50 episodes listed below
Advisor transition strategy, without the noise.
The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors is built around candid industry conversations about where advisory businesses fit best. Recent episodes track breakaway decisions, recruiting deals, legal transition risks, digital growth engines, M&A, and the operational realities behind independence.
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The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors is a specialized industry show about the business decisions behind advisor movement. Its center of gravity is transition: why advisors leave, where they go, what firms are offering, and what can go wrong when a move is handled poorly. The show is practical. It favors operational detail over broad inspiration. Recent episodes cover independence after a firm, breakaways, scaling inside a firm, legal strategies around TRO risk, and the annual picture on recruiting, deals, and transitions. Growth is a recurring theme, but not in a vague way. Guests talk about building a prospect pipeline, creating a talent pipeline, using digital media, investing in data, funding M&A, and integrating acquisitions without distracting from client work. The series also makes room for the emotional side of business architecture. Successful advisors may still feel stuck. A model can keep producing results while limiting satisfaction, autonomy, or future enterprise value. That idea appears across the recent conversations. The show’s register is polished and advisory-industry fluent, with a consulting cadence and a bias toward structured decision-making. It is aimed at people who already understand the financial-services world and want sharper context on the options available to them. The best episodes work like field notes from the transition market. They connect individual advisor stories to larger questions about platform fit, capital, recruiting appetite, independence, and long-term control. Listeners looking for stock picks or personal finance basics will find the focus narrow. Advisors thinking about firm structure, succession, scale, or a possible move will find it directly relevant.
Made for: Built for financial advisors, advisory teams, and firm leaders weighing independence, recruiting offers, scale, succession, or platform fit. It assumes familiarity with the financial-services industry.
What sets it apart: The show concentrates on the advisor’s own business model rather than client portfolio tactics. Recent conversations pair transition-market data with operator-level detail on growth, staffing, capital, legal risk, and enterprise value.
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.
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James Canole weighs online demand against the advisor capacity needed to serve it.
James Canole sees a problem with online attention that outgrows the firm behind it. Speaking with Louis Diamond, the Root Financial founder says two pipelines need to grow together: prospective clients arriving through online platforms and advisors with the capacity to serve…
Jim Dixon considers the support an independent advisory firm may need to grow.
Jim Dixon starts with the move to independence, then turns to what it takes to build an advisory firm with enterprise value. His model helps advisors make that move and works with their firms on growth plans, capital needs and acquisitions.
For advisors doing well who still wonder what comes next.
Lewis and Mindy Diamond consider a problem that can catch successful advisors off guard: a reliable way of working starts to feel restrictive.
Where financial expertise becomes memorable stagecraft.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Mindy Diamond interviews Gwen Nottebaum of Crescent about advising ultra-high-net-worth families while personally managing about $1.6 billion for roughly 40 clients.
Louis Diamond interviews James Canole about building a $2.4 billion content growth engine for financial advisors.
A podcast episode featuring a conversation with Ryan Guth, founder of Goldfin Group, about orchestrating success after leaving Edward Jones.
Jason Diamond and Lewis Diamond report that 11,172 experienced advisors changed firms in 2025, up from 9,615 in 2024, despite a historic bull market.
A podcast episode featuring a conversation with two financial advisors who left Merrill Lynch to start their own independent firm, discussing the motivations and benefits of independence.
Jim Dixon says Elevation Point keeps control with advisors, not a “sea of sameness.”
The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors focuses on why successful advisors feel stuck, with Lewis Diamond and Mindy Diamond connecting that feeling to agency, enterprise value, and career timing.
Louis Diamond interviews Peter DeBoris about building a $4 billion enterprise within Northwestern Mutual.
A podcast episode featuring legal experts discussing strategies for financial advisors to avoid temporary restraining orders during firm transitions.
Louis Diamond interviews Sanctuary Wealth CEO Adam Malamed about reframing growth through advisor autonomy in the financial advisory industry.
A guide for financial firms on attracting, advising, and advancing women, featuring an interview with Kari Carbonaro.
A podcast episode featuring an interview with Sean Hauser, CEO of Wellington-Altus Private Wealth, discussing the Canadian wealth management perspective for financial advisors.