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What happens when an adviser is under pressure, tired, defensive, or emotionally charged?

In this episode of PROpulsion LIVE, Francois du Toit speaks with counsellor Chris Fischer about self-awareness, emotional responsibility, human behaviour, and the way we show up in business, leadership, client meetings, and life.

For financial advisers and business owners, technical skill matters. But the way you respond under pressure can shape trust, communication, team culture, client confidence, and the quality of your decisions.

We explore why self-awareness matters, whether emotions can be separated from business, the difference between blame and responsibility, and why people react the way they do when pressure rises.

We also look at how advisers can use these insights in client meetings, especially when clients are anxious, defensive, overwhelmed, or unsure.

This conversation is part of our 2026 theme: From Knowing to Doing. Many of us know that communication, trust, and relationships matter. The next step is learning how to notice our patterns and respond with more care, clarity, and responsibility.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why self-awareness matters in business and life
- What emotional responsibility looks like in practice
- Why people react under pressure
- How blame keeps people stuck
- How advisers can notice their own behaviour patterns
- How client emotions affect financial decisions
- How to become more present in difficult conversations

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What if the most important leadership role of your life is the one you were never trained for?

In this episode of PROpulsion LIVE, I sit down with Derek Notman and H. Adam Holt from REBL Dads for a conversation about fatherhood, ambition, leadership, loneliness, and what it takes to show up better at home.

This is not a formal interview. Derek, Adam, and I know each other well, and I was privileged to spend time with them on Necker Island as part of the REBL Dads journey. So this conversation feels more like friends sitting together and speaking openly about what many fathers carry in silence.

We talk about where REBL Dads started, why Derek and Adam felt the need to build a brotherhood for fathers, how Sir Richard Branson became part of the story, and the challenge he gave them: how are you going to help more dads?

That challenge led to the new book, REBL Dad: Responsible Entrepreneur Balanced Leader Dad, built from interviews with 103 fathers from around the world. The book includes more than 300 action items to help fathers move from knowing what matters to doing something about it.

In this conversation, we explore:

Where the REBL Dads idea started
The first Necker Island gathering
Sir Richard Branson’s challenge
The loneliness many successful fathers carry
Lessons from 103 fathers
The principles behind the book
Moving from knowing to doing
Where to get the book

REBL Dad is available on Kindle, with the physical book available from June.

Learn more and order the book:
https://rebldads.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZWW4FNB

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AI is changing the risk landscape for financial advisors, their clients, and their businesses. Scams are becoming more believable, impersonation is becoming easier, and client trust can be damaged in ways many advice firms may not be ready for.

In this episode of PROpulsion LIVE, I speak with Nevashan Pillay about AI, cybersecurity, client trust, and the future of financial advice.

Nevashan has more than 20 years of experience in financial services, insurance, digital change, operations, technology transformation, regulatory change, AI agent workflows, and cyber insurance product development. In this conversation, we focus on what financial advisors need to understand now as AI changes both the opportunity and the risk.

We discuss why cybersecurity is no longer only an IT topic. It is now a business issue, a client trust issue, and a professional relevance issue. Clients are already using AI tools. Criminals are using AI to make scams more convincing. Advice firms are starting to use AI in their daily work, often without clear rules around privacy, confidentiality, and governance.

This episode will help financial advisors think about how to use AI in a safer, more responsible way while protecting clients from new forms of digital risk.

We discuss:

How AI is changing cyber risk
Why scams and impersonation are becoming harder to spot
What advice firms should know before using AI tools
Why client data and confidentiality need greater care
How advisors can educate clients about AI-driven scams
Simple cyber habits every advice firm should build
Why the human advisor becomes more important, not less

This conversation is part of our 2026 theme: From Knowing to Doing.

The goal is not only to understand AI and cybersecurity. The goal is to take practical steps that protect clients, protect the practice, and strengthen the value of human advice.

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