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Are Financial Advisors Ripping You Off? | The TRUTH About Fiduciary vs. Non-Fiduciary

Jake and Gino Multifamily Investing Entrepreneurs

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5831 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Jake and Gino Podcast, we sit down with Michael Scarpati, founder and CEO of Retire.us, to expose the dirty secrets of the financial services industry. Are you being sold products or are you actually getting advice? We dive deep into the crucial difference between a Fiduciary and a standard financial advisor—and why 85% of professionals might not have your best interests at heart.

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0:00.0

you have to understand what your relationship with money is, and you have to bring that to your financial planner. That's my relationship with monies, you know? Bro, you don't like to lose money. You hate losing money more than making it. So that's very interesting, right? So you have the pot there. So you're saying, well, if I get rid of my money, I'm going to lose money from this pot and I can't refund. I want to make it and I don't want to lose it.

0:30.2

Hello, I'm ready.

0:31.7

I'm a host and Jake Dino podcast.

0:35.4

Here I have my co-host, the multifamily mentor, the coach, Chef, the Father Six, the best-selling off there.

0:37.3

The G-Dady! Gino Barber, Gina, how's it going, the bestselling author. The GEDdie.

0:41.6

Gino Barbero, Gina, how's it going? Doing good, brother. How are you doing this morning?

0:49.4

Always making it happen, big man. Got a special guest today. Today's guest is the founder and CEO of retire.

1:02.4

Dot U.S., a fintech platform disrupting today's financial services industry by making premium financial guidance frictionless and affordable for everybody, including you, Gino, even those people in Florida.

1:05.7

So without further ado, Michael Scarpati, welcome to the show.

1:07.5

Hey, what's going on, gentlemen?

1:08.2

Thanks for having me.

1:09.9

Hey, it is our pleasure.

1:11.4

Maybe just give us a little background on yourself and how you started the organization. Sure. So, Philly Guy, born and raised

1:18.2

in the Northeast, and always been an entrepreneur at heart, have a family of various entrepreneurs

1:25.0

and jumped into the financial services industry right out of college

1:28.4

in this entrepreneurial independent fiduciary financial planner track, which is a very different

1:34.9

flavor.

1:35.2

You're going to have to unpack that because that's just a lot of hogwash to me.

1:37.2

I don't even know what you're saying right now, dude.

1:38.5

All right, let's unpack it.

1:40.0

So in the financial services industry, this is kind of the first big thing that most people are

1:44.5

super unaware of. All financial advisors, all financial planners are not created equal. So there's

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