WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
In Their Own Words
Accounts from Malaysians who have completed Brassdale courses — what brought them, what they found, and what changed after.
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PARTICIPANT REVIEWS
A Selection of Recent Feedback
Lim Wei Ling
Petaling Jaya · The Household Ledger
I have tried budgeting apps twice. Both times I kept it up for about six weeks and then the habit collapsed. The Household Ledger is different — it asks less of you mechanically and more of you attentively. By the third week I found I was actually looking forward to the Saturday morning entry. It's been four months now.
March 2025
Ramesh Nair
Subang Jaya · Education Funding
My daughter is fourteen. I enrolled in this course not knowing quite what I was looking for — just a clearer picture. The session on SSPN-i was especially useful; I had assumed it was simpler than it is. The worksheets took a weekend to complete properly but they gave me something concrete to work from. I would have appreciated a little more on overseas costs for ASEAN institutions, but overall a thoughtful course.
February 2025
Faridah Omar
Shah Alam · Business Succession
I have owned a small trading business for nineteen years. My eldest son has been working alongside me for four, but neither of us had ever spoken clearly about what happens when I retire. This course gave me the vocabulary and the structure to begin that conversation. The module on the transition calendar was particularly grounding — it made the whole thing feel less abstract and more like a project I could actually plan.
April 2025
Tan Chee Keong
Klang · The Household Ledger
I retired earlier this year and suddenly the household finances were entirely in my hands. I enrolled partly out of anxiety and partly out of curiosity. The first session was quite simple, which I appreciated — it did not assume I was lost, just that I was starting fresh with this practice. The ledger template is now filled in for every month since March.
April 2025
Noraini Ibrahim
Kuala Lumpur · Education Funding
What I appreciated most was the honesty. I had been sold two education insurance products in the past five years by agents who made it all sound very straightforward. This course helped me understand what I had actually purchased and what it was and was not going to do. The section on having the conversation with my son about shared responsibility for his fees was something I had not expected to find in a course like this, but it was useful.
March 2025
Yong Teck Siong
Ipoh · Business Succession
I attended a succession planning seminar two years ago run by a law firm. It was thorough on the legal side but the whole event felt like an extended pitch for their services. This was different — the course had no interest in what I decided to do. It just helped me see the options and the considerations. I am still working through the planning workbook, which is exactly as it should be.
January 2025
CASE STUDIES
Three Participant Journeys in Detail
THE SITUATION
A Retired Teacher, Petaling Jaya
After thirty-one years in the classroom, Hajah Salmah retired at 58. Her husband had managed their household finances throughout their marriage. When he passed in 2023, she found herself uncertain about where money was going — and felt she ought to know.
THE COURSE
The Household Ledger · 4 Weeks
She completed the course over five weeks — taking an extra week on Session 2 to work through her category choices carefully. She found the slow pace appropriate. "There was no pressure to rush, and that mattered to me."
WHAT FOLLOWED
Eight Months of Continuous Records
By her own account, she now has a clearer sense of her monthly outgoings than at any point in her adult life. The practice has not changed her spending; it has changed her relationship to it. She says she feels more settled about money than she did eighteen months ago.
"I did not need someone to tell me what to do. I needed to understand what was in front of me. That is what the course gave me."
THE SITUATION
A Civil Engineer, Johor Bahru
David Chong, 47, has two children aged 14 and 11. He was aware that tertiary education costs were rising and that he was approaching the point of needing to act, but had avoided the subject partly because the numbers seemed large and partly because he was unsure where to start.
THE COURSE
Saving for Education in Midlife · 6 Sessions
He completed all six sessions over seven weeks. The sessions on insurance product limitations prompted him to request the full policy documents for two products he had purchased — and to read them, for the first time, carefully.
WHAT FOLLOWED
A Written Plan, Not a Rushed Decision
He did not change his existing products but adjusted his SSPN-i contributions and revised his own retirement projections to show the education-funding years explicitly. "I no longer have a vague anxiety about this. I have a set of figures I review twice a year."
"The course did not tell me I was wrong about what I had done. It helped me understand what I had done, and what it would and would not accomplish."
THE SITUATION
A Textile Business Owner, Kuala Lumpur
Encik Azman, 61, has operated a textile wholesale business for twenty-four years. He had a daughter who expressed interest in continuing the business and a nephew who also worked there. He had not formalised anything and found the topic difficult to raise directly with either of them.
THE COURSE
Small Business Succession · 9 Modules
He completed the course over eleven weeks, pausing on Module 7 for two weeks while he had some preliminary conversations with his daughter. "I needed the course to give me a language for it. Before that, I did not know how to begin."
WHAT FOLLOWED
A Five-Year Transition Underway
He engaged a corporate lawyer (not through Brassdale) and began documenting the transition. His daughter has taken on greater operational responsibility, and a formal timeline for the handover has been agreed with the family. The planning workbook is in use.
"The most valuable session for me was the one on conversations. I had the knowledge eventually — I just needed to know it was not as frightening a topic as I had made it."
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From end-of-course feedback across all three programmes, March 2024 – March 2025.
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