Jesus is on a mission. He is on a grand adventure to redeem and restore human lives to His Father’s Kingdom. And He invites you to join Him. On the ”Joining Jesus” podcast, we will unpack simple, biblical, practical ways you can join Jesus in the places you already live, work, and play. It’s simpler than you think and a lot more fun! If you have questions or comments, please contact Greg Finke at finkeonthemove@gmail.com.
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The Standard Deviations podcast is a weekly production that looks at money, mind and meaning, all through a psychological lens. Each week, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Crosby interviews a fascinating new guest, experts in everything from finance to literature to wellness. Each guest provides listeners with three concrete ways to apply what was learned that week, ensuring that weekly listening becomes part of a path to a richer life. Episodes are brief, resear ...
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Over time, neighboring allows us to answer key missional questions about the people God has put around us: Who are these people, what is Jesus already up to in their lives, how can I join Him?Av Greg Finke
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The 5 Practices are effective at positioning us to enjoy people and to seek, recognize, and respond to what Jesus is already doing redemptively in their lives.Av Greg Finke
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The missional practice of doing good is the result of God preparing us and us responding. What good can we do around here? How can we help make the kingdom and grace of God a little more real to people nearby?Av Greg Finke
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The practice of talking with people happens in many ways. However, all of them boil down to this: Jesus can do more with two people who are talking with each other than he can with two people who are successfully ignoring each other. So, what kind of conversations are you having with people around you.?…
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Emotions and Money: If You Can’t Beat It, Join It
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Tune in to hear: What elements do “tulip mania,” the roaring twenties and the .com bubble share and what should be our biggest takeaway from these historic market events? What is the "affect heuristic" and how should we be thinking about it in relation to our investment decision making? How do the emotional states of euphoria and despair effect our…
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Michael Finke - The Behavioral Science Behind Your Retirement
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Tune in to hear: From Michael’s vantage point, what did he observe during this recent market downturn? How can those nearing retirement overcome the tendency to have knee jerk responses to major negative market events? How can we better inoculate people against volatility before it happens? During a significant financial downturn is it more effecti…
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The practice of hearing from Jesus in the Gospels is all about being able to better recognize and respond to what Jesus is telling and showing us on our daily mission in everyday life. What has he been teaching you in his Word lately?Av Greg Finke
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The practice of seeking the Kingdom is simply forming the habit of watching for what God is showing us every day in the midst of our daily routines. How have you seen God at work in your life this week?Av Greg Finke
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Episode 11 Getting into Position Every Day
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Are you ready to move beyond an occasional mission program and become as everyday missionary? Then let's get in position with the 5 practices.Av Greg Finke
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Jesus is already doing everything necessary to make our participation in his mission simple. All we have to do is reorient our minds to his good news and keep asking Jesus two questions: What are you up to? And how would you have me join you?Av Greg Finke
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Episode 9 What Does the Kingdom of God Look Like?
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If we see a need in a human being, we can recognize that the Kingdom of God is nearby and active. That is what Jesus invites us to look for, recognize, and respond to.Av Greg Finke
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Greg Davies - The Way Forward for Behavioral Finance
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Tune in to hear: Relative to all the other behavioral experts out there, what stands out about Greg and his work? How did he arrive at this unique point of emphasis? How has Behavioral Finance come full circle in recent years? What have been the biggest shifts in Behavioral Finance in the past decade? Also, how does he anticipate it might change in…
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Megan Gorman - All the Presidents’ Money
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Tune in to hear: What was Megan’s favorite finding in the deep research she did for this book? Learn about Truman’s financial anxiety and how this impacted him. Why is it harder to pivot and recover from financial pitfalls than it used to be? What advice did Calvin Coolidge get from his stock broker? How did George Washington make his money and wha…
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Tune in to hear: Did Cady’s recent book, The Art of the Sabbatical, come from a place that was very personal and meaningful to Cady? If so, what was it that made this project so personal for her? In Cady’s experience, are many of those hoping to take a sabbatical doing so to just take a break from work or are they in search of a deeper, transformat…
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The kingdom of God is God himself and came in the created world through Jesus. When Jesus arrived here, he unleased he promised season of world redemption. It is happening now. Wherever God is redemptively present and active his kingdom is at work. We can seek it, recognize it, and join with it.Av Greg Finke
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Episode 7 Seeking What's Already Happening
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How do we seek, recognize, and respond to what Jesus is already doing in the lives of the people we are enjoying? We start by paying attention to what he is already showing us. He says, "Open your eyes and look," for a reason.Av Greg Finke
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Episode 6 An Inefficiently Effective Strategy
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It really is this simple. Jesus' secret weapon for accomplishing his redemptive mission was hanging out with sinners and enjoying them in his Father's grace. It was inefficiently effective. We can question this strategy, but Jesus would have us imitate it.Av Greg Finke
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Jesus has made our participation in his redemptive mission simple. Let's keep it that way. We make it hard when we try to do the work of Jesus rather than what he gave us to do.Av Greg Finke
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Stop Stalling. You will learn more about being a missionary by doing something missional than you will be reading something missional. It's not what you know, but what you do with what you know that makes a difference in people's lives.Av Greg Finke
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Emily Blue - Humanizing the M&A Process
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Tune in to hear: What is the disconnect between selling an advisory business, as it is popularly conceived, and as it usually goes down in the real world? What should people know about the process that they may not currently understand? What are the big things that are missing from the “highlight reel” version of selling a business and how can peop…
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Dr. Charles Eckhart - Family Wealth Dynamics
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Tune in to hear: What got Dr. Eckhart into Psychology in the first place, and how did he end up moving into family wealth consulting? What are some of the significant differences in family dynamics among upper middle class families and ultra high net worth families? What does Dr. Eckart mean, exactly, when he refers to family mythology and how migh…
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Clare Flynn Levy - Good Behavior, Good Returns?
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Tune in to hear: What does Clare and her team at Essentia Analytics focus on specifically? How can one score the decision making skill involved in stock picking when so much is relative to timing? How does Essentia Analytics score all 7 data points they lay out on their website? One of the trick things about behavioral investing is you can get a go…
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It's hard to take, but it is what it is. The river has moved. You are a missionary to your own community. It's time to trust Jesus and join him in building the next span of bridge to our current U. S. culture. In this episode, Greg & Craig will share some insights on this concept.Av Greg Finke
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Tim Holland - The Election and Your Money
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Tune in to hear: How should we think about the “presidential election cycle pattern” as a forecasting tool? Does it have much merit and how is it playing out so far in 2024? How should we think about time effects in an election year? Also, what is the trend for election year market performance like as you move through the year? What would Tim tell …
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Jesus is on a mission, and he invites you to join him. He does not give you a mission to do for him. He is on a mission and invites you to come with him. Now, let's turn our attention to this mission field we call the United States of America.Av Greg Finke
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How is Jesus messing with you? What is he up to? What is he inviting you to notice, believe, or wrestle with? What is he inviting you to do? Let's go find out in this episode of Joining Jesus on His Mission.Av Greg Finke
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Introduction to Joining Jesus on His Mission
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Meet author of the book "Joining Jesus on His Mission", Greg Finke, and hear how he was led to write this practical guide for all of us to walk with Jesus on His mission.Av Greg Finke
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Matt Ackermann - Center Stage: What Music Can Teach Advisors About Practice Management
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Tune in to hear: What can Elton John’s stage name teach advisors about how to make and set goals? What can Weezer teach advisors about workflows? What is the DICE acronym that can help advisors create a process around their practice? How can advisors find a partner best suited for their practice and how can this power growth? Also, how should advis…
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Phil Bray - Effective Marketing in a Noisy World
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Tune in to hear: How did Phil pivot from a financial advisor position to roles focused on marketing? Why is a clearly established marketing strategy so critical as a starting point and what does this look like, practically? How important is it to have an affinity for, or direct tie with, the niche client group you may serve (e.g. first responders o…
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Andy Baxley - The Power of Financial Purpose
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Tune in to hear: Why do humans seem to have such limited access to understanding what they want, from a financial perspective? Andy believes that the ethos of financial planning is the marriage of capital and purpose. What, specifically, does he mean by this and why does he think it is so critical? Should we try to expand our clients’ notion of cap…
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Nuala Wash - Ten Steps to Better Decision Making
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Tune in to hear: What drove Nuala to write her new book, Tune In: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World ? In her book, Nuala talks about four factors that amplify the risk of noise, obscuring our ability to arrive at the truth. What are these factors and why are they so important? How do we overcome the very entrenched obstacles we face wh…
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Shawn Sparks - The Advisor Transformation
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Tune in to hear: What was the message that Shawn felt compelled to get out there in his upcoming book, The Advisor Transformation? What distinction does Shawn draw between success and significance? How does Shawn bring vision into his work at Triad in a way that better synthesizes work and life? What is Martin Seligman’s PERMA Model and what can we…
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Robert Sofia - A Comprehensive Guide to Financial Advisor Marketing
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Tune in to hear: How should advisors go about optimizing SEO for their practice and why is it so critical? Why do advisors who offer texting as a communication option get 400% more opt-ins? Why is email so powerful and how can advisors build out a list that will serve them well? Emails with video content really outperform, but many people are hesit…
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Jason Pereira - The Future of AI in Wealth Management
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Tune in to hear: What are the 3 primary types, or thresholds, of AI and where are we headed next in this burgeoning field? What is "general purpose AI" and how does it differ from models like ChatGPT? What about "artificial super intelligence?" Why is the developing world, on average, more optimistic about AI than the developed world? Will our pess…
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Tune in to hear: Why is it that we hate uncertainty even more than bad news? How does our dread of uncertainty impact our decision making process? If a client comes in agitated vs. paralyzed, does the means by which we resolve this uncertainty look different from reaction to reaction or do they share a common solution? Is normalization part of regu…
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Dr. Randall Stutman - A Behavioral Approach to Leadership
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Tune in to hear: Why does Dr. Stutman use a behavioral, rather than a psychological, approach to leadership? What are the differences between these two approaches? What are some of the common qualities shared by many of the world’s best leaders? Also, were any of these particularly surprising or unexpected? What role does admiration play in effecti…
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Jane Adshead Grant - Becoming a Better Listener
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Tune in to hear: What life experiences put Jane on a path to become a listening coach? What is generative listening and how does it differ from other forms of listening? In what ways did becoming familiar with generative listening transform Jane’s life? What does Jane mean when she says “listening to ignite thinking in others?” What role does empat…
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Tune in to hear: What makes women so uniquely good as behavioral investors? Why have many thought of women as particularly risk averse for so many years and what systems, on the trading floor and elsewhere, have perpetuated this misconception? Some book recommendations on women in investing and its history. Examples of how insidious the bias agains…
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Dr. Thomas Mathar - Financial Wellness vs. Financial Independence
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Tune in to hear: How might financial planning conversations need to change in light of the new longevity many will experience? How will the “100 year life” affect the 3 life stages (education, work and retirement) that used to be more clearly delineated? How might we be able to give more salience and power to our mental image of a future self? What…
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Tune in to hear: What did Philip’s research on the drivers of financial advice seeking uncover? Additionally, what might stand in the way of clients taking advice? What can the industry do to reduce economic barriers to entry for getting advice? What about reducing emotional barriers to entry for getting advice? What mistakes do advisors make when …
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Dr. Derek Griner - Compassion: Empathy in Action
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Tune in to hear: What lead Dr. Griner to focus his work and research around compassion specifically? When clinicians like Dr. Griner talk about compassion, what are they talking about exactly and how might this differ from the popular conception of compassion? How do we balance our desire to want to end someone’s suffering without falling into the …
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Not Being Dumb Beats Being Brilliant
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Tune in to hear: What is the “Dumb Ways to Die” music video and why was it originally created? Was the above an effective behavioral intervention or did it fall short? Why is buy-in for employer sponsored retirement savings plans so low and what might be done to remedy this? Why might marketing campaigns with behavioral interventions outperform mor…
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Not Caring What Others Think is a Valuable Asset (from The Soul of Wealth)
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Tune in to hear: What were some of Nikola Tesla’s eccentricities? What is “The Spotlight Effect” that Morgan Housel observed when working as a valet at a high-end hotel in Los Angeles? What is Morgan Housel’s “Man in the Car Paradox” and what lessons can be learned from it? What is the psychological principle “The Anchoring Effect?” Why does ego dr…
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Money Isn’t About the Numbers (from the Soul of Wealth)
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Tune in to hear: What strategy did Alexander the Great use to overtake Tyre in 332 BC? Why did this military victory leave Alexander feeling more grief stricken than triumphant in the end? Why did Hephaestion’s death mark a turning point for the Macedonian Empire? What are “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying?” What makes up Martin Seligman’s “PERMA”…
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - Giving is the Path to Abundance (from the Soul of Wealth)
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Tune in to hear: What common ground, if any, can be found across nearly all spiritual and religious traditions on the globe? What does academic research have to say about the benefits that accrue to those who are generous? Why doesn’t spending money on ourselves bring about long-lasting joy and what role does the “hedonic treadmill” play in this? W…
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Jon Dauphine - The Case for Pro Bono Financial Planning
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Tune in to hear: - With all of the possibilities out there, why has Jon landed on his current path and why does he think that pro bono work is so vital? - Jon’s organization just completed a very comprehensive study on pro bono financial planning. Were there any results that really stood out or surprised him? - What did Jon’s research unearth about…
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Richard Shotton - The Illusion of Choice
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Tune in to hear: - If so much of what accounts for our behavior is habitual, what hope do we have and how can we change that as we look to the New Year? - Why do such small bits of friction have an outsized influence on our behavior? - Does publicly stating your goals have any drawbacks or does it help you stay accountable? - What is the rhyme-as-r…
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Stacy Havener - The Scientist and the Storyteller Miniseries (Pt. 4)
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Tune in to hear: - Why do overly linear, or bullet-pointy, stories tend to fall short? What are the risks of making your backstory too similar to a resume? - What is the psychological principle “peak-end rule” and how can it be applied to better your backstory? - Why is knowing your audience such an important part of effective storytelling? - Why “…
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Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Future of Everything is Human-First
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Tune in to hear: - Why will AI, automation and algorithms likely lead to an increase in human centered connection in the financial services industry and beyond? - What is one of Thomas Hobbes’ most famous remarks and how do people take it out of context? - Why loneliness has far reaching implications for longevity that exceed even obesity. - How di…
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Anthony Damtsis - Growing Your Wealth Confidence
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Tune in to hear: - Why do only 13% of American millionaires describe themselves as wealthy? Why don’t we recognize our abundance for what it is? - What is wealth confidence and what are its broader implications within portfolio management? - Wealth confidence is definitely somewhat correlated with portfolio performance, but why is net worth alone n…
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