AI, Adviser Survival, and the Missing Step Nobody Is Showing

There’s a lot of talk right now about advisers facing an “AI disruption event”. The language is dramatic.Meteorites. Dinosaurs. Extinction. And while the risk is real, the framing is often wrong. What I’m seeing on the ground isn’t complacency or incapability. It’s something far more human. Advisers Aren’t Failing — They’re Overloaded Most advisers I … Continue reading AI, Adviser Survival, and the Missing Step Nobody Is Showing →

When You’re Desperate for Answers, the Rabbit Hole Can Look Like Rescue

A Get SAFE guide for people under financial threat If you are facing enforcement, eviction, debt, or court action, your nervous system is not in “research mode”. It is in survival mode. Your brain is scanning for certainty, control, and a way to make the threat stop. That is not weakness. That is biology. And … Continue reading When You’re Desperate for Answers, the Rabbit Hole Can Look Like Rescue →

An Invitation to Experience the GAME Plan

Why AI GAME Plan v3.5 Is Being Shared Freely with the Academy Community For a long time, I’ve tried to explain the GAME Plan. I’ve explained the framework.I’ve explained the methodology.I’ve explained how it differs from traditional financial planning. And yet, something kept nagging at me. Because the truth is this: The GAME Plan can’t … Continue reading An Invitation to Experience the GAME Plan →

Why the System Tries to Erase Victims — and Why Get SAFE Exists to Keep Them Alive Long Enough to Turn the Tables

There is a pattern that almost no one names, but every long-term victim of financial wrongdoing eventually feels in their bones. When an institution knows it has caused serious harm — and knows that fully acknowledging it would expose regulatory failure, legal liability, or reputational collapse — it does not rush to correct the wrong. … Continue reading Why the System Tries to Erase Victims — and Why Get SAFE Exists to Keep Them Alive Long Enough to Turn the Tables →

PMC Member Showcase

Geoff Dyckes RLP®, GAME Plan AccreditedLife-Centred Financial Planner Peer Practice Sharing — Learn What’s Really Working Most advisers don’t need more theory.They need to see how real people are actually building real practices — in the messy middle. That’s exactly what the Practice Management Circle (PMC) is for. PMC is the Academy’s peer learning space … Continue reading PMC Member Showcase →

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 →

🕊️ “The Yazidis: Keepers of the Peacock Light — Humanity’s Oldest Living Faith of Reconciliation”

The Yazidi (also spelled Yezidi or Êzidî) are an ancient, deeply spiritual people whose faith and culture reach back thousands of years — long before the Abrahamic religions took form. They are indigenous to northern Mesopotamia — mainly northern Iraq (Sinjar region), with communities in Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus — and today number around … Continue reading 🕊️ “The Yazidis: Keepers of the Peacock Light — Humanity’s Oldest Living Faith of Reconciliation” →

When Justice Nearly Failed: How Get SAFE Helped a Family Find Peace Before Christmas

There are moments when the human cost of financial exploitation becomes painfully visible — moments when the system designed to protect us instead threatens to destroy us. This is the story of an elderly couple we’ll call D & A, who came within days of losing not only their home, but possibly their lives. A … Continue reading When Justice Nearly Failed: How Get SAFE Helped a Family Find Peace Before Christmas →

After the Applause

By the Academy of Life Planning There’s a special kind of moment when a career completes its circle.The firm is thriving, the numbers have aligned, and the offer on the table feels almost poetic — a multiple of recurring revenue that quantifies years of care and craft. You sign the agreement. Messages flood in — … Continue reading After the Applause →

The 95% Myth: How the Advice Industry Manufactures Trust While Silencing the Truth

Why a single headline tells you everything about the system we are fighting to change This week, a new claim appeared across the trade press: “95% say financial advice helps them hit financial goals.”(Opinium survey of 8,000 UK adults, commissioned by St. James’s Place.) To the casual observer, it reads like a national truth.To those … Continue reading The 95% Myth: How the Advice Industry Manufactures Trust While Silencing the Truth →