When Hannah Moore graduated from Baylor University’s financial services program, she was quickly hired by an independent financial planner in Texas.

“I was working for a woman who, in one of our interviews, said that she was looking for a succession plan and asked me if I was interested – I had no idea what that meant,” says Moore, owner of Dallas-based Guiding Wealth Management. “It was incredibly overwhelming; it was hard being a new planner and focusing on planning while also running a business.”

Moore sought help from professional organizations in her early career, but now she’s the one doing the helping. She has been producing “You’re a Financial Planner, Now What?,” a series of podcasts aimed at providing support and inspiration for newly minted advisors, for more than a year. In September, the Financial Planning Association signed on to co-produce, market and co-brand Moore’s podcast.

The podcast traces its pedigree to Moore’s early search for mentorship and guidance as a young independent advisor.

“I started going to a seminar series at my local FPA chapter, and it felt like a lifeline,” she says. “For the first time I understood what financial planning really was and I saw the possibilities for us and our clients if we fully embraced planning.”

In 2013, the advisors running the Dallas-Fort Worth-based seminar series moved on, asking Moore to take over leadership of the event. She immediately sought to broadcast the seminars to a wider audience via the internet.

The seminar series has evolved into “You’re a Financial Planner, Now What?,” though Moore says that they’re still attended live and locally as well.

“I knew that my peers needed something like this, but it’s so hard to get into an in-person meeting in the evenings,” she says. “I love my career and the process of financial planning, and I love my business. This is a way of giving back, I hope that it helps financial planning and other young people to see how great this profession really is.”

Now, the podcast becomes part of the FPA’s ”NexGen” initiatives. The organization’s efforts to reach out to younger financial planners began in 2005 with the formation of the NexGen community, a network of newly minted advisors seeking fellowship and support from peers with similar career experiences.

In addition to her podcasts, Moore has played a direct role in growing and promoting the community of younger advisors, helping to establish a Dallas-Fort Worth branch of the FPA NexGen program and working to directly mentor young planners. She also served as facilitator for the 2017 NexGen gathering held this week at the FPA’s annual conference in Nashville.

Today, the NexGen community has grown to more than 2,000 members, and the FPA has started to work in concert with its leaders to develop tools and resources for advisors in the early stages of their careers.

Moore has already recorded and published more than 60 weekly 45-minute episodes of “You’re a Financial Planner, Now What?” with experts like David Yeske, Bill Winterberg, Elissa Buie, and rising young peers like Eric Roberge, Sophia Bera and Blair duQuesnay.

“We look for anyone who has information that can help planners,” says Moore. “Right now, we’re doing a lot on career path, and we’re finding people with interesting and unique career stories to show that there hasn’t been a single career path for financial planners to this point.”

The episodes cover topics that include personal experiences, like how practitioners entered the profession and became business owners, theoretical and academic knowledge, like the implications of behavioral finance and how advisors can incorporate new financial research in their practices, and practical advice, like what to do when leaving a firm or finding your practice’s niche.

For the FPA, Moore’s podcast presents a sound starting point to produce more content directed towards younger planners and to integrate that topic throughout its initiatives.

“Through our partnership with Hannah and FPA NexGen leaders, we will expand our outreach to a larger group of soon-to-be and new financial planners who will be better able to integrate with the vast amount of content and mentors available through the FPA eco-system,” said Lauren M. Schadle, FPA CEO and executive director, in a released comment. “The entire FPA team will work together to ensure that all of our communities are focused on the critical need to support the careers of the next generation of financial planners.”

The FPA says it will further expand its effort to support young advisors in the coming year.

Moore’s podcasts will be featured on OneFPA.org, but can also be found on www.FinancialPlannerPodcast.com, iTunes, Stitcher and other podcast players.