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Ex sports pros: Client meeting skills should be part of advice curriculum

Lewis was interested in coaching and also met other advisers early on, so combining the two seemed like an inevitable outcome.

"I was doing some work experience and I was lucky enough to meet another adviser quite early on [who] was very pro the sort of human aspect, the behavioural aspect of financial planning and that just enforced the fact that to me... it joined basically the two things that I really enjoyed outside of rugby in personal finance and coaching and [I] just cracked on with my exams and that was it really."

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