Present & Promoted
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.
Episodes
Ep 5: The Decompression Switch — My First Solo Episode
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
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
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?
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
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
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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