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Radical Personal Finance

153-The Massive Impact of Conferences on Personal Career and Income: Interview With Michael Kitces

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 80 minutes

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I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Kitces while I was in Dallas last week for the Technology Tools for Today conference for financial advisors.

Michael is, in many ways, a conference king. He speaks at 60 to 70 conferences per year. He also writes the most influential blog focused on financial advisors.

What fascinates me is the development of his career. Michael's career developed from very humble origins. He found an area of interest and then applied years of diligent effort. Years later, he has succeeded in raising his personal income by a factor of 10 through the consistent application of some basic principles.

Enjoy this peak into the development of a career and consider how you can apply the same principles to your own endeavors.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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0:00.0

Today I'm thrilled to share with you some thoughts about career development.

0:03.4

Most importantly, I'd like you to have a real live case study of how applying some of the simple

0:11.1

steps that we've talked about on this show of Brian Tracy's

0:14.9

the thousand percent formula can lead even if by accident to your increasing your

0:21.7

income by a thousand percent every ten years. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and today is Tuesday, February 17, 2015.

0:50.0

Today I bring you an interview with Financial Planner extraordinary Michael Kittsis, one of the more

0:57.0

well-known writers in the financial planning space, he writes at kitsis.com, this is a repeat appearance for him on the Radical Personal Finance Podcast,

1:05.0

and today we're going to talk about his career.

1:07.0

I have the opportunity to interview Michael when I was out in Dallas last week at the

1:18.4

T3 Technology Tools for Today Conference for Financial Advisors.

1:22.7

And I jumped on a plane real quick and shot out there and one of the things that I was able

1:26.2

to do was to do a bunch of really great interviews.

1:29.5

Most of them are very focused on the Financial Advisors space and you'll hear that in this

1:33.5

interview. This interview essentially follows two parts. The first part is a

1:38.3

discussion of Michael's career and especially as it relates to conferences.

1:44.4

And I thought this was such a timely topic in light of yesterday's show and in light of some things

1:48.4

that I've been wanting to bring you here on the show, of just talking about the importance of conferences as they might be for your career.

1:55.2

And I thought it was a useful story of how careers can develop even if by accident.

2:01.9

Now one of the cool things, if you know something could develop by accident, what about developing it on purpose?

2:07.0

That's what we can choose to do. So I want you to listen to Michael's story.

2:12.0

That's the first part of the

2:12.8

interview. The second part of the interview talk a little bit about marketing

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