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𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐨?

→ From Practitioner Scars to Value Acceleration Engine, I bring a unique advantage to Recludo’s capital partnerships.

“𝘈𝘴𝘩’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬, 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘒𝘗𝘐 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘸 51% 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦-𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦-𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.”
~ Tim Brown | Recludo Group CEO

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬

→ De-risked entry: No trial-and-error phase. Proven systems and governance are embedded from the start.
→ Pre-engineered value creation: Businesses are transformed into scalable assets, not speculative ventures.
→ Aligned pathways: Broker ambition and investor ROI move in lockstep.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬

→ Access to playbooks, KPIs and safeguards that shortcut growth.
→ Pathways to succession that protect both business legacy and personal ambition.
→ A partner with scars, stripes, and strategy already earned, so they don’t have to.
→ Recludo is not an experiment. It’s an operationalised model of accelerated value creation, led by a practitioner who has lived every step of the journey.

✅ 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬: Growth without guesswork.
✅ 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬: Compounding returns, pre-engineered.
✅ 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡: Trust built on four decades of lived experience.


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Ash Playsted

Most founders learn this lesson too late: 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲… 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

That’s the paradox.

And if betrayal teaches you the wrong lesson, it doesn’t just cost you a relationship. It costs you your future.

Because betrayal doesn’t only hurt emotionally...
...it creates a leadership reflex:
→ Control everything.
→ Trust nobody.
→ Keep it tight.
→ Do it yourself.

And that reflex feels like protection…
…but it quietly becomes a cage.

A business built on low trust always ends the same way:
× the founder becomes the bottleneck
× the team becomes cautious
× the culture becomes political
× growth slows
× energy leaks
× and “scale” becomes impossible
 

And here’s what most people don’t want to admit:
╰┈➤ If you stop trusting people, you stop building anything bigger than yourself.

That’s not inspirational. That’s operational truth.

So what’s the answer?

Not blind trust. And not hardened mistrust.

The answer is mature trust:
✓ trust with guardrails
✓ trust with standards
✓ trust with accountability
✓ trust with structure
✓ trust with clear consequences

Because the goal isn’t to avoid betrayal.
The goal is to become the kind of leader who can take a hit…
…and keep building anyway.

This week’s '𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥.' newsletter edition is about a time in my life this lesson came home to roost.

If you’ve ever been burned in business and/or life (and you’re still building), this one will land ... full edition below 👇 

#LivedNotLectured #Trust #MortgageBrokers #Founders #Entrepreneurship #Life #Business

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There’s a lesson most people avoid. Not because it’s hard to understand. But because it’s hard to accept. It’s the lesson that sits right at the inter

Open article: The Paradox of Trust: Why You Must Keep Believing in People Even After They Break It by Ash Playsted • 11 min read

The Paradox of Trust: Why You Must Keep Believing in People Even After They Break It

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞.

Not because you’re lazy.
Not because you’re incapable.
Not because you don’t "know what to do.”
But because you keep hiding behind the most expensive sentence in business: “𝘐’𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.”

Let me translate that for you.

It usually means:
“I don’t want to be wrong.”
“I don’t want to look foolish.”
“I don’t want to lose clients.”
“I don’t want discomfort.”

So instead... you plan.
You research.
You tweak.
You refine.
You model.
You workshop.
You rewrite.
You polish.
And you call it progress.

But here’s the truth:
╰┈➤ Preparation without execution is procrastination... dressed up as professionalism.

And it’s quietly killing your business.

Because while you’re waiting for perfect timing... someone else is executing at 70% certainty — and taking your market share.

Here’s what I’ve learned coaching mortgage business owners:
╰┈➤ Strategy is common. Execution is rare.

Every broker already knows the big levers:
↳ re-price your book
↳ build referral partner systems
↳ tighten conversion
↳ document workflows
↳ hire leverage
↳ remove yourself as bottleneck
↳ install cadence + rhythm

That’s not the gap.

The gap is this:
╰┈➤ 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆’𝗱 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲 “𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘆” 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲.

They’d rather be certain... than be successful.

And here’s why this matters:
Investors don’t buy ideas. They buy proven doers.

Buyers don’t pay a premium for:
● your plan
● your vision
● your strategic roadmap
● your “potential”

They pay a premium for one thing:
╰┈➤ Proven execution.

Because #execution reduces risk.
Execution creates #momentum.
Execution builds #systems.
Execution creates #transferability.
Execution creates #enterprisevalue.

So if you’re serious about building a valuable brokerage...
Stop waiting.
Stop perfecting.
Stop researching.

Here’s the only framework that matters:
╰┈➤ Pick 2–3 moves that will change the business. Then execute them daily before the day steals your oxygen.

Not weekly.
Not “when things slow down.”
Not after clearing your inbox.

Daily.
Because the “perfect time” never arrives.
And the market doesn’t reward hesitation.
It rewards #speed, #discipline, and #momentum.

So I’ll ask you a question most founders avoid:
→ What strategic move are you analysing... instead of implementing?

That’s your #breakthrough. But only if you act.

I've written about this in detail in the latest edition of my 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 Newsletter 👇 

#AcceleratedValueCreation #MortgageBrokers #Success #Action

Empowering 50 Ambitious Mortgage Brokerage Founders to Create Life Changing Personal Wealth | Co-Founder and Executive GM Broker Business Performance at Recludo

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There’s a quiet killer in the mortgage broking industry. It’s not commission compression. It’s not lender policy volatility. It’s not compliance, claw

Open article: Perfect Timing Is a Myth. Execution Is the Advantage. (Why the market pays for doers, not dreamers.) by Ash Playsted • 10 min read

Perfect Timing Is a Myth. Execution Is the Advantage. (Why the market pays for doers, not dreamers.)

Melbourne based Brokers, want a lender totally focussed on fast, flexible solutions? See you at The Garden Room, Crown Casino Friday Feb 6th 11:00am onwards!

The team at Recludo is proud to announce Thry Group as our newest business partner. Thry (pronounced Three) was formed expressly to serve Mortgage Brokers looking for speed, flexibility, and direct access to decision makers who will always collaborate with you to make deals work.

To celebrate the launch of this broker focused, specialist Mortgage Management business, a grand celebration launch event has been arranged at The Garden Room at Crown Casino Melbourne.

So if you’re a Melbourne (or Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth) based Broker looking for fast, reliable solutions for your clients, come along on Friday Feb 6th for some good company (and free food and drinks!), event details are on the invite attached.

Tim Brown | Ash Playsted | Chris Slater | Layne T.

Thry Group Grand Opening

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For over 30 Years Transforming People and Organisations Through Proprietary Protocols based on  Neuroscience, Breathwork, Healing, and High-Performance Strategies

Eldin Hasa helps individuals, leaders, and organisations overcome hidden emotional blocks, optimise performance, and unlock lasting transformation, personally and professionally. By integrating neuroscience, somatic therapy, and cutting-edge behavioural change techniques, Eldin provides practical, science-based solutions that eliminate stress, trauma, and burnout at the root.

For individuals, he delivers transformational coaching, breathwork, trauma healing, PTSD, ADHD, and emotional reprogramming techniques like EFT and inner child work, empowering clients to release decades of stored trauma in their brain, heart, body and nervous system, limiting beliefs, reclaim self-worth, and experience deep, lasting change.

For companies, Eldin designs neuroscience-driven well-being programmes that increase employee resilience, reduce stress-related costs, and foster a thriving, purpose-led culture. His workshops and keynote trainings create immediate shifts in mindset, motivation, and productivity, For thne leading to higher retention, better performance, and measurable ROI.

Through immersive retreats, powerful group facilitation, and high-performance mentorship, Eldin supports visionaries, CEOs, and high-achievers in aligning with their purpose, deepening emotional intelligence, and leading from authenticity.

From healing trauma to boosting profits, Eldin’s proven methods bring measurable results, with clarity, compassion, and science-backed strategies at the core of every transformation.

Ready to remove the blocks that hold you or your team back? Let's connect.


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✅ As a Neuroscientist I teach people to rewire their brain for success in every area of their lives. 
Secrets of unlocking the power of your mind!

✅ Formula EQ will get you out of your comfort zone, push you beyond your limitations, and challenges your very perception of reality. Combining cutting-edge science, inspiring lectures, real-life case studies, and powerful meditations, the information provided can be applied to overcome challenges in any area of your life.

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Neuroscience research says: your brain is not just a “mind” to fix, it is an electrical‑chemical instrument you can tune on demand. Brainwaves (delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and large‑scale networks like the default mode network (DMN) and salience network shift based on where you place attention, how you breathe, and the meaning you give your experience. This is frequency management in biological form, not metaphor.
🧠 Your brain as a tunable instrument
You’re not passively “having” states; you’re generating them through oscillations and network patterns.
- When you drop into calm, focused attention, alpha and low‑beta rhythms increase, and prefrontal control over limbic reactivity improves.
- When you access insight and creativity, theta, gamma coupling supports pattern recognition and novel associations.

Thinking this way, you stop trying to “force” focus, creativity, or confidence. You start shifting into the brain states where they naturally emerge. In practice, that means:
- Using breath and posture to calm the autonomic nervous system before doing deep work.
- Curating sensory input (sound, light, environment) to support the kind of oscillations you want.
You align state before action, so actions become more efficient and less effortful, because your brain’s networks are already configured for the task.

What “quantum triggers” really are in the brain
What you’re calling quantum triggers are highly trainable neuro-associative shortcuts. They work because of well‑known mechanisms:
- Hebbian plasticity: “Cells that fire together wire together.” Pairing a gesture, phrase, or breath with a peak state repeatedly strengthens the synaptic link between cue and state.
- Classical conditioning: Like Pavlov’s dog, your nervous system learns that a specific cue predicts a specific internal configuration. Over time, the cue alone can evoke the state.
- Reticular Activating System (RAS): The RAS filters what gets your attention. When you attach strong meaning and emotion to a trigger, you program the RAS to treat that cue as a “priority signal,” rapidly shifting focus and physiology around it.
So a “quantum trigger” is not magic; it is: pattern interrupt + meaningful cue + emotional intensity + repetition → fast state recall.

Why emotion is the glue
Emotion is not a soft add‑on; it’s the tagging mechanism that tells the brain, “Store this, wire this in, make this easy to find later.”
- Strong emotional arousal recruits amygdala–hippocampal circuits, which deepen memory traces.
- When you repeatedly pair a specific cue (word, gesture, breath) with a desired state and emotional salience, those circuits consolidate, and recall becomes almost automatic.
That’s why flat affirmations with no feeling rarely change anything, and why a single, fully embodied “laser locked” moment, repeated daily, can.

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Your brain doesn’t follow vision boards, it follows embodiment. What feels emotionally real now gets more dopamine, attention, and action than any distant “someday” goal.

Neuroscience research says: your brain is not just a “mind” to fix, it is an electrical‑chemical instrument you can tune on demand. Brainwaves (delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma) and large‑scale networks like the default mode network (DMN) and salience network shift based on where you place attention, how you breathe, and the meaning you give your experience. This is frequency management in biological form, not metaphor.

Your brain as a tunable instrument
You’re not passively “having” states; you’re generating them through oscillations and network patterns.

When you drop into calm, focused attention, alpha and low‑beta rhythms increase, and prefrontal control over limbic reactivity improves.

When you access insight and creativity, theta–gamma coupling supports pattern recognition and novel associations.



Our bodies are living biographies of our earliest experiences, written directly into the nervous system. Neuroscience now shows that patterns laid down in childhood continue to influence how you respond to stress, connect with others, and relate to yourself as an adult. These are not character flaws; they are adaptive survival codes your brain and body created to keep you safe. This doesn’t mean the past defines you, but understanding it can empower growth and healing.

Repeated experiences in childhood literally sculpt neural circuits through Hebbian plasticity – “neurons that fire together, wire together.” Early patterns of safety, attunement, or threat become well‑travelled pathways in brain regions like the amygdala (threat detection), prefrontal cortex (regulation and decision‑making), and insula (body awareness).

- In nurturing environments, the child’s nervous system repeatedly experiences co‑regulation: a calm adult helps the child down‑regulate from stress. Over time this builds stronger prefrontal‑limbic connections, supporting emotional regulation, impulse control, and resilience.
- In environments of chronic stress, criticism, neglect, or unpredictability, the nervous system optimises for survival: hyper‑vigilance, shutdown, people‑pleasing, explosiveness, or numbing. These patterns persist because the brain has learned “this is what keeps me safe.”
What looks like “overreaction” in adulthood is often an efficient, well‑rehearsed survival algorithm firing faster than conscious thought.
The body keeps the neural score
These patterns are not just “in your head”; they are embodied in the full nervous system,  brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. The autonomic nervous system, especially the vagus nerve, encodes your history in:
- Muscle tension and posture (bracing, collapsing, holding the breath).
- Breathing patterns (shallow, fast, constricted) that keep the body in subtle fight‑or‑flight.
- Gut, immune, and cardiovascular responses that stay on “high alert” long after the original threat is gone.

Your body becomes a prediction machine: based on past input, it pre‑loads responses for the future. The good news is that the same neuroplasticity that created these responses can be harnessed to rewire them.
What we often judge as “symptoms”, anxiety, shutdown, emotional reactivity, over‑thinking, people‑pleasing, are the nervous system’s best attempts at protection with the data it had at the time.

Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?” a more accurate, brain‑aligned question is:
- “What did my nervous system have to survive?”
- “What is this pattern trying to protect me from?”
This shift from shame to understanding is itself a regulatory act; self‑compassion reduces limbic activation and creates the safety needed for new wiring to emerge.


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Our bodies are not just flesh and bone; they are living biographies of our earliest experiences, written directly into the nervous system. Neuroscience now shows that patterns laid down in childhood continue to influence how you respond to stress, connect with others, and relate to yourself as an adult. These are not character flaws; they are adaptive survival codes your brain and body created to keep you safe.

The human brain is not powerful because it thinks.
It is powerful because it stores, predicts, and rewires.
The brain's true power is not intelligence.
It is adaptation...

Your brain is also a prediction machine.
Before you move, the brain simulates the movement before you do.
When you see, it predicts what should be there.
Reality reaches your brain after it has already guessed it.

We’re walking around with a living prediction machine: 86 billion neurons, each wiring and rewiring based on what we repeatedly think, feel, and do. Every thought leaves a biological trace; every habit carves a neural pathway; every focused repetition reshapes the architecture that runs our behaviour.​

🧠 And here's the real power:
When a neuron fires repeatedly, the connection physically thickens.
This is called synaptic strengthening.
Thoughts leave biological marks.
Habits carve neural highways.
Focus rewires circuits.
Learning reshapes anatomy.
This ability is called neuroplasticity.
Your brain can reassign functions, recover lost skills, and even change personality traits.
You are not born with a fixed brain.
You are born with a machine that rewrites itself based on how you use it.
This means your “personality” is not a fixed identity, it’s an emergent pattern of well‑rehearsed circuits. Change the pattern of firing and, over time, you change how you perceive, decide, and show up.

Practical ways to start rewiring your brain today:
- Rehearse the future, not the past: Spend 3–5 minutes each morning mentally running the “movie” of how you want to handle key situations; you’re training your prediction machinery in advance.​
- Pair intention with emotion: Don’t just think a new belief – feel it in your body (posture, breath, facial expression); emotion tags circuits for consolidation.​
- Make micro‑reps your default: Instead of one big push, stack tiny, consistent reps (1–3 minutes) of the new behaviour across the day; neuroplasticity responds to frequency more than intensity.​
- Audit your inputs: Your brain rewrites itself according to what you repeatedly consume, discuss, and attend to, treat these as levers, not background noise.​
In my work with NeuroSomatic Breath Repatterning™, I see this every day: when we combine breath, somatic cues, and focused attention, we’re not doing “mindset work”, we’re running precise protocols to retune prediction, perception, and stress responses at the neural level. Adaptation is not just a theory; it’s a trainable skill.

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The human brain is not powerful because it thinks.
It is powerful because it stores, predicts, and rewires.
The brain's true power is not intelligence.
It is adaptation...

Your brain is also a prediction machine.
Before you move, the brain simulates the movement before you do.
When you see, it predicts what should be there.
Reality reaches your brain after it has already guessed it.

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