - which also celebrated the event's 20th anniversary. Host Marie Swift chats with conference speakers, industry thought leaders, and advisors about what's hot a…
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In this special episode of "Hot and Happening at T3 2024", recorded live at the 2024 T3 Technology Tools for Today conference, Marie Swift leads an insightful conversation with Gary Carrai, CFA, Executive Vice President of Advisor Business Strategy at LPL Financial, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer serving independent financial adviso…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swifts speaks with Tony D'Amico, Founder and Managing Partner of Fidato Wealth, an award-winning SEC Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) based in Ohio, about the journey of building an admirable firm that stands out as the RIA of choice for both clients and talented professionals. ​ From the challenges faced in attracting …
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Luis Rosa, Emlen Miles-Mattingly, and Shawn Tydlaska, three of the four co-founders of the BLX Internship Program, a premier initiative dedicated to fostering diversity in the financial planning profession, specifically for aspiring Black and Latinx financial planners. The trio expresses a ge…
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In this Swift Chat, host Marie Swift speaks with Siddhartha Oza and Rohit Agarwal, the co-Founders and co-CEOs behind Sora Finance, whose mission is to optimize debt costs for everyone by empowering advisors in actively managing clients' liabilities. The Sora platform, driven by an AI component, addresses the historical oversight of managing debt, …
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​In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift sits down with Sam X Renick, the visionary behind Sammy Rabbit's Money School, a financial literacy program for children ages 2-10 years old. Listen to discover the inspiration behind Sammy Rabbit's Money School, a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to instilling essential money habits in children. Sam shares some …
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In this unique Swift Chat, recorded live in the Social/Digital Hub at the 2023 Morningstar Investment Conference (MICUS) in Chicago, honorary “Hubster” Shawna Ohm of Content 151 flips the script as she interviews Marie Swift and Jonny Swift of Impact Communications. The trio shares some of their marketing and PR insights in relation to some of the …
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Daniel Satchkov, Co-Founder and President of RiXtrema, a pioneer in developing innovative tools for financial advisors using machine learning (AI) and data science. Daniel dives into RiXtrema's two groundbreaking AI-driven productivity tools: AdvisorAI™ and 401kAI™. 401kAI i…
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​In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Michael Lecours, CFP®, Co-Founder of fpPathfinder, a company that helps financial advisors become more efficient, innovative and systematized by quickly solving planning problems and questions from clients using fpPathfinder's checklists and flowcharts. Michael shares the j…
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In this special episode of Swift Chats, taped live at the #MICUS Podcast Stage, Hosts Jonny Swift and Marie Swift recap highlights and insights from the 2023 Morningstar Investment Conference with Mary Beth Franklin, Contributing Columnist at InvestmentNews and Laura Carstensen, Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. The group discusses the …
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This special Swift Chat comes to you live from the Social/Digital Hub at the 2023 Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago - April 25-27. Hosts Marie Swift and Jonny Swift, along with Honorary Hubsters Shawna Ohm of Content 151 and Victor Gaxiola of TechGirl Financial, speak with some big names about why they love coming to the Morningstar Inve…
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In this special Swift Chats, we're live at the 2023 T3 - Technology Tools for Today Advisor Conference in Tampa, which took place March 13-16. Host Marie Swift talks with an array of guests in the T3 Podcast Station powered by Myriad Advisor Solutions about their big takeaways from #T32023, as well as why they love the T3 community and keep coming …
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In this podcast special recorded live in the T3 Podcast Station powered by Myriad Advisor Solutions at the 2023 T3 Technology Tools for Today Advisor Conference, co-hosts Marie Swift and Jonny Swift speak to conference speakers, industry thought leaders and advisors about what's hot and happening at #T32023. From intriguing presentations on the mai…
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In this special Swift Chat podcast episode, Marie Swift interviews a range of guests from the 2023 AICPA & CIMA Personal Financial Planning Summit held at Dimensional Fund Advisors Headquarters in Austin, TX January 30 - February 1. Guests share some of their biggest takeaways from the various sessions as well as why they love attending the summit …
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Bridget Grimes, CFP® and Katie Burke, CFP®, Co-Founders of Equita Financial Network, an entity that empowers independent, women-led financial planning firms to provide outstanding service to their clients, achieve business success, and leverage a network that allows them to …
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications Inc. speaks with George Kinder of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning. The two discuss mindfulness skills to help yourself live the life you want to live and what the Registered Life Planner designation means. Learn more about George and his work at www.KinderInstitute.com…
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Joel Bruckenstein, President of Technology Tools for Today, about what to expect at the T3 2023 conference March 13-16 in Tampa. Joel shares some of the featured speakers appearing at this year's conference, some of the topics and trends that will be discussed, …
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In this special Swift Chat episode, Marie Swift interviews a range of guests from the 2022 MarketCounsel Summit held at the Four Seasons Las Vegas December 5-8, 2022. While the audio clips have been stitched together to create one full podcast episode, the video interviews are available as single clips on a Vimeo Showcase. Links to the video clips …
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with James Lange of Lange Financial Group, LLC about how to cut through the noise of an endless stream of marketing campaigns. Companies like yours may think they're playing baseball, but customers and clients are actually playing dodgeball. The two discuss how Lange's own experiences inspired him…
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In this In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Kellan Brown, Vice President of Business Development Strategic Partnerships in the Retirement Strategies Division at FAR, Finance of America Reverse, and Jean Heath, CIMA®, head of Asset Manager Network at Envestnet. The trio discuss the importance of structured ment…
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In this Swift Chat compilation episode from the FPA Kansas City Symposium from August 2022 and the FPA Kansas City chapter meeting in September 2022, host Marie Swift, CEO of Impact Communications, interviews a range of guests about their experiences at the events including: - Micha Baxley, Vice President of Business Development of Allianz Life Ins…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Alyssa Phillips, Chief Operating Officer at HCR Wealth Advisors, a RIA firm with fiduciary values based in Los Angeles. The two discuss how HCR uses technology and people to build an empowered and collaborative workplace culture. They also share highlights from the recent We…
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In this Swift Chat conversation, recorded live while at the T3 Conference in May 2022, Marie Swift of Impact Communications speaks with Rich Cancro, Founder and CEO of AdvisorEngine. The two discuss what makes the T3 Conference so unique as well as Cancro's T3 presentation on questions that an advisor should be thinking about for the future of thei…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Blain Wease, President of Provincial Development Group, LLC about what makes Provincial different in their approach to helping wealth management firms implement solutions. Working with RIAs and Broker Dealers, Blain shares how Provincial's comprehensive system improves the h…
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In this second episode of the new FAR Sight Advisor series brought to you by Finance of America Reverse (FAR) and their Retirement Strategies Division, Marie Swift interviews a variety of guests live at the InvestmentNews Women Adviser Summit held this summer in Denver. Marie and the guests discussed Imposter Syndrome and if they had been misidenti…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift speaks with Craig Iskowitz, Founder and CEO of Ezra Group, a boutique strategy consulting and research firm. The two discuss the new Ezra Group WealthTech Integration Score, a unique score for FinTech vendors to help wealth management firms build seamless integrated tech stacks. Craig dives into how the score is dete…
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In this Swift Chat episode, Marie Swift speaks with Mitch Martin, founder and CEO of Stonebridge Wealth Management, about his work specializing in financial planning for clients in the arts, entertainmentm and sports industries. The two discuss his passion to give people who have acquired wealth suddenly a person they can trust to give sound advice…
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In this special edition Swift Chat from the Investments & Wealth Institute's ACE Academy 2022, Marie Swift interviews a range of guests from the IWI Digital Hive including: Jeffrey Levine, Chief Planning Officer of Buckingham Strategic Wealth Partners Stephen J. Resch, Vice President of Retirement Strategies of Finance of America Reverse LLC Dan Wa…
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In this special edition of Swift Chats recorded live at the 2022 Morningstar Investment Conference, Jonny Swift interviews a range of guests live from the Social / Digital Hub. The episode features: - Shawna Ohm, Founder of Content 151 - Katryna Deligiannis, Senior Social Media Manager at Morningstar - Aleksandr Spencer, CFA, Chief Investment Offic…
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In this first episode of the new Swift Chat / FAR Sight Advisor series from Finance America Reverse (FAR) and their Retirement Strategies Division: A select group of financial planning practitioners and financial services professionals participated in a live roundtable setting to talk about the most pressing challenges and concerns as well as the m…
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In this Swift Chat video conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Reese Harper CFP, CEO of the Elements Financial Planning System about his innovative software system and how it can support financial advisors throughout their practice from client acquisition to portfolio management to client engagement. The two discuss how Harper built both Dentist Ad…
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In this special edition of Swift Chats recorded live at the 2022 T3 Technology Tools for Today Conference, Marie Swift and Jonny Swift interview a range of guests from their booth in Podcast Alley at the event. The episode features: ​- Joel Bruckenstein, President of Technology Tools for Today - John Mackowiak, Chief Business Development Officer at…
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In this Swift Chat -- recorded live at the T3 Technology Tools for Today conference in Texas on May 3, 2022 -- Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Nitin Seth, CEO of Incedo, Inc., a digital transformation company. Nitin talks about the seven building blocks of successful digital transformation and winning in the digital age. Lear…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift speaks with Bill Cates, President of Referral Coach International and founder of the Cates Academy for Relationship Marketing about his new book Beyond Referrals, which gives advisors the tools they need to transform introductions into new clients. The two discuss converting referrals into engaged introductions, why …
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications speaks with John Mackowiak, Chief Business Development Officer, and Dirk Pearson, Chief Product Officer at Advyzon, a comprehensive technology platform and portfolio management solution for financial advisors and investment managers that includes portfolio management, customizable performance…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Travis Parry, a speaker, coach and author who has a Masters degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Family and Human Development. Travis focuses on helping people achieve balance in their life. The two discuss what led Travis into this field and how he helps advisors reach t…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Jake Wagner, Founder of Digital Marketing 4FP, which offers creative marketing and fractional CMO services to fiduciary advisors and larger organizations that support independent advisors. The two talk about, what else, marketing and how smart advisors are adjusting their bu…
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In this Swift Chat Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Brad Swineheart, SVP of Business Development at White Glove, a marketing company that helps advisors succeed via educational workshops, marketing content, and social media. The two discuss White Glove’s unique approach to lead generation. ​Brad dives into how White Glove matc…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift speaks with Alex Cavalieri, Co-Founder of Seven Group, a "hybrid marketing platform" that gives financial advisors insights and tools they need to market their brand more effectively, create deeper client relationships, and reach new audiences. The two talk about the importance of having a niche, finding and marketin…
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In this Swift Chat, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Phil Walker, who is with the Retirement Strategies Division at Finance of America - Reverse. The two talk about how financial advisors can reduce portfolio risk for their clients who need consistent income streams during retirement - especially during down markets - by tappi…
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In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. speaks with Haleh Moddasser of Stearns Financial Group. The two talk about Haleh's new podcast "Women On Top with Haleh Moddasser," Haleh's two books (one on gray divorce and one on ESG investing), and how Haleh sees the role of women in creating social change through the p…
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Listen to a compilation episode recorded live at the #OpenMic podcast station in the Social/Digital Hub at the Morningstar Investment Conference, September 22-24, 2021 at the McCormick Center in Chicago. Marie and Jonny sat down with a handful of conference attendees to discuss the various ways they overcame the challenges caused by the pandemic, i…
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In this Swift Chat interview, Jonny Swift of Impact Communications speaks with Angel Gonzalez, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-Founder of Snappy Kraken, a marketing automation and growth platform for financial services professionals. Learn about what's working for advisors today when it comes to digital marketing and what trends we're seeing on the …
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Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. (Impact), speaks with Chris Manker of NEXA Insights, LLC (Nexa). How can financial advisors and their firms use client feedback to empower their people, inform their marketing strategy, improve client communications, solidify client relationships, uncover potential referrals and business growth opportuniti…
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Marie Swift of Impact Communications, Inc. (Impact), speaks with Claire Akin of Indigo Marketing Agency (Indigo). While Impact and Indigo both offer content creation and social media / digital marketing solutions for independent financial advisors, the firms have different strengths and philosophies -- in fact, Impact and Indigo may even cross-refe…
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