Episode 4

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24th Aug 2021

Optimizing Your Financial World - Episode 4 (Preparing Heirs for Their Inheritance)

Are your heirs ready to deal with the wealth you may be planning to pass on to them someday? It's an unfortunate fact that inheritors often struggle with their windfalls in ways that can be hazardous to their wealth.

On the fourth installment of Optimizing Your Financial World, Mark Wade unpacks the complex world of inheritances and the variety of internal and external conflicts that arise throughout this process.

Listen as Mark outlines how his affluent clients prepare their heirs for the inheritance and why we can all take a page out of their playbook on this topic.

Timecodes:

0:06 - Overview on the topic of the show

1:20 - Why inheritances can be double-edged swords these days

3:31 - The internal and external conflicts that arise among heirs

5:01 - Where to start in preparing the heirs for this moment

6:58 - What extremely successful families are doing, and not doing, when it comes to passing on wealth

9:40 - Beginning the process of fostering a level of financial intelligence among the heirs

12:03 - It's important to consider the heirs current views on wealth

14:25 - An approach that may resonate better than others

17:28 - Additional efforts the matriarch or patriarch can be taking

19:30 - You don't have to be super rich for these educational efforts to apply

21:08 - How to get in touch with Mark and his team to continue the conversation

23:31 - Closing remarks


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About the Podcast

Optimizing Your Financial World
It's about how much you get to keep!
Welcome to Optimizing Your Financial World, where we tackle an array of financial strategies and wealth management topics to help better position you, your family, or your business for a better future.

Each episode features Mark Wade, President of Echelon Family Office, who brings over four decades worth of experience in wealth management and investment planning to the show. Mark regularly works with affluent families and entrepreneurs to help better position their portfolios given their personal and professional goals.

Listen as Mark explores a new financial topic each episode and offers guidance on navigating these complex circumstances. At the end of the day, it's not about how many assets you have or how much income you create, it's about how much you get to keep!

So sit back, relax, and allow Mark to shed some light on countless financial strategies and his methodologies for helping four decades worth of clients optimize their financial world.