Getting Burned Out From Doing it All Herself: Pam Hopman

<p>Financial advisor and CEO of The Hopman Group</p> <p>Show notes:<a href=" https://www.markgraban.com/mistake47"> </a><a href="https://www.markgraban.com/mistake46">https://www.markgraban.com/mistake46</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #46 is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-hopman-crpc-97b0a316/">Pam Hopman</a>, founder of <a href="https://thehopmangroup.com/the-hopman-group/">The Hopman Group</a>, a financial advisory firm based in Tucson. Pam has over 20 years of experience working as a financial advisor, with comprehensive knowledge of strategies for retirement income planning, wealth preservation, and estate planning.&nbsp;She holds the designation of Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor from the College of Financial Planning.</p> <p>Pam is the host of the <a href="https://thehopmangroup.com/radio-show/">Empower U Podcast</a> and she recently launched her financial mastermind group called The Money Thing (formerly called Conversations Over Wine and Chocolate).</p> <p>In today's episode, Pam talks about how she owned a practice with multiple offices, but got burned out — she was trying to do it all. She sold the practice and took a marketing job. This turned out to be a mistake, as the first year was great, but the second year was a “nightmare.” Learn how Pam wishes she had been coached through the challenges with that first practice and how having a coach has helped her prevent repeating mistakes in her new practice.</p> <p>We also talk about financial planning mistakes and we learn we have a shared belief in the power of “baby steps” (<a href="https://www.leanblog.org/2012/07/podcast-153-robert-maurer-phd-the-kaizen-way/">hear Mark's podcast with psychologist Robert Maurer on that</a>).</p> <p><a href="https://www.markgraban.com/contests/">Enter to win books and other items produced by other “My Favorite Mistake” guests.</a></p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support</a>