Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Heather and Douglas Boneparth. Douglas Boneparth, is the founder of Bone Fide Wealth, a wealth management firm in New York City. Recognized as one of the nation's most influential financial advisors, Douglas serves on the advisory councils for CNBC and Investopedia. He has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and more. He is also a CFP Board Ambassador for New York. Douglas received his B.S. from the University of Florida and his M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern School of Business. When he’s not making jokes on the internet, he enjoys brewing coffee, though he can do both at the same time. Heather Boneparth is used to wearing many hats. On her first maternity leave, she co-authored the couple’s first book on helping millennials achieve financial freedom. Since then, she has become a rising voice at the intersection of love, money, and family. She has written for CNBC, theSkimm, Insider, Scary Mommy, and more. As a lawyer, she spent more than a decade in the insurance industry before joining the family business as Bone Fide Wealth’s director of business and legal affairs. She received her B.S. from the University of Florida and her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Heather and Douglas met in college and consider themselves Gators for life. They now live in New Jersey with their two daughters.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Jamie Hopkins. Jamie Hopkins is the chief wealth officer WSFS/Bryn Mawr Trust, and the CEO of Bryn Mawr Trust Advisors, and Best Selling Author of the book, Your Retirement Sketchbook. He covers retirement income and estate planning. Jamie is a Finance Professor of Practice at Creighton University Heider College of Business and President of FinServ Foundation. As a professor at the American College of Financial Services, Jamie helped co-create the Retirement Income Certified Professional Designation (RICP®). Jamie frequently writes articles dealing with retirement issues, such as long-term care, taxation of insurance benefits and estate planning. Jamie will be tackling the upcoming issues associated with tax reform and its impact on the estate planning challenges. associated with the potential expiration of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act at the end of 2025.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Dr. Joseph Moore. Joseph Moore, PhD is an author, historian, and investor living in Atlanta, GA whose writings have been published in outlets like The New York Times and Oxford University Press. He is formerly Associate Professor of History, Department Chair, and Special Assistant to the President at Gardner-Webb University, and now teaches at Kennesaw State University. His latest book, How to Get Rich in American History: 300 Years of Financial Advice That Worked (& Didn’t), is the first ever history of financial advice in America. It explores what everyday people were told to do with their money, how advice changed over time, and what history teaches for financial life today. In addition to researching the past, Moore experimented with history’s wildest financial strategies on himself, leading to hair-raising and often hilarious results, but also leading him to become financially independent in his mid 40s.

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Marla Sofer. Marla Sofer is a former financial advisor and financial services executive who spent two decades inside wealth & asset management firms including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and Invesco, leading product, experience, and growth initiatives. She saw that while advisors deeply care about their clients, the systems around them were never designed to scale human understanding. Most firms track assets, risk scores, and transactions. Very few systematically capture what clients actually value, fear, and aspire to. To solve that structural gap, Marla introduced the concept of a client-powered “financial identity,” and built Knomee as the infrastructure to operationalize it. Knomee enables wealth management organizations to transform behavioral intelligence into structured, consent-based data that advisors can use to deliver personalized, measurable financial wellness at scale. The mission is simple: make human understanding the foundation of modern wealth management.

This year on Standard Deviations, we are going to try something a little different. We will be running the episodes weekly now, there will be no guests, each episode will disappear a week after it publishes and we are really going to focus on meaning this season. In this episode, Dr. Daniel Crosby looks at the importance of storytelling. In particular, he illustrates how our internal narrative is integral to how we make sense of our lives and how we create meaning. In closing, Dr. Crosby shows us some exercises that can help us overcome detrimental self-speak and turn our self narrative into a force for personal growth. Educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities, Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist and behavioral finance expert who helps organizations understand the intersection of mind and markets. Dr. Crosby's first book, Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management, was a New York Times bestseller. His second book, The Laws of Wealth, was named the best investment book of 2017 by the Axiom Business Book Awards and has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and German. His latest work, The Behavioral Investor, is an in-depth look at how sociology, psychology and neurology all impact investment decision-making. Daniel was named one of the “12 Thinkers to Watch” by Monster.com, a “Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading” by AARP and a member of InvestmentNews prestigious "40 Under 40". When he is not consulting around market psychology, Daniel enjoys independent films, fanatically following St. Louis Cardinals baseball, and spending time with his wife and three children.