The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors
Launched in 2017 as Mindy Diamond on Independence, the show has taken on a broader perspective beyond the independent space to include topics, insights, and candid conversations around financial advisor transitions, growth, and an ever-changing industry landscape. Each episode is designed to offer objective guidance and actionable advice with some of the industry’s brightest movers and shakers.
Latest episodes
Jan 25, 2024 • 49min
Embracing a Growth Mindset: Best Practices for Top Advisors from AllianceBernstein’s Head of Private Wealth
Top firm leader, Onur Erzan discusses how a growth mindset transcends AllianceBernstein’s culture, from its enhanced value proposition to its blend of proprietary and open architecture solutions.
Jan 18, 2024 • 59min
Building a Business with Intention: The $5B Callan Family Office Recipe for Success
Jack Ginter, CEO and Partner of Callan Family Office, discusses how understanding the unique needs of clients and delivering upon those needs are the key to building a world-class advisory business. The 30-year industry veteran shares his journey and offers actionable advice to advisors of all levels.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 1h 9min
2023’s Most Valuable Insights on Transitions, Independence, and Advisor Growth
A compendium of the best advice from top advisors on eliminating limitations and bureaucracy, fostering growth, maximizing business value, and ensuring your firm is the right place for your clients and business for the long term.
Dec 21, 2023 • 49min
An Advisor’s Guide to 2024: The Impact of 2023 on the Coming Year
A review of the most influential trends that impacted advisors in 2023, plus predictions and actionable guidance for 2024 to help advisors think more strategically and set longer-term goals to grow, protect, and future-proof their businesses.
Dec 14, 2023 • 47min
Barron’s Top Advisor and Industry Visionary Steve Lockshin: Lessons from the Life of a Serial Entrepreneur
The founder of AdvicePeriod, Vanilla, and others, offers a unique perspective on how an advisor’s entrepreneurial DNA can drive their ability to serve clients and grow untethered, particularly in the independent space.
Dec 7, 2023 • 53min
The Founding Sanctuary Team: How These Wells Fargo Breakaways Built a $2.4B Business
What motivated this $1.6B multi-generational Wells Fargo team to leave the wirehouse world for supported independence with a relatively unknown broker dealer? Chris and Brian Cooke of Cooke Financial discuss their decision, growth, and more.
Nov 30, 2023 • 57min
$1.6B 6 Years Later: Matt Celenza on Doubling Growth, Opportunity, and Life After Merrill
The founder of Boulevard Family Wealth revisits the show 6 years later to share an insider perspective on what he wishes he knew before breaking away from Merrill, including greater access to everything his UHNW clients needed and the positive impact on client service and growth.
Nov 16, 2023 • 48min
Private Equity and the RIA: Two Perspectives on the Value of Growth
Mark Copeland, Founder of $19B Signature Estate & Investment Advisors (SEIA) and Ben Prigal, Vice President of Reverence Capital Partners, discuss the value of partnership between private equity and RIAs, practice valuation, PE’s attraction to the wealth management space, and more.
Nov 9, 2023 • 57min
From Lifer to Leaver: $3B Former UBS Advisor Finds His New Edge
Ghislain Gouraige, a 15-year UBS “culture carrier” shares what made him “start listening” to what was going on outside of the four walls of the firm at which he built a $3B practice, the value he saw in leaving to join NewEdge, tips on building an extraordinary business, and more.
Nov 2, 2023 • 45min
Embracing the Modern Advisor: An Inside Look at Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions
Richard Lofgren, the Managing Director of Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions, provides inside baseball on Goldman’s custody offering, including how they differentiate from other established custodians and their ideal advisor profile.
