The Successful Adviser by James McCracken
Journey Of The Successful Adviser is created for you - the adviser, the entrepreneur, and those aspiring to be one. If you're looking for inspiration, education and empowerment to help you keep moving toward your goals, whether you're on the way to work, on the way home, or during your 'down time', James McCracken brings you real-life stories of triumph and tribulation from many of today's most inspiring advisers and entrepreneurs. Each episode ends with the PD ROUND, where guests share nuggets of wisdom for you, Adviser Nation!
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
095: Building a powerful personal brand with Andrew Ford
Andrew Ford, founder of Social Star and expert in helping people build powerful, influential and compelling personal brands, shares his knowledge in this episode around the importance for brokers to …
094: How to create ongoing deal flow with Louisa Sanghera
Louisa Sanghera, founder of Zippy Finance, has built a successful business on the back of creating a trusted reputation and a solid business strategy.
093: How to Get Your People To Perform The Way You Want – with Jason Cunningham
Jason Cunningham, co-founder of The Practice, shares his insights to how business owners can lead and support their staff to ensure stay with the company longer, perform better and deliver on the bus…
How to build a word of mouth business with MPA Top 100 writer, Holly Bundy
With a background in hospitality, sales and customer service, when Holly Bundy made the transition across to lending and then into her own broking business, she leveraged her existing skills and left…
091: How to get more done in a day with Lorraine Pirihi
Lorraine Pirihi, aka ‘The Babyboomer Specialist’ is the founder of Relaunch Your Life, a consulting and coaching practice where she specializes in helping babyboomer finance professionals who are tir…
090: Building community into your business with Mick McClure
As the managing director of Buyer’s Choice, Mick heads up the largest sub-aggregation group for PLAN Australia, and thought they have aggressive growth plans, they also have a focus around quality be…
089: Building a reputation that precedes you with Dino Pacella
Arguably, Dino Pacella is the most renowned BDM in the finance industry. Over the past few years, through several strategic initiatives, Dino has built a highly reputable and trusted personal brand t…
088: Utilising Outsourced Business Services with Andrew Duerden
Andrew Duerden is the founder of LWT Services, which, for the past 17 years, has been providing the commission payment processing software for most of the major aggregation groups – and now also prov…
087: Building a high value saleable asset with Greg Hocking
Greg Hocking is by no means your average real estate agent. As co-founder of one Melbourne’s most iconic real estate brands, Hocking Stuart, he has built an envious personal and professional reputat…
086: How to build a multi-award winning practice with Patrick Canion
Some people are profound in results and humble by nature. Patrick Canion, CEO of ipac WA is one such person. An impressive person by anyone’s account, Patrick is the leader of one of Australia’s mo…
085: How Tony Hughes became the # 1 sales influencer in Asia Pacific
If there was one episode you wanted to hear to show you how you can become a more influential and more recognised authority and person whom others seek out, then this episode with Tony Hughes of RSVP…
084: Build a personal brand that precedes you, with Winston Marsh
Today’s interview is with Winston Marsh, a pioneer of the Australian professional speaking circuit and a revered adviser who has built a reputation as a marketing and sales expert over his 40-year ca…
083: Adam Posner shares how to make price irrelevant
In this interview we go behind the scenes with Adam Posner, founder and directory of Directivity, a boutique marketing agency where Adam enables clients make price irrelevant by helping them become m…
082: How Andy Paul became a global sales influencer
As an author, blogger, podcaster, speaker and consultant, Andy Paul has helped thousands of companies and their salespeople to accelerate their sales.
081: How Pana Barbounis grew Pana Chocolate to 3,500 outlets in 24 countries in under 4 years
Typically, I wouldn’t interview a chocolate manufacturer as part of The Successful Adviser series, though in researching Pana Barbounis, founder of Pana Chocolate, it was clear from the outset that h…
080: How to maximise your productivity and create leverage – with Jeffrey Slayter
In this third of 3 interviews with Jeffrey Slayter, we take a look at how you can multiply your impact and effectiveness through enhancing productivity.
079: How to communicate with impact and persuasion – Patricia Fripp
In this interview, we spend time with Hall of Fame keynote speaker Patricia Fripp. These days, Patricia Fripp is considered one of the world’s leading conference and keynote speakers – though it didn…
078: How to start living your bucket list with Travis Bell, The Bucket List Guy
Today's interview is with Travis Bell, The Bucket List Guy. As a self-appointed ʻBucket Listologistʼ, Trav has obsessively studied the Bucket List phenomenon & blended the worldʼs best Positive Psyc…
077: How to life a life of purpose and passion – with Rosemary McCallum
Rosemary McCallum is an impressive lady. Be it for overcoming a range of obstacles during her formative years, for completing a Ph.D in Metaphysics or for building a thriving coaching and training bu…
076: How to build a community of raving fans – with Trevor Young
Learn how to build a community of raving fans from content marketing thought leader Trevor Young. Having established a highly successful blog, PR Warrior, Trevor is also an acclaimed author, a keynot…