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Ep 471: Growing To $475M In 7 Years While Making Yourself Dispensable Enough To Take A Personal Sabbatical with Dennis Morton
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:30:02
Publish Date: 2026-01-06 12:00:00
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Building a firm that can thrive without its founders being constantly "on" requires far more than revenue growth. It takes intentional infrastructure, deep team trust, and long-term thinking. This episode explores how designing a business that doesn't depend on any single individual can create both freedom for the founders and stability for clients.

Dennis Morton is the co-founder of Morton Brown Family Wealth, an RIA based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, overseeing $475 million in AUM for 275 households. Listen in as Dennis shares how his firm built the systems and team structure needed to allow both founders to take five-week sabbaticals without disrupting client service or slowing growth. We also discuss how socializing clients with the full advisory team strengthens their relationship with the firm as a whole, how strategic outsourcing and in-house specialization support scalability, and how hiring a dedicated marketing leader amplified his firm's brand visibility and lead flow.

For show notes and more visit: https://www.kitces.com/471
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