# AI, NexGen, and the Future of Financial Planning: Key Insights from Inside FPA Annual Conference 2025

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Podcast: [The Blueprint: An FPA NexGen® Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-blueprint-an-fpa-nexgen-podcast-6984229)
Published: 2025-11-24T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.show/3746755/episode/150191697/
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## Resource

In this Blueprint | FPA NexGen episode hosts Mike Zarelli, EA, CFP® and Deshawn Peterson, CFP® bring you inside FPA Annual 2025 in Las Vegas to capture the voices shaping a profession that’s still young — and being built in real time. From students and career changers to firm owners, AI innovators, legacy-planning founders, and CFP Board leadership, this episode reveals what the next generation is learning, questioning, and creating as financial planning evolves. What You’ll Learn Why financial planning’s youth as a profession creates massive opportunity for NexGen advisors How students are choosing personal financial planning for its human impact Why career changers succeed — and how transferable skills translate into planning How the CFP® certification has become a client expectation What legacy planning truly includes beyond wills, trusts, and insurance How AI tools give advisors back 8–12 hours/week Why marketing platforms like Snappy Kraken accelerate early-career growth What firm owners are really hiring for (core values > résumé) How conferences compound your career through community and repeated exposure Why FPA’s new CEO says NexGen’s work is directly shaping the profession’s future Takeaways Financial planning is still young — which means NexGen has influence now, not later. Students and early-career advisors should lean into community as their accelerant. Career changers succeed when they align values, curiosity, and empathy with planning. The CFP® remains the gold standard: clients ask for it by name. Legacy planning requires organization, communication, and preparation — not just documents. AI is here to augment advisors, not replace them — especially when human connection stays central. Marketing is a business investment: growth, visibility, and valuation…

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