Your Marketing Team

He and his team are influence and relationship accelerators. Everything they do is built around the power of podcasting and helping people who compete in the expertise economy to own their specific expertise, with their specific audience, and in their specific region. 

Kirk has been a thought leader in branding, content marketing and digital marketing for 20+ years. He generously shares his ideas and experiences through his podcast (Top Advisor Marketing Podcast), blog, papers, webinars, courses and has been published across the industry.

Matt respects how tough it is to be great and effective at marketing while running a practice, living a life, and loving a family. He teaches advisors how to be themselves, let their passions shine through and create strong brands that resonate with ideal prospects and centers of influence.

Matt’s first book “The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors” available on Amazon was a big hit. He’s been leading the social wave in financial services for years – teaching top advisors how to be human in an oftentimes inhuman industry. His second book “99 best ideas”, was an Amazon bestseller and is filled with marketing ideas.

In his list of accomplishments, Matt has served in the Navy, is a trained therapist, been a radio host, and worked as a financial professional too. Matt’s breadth of hands on experience positions him superbly to help financial professionals build the marketing side of their practices.  He’s been there, done that and has the T-Shirt.

Matt is married with two twin teenage boys. They are avid swimmers. Oh, and Matt’s dogs are a big ole St. Bernard and a rescue pitbull mix named Luke (after the Jedi).

Her love for stories evolved through her schooling and carreer to journalism. Jessica is in good company at Top Advisor Marketing– a marketing team with storytelling in its DNA.

Jessica helps financial advisors engage with their online audience in meaningful and genuine ways. She believes that when financial advisors tell stories about their brands, their audience can connect with them on a human level. Only then can financial advisors use social media to its utmost potential: to build and strengthen relationships.

Jessica has a Masters of Journalism and Communications degree. She is a fan of dogs, weightlifting, libraries and chocolate cake.

Julia is a lover of all things writing. With a passion for helping others and a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communications, Julia is devoted to using her skill set to help people from all walks of life tell their stories.

Julia is also a strong believer in lifelong learning, and enjoys conducting extensive research to maximize the impact and effectiveness of her work.

At Top Advisor, Julia is now bringing her writing to the social media landscape, where she’s helping advisors tell their stories and connect with those who matter most online.

When she’s not in the office, Julia loves to read anything and everything, spend too much time keeping up with pop culture, and keeps active by running and swimming.

Now that Jen is an empty nester, she plans to spend her off-duty time traveling through Ontario with her husband to watch their daughter play soccer at the university level. Jen also enjoys camping with her family (well, it’s more like “glamping” but she still gets mosquito bites and cooks over an open flame, so it counts!).

Aric is extremely passionate about helping others find success and fulfilment in all they do. He has been coaching and mentoring for over 20 years and finds his greatest fulfillment when helping others achieve more. Aric started his own coaching and consulting company in 2015, a second company focused on teaching BRI to advisors and has also joined our team as one of our podcast voice talents.

Aric knows how difficult it can be for any business owner to have their voice heard above the rest of the voices clients and prospects hear in their daily lives. He helps our clients find their voice and bring their personality and passion to their audience.

Aric and his wife Candi have helped raise 68 at risk youth as well as having two children of their own. Aric and Candi have two grandchildren and they, along with his VERY large dog, to keep him busy.

Born in Santiago, Chile, with a strong Indian background, Disha speaks Spanish and English and knows two other Indian languages. She has completed several internships in the journalism and communication industry in Canada and Chile.

She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, travelling, and exploring new places. In her free time, you will find her catching sunsets, writing, watching movies/shows, listening to music, and going shopping.

Starting out in retail, she has seen it all and then some. She believes in working hard to get where you want to go. Always eager to learn something new, she is currently bilingual but wanting to expand her knowledge.

At the end of the day, Emily likes to curl up with a cup of white hot chocolate and a good book to settle in for the night.

Matt brings a variety of skills to Top Advisor Marketing and the podcast production team. Independently, Matt works as a producer, composer, and musician in southern and eastern Ontario. He has worked with independent artists across a wide variety of genres, including Pop, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock, Folk, and plenty more. Matt has also worked with a handful of businesses, composing and producing background music for ads and ad campaigns. In 2017 and 2018, he worked with Roots Canada and developed compositions for two of their seasonal ad campaigns.

Matt has worn plenty of other hats in the music industry as well, working for organizations like RX Music, The Vault Kingston, and The Grad Club. Some positions Matt has held with these groups and others include Music Journalist, Music Consultant, Live Audio Engineer, Concert & Festival MC, Radio DJ, Event Coordinator, Head of Event Marketing, and much more.

Prior to working with Top Advisor Marketing, Matt finished wrapping up a contract with one of Canada’s oldest radio stations, the CFRC, in Kingston, Ontario. Here, he produced, hosted, edited, mixed, and promoted two full programs for broadcast, and podcasting. The two shows, “Brought Back Home YGK” and “Timeline Rewind”, focused on local music and arts in Kingston, detailing the past and present wealth of talent found in Kingston’s arts scene, including some live music sessions as well from local musicians.

When Matt isn’t listening to music and working with audio, he enjoys playing soccer, basketball, and a variety of video games with friends.

Rebecca is a recent marketing graduate. She has 4+ years of customer service experience demonstrating dependability and motivation. Rebecca is driven to let her creativity and determination thrive in this fast-growing industry of marketing. Specifically, she likes to focus on social media marketing and website design. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, attending live concerts, traveling, taking photographs, and baking treats. Rebecca believes that nothing ever comes easy without hard work and commitment.

Jay is in his 3rd year of the B-Comm. program at Ontario Tech University, pursuing a double major in Finance and Marketing. Jay plans on continuing his studies and earning his CFA designation.  In the long term, Jay wants to become an entrepreneur and start a business of his own.

Jay enjoys spending time with friends, going to the gym, binging on Netflix, listening to music, and watching and playing cricket.