Carl Richards Always Delivers

While your mail may be delayed, Carl Richards always brings it home.

As Matt shared above, Carl has a rare gift for connecting money and emotion through beautifully simple sketches and memorable stories. At our recent event, he walked us through several concepts that sparked intense, productive conversations. In Carl’s words, the sketches often serve as “conversation grenades”… in a good way. Translation: they jump-start meaningful dialogue and help people have clearer, more honest conversations about money and life.

On November 12, Matt Hall led a live conversation with Carl at the Racquet Club in St. Louis, exploring themes from Carl’s latest book, Your Money: Reimagining Wealth in 101 Simple Sketches.

If you were unable to attend the event in St. Louis, please email us here to request a complimentary, signed copy of Carl’s book, which each attendee received.

If you’re interested in a webinar or in-person event with Carl, email me at buddy@hillinvestmentgroup.com. We’ll do our best to arrange it.

The power of slowing down when everything around us says hurry.

I just finished Lonesome Dove (widely considered one of the greatest Westerns of all time). At 850 pages, it doesn’t move quickly, and that’s the point. You can’t rush it. You get pulled into the dust, the dialogue, the ache of it all.

Right after closing the book, I was on Mackinac Island. No cars, no horns. Just horse-drawn carriages, bikes, and time measured by the clop of hooves. Real horsepower! It’s one of the few places that forces a slowdown, and in that stillness, you actually start to notice things again – texture, tone, the weather moving through.

In investing, there’s no reliably fast way to get rich. We all know the parable of the tortoise and the hare, but modern life makes it so tempting to rush. The social media feed refreshes, the markets move, and it feels like we need to move too. It takes real discipline to slow down; to stick with something through the long, quiet stretches.

Fall feels like the right season to remember that. It’s a time of gratitude and reflection, of harvesting what we’ve grown, and of preparing the soil for what’s next.

Investing well isn’t about reacting to every market twitch. It’s about owning global capitalism, rebalancing patiently, and letting time compound the quiet and yet powerful work happening underneath the surface.

We’ve been at this long enough to see it firsthand. Our clients’ returns over the last 20 years, and more than 25 years if you go back to when we first started using this evidence-based approach, tell the story clearly. The discipline of staying invested, diversified, patient, and calm through every kind of market storm pays off.

In a world obsessed with speed, the slow things still win.

Take the long view.

Matt Hall traveled to New York this month to accept his national award – ThinkAdvisor Luminary Award for Thought Leadership. Matt was chosen from over 1,000 nominees. The recognition will be no surprise to our clients and those who know him well.

Matt has consistently taken creative and bold steps to push the industry forward (see Matt’s 2016 book Odds On and Take the Long View with Matt Hall podcast as examples). The ThinkAdvisor Luminary Awards shine a spotlight on individuals and firms who use their influence to better the entire advisory community. Matt won for Thought Leadership because he is uniquely committed to the disruptive message that patience and discipline are essential to long-term investment success (beyond data and evidence).

Why does this matter? Recognition for one of our leaders helps us spread the message, which helps us achieve our mission more widely. At the core, our work is about helping others navigate uncertainty to create freedom. Congratulations to Matt for his hard work and the spotlight of the industry!