The Tension
The Tension
Podcast Description
In The Tension, we discuss the challenges facing leading financial advisors and how you can manage them. In each episode, we explore “how it is and how it could be” in the financial advice landscape. We break down industry trends, share insights, and wrestle with how to navigate the tension that advisors face as they serve their clients and grow their business.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers key themes such as advisor-client relationships, business growth strategies, and talent development within the financial advisory landscape, with episodes like 'The Trusted Advisor Tension' focusing on building trust with clients and 'The Growth Tension' addressing effective growth tactics.
If you’re a builder, leader, or change-maker, you already know the tension: the push and pull between where you are and where you want to be. It’s the moments when success doesn’t feel like you expected, when growth forces hard decisions, or when challenges test your limits.
Hosted by Travis Penfield, The Tension explores how high-performing leaders navigate these pivotal moments. You won’t find simple solutions here—because the tension isn’t something to be solved. Instead, you’ll hear stories, strategies, and insights to help you manage the tension and turn it into fuel for your personal and professional success.
We all know time is finite. So why is it so hard to actually live like it matters? In this episode, Travis sits down with Mike Sharrow, CEO of C12, the nation's leading peer advisory organization for Christian CEOs and executives, to wrestle with one of the most deeply human tensions there is: making it count.
Mike has spent a decade helping top leaders build businesses and lives of real significance, and in this conversation, he gets personal. From his own story of growing up around domestic violence and divorce, to the weight that shapes the most purposeful leaders he knows, Mike unpacks why ”making it count” is never a problem you solve, but a tension you manage every single day.
They also take on one of the biggest traps high-achievers fall into: the idea that significance is always one season away. More time with family after this deal closes. More generosity once the business scales. It's a lie most of us are living, and this episode calls it out. If you've ever felt the gap between how you want to spend your time and how you actually do — this one's for you.
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