How do we prepare our kids for the modern world? In this video, I share three things I’m teaching my children to help them face the future—and the advice I want them to carry through life.

As a dad, I often ask myself: what can I teach my kids today that will still matter when they’re adults?

The world they’re growing up in will look different from ours. These are three lessons I’m choosing to focus on as I help them find their own way.

Whether you’re a parent, teacher or someone thinking about the example you set, I hope this gives you something useful to bring into your next conversation.

What’s one lesson you want your children to learn? Tell me in the comments.

I’m Tim Castle, a father, negotiation and influence expert, and bestselling author of The Art of Negotiation and Magnetic Influence.

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Have you ever been so angry that you know the next thing you say could make everything worse? In this video, Tim Castle shares five practical tips for handling a difficult conversation when you’re angry—so you can communicate clearly and avoid saying something you regret.

Whether you’re dealing with disrespect, conflict at work or someone testing your patience, how you respond matters. Learn how to pause before reacting, stay focused on what matters and express yourself with confidence.

Staying calm doesn’t mean accepting poor behaviour. You can set boundaries and stand up for yourself while keeping control of your response.

I’m Tim Castle, bestselling author of The Art of Negotiation and Magnetic Influence, and founder of The Negotiator’s Edge. I help people build confidence, navigate difficult conversations and negotiate better outcomes.

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What does it really take to disrupt an industry—and how do you know when you’re visionary rather than simply wrong?

In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with Walter de Oude, the entrepreneur who founded Singlife and grew it to a valuation of S$3.2 billion before launching Chocolate Finance, which now manages S$1.6 billion in assets.

But this conversation goes far beyond business success.

Walter reveals the experiences that shaped his relationship with money, risk and ambition—and why perpetual optimism has remained central to his journey. He shares how he challenged beliefs the insurance industry considered untouchable, handled the people who insisted his ideas would never work, and recognised the moment disruption became real.

Together, Tim and Walter explore the decisions leaders must make when they don’t have all the answers: trusting your instincts, disappointing people, confronting underperformance and having the difficult conversations that define a CEO. Walter also reflects on the leadership lessons that cost him the most, the moments he came closest to giving up and how his definition of success has changed.

You’ll also discover why Walter believes everybody has talent, why aligning people around a shared purpose matters more than simply fixing an organisation, and how emotional engagement can turn customers into genuine believers.

This is an honest conversation about building remarkable companies, leading through uncertainty and creating teams that cannot wait to get to work.

We discuss sales, mistakes founders make, how to align teams and get them rowing in the right direction and much much more.

If you’re an entrepreneur, leader or ambitious professional who wants to make better decisions and build something people truly care about, this episode is for you.

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Walter de Oude is the Founder of Chocolate Finance – a new way for you to save your spare cash. Forget fixed deposits, Chocolate Finance offers almost anyone, anywhere in the world great returns on their savings, without needing to jump through hoops to unlock them. It is built on the belief that people are looking for better returns on their cash, which in turn allows them to make their lives richer.

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What if the education system is preparing our children for a world that no longer exists?

In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with entrepreneur, author and Growth Machine founder Nat Eliason, now helping build Founders School, the entrepreneurship track of Alpha School, to examine a radical new model for learning in the age of AI.

The idea is bold: compress academics into the morning, then give teenagers the rest of the day to build businesses, sell, experiment and learn through real-world consequences.

But what happens when education starts measuring success through customers, revenue and profit?

Can failure still feel safe when parents are paying $150,000 a year?

Are schools developing grit, leadership and persuasion, or simply selecting for ambitious families already positioned to win?

And in a world where AI can increasingly write, code, research and build, is the scarce skill now intelligence or the ability to communicate, influence, take intelligent risks and make people care?

This conversation is about much more than school. It is about who we want the next generation to become.

Subscribe, share the episode, and ask yourself: what should education prepare children for now?

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One of my favorites right here, Oli Budgen spills the beans on what he's been doing to make Bud Communications a rip roaring success.

With impact and influence as its core mission, brands are flocking to Bud Communications PR Agency. Whether no one knows about your business or you are in crisis management - Oli and the team have got you covered.

We discuss how it is building a business and the tolerance with terror.

How to invest in the team, when you don't have budget.

How to challenge people and build a culture of curiosity.

How to be compelling and attract the right talent to your business

Oli felt the industry was broken and set out to fix it. He launched Bud in 2020, right into the pandemic, without an established network or a traditional founder playbook. Since then, he’s built one of APAC’s most respected communications agencies, working with ambitious challenger technology brands and deliberately putting culture, curiosity and authenticity at the heart of the business.

But this conversation goes far beyond PR.

We get into the reality of starting from scratch, the decisions that changed everything, the leadership mistakes that shaped Oliver, what scaling a service business really feels like, and the person you have to become when the company starts depending on you.

We also explore one of the biggest questions facing communications today:

If AI can create content in seconds, what becomes more valuable?

Oli and I discuss why human connection, trust, originality and genuine influence may become more important — not less — as artificial intelligence changes the way businesses communicate.

In this episode, we explore:

• Building a company from nothing
• Starting a business during the pandemic
• Why Oli chose challenger brands
• The hardest realities of scaling an agency
• Building culture before scale
• Hiring for curiosity and attitude
• Leadership mistakes and changing your mind
• What actually earns attention in a content-saturated world
• Whether AI makes PR more or less valuable
• Why authenticity matters more in the AI era
• The beliefs that shape Oli as a founder
• What success really means when you’re building something that matters

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The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M
→ Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ

The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh

Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/

Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/

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The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/

Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator

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Money can be moved, disguised and divided but can it ever truly disappear?

In this gripping episode of The Tim Castle Show, I sit down with Afia Sengupta, licensed crime investigator, anti-money-laundering specialist and CEO of CAT Investigators, to explore the hidden world of financial crime, crypto scams and asset tracing.

Afia explains how investigators follow money concealed through digital wallets, shell companies, overseas entities, family members and sophisticated financial networks. She reveals how seemingly insignificant clues can connect people, payments, businesses and assets that appear completely unrelated. You will discover what licensed investigators can uncover beyond Google searches, LinkedIn profiles and standard background checks—and why knowing where to look is often more important than dramatic surveillance.

This conversation is about the multi-billion dollar scamming industry, it's about human psychology.

We explore whether cryptocurrency is genuinely anonymous, why intelligent and financially experienced people still fall victim to sophisticated scams, and what victims must do during the critical first hours after discovering fraud. Tim and Afia examine the powerful connection between investigation and negotiation, revealing how one verified fact can transform leverage in a dispute, settlement, investment or commercial deal.

How do investigators find assets that someone has deliberately tried to hide?

And what should you investigate before trusting someone with your money, business, information or heart?

We talk about the role of compassion and empathy as an investigator.

Afia has worked on thousands of cases.

Listen before your next investment, partnership or negotiation, because the information you do not have may be the information that matters most.

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The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M
→ Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ

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Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/

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Context is the new cookie.

Tim Castle is joined by Andrea Tortella, CEO of thrad, to explore the future of advertising in AI conversations.

As consumers move from searching to asking, comparing and deciding through AI tools, brands face a defining opportunity: become useful at the exact moment intent is created.

Andrea shares how thrad is approaching brand-safe conversational advertising, ad opportunity detection, AI guardrails, targeting in ChatGPT and LLM environments, and more meaningful brand interaction.

They discuss why conversational ads could improve full-funnel marketing ROI, why speed matters in the new AI economy, and how the fastest-moving marketers may unlock one of the biggest economic-arbitrage opportunities in modern advertising.

• Interaction with the brand and the future of marketing
• How Thrad and Conversational ads improve ROI and full funnel marketing
• Why the companies that move the fastest will win
• Advertising at the speed of culture and thought
• Why Ads on LLMs is a massive opportunity for economic arbitrage for marketers who move fast

For CMOs, founders, marketers, agency leaders and anyone shaping the future of AI marketing, this is an essential conversation.

Key themes: AI advertising, ChatGPT targeting, LLM ads, conversational advertising, brand safety, ad tech, marketing ROI, contextual targeting, full-funnel marketing and the future of the CMO.

If you're into AI and you want to understand how to negotiate and persuade in the modern world, get your copy of Magnetic Influence now. Also be sure to download the Magnetic Influence Framework for Claude SKILLS here https://magneticinfluencebook.com/

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The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M
→ Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ

The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh

Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/

Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/

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The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/

Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator

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