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Advisor Talk with Frank LaRosa

Elite Consulting Partners

Advisor Talk with Frank LaRosa offers unfiltered guidance and advice for financial advisors, wealth management professionals, and entrepreneurs alike who are interested in maximizing both their business and personal potential. Informed by Frank's unique insights and his personal conversations with industry leaders, the dynamic discussion topics of Advisor Talk include business ownership, leadership, practice management, transition and recruiting, marketing and branding, as well as a host of financial services related topics related to wirehouse, regional, and RIA advisors, firms, and teams. Frank’s goal, and the goal of his team at Elite Consulting Partners, is now as ever to be the go-to resource for actionable information and trusted guidance to elevate you and your career at whatever stage you may be.

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October 15 · 29 min
Greatest Hits: Why Do the Most Successful Financial Advisors Focus on Purpose Instead of Payout?
Why should you switch firms? Financial advisors often switch firms to better serve their clients. Moving firms can provide access to better technology, increased flexibility, and more freedom to run an advisory business aligned with personal values and long-term purpose. In this episode of Advisor Talk, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank answer a fundamental question many financial advisors wrestle with - but rarely articulate: Why do some advisors stay energized, fulfilled, and growing long after
October 8 · 28 min
Greatest Hits: Inside The Succession Trap - Why Sell and Exit Deals Keep Failing
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this Elite Ignite 2026 edition, Frank LaRosa sits down with Scott Danner, Executive Vice President and Head of Legacy at Steward Partners, to unpack why succession deals keep failing, how M&A is reshaping the financial advisory industry, and what the sell, stay and grow model looks like for advisors who are not ready to walk away from the business they bui
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October 1 · 34 min
Your Clients Follow You, Not Your Firm's Name
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank break down why financial advisor clients almost never care about the name of the firm their advisor works for. Frank shares a real story about an advisor who had never heard of a well known regional firm and both explain how they actually vet firm culture claims instead of taking them at face value.
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September 24 · 25 min
W2 versus Independent: Why Financial Advisors Shouldn't Chase the Trend
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank push back on the assumption that independence is automatically right for every financial advisor. Stacey lays out why the real question is not W2 versus independent but what is actually right for that specific advisor and Frank breaks down the real spectrum of W2 firms and why the wirehouse model is far from dyin
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September 17 · 40 min
Perfect Clients: The Financial Advisor Who Built a Practice Around Giving
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa talks with Michael Brady, founder of Generosity Wealth Management and a longtime coaching client, about building a financial advisory practice entirely around philanthropy. Michael explains what he means when he says he has perfect clients and breaks down how making charity a requirement for his advisors has shaped his entire bus
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September 10 · 22 min
Are You Really Independent? The Question Every Financial Advisor Should Ask
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank respond to a public claim that financial advisors are only truly independent if they own their own RIA. Stacey introduces her spectrum of independence framework and both break down what actually determines control, risk and flexibility for financial advisors today.
September 3 · 25 min
Greatest Hits: Leaving Your Firm? What Advisors Wish They Knew
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. What do financial advisors wish they knew before leaving their firm? After moving hundreds of advisors over 30 years, Frank LaRosa, CEO of Elite Consulting Partners has seen the same surprises, miscalculations, and missed opportunities come up again and again, and in this episode he and Stacey Frank lay all of it out.
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August 27 · 31 min
Inside the Chairman's Trip: Lessons from Elite's Top Producers
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy In this episode, recorded live at Elite's Chairman's Trip in Cancun, Frank LaRosa sits down with five of the firm's top producers, Tricia Fischer, Julie Mizerany, Domenic Diele, Bruce Fox and Stacey Frank, for an unscripted conversation about what it actually takes to guide a financial advisor through a life-changing career decision.
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August 20 · 27 min
The One Last Move: An Alternative to Selling Your Practice
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa breaks down the one last move, a strategy for advisors nearing retirement who want to unlock a major payout without giving up their practice. Stacey Frank brings in the psychology behind why so many advisors struggle to actually retire and both explain how dual monetization gives advisors a path to cash in today and set up succes
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August 13 · 20 min
Solo vs Team: What Exception Debt Costs Financial Advisors
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa introduces the concept of exception debt, the slow compromise that pulls advisors away from the business they originally set out to build. Stacey Frank challenges the assumption that every advisor needs a team and both share personal stories about helping advisors finally separate from partnerships that were holding them back.
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August 6 · 40 min
Your Industry Defining Goal: Why Most Financial Advisors Never Find It
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa introduces the concept of an industry defining goal, a big audacious target he uses to guide every major decision in his business. Stacey Frank pushes the conversation into practice management, breaking down how financial advisors should audit their client list and their personal circle to figure out what is actually helping them
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July 30 · 30 min
Nobody Is Training Young Advisors Anymore
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank tackle why the financial advisor industry is failing to properly train the next generation. Frank shares real advice he gave a young advisor he is mentoring and Stacey breaks down the age gap forming between seasoned advisors and new recruits, a problem she calls the barbell approach.
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July 23 · 24 min
This Market Won't Last Forever: Why Advisor Deals Are at an All-Time High
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa breaks down why financial advisor transition deals and payouts are at an all-time high right now and why he believes advisors sitting on the sidelines out of complacency are making a costly mistake. Frank also tackles the common fear of a new firm getting acquired down the road and explains why the math still works out in the adv
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July 16 · 19 min
Complacency Is Costing You More Than You Realize
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank break down what complacency is really costing financial advisors, using a real client story that put a $20,000-a-day price tag on staying put. Frank also introduces dual monetization, his trademarked strategy for advisors looking to maximize their practice valuation without giving up control of their business.
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July 9 · 19 min
To Build an OSJ or Not to Build: The Mistake Costing You Your Multiple
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank tackle a mistake that quietly costs advisors their financial advisor multiple: building an OSJ before understanding what they actually own. Frank breaks down the difference between owning revenue and owning an override and why the answer to growing your practice valuation and enterprise value might be simpler tha
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July 2 · 29 min
Hire Slow Fire Fast: The $400,000 Lesson We Learned
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long term growth strategy. In this episode, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank tackle one of the hardest calls a business owner has to make, knowing when someone on the team is no longer the right fit and finding the courage to act on it, using a real story that saved their firm over $400,000.
June 25 · 32 min
Greatest Hits: Direct Affiliation vs. OSJ - Which Model Is Right for You?
In this episode of Advisor Talk, Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank tackle one of the most common decisions independent advisors face: choosing between a direct affiliation with a firm or aligning with an OSJ / large enterprise model. Drawing from real advisor conversations and active transition work, Frank and Stacey break down how each affiliation structure actually works, where advisors often get tripped up, and why payout alone is rarely the right way to evaluate the decision. They explain how e
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June 18 · 22 min
The Advisor CEO: Why Most Advisors Never Become Business Owners
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. Why do so many advisors say they want to scale yet never become true business owners? Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank sit down for a quick paced conversation about the transition from practitioner to business owner to CEO and the uncomfortable changes that transition actually demands.
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June 11 · 13 min
What's Behind Your Name? Why Most Financial Advisors Get Rebranding Wrong
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. What is actually behind your firm's name? In this solo episode, Frank LaRosa unpacks why the name you choose when you break away is one of the most important and most rushed decisions you will make and how to get it right the first time.
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June 4 · 24 min
The Right Move Not The Next Move: What We Learned At Elite Ignite 2026
Advisor Talk is a podcast by Elite Consulting Partners focused on financial advisor transitions, recruiting and long-term growth strategy. Frank LaRosa and Stacey Frank reunite to break down the biggest takeaways from Elite Ignite 2026, a four-day working conference that brought together nearly 25 broker dealers and RIAs representing $4.5 trillion in controlled assets. They cover why the right move always beats the next move and what it actually took to build an event where competitors sit in th

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