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Bandz 4 Episodes Nov 3, 2026

Present & Promoted is a podcast for high-achieving fathers who are winning at work but missing the moments that matter at home. Host Bandz talks with executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and senior leaders about leading powerfully at work without losing yourself at home. The conversations cover the mental load, ambition, guilt, and the path through these challenges. The show emphasizes integration, identity, and presence rather than traditional work-life balance. New episodes are released every Tuesday.

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Ep 8: The Quiet Things — Don't File Your Family Under December Nov 3, 2026 00:14:44 "Do not file your family under 'I will catch up in December.' Because December does not do the catching up for you."It is early November and the year end countdown has already started. Deals to close, targets to hit, everything shouting for attention. In this solo episode, Bandz steps in on his own to talk about what goes quiet while the loud things get all the focus.It starts wi

Ep 7: Una Van Staden — Own the Morning Oct 27, 2026 00:55:21 “15 minutes without a phone is much better than two hours of a dad who’s not present.”Most parents think there are only two options for a child’s sleep: sleep training or doing nothing at all. My guest today offers families a third option.Una Van Staden is the owner of Pikanini Baby Academy. She is not only a sleep consultant. Her work leans into early childhood development, play therapy and socia

Ep 6: Puso Thahane — I Want My Kids to Miss Me Oct 20, 2026 00:34:19 "In a weird way, I want my kids to miss me. It means that when I am here, I am present."Puso Thahane is a Partner at BCG, a father of three, and a friend of mine since we were teenagers. He and his wife both work at partner level. In this conversation he says out loud what most high achieving fathers only think: that going after a demanding career is not the opposite of being a good dad,

Ep 5: The Decompression Switch — My First Solo Episode Oct 13, 2026 00:12:17 Work is Dada’s home. He was three when he said it.Three interviews in, I kept hearing the same thing from three different angles — and it forced me to build something I had not shared before, not even with my wife.In this first solo episode, I break down the ritual I now use every single day: The Decompression Switch. Three deliberate moments inside the commute.Switch One: The 10 seconds before I

Ep 4: Christian Trumpelmann — Presents, Not Presence Oct 6, 2026 01:05:03 He was COO of a JSE-listed company. Board member. Running operations across Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius. Two weeks on the road every month.By every metric, he'd made it.Then his wife asked him one question: "Do you want to be a weekend dad, or are we going to stay a family?"Christian Trumpelmann talks about golden handcuffs, the drive between Margate and Ladysmith where he had to pul

Ep 3: Simbah Mutasa — Dad Was There: Leading Africa While Raising Four Sep 29, 2026 00:54:31 Simbah Mutasa grew up in Zimbabwe, where his parents still live. Two decades and several continents later, he leads Investment Banking across Africa for one of the world's largest banks. Home is now South Africa, where he and his wife are raising four children, the youngest a new arrival.This conversation sits inside our Work Life Integration pillar, what we call The Integrated Man. Not the idea o

Ep 2: Jacques Van Niekerk — What If There's No Later? Sep 22, 2026 01:12:37 A cross border tax and fiduciary advisor who has spent fifteen years watching what happens when fathers run out of time. Jacques Van Niekerk joins Present and Promoted to talk legacy, presence, and the cost of postponing the things that matter.He has sat across from a client whose only answer to "what's out of reach" was time. He does not deal in theory. He deals in what actually happens when a fa

Ep 1: Work Is Dada's Home Sep 15, 2026 00:19:28 My three year old said four words to me that I have not stopped thinking about since. No anger behind them, just what he saw. This first episode is me sitting with that moment, and why it became the reason this whole show exists.I get into my own father, a paint factory HR director who never brought work home the way I do, and why presence looked so different a generation ago. I talk about the tip

Trailer — Present & Promoted Sep 14, 2026 00:02:51 10 months ago, my youngest son looked at me and said four words I haven't stopped thinking about since. "Work is Dada's home."He wasn't angry. He was four years old. He was just telling me what he saw.That sentence is why this show exists.Present & Promoted is a podcast for high-achieving fathers who are done choosing between the boardroom and bedtime. Every week I sit do

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