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01
The best exits are built years before the buyer shows up

Most owners think about exit planning when an approach lands or burnout hits — and by then, the most valuable options are already off the table. David explains why the difference between a good exit a…

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02
Building wealth should make your life better, not stop you living it

Most people experience financial planning as a sacrifice: save more, spend less, feel guilty about the holiday. David challenges that mindset entirely. The goal isn't accumulating the biggest possible…

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03
Why the highest earners make the most expensive mistakes

There's a comfortable assumption that a big income automatically builds financial security. In David's experience, the opposite is often true: the busiest, highest-earning professionals lose the most …

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04
Your equity stake is probably your biggest asset — and your biggest blind spot

Whether it's an LLP capital account or shares in a business, most partners and founders have the majority of their wealth concentrated in one illiquid asset they rarely think about strategically. Davi…

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05
The exit paid off — so why do so many founders feel lost twelve months later?

Selling a business is meant to be the finish line, yet many founders find the year after completion the most disorienting of their careers: a life's work converted into a number on a screen, an identi…

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06
The best financial plans fit on one page and can be explained over a coffee

The financial services industry has a habit of hiding behind jargon, lengthy reports, and complexity that complicate with a view to impress rather than inform — leaving clients less confident than whe…

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07
The financial conversations law firms should be having with their partners (and aren't)

Firms invest heavily in developing lawyers technically, then hand them partnership with no financial induction whatsoever. David makes the case that partner financial wellbeing is a firm duty-of-care …

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08
The biggest promotion of a lawyer's career is the one nobody prepares them for

Making partner is celebrated as the pinnacle of a legal career — but it's also the moment a lawyer quietly becomes a business owner, with self-employed tax status, capital contributions, drawings inst…

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