Welcome back to the 277th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast!
My guest on today’s podcast is Lauren Oschman. Lauren is the CEO of Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors, an independent RIA based in Nashville, Tennessee, that oversees $600 million in assets for nearly 500 client households.
What’s unique about Lauren, though, is how she and her firm not only serve a unique niche of physicians, but have also built practice groups within the firm that serve niches within the niche, including female physicians and orthopedic surgeons, and have developed hyper-specialized services for their unique clientele that allow them to truly differentiate.
In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Lauren and her partners built a firm dedicated to providing a high-touch, customizable client experience that still fits into the busy lifestyles of physicians, how Lauren’s firm developed services that help their physician clients with the unique challenges they face when it comes salary contract negotiations, and mortgages and disability insurance for doctors with highly variability income, and the way Lauren’s firm has further specialized in student loans and helping physicians understand when they may qualify for potentially six-figure Public Student Loan Forgiveness for their non-profit hospital work.
We also talk about how starting her career at a male-dominated advisory firm gave Lauren a better understanding of the importance of inclusivity and diversity for women advisors, how Lauren, immediately after having her first daughter, took a risk to leave the firm she outgrew and launch her own in order to pursue better leadership and ownership opportunities where she could have a much greater impact on change, and why Lauren believes learning to communicate and working on human connection as a financial advisor are equally as important as learning the technical skills in how to build a financial plan.
And be certain to listen to the end, where Lauren shares how she views the adversity she experienced in her career as learning opportunities and uses those moments as inspiration for her own future and for future generations in her firm, how building a team within her firm has helped Lauren feel more fulfilled by having more people around her that she can uplift and impact the lives of, and how, while Lauren is still striving to further improve the workplace that she has created, it’s looking back on how far you’ve come and how much you’ve achieved that really reflects the impact you’ve had on the world.
So whether you’re interested in learning about how Lauren integrates her “made for you” philosophy into her branding and marketing, how she simplified her fee structure to create scalability in problem-solving, and how Lauren fosters community and work/life balance with high demands on both sides, then we hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast, with Lauren Oschman.
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