Insights
Essays on masculinity, money, and the psychology of provision.
Brittle Financial Health: The Male Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
Men's financial vulnerability is structural, not individual — shaped by the same identity scripts that appear as strength. This article surfaces the hidden architecture of male financial fragility and its therapeutic implications.
Adopting a Therapeutic Approach to Investment Advisory
Explores how financial therapy frameworks can be integrated into investment advisory practice — moving from performance-only relationships to ones that acknowledge the emotional and relational dimensions of investment decision-making.
Managing Client Portfolios in Times of Crisis
Crisis exposes the gap between financial knowledge and financial behaviour. This piece examines how advisors can guide male clients through market volatility by addressing the identity and emotional dimensions that drive panic-driven decisions.
On the provider script
Men and the Pressure to Provide
The provider role is treated as a given — rarely as something that costs anything to carry. This conversation opens up why the expectation to provide shapes men’s financial behaviour so powerfully, and what happens when it goes unexamined.
Listen on News24One argument, five countries
The case that men at the top of corporate and financial power structures carry unexamined financial distress — and that the cost of it is borne by everyone else — picked up across five national press markets.