How Do You Grow by Doing Less?

A candid conversation with Anthony DePersio about eliminating complexity, creating capacity, and growing a stronger advisory business

Growth usually gets framed as an addition problem.

More clients. More staff. More services. More hours.

But for Anthony DePersio, some of the biggest changes in his business came from asking a different question:

What can I stop doing?

In this conversation, Carmine Corino sits down with Anthony to unpack how he reshaped his practice around the work that matters most, empowered his team to take real ownership, and became far more intentional about where his own time and attention belong.

The result wasn’t simply a lighter calendar. Over roughly two and a half years, Anthony grew AUM by approximately 245% while working five to six fewer hours per week and operating with fewer people.

This conversation gets into what changed behind those numbers, including the things Anthony deliberately eliminated, the mindset shifts that made delegation possible, and why he believes many advisors reach capacity long before they realize it.

In this replay, you’ll hear:

• Why growth sometimes requires eliminating work instead of adding more

• How Anthony decided which responsibilities should still belong to him

• The difference between delegating tasks and empowering a team to own outcomes

• How his service team took over areas of the client experience he once handled personally

• Why narrowing his focus to retirement clients created more clarity and capacity

• How Anthony uses trusted specialists instead of trying to personally be the expert in everything

• The role strategic calendaring and time blocking play in protecting his attention

• How his thinking about scarcity, control, and capacity changed as the business grew

• Why having more free time improved both his quality of life and the way he works

Anthony describes time as a currency. Once he began treating it that way, the goal wasn’t simply to fit more into his week. It was to become much more deliberate about what deserved to be there in the first place.

Watch the conversation for a practical look at what can happen when an advisor stops measuring growth by how much they can carry and starts deciding what they no longer need to carry at all.