How to Know You’ve Found the Right Financial Advisor │ Root Talks

Sep 18, 2025

What makes you trust a financial advisor? Discover how gut feelings are really about pattern recognition and why many clients engage with content long before reaching out. Explore how the hiring process emphasizes trust along with technical skill. Learn how the firm preserves its culture while scaling and empowering advisors to provide personalized experiences. Plus, get insights into the connection between professional and personal relationships, highlighting the importance of intuition in both realms.

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Long Courtship That Felt Right

Ari married his long-term partner Alice after about six and a half years of dating and describes how it felt like a simple intuitive certainty.
He contrasts that with his brother's many dates and a therapist's exercise showing the decision came down to a feeling, not a checklist.

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Gut Feelings Are Pattern Recognition

James explains that a gut feeling is condensed pattern recognition built from years of experiences and interactions.
He argues we should trust that intuition more as it encodes subconscious signals about fit and compatibility.

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Hiring Jay: A 15-Second Fit

James recounts hiring Jay after getting a positive feeling within 15 seconds on their first call and knowing Jay embodied Root's warmth and genuine interest.
That immediate reaction matched the feeling they aim to give clients through videos and the site.

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What makes you trust someone with your financial future? In this episode of Root Talks, James and Ari unpack the powerful role of intuition in building lasting relationships with financial advisors, business partners, and even loved ones.

They explain how what we call a gut feeling is actually condensed pattern recognition, your brain quietly scanning countless experiences to guide your decisions before you can put words to it. This is why many Root clients engage with our content for months before reaching out. They are building trust, alignment, and confidence long before the first conversation.

You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at how Root designs every client touchpoint to create that same sense of connection—from videos and the first call with our client success manager Jay to the advisor relationship itself. James shares how Root’s hiring process focuses not just on technical skill but on whether a candidate evokes the same feeling of trust clients get from our content. Ari reflects on how intuition plays a role in personal relationships too, bridging the gap between professional and personal trust.

As Root grows, James and Ari discuss how we preserve our culture through decentralized command, empowering advisors to deliver personalized guidance while staying true to our philosophy.

If you are searching for a financial advisor who makes you feel understood and confident about your future, explore our Root Drops and Advisor Unplugged series on our website on YouTube channel. Because the right advisor is not just about credentials or knowledge, it is about finding someone who feels right.

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