Office Hours with Kuldeep Madan
Welcome to Office Hours.🎙️
Hosted by Kuldeep Madan, Founder + CEO of Madan+, Office Hours is a dedicated space created by financial advisors, for financial advisors.
Join Kuldeep as he sits down with the sharpest, most interesting people he knows – advisors, leaders, and builders – who’ve done the work, made mistakes, and gained invaluable insights along the way.
Think of it as sitting across from a professor who actually has time for you. The kind who remembers your name, pushes back on your thinking, and stays an hour past the designated time block.
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Latest episodes
Rick Hu on Fee-Based Planning, Business-Owner Mindset & Building Midas Wealth
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91m
55s
Rick Hu is known as "The Titan," a top 1% producer and founder/CEO of Midas Wealth. On this episode of Office Hours, he sits down with Kuldeep Madan to talk fee-based planning, the business-owner mindset every advisor needs, and why he walked away from the #1 practice in the country to start over.
From food stamps and Medicaid in Brooklyn to Northwestern Mutual's youngest-ever managing director at 25 and back-to-back Forbes recognition, Rick's story is equal parts deeply personal and intensely practical. He opens up about the immigrant childhood that shaped him, buying his father's dream car, the moment his...
Buses, Beginnings, and the Brains of Michael Book
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88m
56s
On this episode of Office Hours, Kuldeep Madan sits down with Michael Book, founding partner of Lenox Advisors, a 35-year industry veteran, a member of the Finseca Hall of Fame for leadership and mentorship, and a new grandfather. The two trace how they met, a chance encounter when their Jeeps got stuck in the Dubai desert, before Michael walks through his whole arc: a sports-obsessed Long Island and New Jersey childhood, a college career he admits was more fun than academic, three and a half years selling for his dad's plastics company, and the cousin's tip that pulled him into...
Bracelets, Backgammon, and the Bets of Gershon Distenfeld
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68m
8s
On this episode of Office Hours, Kuldeep Madan sits down with Gershon Distenfeld — outgoing Co-Head of Fixed Income at AllianceBernstein, a regular on Bloomberg TV and CNBC, and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner who gave the winnings to charity. They open with the origin story: how a "difficult" client relationship with Vince D'Addona turned Gershon into one of Kuldeep's clients, and the running joke that came out of it. From there, Gershon traces the path from a modern Orthodox childhood in Teaneck, New Jersey, through a Y2K-era start at Alliance Bernstein to three decades running fixed income....