# When Clients Would Rather Feel More Financially Successful Than Take Action To BE More Successful: Kitces & Carl Ep 193 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193.md Podcast: [Kitces and Carl - Real Talk for Real Financial Advisors](https://stenobird.com/podcast/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553) Published: 2026-06-25T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://kitcesandcarl.libsyn.com/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193 Audio file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kitcesandcarl/KCP193.mp3?dest-id=1362281 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553/episodes/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193 Duration seconds: 1976 ## Resource In the 193rd episode of Kitces and Carl , Michael Kitces and client communication expert Carl Richards discuss the challenge of motivating clients to take difficult but necessary action toward their goals. For full show notes, see kitces.com and thesocietyofadvice.com . ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553/episodes/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/kitces-and-carl-real-talk-for-real-financial-advisors-87553/when-clients-would-rather-feel-more-financially-successful-than-take-action-to-be-more-successful-kitces-carl-ep-193.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.