This photo takes me back 26 years. An open vehicle, good company and a landscape that still stops me in my tracks. In those early days of Visitors to Africa I spent most of my time out on the road with guests like these, and it taught me what people really travel for. It is not only the scenery, although Southern Africa has plenty of that. It is the people you share it with, and having someone beside you who knows the country properly: which road to take, where the light is b

Ask guests what they remember most from a trip to Africa and you might expect them to say the lions. More often, it is the evening. A table set for two above the river, the lanterns lit, the sky turning from gold to violet, and the bush settling down for the night. Over the years I have built a safari lodge, hotels and guest houses, and hosted travellers from all over the world. What I have learned is that the moments people carry home are rarely the ones in the brochure. A g

Then Scott Schutz walked away to build things with his hands. 35 years, 43 companies, and not one bankruptcy. Today, Scott uses all of that experience to stand on the other side of the table. Through Focal Point Business Coaching, he acts as an owner’s representative and coach, helping owners protect their equity and avoid the costly mistakes he watched happen for decades. He’s built churches for 38 years, and he knows exactly where growing congregations and building committe

We asked Ericson E. Brickers, founder and president of The Brickers Foundation, for his blueprint for creating generational financial freedom. His answer had nothing to do with markets. Find the thing you love doing. Do it with persistence and consistency. Look up and twelve hours have passed. That repetition, he says, is what brings the money in the end. At Asset Acquisition Partners we would add one thought. Passion is how wealth gets earned. What you do with it when it arr

Ronald Stein started PTS Advance from a spare bedroom in 1995, supporting multi-billion dollar refineries with highly paid specialists who expected to be paid on time. His clients paid net 30. Sometimes net 60. Most founders would have borrowed to bridge the gap. Ronald went back to his clients and made them an offer instead: we will support you at low billing rates, but we need to be paid in net seven. They said yes. He was saving them money. They were saving his business. T