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263 - Building a Firm That Outlives You - Erik Brenner on Leadership Through Integration

Erik Brenner doesn’t lead from theory. He leads from structure.

As President and CEO of Hilltop Wealth & Tax Solutions, Erik built a firm that integrates advanced tax strategy with wealth management. He saw what others missed: reactive advice was failing clients. CPAs focused on last year. Advisors focused on investments. No one owned the full picture.

So he changed it.

Erik shares how a defining client case exposed the cost of disconnected advice. Required minimum distributions were set to create a future tax crisis. The CPA didn’t see it. Erik did. That moment led him to build an in-house…

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