{"podcast":{"title":"the Learn-It-All™ podcast","slug":"the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797","podcast_index_feed_id":6700797,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-learn-it-all-podcast/","website_url":"https://www.learnit.com/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f891943b-30b9-49b8-84c5-7345d93f0a26/updated-THE-LEARN-IT-ALL-PODCAST-LOGO.png","author":"Damon Lembi","episode_count":319,"summary":"The Learn-It-All™ podcast is built on the conviction that the leaders worth following aren't the ones with all the answers. They're the ones who never stop learning. If you've chosen growth over coasting, and curiosity over the comfort of being the smartest person in the room, you're a learn-it-all. And this podcast is for you. Host Damon Lembi is a 3x bestselling author, CEO of Learnit, and someone who has spent 30 years watching what separates leaders who keep growing from those who quietly become the ceiling that limits everyone around them. Each episode features real conversations with top executives, founders, NYT bestselling authors, and world-class athletes — people who've faced adversity, made costly mistakes, and done the hard, unglamorous work of growing. They share what they learned — and unlearned — to lead at the next level. Great leaders aren't born or made. They're always in the making. Let's not do that work alone. Stay curious. Keep learning. Subscribe to the Learn-It-All Podcast on your favorite platform to never miss an episode.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T14:17:03.856720+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797"},"episode":{"title":"288. How to Get the Most Out of Your Financial Advisor (Most People Don’t) | CJ Davidson","slug":"288-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-financial-advisor-most-people-don-t-cj-davidson","published_at":"2026-04-07T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797/288-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-financial-advisor-most-people-don-t-cj-davidson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797","url":"https://www.learnit.com/podcast","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/164cd14a-c275-4ec0-aab9-d1a3520da28f.mp3","summary":"What happens when you’re good enough to get in the room — and then don’t like what you see? CJ Davidson spent years grinding his way up in traditional financial services. Cold-calling attorneys from a $5 street tie. Earning trust one client at a time. Building something real. And then, when he finally got a seat in the leadership meetings, he realized the client wasn’t even in the conversation. That moment didn’t break him. It built Proxy Financial. In this episode of The Learn-It-All Podcast, Damon sits down with CJ — Founder and CEO of Proxy Financial — to talk about what it actually takes to build a culture where doing the right thing when no one is looking isn’t a policy. It’s the whole point. This one goes well beyond financial advice. It’s about curiosity over compliance, art over script, and what happens when you stop asking permission to do things that just make sense. In This Episode, You’ll Learn Why CJ got pushback for buying his clients cocktails — and how that moment revealed everything wrong with the system he was in The difference between a financial professional who’s technically sharp and one who’s actually right for you Why you don’t need a lot of money to benefit from a great advisor — you need a goal you’re not confident executing alone How CJ thinks about AI: not as a threat, but as the thing that finally frees advisors to do the human work that actually builds trust Why he tells aspiring financial professionals to major in psychology and minor in finance What “doing the right thing when no one is looking” looks like inside a company built around it Chapters 00:00 Episode preview and introduction 00:54 What CJ Davidson saw inside traditional financial services 03:48 The “art and science” of financial advice 05:14 The client mixer idea that challeng…","meta_description":"What happens when you’re good enough to get in the room — and then don’t like what you see? CJ Davidson spent years grinding his way up in traditional fin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2145,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797/episodes/288-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-financial-advisor-most-people-don-t-cj-davidson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-learn-it-all-podcast-6700797/288-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-financial-advisor-most-people-don-t-cj-davidson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}