Today, we are joined by Muhammad Ismail Yousuf, CA(SA), Assistant Manager at Harris and Trotter Digital Assets, specializing in audits and advisory services for digital assets, blockchain, and emerging financial technologies, and founder of The Pocket CA.

We chat about the limits of talent on the road to CA(SA) and the importance of applying effort turns that into skill.

We also chat about:

• Why discipline is the edge;
• The scarcity of success in the specifics and abundance in the generals;
• Turning towards a skills acquisition growth mindset;
• Personality as a skill;
• Why sometimes, you need to lose your confidence;
• AI hallucinations in accounting and how to get around them;
• His idea of playing the character, and more.

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Today, we are joined by Muhammad Ismail Yousuf, CA(SA), Assistant Manager at Harris and Trotter Digital Assets, and founder of The Pocket CA.

We chat about how you can understand and navigate periods of uncertainty in business and in life.

We also chat about:

• The 5 levels of thinking;
• Intelligent failure and how to fail well;
• Seeing yourself as your main project in life;
• The power of processing emotions through writing;
• Why SAICA is the no.1 accounting body in the world;
• Lessons he learnt from a battle with his health, and more.

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Here are the top 10 lessons from my first quarter as an articles clerk:

1. Solve hardware problems before software problems
2. Inner change always trumps outer change
3. You are handicapped without a plan for the day
4. Don't be a trainee for too long
5. If at all possible, don't be green
6. Workplace titles are utter nonsense (they're also not)
7. Don't be the dude who died early
8. Motivation is underrated
9. There are things about which you think and things about which you don't
10. The world will shape you if you don't shape yourself

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Once more, we are joined by Tshireletso Malungana, aspiring CA having passed his CFA lvl 1, Audit senior at EY, videographer and content creator.

We chat about 3 simple habits to 10X your academic performance.

We also chat about:

1. Some of the funkiest mistakes he has seen marking exam papers;
2. The power of a longer time horizon for relationship building and impact;
3. Newton's laws of motion for more motion in life;
4. How to get more out of your limited hours in your work and studies;
5. Funding his brother's overseas sports trip to Dubai and lessons in capital raising;
6. His saving system to ensure financial security, and more.

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Today, we are joined by Tshirelesto Malungana, aspiring CA having passed his CFA lvl 1, Audit senior at EY, videographer and content creator.

We chat about the shifting and shaping of our identities on the long road to CA(SA).

We also chat about:

1. What being an academic trainee has taught him about himself;
2. Why you need to stop trying to find your why;
3. Mimetic desire and its effects on our mental well-being, and more.

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Today we are joined by Christin Thomas, CA(SA) and founder of APC support programme The Passing Mindset.

We chat about her experiences with APC repeat students through her APC support programme The Passing Mindset.

We also chat about:

1. The blessing and subtle curse of family for your personal growth;
2. SAICA’s UK committee and her term in its service;
3. The London Article Clerks’ Association’s unfortunate discontinuation;
4. Christin’s lifelong learning philosophy and subsequent weird and wonderful skillset;
5. The tipping point of success on the road to CA(SA) and throughout your career, and more.

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Today we are joined by Christin Thomas, CA(SA) and founder of APC support programme The Passing Mindset.

We chat about how you can still aspire to be excellent regardless of your rank on the road to CA(SA).

We also chat about:

1. How to hack your brain out of nervousness;
2. Her experience working as a CA in the UK;
3. Ways to use your UK euro earning to build wealth in SA;
4. Whether there is or isn’t an end to excellence, and more.

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Today, we are joined by Nikyle Perumaul, Trade accountant at Glencore, SAICA trainee trailblazer finalist for 2024 and 2025, Microsoft Excel Championship finalist in 2024 and 2025 and is eligible to register as a CA(SA).

We chat about how bring your passions back to the profession is the way to remain relevant in the fast-changing world we live.

We also chat about:

1. The power of AQ for career success;
2. What skills AI won’t replace in CAs of the future;
3. How business unites us all, regardless of our background;
4. The importance of innovation;
5. His top lessons from the SAICA awards, and more.

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Today we are joined by Yusuf Bodiat, CA(SA), finance executive, IODSA Certified Director, SAICA Top35under35 finalist for 2021 and author of The Bottom Line: A Blueprint for South Africa's Turnaround.

We chat about the origins of his new book, The Bottom Line, and why it can spark positive conversation around the impact of a strategic finance paradigm for our country.

We also chat about:

1. The way to build trust as a young professional in the workplace;
2. How communication is the key to smoother teamwork dynamics;
3. Why simply being is insufficient and why we have to learn to appear as well;
4. How confidence prevents you from asking the questions you need answers to;
5. The double cost of poor service delivery of the government;
6. The real role of the CFO in the C suite, and more.

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Today we are joined by Yusuf Bodiat, CA(SA), finance executive, IODSA Certified Director, SAICA Top35under35 finalist for 2021 and author of The Bottom Line: A Blueprint for South Africa's Turnaround.

We chat about how your goals will inevitably shift and change over the course of your career as a CA.

We also chat about:

1. The real power of a CA designation in the job market;
2. Repeating his third and fourth years in accounting;
3. How he transitioned from audit through networking at his client;
4. CSI programmes he worked on at a large corporate investment company;
5. How he ended up becoming a certified non-executive director;
6. Why a book is the ultimate business card, and more.

Enjoy!

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Check out Yusuf's website and book

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