Planning & Beyond® - Where financial planning meets human understanding
Planning & Beyond® is for financial advisors who want to go beyond the numbers and build deeper, more trusted client relationships.
Hosted by Ashley Quamme, a licensed therapist and financial behavior specialist, this podcast helps advisors better understand the psychology, emotions, and behaviors that shape client conversations.
Each episode offers practical strategies you can apply in discovery meetings, prospect conversations, difficult money discussions, and major life transition planning. Through conversations with experts in behavioral finance, financial psychology, and financial therapy, Ashley explores how advisors can strengthen communication, navigate emotional moments, build trust, and support clients with more confidence.
If you want to improve the way you connect with clients, ask better questions, and bring more empathy and clarity into your planning process, Planning & Beyond® will help you sharpen the human side of your advisory work.
Topics include:
- Mastering discovery and prospect meetings
- Navigating difficult money conversations
- Understanding client psychology
- Building trust and deepening client relationships
- Managing emotional client situations
- Improving advisor-client communication
- Applying behavioral finance strategies
- Supporting clients through life transitions
New episodes release weekly. Subscribe for practical conversations on the human side of financial planning.
Learn more at Beyond the Plan.
Planning & Beyond® - Where financial planning meets human understanding
Latest Episodes
66. Transforming Review Meetings into Meaningful Experiences with Brendan Frazier
Join Ashley and Brendan Frazier, host of The Human Side of Money podcast, for a conversation about review meetings and why they matter more than many advisors realize.Brendan explains the difference between reactive and proactive review ...
65. Career Coaching Meets Financial Planning with Kolby Goodman
A client’s career is often one of the biggest drivers of their financial life, but advisors are not always equipped to help with it.In this episode, Ashley talks with Kolby Goodman, career coach, keynote speaker, and author, about where ...
64. Navigating Cultural Differences in Financial Decisions with Dr. Amanda Craft
In this episode of Planning & Beyond®, Ashley talks with Dr. Dr. Amanda Craft, a researcher and educator whose PhD work focuses on cultural intelligence in financial advice.Dr. Craft explains why culture matters in financial planning...
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