Hi folks and welcome to the Meaningful Money Podcast, this is session number 316.

This is the podcast dedicated to helping you put your finances in order.

My name is Pete Matthew and I'm going to share with you everything you need to know and everything you need to do to secure your financial future. I'm here to help you with me. Welcome back. Now I get asked at

least once a week, usually on email, about how to become a financial advisor, which surprises me still.

But for ages I've thought that what I need to do is to sit down and sort of write the definitive

blog post so that in future when people ask me that I can just send them to this episode.

So obviously rather than just a blog post I thought it would become a podcast.

But those of you that have no intention ever of becoming a financial advisor and there will be far more

of you than there are of the people who are considering it. Hopefully what today

will give you is something of an insight as to what it takes to become an advisor and

we'll give you some insight about how to choose the good ones should

you ever need to speak to an advisor.

Okay so today I'm going to give you everything you need to know and everything you need to do if you

are considering becoming an advisor but I think it'll help

everybody after the main body of the show I'll be announcing what we're going to be

talking about over the next couple of weeks before season 14 really kicks in so stay

tuned for that at the end.

Before that, though, remember, this podcast is brought to you

with the help of my friends at Seven Investment Management.

They've been helping me out here since 2011,

and I'm super grateful to them for doing that.

I really couldn't have built it to what it is today without them so

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