Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My guest today is Sean Kernan. Sean is a financial

advisor who grew up in the wirehouse and brokerage world and then went

independent and today he works to help other financial advisors make that same transition.

On today's show we discuss the details of how to get your start in the financial advice business

and also some of the different practice models that you might choose to pursue.

Sean, welcome to Radical Personal Finance.

Thanks Joshua, glad to be here.

It's a pleasure.

We're going to have a financial advisor coffee today, a virtual cup of coffee together, and try to record it for the world.

You know, when I started radical personal finance, I thought, well, what I'll do is I'll just

spill the beans on the financial advisor industry to the public, but I didn't expect a lot of the I've attracted that type of audience of many people who are financial advisors

listen and many people who are in you know in other careers who are interested

in becoming financial advisors a lot of people have found the show as a simple example. I got

three emails last week from people saying, hey I'm in another career I'm thinking

about switching to become a financial advisor. What do you think? And so I want to

serve this segment of the audience with some information, which is why I decided to go ahead and invite you on the show.

And we'll talk about your experience in the financial advice business and also a little bit of your new project of helping advisors go independent.

So let's start however with give us your resume so to speak.

Where did you start in the financial advisor business and what was your pathway through this

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