Lessons Learned From How Mega-RIAs Are Scaling Their People To Support Growth: #FASuccess Ep 486 With Lisa Crafford
Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 486th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast! My guest on today's podcast is Lisa ...
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Tag: people
5 things people who grew up lower middle class quietly do as adults that look strange until you understand the logic behind them
The lower middle class leaves a specific residue on the adults it produces, and you can usually spot it at ...
I just realized I’ve never once made a major life decision based on what I wanted — every single one was based on what seemed reasonable to the people watching
Picture this: You’re sitting in your perfectly reasonable apartment, working at your perfectly reasonable job, and suddenly it hits you ...
Psychology suggests people who follow through on small promises to themselves aren’t just building habits — they’re constructing the internal evidence that they can be trusted, which is the actual foundation of lasting self-discipline
Self-discipline, when examined closely, turns out to be less a matter of willpower than a matter of accumulated evidence. Each ...
There’s a particular stillness that arrives in your 40s when you realize that the people who were supposed to approve of your choices never actually had a vote, and most of the exhaustion of the previous decade was the cost of campaigning in an election that didn’t exist.
Someone at forty-two is unloading the dishwasher on an ordinary Tuesday evening, or driving home from a dinner they did ...
Psychology says the most reliable signs someone is actually not a good person are almost never the obvious ones — they’re buried inside behaviors that look generous, caring, and selfless on the surface, and the reason good people keep getting hurt by them is that their instincts were right all along but the disguise was better than their confidence in their own judgment
You know that feeling when someone seems too good to be true? I learned to trust it the hard way. ...
Psychology says the most isolating part of getting older isn’t having fewer people around you — it’s having fewer people who knew you when you were whole and fast and full of plans, because the version of you that exists in other people’s memory is shrinking at the same rate as the guest list, and one day you’ll be the only person alive who remembers what you were capable of
I used to think the hardest part about getting older would be the physical stuff. The knees that complain when ...
The people who seem to have endless patience with difficult family members aren’t necessarily more forgiving. Many of them long ago concluded that the emotional cost of asking for change was higher than the cost of absorbing the behavior, and they’ve been paying the cheaper price for so long they forgot there was ever a choice.
I have an aunt who has been absorbing my uncle’s comments for forty-three years. She passes the potatoes. She changes ...
Psychology says people who reach their 60s without close friends aren’t the ones who lost everyone along the way — many of them made a series of quiet, deliberate choices over decades to stop investing in relationships that required them to perform, accommodate, or shrink, and what looks like loneliness from the outside is often the result of finally choosing themselves
When we see someone in their 60s without a large circle of friends, we often assume something went wrong. Maybe ...
Psychology says people who need to finish the chapter before they can put the book down aren’t obsessive — their brain treats an unfinished narrative the same way it treats an unresolved argument, as an open loop that will consume background processing power until it closes, and that inability to stop mid-chapter isn’t about the book, it’s about a mind that cannot rest inside something incomplete
Picture this: it’s midnight, you have an early meeting tomorrow, but you’re 20 pages from the end of a chapter. ...
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