This week on the Standard Deviations Podcast, Dr. Daniel Crosby speaks with Amy Mullen.
Amy Mullen, CFP® is President of Money Quotient. In this role, she frequently presents at national financial industry conferences on the benefits and effectiveness of a values-based approach to financial planning, understanding clients’ financial motivations and how to guide them through change, and creating long-lasting client-planner relationships. She also focuses much of her time conducting trainings and providing individualized coaching and consulting to financial planning practitioners. Amy is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and completed an Interdisciplinary Studies Degree with a concentration in “Financial Motivation & Change” at Marylhurst University. Amy is a member of the Financial Therapy Association and Financial Planning Association. She has served on the board of the FPA of Puget Sound chapter and as a Task Force member for the 2015 National FPA Retreat. Outside of the office, Amy enjoys getting out doors, photography, live music, and cooking.
Tune in to hear:
– What role did Amy’s mom play in her professional journey and what drives her to do what she does?
– What are the 5 steps of Amy’s process for providing effective guidance to advisors while leaving a bit of wiggle room for client personalization?
– Her 1st step, “to establish and define a client, planner relationship,” aligns with the CFP’s 1st stage. What does she teach advisors in this stage that might look a little different than folks might expect?
– How can we help facilitate a good discovery process, which encourages clients to dig deep, without putting our own fingerprints all over this in the process?
– How can you clarify your client’s values and assure that they aren’t being unduly influenced by outside influences?
– The 2nd part of Amy’s discovery stage is called “envision.” How does she help her clients’ vision of their future selves be as salient and real as possible?
– What are some of the mistakes advisors make when presenting their client with a financial plan and what can we do better as an industry?
– How can we share that “there’s more to life than money” with our clients in an authentic and non-cynical way? Also, how can we implement this thinking in our own lives?
Amy Mullen, CFP® is President of Money Quotient. In this role, she frequently presents at national financial industry conferences on the benefits and effectiveness of a values-based approach to financial planning, understanding clients’ financial motivations and how to guide them through change, and creating long-lasting client-planner relationships. She also focuses much of her time conducting trainings and providing individualized coaching and consulting to financial planning practitioners. Amy is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and completed an Interdisciplinary Studies Degree with a concentration in “Financial Motivation & Change” at Marylhurst University. Amy is a member of the Financial Therapy Association and Financial Planning Association. She has served on the board of the FPA of Puget Sound chapter and as a Task Force member for the 2015 National FPA Retreat. Outside of the office, Amy enjoys getting out doors, photography, live music, and cooking.
Tune in to hear:
– What role did Amy’s mom play in her professional journey and what drives her to do what she does?
– What are the 5 steps of Amy’s process for providing effective guidance to advisors while leaving a bit of wiggle room for client personalization?
– Her 1st step, “to establish and define a client, planner relationship,” aligns with the CFP’s 1st stage. What does she teach advisors in this stage that might look a little different than folks might expect?
– How can we help facilitate a good discovery process, which encourages clients to dig deep, without putting our own fingerprints all over this in the process?
– How can you clarify your client’s values and assure that they aren’t being unduly influenced by outside influences?
– The 2nd part of Amy’s discovery stage is called “envision.” How does she help her clients’ vision of their future selves be as salient and real as possible?
– What are some of the mistakes advisors make when presenting their client with a financial plan and what can we do better as an industry?
– How can we share that “there’s more to life than money” with our clients in an authentic and non-cynical way? Also, how can we implement this thinking in our own lives?
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Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby, the personality behind STANDARD DEVIATIONS podcast, is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets.
Dr. Crosby’s first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and German. His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is an in-depth look at how sociology, psychology and neurology all impact investment decision-making.
