Episode #4
Podcast on Tour! Verve Transformation 2026 - Marnel Stafford
Next up on Podcast on Tour from Verve Transformation 2026, we're joined by Marnel Stafford. Marnel's route into financial planning has been anything but conventional. After a career in hospitality in South Africa, she discovered finance later in life, moved to the UK, requalified and became a financial adviser at 50, building her client base from the ground up. We talk about putting people at the heart of financial advice, why Marnell believes the money follows when you focus on genuinely helping clients, and how building the right team has allowed her to concentrate on what she does best: spending time with people. Marnell also shares one of the biggest changes she's made in her business letting go of control and delegating everything from administration to managing her diary and how that shift has helped her scale while still giving clients the attention they need. We also get into the changing role of the financial adviser in an AI-enabled world, why understanding a client's life, family and relationship with money matters far more than simply choosing products, and the business lesson Marnell thinks more advisers need to embrace: stop trying to do everything yourself. ️ Recorded live at Verve Transformation 2026.
