About this episode

This episode explores the challenge of balancing professional success with personal fulfillment, featuring insights from Adam Holt and Derek Notman on their project REBL Dads.

I’ve seen this pattern play out too many times… an advisor builds a successful business, hits their numbers, grows the firm, and somewhere along the way, things at home start to drift. Not because they don’t care, but because no one ever showed them how to win in both places at the same time. That’s what this conversation is really about. Derek Notman and Adam Holt set out to explore that exact challenge through a project called REBL Dads —a movement built around helping fathers become more intentional at home without sacrificing their ambition in business. What started as an idea turned into a mastermind on Necker Island with a group of entrepreneurial dads, and ultimately a challenge from Richard Branson: “How are you going to help more dads with this?” That question led to over 100 interviews with fathers (many from financial services) unpacking what it actually looks like to succeed in both business and life.  In this episode, we break down what they learned, the patterns that showed up across those conversations, and how you can start applying those lessons right now so success at work doesn’t come at the expense of everything else that matters. 3 of the biggest…

People in this episode

Host: Brad Johnson

Guests: Adam Holt, Derek Notman

Topics covered

• work-life balance
• fatherhood
• entrepreneurship
• intentional presence
• business success
• personal development

Keywords

• business
• financial advisor
• success
• intentionality
• fatherhood
• entrepreneurial dads

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