Diary of a CFO | Financial Strategies for Smart Business Growth

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If your financial growth, money management and strategic decision-making feel mentally exhausting, your brain systems may be the real bottleneck. In this episode of Diary of a CFO, host Ademola Odewade, MBA, ACA speaks with Dave Farrow, two-time Guinness World Record holder for memory and creator of the neuroscience-validated FIRO method. You will learn how CFO-level focus, cognitive discipline and mental systems drive better profit strategy, sharper financial leadership and sustainable business growth.
What you will learn:
• How elite focus improves financial planning and executive decision-making
• Why memory is a business asset for founders and CFOs
• How cognitive systems protect profitability and reduce burnout
• Brain-based productivity methods for business performance
• The connection between mental clarity and financial intelligence
Dave Farrow is a two-time Guinness World Record holder for memory, validated by double-blind neuroscience research, and has appeared on major media including The Today Show and Discovery Channel.
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🎧 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/38svlLVQCzw
🌍 Host: Ademola Odewade, MBA, ACA
🏢 Sponsored by: K-Dems Consulting Ltd
📈 Ranked Global Top 5% Podcast on ListenNotes

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Financial growth, money management and profit strategy are not optional for serious founders. They are infrastructure. This episode of Diary Of A CFO delivers CFO insights, financial planning frameworks and business finance strategies designed for entrepreneurs who want real income growth and long term control.
Hosted by Ademola Odewade MBA ACA BSc, this conversation unpacks how founders can build stronger cash flow, smarter margins and clearer financial intelligence without confusion or overwhelm.
You will learn:
• How CFO strategy improves financial growth and decision quality
• Why money management discipline drives sustainable business success
• How financial planning supports long term income stability
• How founders can strengthen financial literacy and leadership clarity
• How profit strategy protects against burnout and chaotic growth
• How strategic finance supports valuation, equity and resilience
This is not surface level finance talk.
This is clarity for operators who want control over growth.
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Business growth does not start with software. It starts with mindset, leadership discipline and systems that compound.
In this episode of Diary Of A CFO, we explore how growth mindset, resilient leadership and AI in business shape long term financial outcomes, decision quality and scalable strategy.
Two education system builders reveal why founders fail when culture is misaligned, why tools without clarity create noise and why financial performance is inseparable from human psychology.
This is not theory. This is infrastructure for sustainable growth.

Key Insights
How growth mindset directly improves leadership effectiveness and long term wealth creation

Why AI in business must enhance judgment not replace it

Why resilient leadership systems outperform capital and tools

Why belief systems determine business outcomes more than tech stacks

How therapy level reflection improves founder psychology and decision quality

Why collective efficacy scales faster than individual ego

How financial literacy connects to education systems and economic stability

Why self improvement remains the most underrated growth strategy

Why innovation collapses when leadership culture lacks clarity

Guest Links:
Tech My School: https://techmyschool.org
Kyle Sumrow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-sumrow-869516183
Robby Cobbs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertcobbs/
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Financial growth demands better decisions. Justin Kuyper breaks down AI in business, CFO strategy, profit mindset, financial planning and smart investing frameworks that help founders scale without burning capital.
Most founders chase revenue. Elite CFOs engineer outcomes.

Actionable CFO Takeaways:Justin Kuyper reveals how AI-powered finance, disciplined decision making and access-driven strategy separate scalable businesses from stalled ones.
AI investing strategies used by institutional capital

CFO frameworks for smarter financial growth

Profit strategy vs revenue chasing

Founder mindset and capital discipline

Financial planning in volatile markets

Risk management and downside protection

Scaling systems without funding dependency

Wealth creation through access not hype

Guest Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-kuyper-a862b0103
ClearDrop Investment: https://www.cleardropllc.com/

Diary Of A CFO is ranked in the Global Top 5 percent on ListenNotes, delivering real CFO strategies for founders, CEOs and business leaders worldwide.

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Fuel your wealth with growth mindset strategies as Landi Jac reveals how AI in business, leadership resilience, therapy insights and human centered systems drive global business growth.
From London boardrooms to Bali strategy sanctuaries, Landi Jac has spent decades decoding what makes leaders endure.
This episode exposes the intersection of AI, conscious leadership and human mastery where legacy is engineered, not inherited.

📌 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
• Growth mindset strategies for global leaders
• AI in business without losing humanity
• Leadership resilience in volatile markets
• Wealth creation through conscious systems
• Therapy insights for founders under pressure
• Business growth across cultures and borders
• Self improvement as a leadership discipline
• Financial literacy for decision makers
• Founder psychology and clarity
• Smart business strategies that scale ethically

🔗 GUEST LINKS
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/landijac-global-citizen
• Circle of Excellence: https://circleofexcellence.club
• Speaker Cafe: https://www.speakercafe.net
• LEAD Magazine: https://www.lead-magazine.com

⭐ GLOBAL RANKING CREDIBILITY
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🔁 MANDATORY CROSS LINKS
Humans First AI Next with Mark Andrews
https://youtu.be/UcTv-2D7ZoU
Breakthrough Strategies and Growth Mindset with Ted Santos
https://youtu.be/ey-OHZlMIUU?si=ck97j5Oq9vVPzwXU

WHO IS LANDI JAC?
Landi Jac is a Global Citizen and CEO of the Circle of Excellence Private Members Club, operating across 56+ countries and facilitating 350+ elite masterminds worldwide. She is a globally sought after keynote speaker, conscious leadership strategist and brand architect for high performing entrepreneurs, speakers and founders.
With a Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology earned Cum Laude and a background in executive HR and high stakes organisational interventions, Landi bridges human psychology, AI acceleration and leadership identity at a global level.
Her work spans APAC, Europe, Africa and Australasia, earning accolades including the Global Speakers Federation Presidential Award, World Women Leadership Honorary Award and APAC Eco Conscious Leadership Award. She is Managing Editor of LEAD Magazine Global and Advisory Board Member for the Shahani Group in India.
Her mission is singular: energise conscious leaders to play a bigger game and build legacies that outlive them.