Dr. Daniel Crosby

Yeah, so I'm Dr. Daniel Crosby.

I am the Chief Behavioral Officer at Orion Advisor Technology.

So we're a large FinTech firm here based in the Midwestern U.S.

I'm based in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Southeastern U.S.,

But I'm the son of a financial advisor.

So my dad is to this day a financial advisor.

He actually got his job on the day that I was born.

So he's been at this business for some time.

And so I grew up, I think unlike most people, certainly most Americans, I grew up talking about budgeting around the dinner table and talking about investing in shares around the dinner table and stock picking and

and saving and debt.

And I like to joke, but it's not a joke.

In the home I grew up in, we couldn't say the word debt because my father hated debt so much.

He said it was a four-letter word, just like the rest of the four-letter words.

And so I grew up in a home where conversations around money were front and center, which is unusual.

So I was sort of steeped in that.

But when I went off to school, I actually had a loved one who was struggling with an eating disorder.

And so in the process of trying to help this loved one find appropriate treatment, check on them, support them during a time in which they were an inpatient near where I was attending university,

I really fell in love with psychology and I really fell in love with the process of doing psychotherapy.

And so got a chance to observe that up close, got a chance to observe the power of therapy, the power of clinical psychology to improve and change and shape the life of my loved one.

And so I was sort of torn.