Ryan Sterling

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807 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 7 Sep

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NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast · Stop Worrying About Your Financial Advisor and Start Finding the Right One · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Like, you're paying somebody to build the plan.

For a lot of people, they need help then executing on that plan.

And then they need help staying accountable to that plan going forward.

Is this someone that you're going to be able to work with who's going to be able to see –

the entire plan out in its entirety.

They reference something about, you know, how much time does it take an advisor to do something?

And I would also say, like, I don't know that's the right way to look at it.

Like, I'll just give one very quick example.

So there's someone that I know who is looking for an advisor, and they had a very specific issue in that they wanted to know how many options they should exercise at the company that they work at.

And they met with an advisor who charges an hourly fee.

And that person quoted them 20 hours because it was going to take a lot of time to research and execute this.

And I told him like, I can figure this out for you in 10 minutes.

And I was able to pull up the spreadsheet because we have a lot of clients who have options and I was able to do it in 10 minutes.

The reason I give this example is because executing the right way could translate into the thousands of dollars saved over time.

So should you just want to pay somebody, you know, $25 for 10 minutes at a time to do it?

Or again, are you paying for the expertise

that even if it takes someone 10 minutes to do, they have decades of experience to be able to provide that advice to you very quickly, which saves you time and energy.

But then also this person is saying, well, I'm going to have a lot of these questions over time that I don't want to be charged 20 hours every single time I have one of these questions.

So I would say like the time to answer isn't necessarily the right metric.

Like if I go to the doctor and I need a surgery and the surgery takes 10 minutes to do or 15 minutes to do and it's super easy, I don't want to skimp on that, right?

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