Episode 326: The Guru Gap: How America’s Financial Gurus Are Leading You Astray and How to Get Back on Track

Today’s episode is a podcast guest interview David McKnight did for Josh Jalinski’s The Financial Quarterback Podcast. David gives Josh’s audience a quick bio that spans from his early days in the financial services space in 1997 all the way to his latest book The Guru Gap. The premise of The Guru Gap is the difference between the 1990s when people had very few options to vet out financial planning advice and today, where they have plenty of ways to vet out. Nowadays, whenever David makes a financial recommendation, 90% of his clients take to the internet to vet that recommendation. In The Guru Gap, David focuses on financial gurus Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, Ken Fisher, Clark Howard, and Ramit Sethi – and their advice. Since financial gurus aim at taking important and complex financial principles and distilling them down into 10-second sound bites, they tend to give short shrift to a lot of details David’s clients would need to protect and grow their retirement savings. The #1 goal most...