Tag: life

The Bridge: Who you are on the other side

Where you are now (Before the Bridge) People arrive at the bridge carrying some combination of: exhaustion from systems that take more than they give a sense of having been used, overlooked, or misled skills and experience that no longer fit the roles available a quiet knowing that this chapter is over They often describe … Continue reading The Bridge: Who you are on the other side →

Inside the Slaughterhouse: What Structural Untrustworthiness Feels Like

Structural untrustworthiness is not built from villains.It’s built from fear, ambition, and obedience — woven into a system that rewards the wrong instincts and punishes the right ones. Within such a structure, people don’t set out to destroy lives.They drift into doing so, one rationalisation at a time. 🩸 The Anatomy of Structural Untrustworthiness 1. … Continue reading Inside the Slaughterhouse: What Structural Untrustworthiness Feels Like →

From Victim Silence to Structural Trust: A Message to Financial Planners

I’m often told my framing of financial planners as either exploiting or empowering is too binary — and I understand why that can offend. It’s not meant to. If you’ve ever felt accused by my words, please know this: my frustration isn’t directed at you. It’s born from the voices I hear daily — people … Continue reading From Victim Silence to Structural Trust: A Message to Financial Planners →

🌿 From Decision Trees to Living Choices

How Life Planners Transform Analysis into Awareness When faced with life’s most important decisions, people don’t struggle because they lack information — they struggle because they are torn between head and heart. In Mhairi’s Dilemma (Mullin et al., 2008), a ten-year-old girl faced an impossible choice: whether to attend the funeral of her beloved priest. … Continue reading 🌿 From Decision Trees to Living Choices →

🎓 When the System Shuts You Out, Build Your Own Path

Why graduates need a GAME Plan for life beyond rejection It’s the question every graduate dreads: “What’s next?”For too many today, the answer is bleak. Rejections from AI-driven recruitment systems, unpaid internships, demoralising trips to the Jobcentre, and—inevitably—signing on for Universal Credit. Recent reports highlight a shocking reality: over 630,000 graduates are now claiming Universal … Continue reading 🎓 When the System Shuts You Out, Build Your Own Path →

🕵️‍♂️ Redemption or Reputation Laundering?

The Curious Case of Alexander Wood, ‘Reformed Fraudster’ "I stole £1.2m in 40 minutes, then blew it all in Harrods."That’s the chilling headline from a recent article in The Sunday Times, profiling Alexander Wood—a man who claims to have swindled over £50 million through authorised push payment (APP) scams before reinventing himself as an anti-fraud … Continue reading 🕵️‍♂️ Redemption or Reputation Laundering? →

🎯 Rebuilding Trust After Financial Exploitation – From the Inside Out

“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” – Swedish Proverb For over a decade, I’ve stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the Transparency Task Force in the fight for a financial system people can trust. Before that, I was deep inside the system itself—Head of Investments at HSBC and … Continue reading 🎯 Rebuilding Trust After Financial Exploitation – From the Inside Out →