Month: November 2025

What Advisors Should Do When Your Broker-Dealer Sells (Ep. 18)

What Advisors Should Do When Your Broker-Dealer Sells (Ep. 18)

When your independent broker-dealer sells, it can change everything about how you serve clients and run your business.

In this episode, Daren Blonski and Carmine Corino break down what happens when your firm sells or changes direction and what you can do about it. From evaluating alignment and fiduciary responsibility to exploring independence, they share hard truths about how these transitions impact advisors and their clients.

They discuss: 

  • How advisors should assess whether to stay with a sold firm, move to another, or go independent
  • Why private equity ownership often creates misalignment between advisors, clients, and shareholders
  • How the concept of fiduciary duty gets distorted within broker-dealers
  • The consequences of compliance and “selling away” rules that protect firms, not clients
  • Why true independence may be the only way to gain long-term alignment and control
  • And more!

Resources:

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Investing in Yourself: The Advisor’s Greatest Asset (Ep. 17)

Investing in Yourself: The Advisor’s Greatest Asset (Ep. 17)

Growth as an advisor begins with growth as a person.

In this episode, Carmine Corino and Daren Blonski discuss how self-development, health, and discipline directly impact your capacity to lead and grow your business. They share how tracking a personal development budget, joining masterminds, and committing to daily habits have transformed their lives and leadership.

Key takeaways:

  • How Carmine and Daren allocate 10% of their annual budgets to personal development
  • The link between physical discipline and business growth
  • How a personal development (PD) budget fuels leadership capacity
  • The importance of asking, “Who do you need to become to achieve your vision?”
  • Why breaking barriers in health and mindset makes business challenges easier to overcome
  • And more!

Resources:

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