Fail File: David Pretorius, Jarden adviser & Catwalk Trust chair

Fail File: David Pretorius, Jarden adviser & Catwalk Trust chair
David Pretorius: "I have a theory that life works like a heartbeat." (Image: Supplied)
Victoria Carter
Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to a guest about failure and disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to David Pretorius, Jarden wealth management adviser and chair of the Catwalk Trust. I was really disappointed when: I had lived my early years as a bit of a rule-follower. I believed, naively, that if you’re a good person, good things happen to you. And so, when my four-year-old son died in a car accident in 2010, in the blink of an eye, everything I’d ever believed in collapsed around me.&nb...

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