Sean Dunne - Dominium Capital

03/06/2026

𝗜 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘄𝗮𝗯.

𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹.

After 25 years leading AFL clubs, Cameron found himself sitting in a classroom surrounded by teenagers learning how to paint.

One day, a lecturer pulled him aside and said:

“You do art like a CEO.”

It wasn’t a compliment.

The message?

Sometimes our greatest strength becomes our biggest limitation.

As leaders, founders and business owners, we can become so attached to our own ideas that we leave little room for others to contribute.

One line from our conversation has stayed with me:

“My best leadership was where I created the conditions for good people to step into.”

And another:

✅ It takes curiosity to learn.

✅ It takes courage to unlearn.

A powerful conversation about leadership, reinvention, identity and what comes next when success no longer looks the way you thought it would.

🎙️ Season 2 of Origin to Ambition is now live.

🔗 Link in bio.

Founder Podcast LeadershipDevelopment AFL

01/06/2026

🚨 𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱...
Not because you hate your business.

Because your business has become your only plan.

I meet business owners every week who genuinely love what they do.
They enjoy serving clients.
They enjoy leading their team.
They enjoy the challenge of building something meaningful.

But when I ask them what their financial future looks like if they stop working tomorrow, the room often goes quiet.

❌ Their income comes from the business.
❌ Their wealth is tied up in the business.
❌ Their future depends on the business.
❌ Their retirement strategy is to sell the business one day.

The problem?

A business can be a fantastic asset.
But it is a terrible retirement plan if it’s your only asset.

What happens if:
• You become ill or injured?
• The market changes?
• A key staff member leaves?
• A buyer never appears?
• You simply decide you’ve had enough?

This is why I encourage business owners to focus on three foundations:

✅ Cashflow
Build, strengthen and release surplus cashflow from the business and household.
✅ Asset Creation
Systematically build assets outside the business so that your future isn’t dependent on one asset or one eventual sale event.
✅ Asset Protection
Protect what you’ve built from illness, injury, creditors and predators.

When these three foundations work together, something powerful happens.
You gain options.

You can continue running the business because you want to.

Not because you have to.

That’s why one of the first conversations I have with business owners isn’t about investments, superannuation or insurance.

It’s about three simple questions:

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 do you want?
𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 do you want it?
𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 whom do you want to share it?

Because once those answers become clear, the pathway to financial security, independence and freedom often becomes much clearer as well.

No sales pitch.

Just something worth thinking about if you’ve spent years building a business but haven’t yet built a plan beyond it.

27/05/2026

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to present on the importance of becoming “Business Exit Ready”.

Interestingly, being exit ready is not necessarily about wanting to sell your business tomorrow. In many cases, it’s about building a business - and a personal financial position - that gives you greater choice, flexibility and control over your future.

I often speak about the importance of building a life where you can do:

• WHAT you want
• WHEN you want
• WITH the people you want to do it with

For many business owners, however, the reality is that the business can become so dependent on them that stepping away - even temporarily - feels almost impossible.

That’s why the foundations matter.

For me, the journey toward becoming “exit ready” broadly centres around three key areas:

✅ 1. Build, strengthen and release cashflow
Improving the profitability, efficiency and consistency of business cashflow.

✅ 2. Build assets for income and financial security
Creating wealth and investment assets outside the business itself, so personal financial security is not entirely dependent on ongoing business performance.

✅ 3. Establish strong asset protection foundations
Ensuring the structures, insurances and planning foundations are in place to help protect what has been built over time.

Ironically, the businesses that become truly “exit ready” are often the ones owners enjoy running the most - because they are no longer trapped by them.

Thank you again to Paul Veldman and everyone involved for the opportunity to present over the weekend.

24/05/2026

24/05/2026

Back for Day 2 at the Martial Arts Business Success Conference, organised by Paul Veldman.

Today’s presentation topic:

📌 Aspirational Wealth Planning — Don’t Follow the Pack.

A topic I’m genuinely passionate about, because real wealth creation isn’t just about chasing numbers or “keeping up”.

It’s about building a position where you can do WHAT you want, WHEN you want, WITH the people you want to do it with.

Looking forward to another great day of discussion with ambitious business owners and entrepreneurs. Looking forward to Nicholas Sapsead’s presentation on ensuring your website doesn’t leak sales and Danielle Drew’s talk about the public speaking advantage!

Thanks again to Paul Veldman and the MABS community for the opportunity to contribute.

23/05/2026

Excited to be presenting today at the Martial Arts Business Success Conference, organised by Paul Veldman, speaking on a topic I’m incredibly passionate about:

📌 Getting your business “Exit Ready”.

Because if your business isn’t exit ready, it’s probably not truly business ready.

Looking forward to sharing ideas, strategies and practical insights with business owners today - and very much looking forward to presenting again tomorrow for Day 2 as well and listening in on Danielle Drew’s presentation on “The Public Speaking Advantage”.

Big thanks again to Paul Veldman and the MABS community for the opportunity.

22/05/2026

With all the negativity around the economy, interest rates, tax changes and uncertainty lately… here’s something I’m genuinely excited and optimistic about.

This weekend, I’ll be speaking at the MABS Boardroom Conference on Saturday, and again as part of the broader Sunday conference agenda, on two topics I’m incredibly passionate about:

📌 “Exit Ready” — because if your business isn’t exit ready, it’s not truly business ready.

📌 “Aspirational Wealth Creation — Don’t Follow the Pack”

For me, both topics ultimately come back to the same idea:

Building a business and financial position that gives you the ability to do WHAT you want, WHEN you want, WITH the people you want to do it with.

Too many business owners end up:
❌ trapped by cashflow;
❌ trapped by debt;
❌ trapped by operational dependency; or
❌ trapped because the business only works if they show up every single day.

I believe real wealth creation is about creating options, flexibility and freedom — not just accumulating “stuff” or endlessly chasing revenue for the sake of it.

Really looking forward to sharing some practical ideas, challenging a few conventional thoughts, and having some great conversations across the weekend.

Thanks again to Paul Veldman and the MABS team for the opportunity to be involved.

21/05/2026

The irony is that we were discussing this exact issue in the office earlier this week.

The AFR article below highlights something many people seem to be missing: the ATO already has extensive anti-avoidance provisions dealing with inappropriate “income splitting” through discretionary trusts.

Which is why the proposal for a blanket 30% minimum tax on discretionary trusts increasingly looks less like genuine reform… and more like a straightforward revenue grab.

And, respectfully, we also need to move past the tired narrative that discretionary trusts are somehow only “for the rich”.

Many ordinary Australian small businesses operate through discretionary trust structures for legitimate commercial, asset protection and succession planning reasons.

Equally, discretionary testamentary trusts are a long-established estate planning tool - often designed less for “tax minimisation” and more for protecting intergenerational wealth transfers from future relationship breakdowns, bankruptcy risks, litigation exposure, or vulnerable beneficiaries.

That’s a very different discussion to the simplistic political framing currently being pushed.

The budget papers’ justification for a new tax on discretionary trusts relies on models that would already be flagged as tax avoidance under existing laws.