Zebra Smash - Real Financial Planners | Real Conversations

Dr. Nathan Harness, Instructional Associate Professor and TD Ameritrade Director of Financial Planning at Texas A&M University, joins Roger and Ben to talk about the current state of academic financial planning programs.  You'll see from the get-go that Dr. Harness is a sharp cookie. And not only does he have an enviable CV (including another coveted 40 Under 40 spot), he sings a mean karaoke.  There's so much meat here that you'll hear us say multiple times that we could address a number of tangential topics in a future podcast. But we're living in the present. In the immortal words of Colonel Sanders in the historically accurate Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs, "We're at now now. Everything that's happening now is happening now." So what did we talk about? Among other things: Dr. Harness' journey into academia The benefits that thinking like a researcher can have on financial planners Teaching about comprehensive financial planning is complicated by the fact that there's no universally accepted definitio