![]() Jim Stackpool Managing Director, Certainty Advice Group Jim Stackpool is managing director of Certainty Advice Group, a national financial advice licensee. He has been in the industry for more than three decades and is committed to redefining the role financial advice plays in people's lives.
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Advice with soul
SACHA BURCHGART
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
Though she initially tried, Sacha Burchgart couldn't escape the call of a career in financial advice; it just took staring down her own mortality to see what's possible when you do things differently. Jamie Williamson writes.








