Planning & Beyond® - Where financial planning meets human understanding
Planning & Beyond® is for financial advisors who want to go beyond the numbers and build deeper, more trusted client relationships.
Hosted by Ashley Quamme, a licensed therapist and financial behavior specialist, this podcast helps advisors better understand the psychology, emotions, and behaviors that shape client conversations.
Each episode offers practical strategies you can apply in discovery meetings, prospect conversations, difficult money discussions, and major life transition planning. Through conversations with experts in behavioral finance, financial psychology, and financial therapy, Ashley explores how advisors can strengthen communication, navigate emotional moments, build trust, and support clients with more confidence.
If you want to improve the way you connect with clients, ask better questions, and bring more empathy and clarity into your planning process, Planning & Beyond® will help you sharpen the human side of your advisory work.
Topics include:
- Mastering discovery and prospect meetings
- Navigating difficult money conversations
- Understanding client psychology
- Building trust and deepening client relationships
- Managing emotional client situations
- Improving advisor-client communication
- Applying behavioral finance strategies
- Supporting clients through life transitions
New episodes release weekly. Subscribe for practical conversations on the human side of financial planning.
Learn more at Beyond the Plan.
Planning & Beyond® - Where financial planning meets human understanding
Latest Episodes
53. The “Why I Care” Story: How Financial Advisors Build Trust Faster with Deirdre Van Nest
A prospect sits across from you with a decision to make. Before they share the full truth about their money, their fear, their family, or the choice they keep delaying, they are quietly asking one question: Can I trust you?In this episod...
52. Death and Money: How Advisors Can Support Clients Through Grief and Loss with Rose Zealand
A client calls, and the news is big. A terminal diagnosis. A sudden death. A surprise windfall that should feel like good news but somehow doesn't. The plan you built so carefully is no longer the point, and the person in front of you is not th...
51. Showing Up as Yourself: Why Authenticity Is a Business Strategy for Advisors with Justin Castelli
You change clothes before a client meeting and feel like you are putting on a costume. Someone asks what you do at a conference and you lead with your title and your AUM, never the parts of your life that matter most. And underneath the profess...
50. What Is the Human Side of Money? A 50th Episode Conversation with Brendan Frazier
You've heard the phrase. It shows up in keynotes, LinkedIn posts, firm marketing, and increasingly, your own conversations with prospects. But if someone put you on the spot and asked what "the human side of money" actually means, could you art...
49. Beyond "Where Are You From?": Building Trust With Foreign-Born Clients with Jane Mepham
A young couple, dressed up for their first real financial planning meeting, sat across from an advisor who asked about retirement, income, and savings. He never asked why they were spending money on travel. He never asked about their immigratio...
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