BU BÖLÜM HAKKINDA
Episode Summary
Adam Holt calls himself a recovering financial planner. He spent 28 years in the business and built Asset-Map, a tool that lets advisors draw a client’s whole financial life on one page. The idea started when he was a teenager, sketching live visual notes at Tony Robbins seminars his single mom paid for with the money she’d saved.
The tension in this conversation is one a lot of successful people know. Adam was good at building companies. He read the books, hired the coaches, and tracked the numbers. At home, he was winging it. It took long talks with his friend and podcast co-host Derek Notman to admit it. They were both “virgin dads,” as Adam puts it, with kids three days apart and no playbook.
So they went looking for one. A cold pitch led to a fathers’ mastermind on Richard Branson’s Necker Island. Branson asked them one question: how are you going to help more people? That question became a book built on interviews with more than 100 fathers.
What stays with you is how practical it gets. Treat your family like a company built to last 80 years. Give it values your kids can repeat. Put one-on-one time in the calendar like your biggest client. And when you get it wrong, forgive yourself and keep going. Partway through, Adam turns the tables and holds me to a date with my own daughter.
Key topics
- The $10,000 college fund that went to Tony Robbins
- Why we trade health for wealth, then try to buy it back
- “If I was the CEO, would I hire or fire myself?”
- Your family as an 80-year company, not a startup
- The REBL framework: Responsible, Entrepreneur, Balanced, Leadership
- Family values you can put on the wall
- One-on-one time, 18 summers, and protecting the calendar
- Self-forgiveness as the key to a meaningful life
Five quotes
1. “We spend years of our health to get wealth, and then we spend all of our wealth to get our health back. And it’s usually too late.” [00:04:52–00:05:13]
2. “if I was the CEO, would I hire or fire myself?” [00:13:13–00:13:33]
3. “But when you have a family, you’re building a company that’s got to be around for 70 or 80 years.” [00:15:11–00:15:51]
4. “Why don’t I have the same passion and protection around my kid” [00:31:16–00:31:33]
5. “If you can forgive yourself and love yourself in a sense man you can go far because no one’s holding you back.” [00:53:46–00:54:06]
About Adam
Adam Holt grew up in New York, raised by a single mom who later became a realtor and a coach. He spent 28 years as a financial planner before building Asset-Map, which he says is now used by thousands of advisors in 20 countries. With Derek Notman, he co-founded REBL Dads and co-wrote REBL Dad, drawn from interviews with more than 100 fathers. He’s a former rower, a dad to a teenage daughter, and two months into taking his health seriously again.
Guest links
- REBL Dads: https://www.rebldads.com
- REBL Dad (book): https://www.rebldads.com/book
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadamholt
About YouPotential
YouPotential is for people who are great at building businesses and want to be just as intentional about building a life. Hosted by Shaun Maslyk, CFP®, a financial planner and positive psychology practitioner.
