Helping People Reinvent Themselves — One Story at a Time

I am weird, there is no denying it, in fact I proudly embrace it. My wife calls it quirky, but I prefer weird as it means I don’t fit the definition of normal. I hope you can learn to embrace your weirdness too. Greatness can only be achieved by stepping outside of your normal and being different. Every one of us is weird and yet, like most of you, I have constantly tried to hide it instead all too often wearing the ill-fitting suit of normality. Join me in yelling No more!

I consider myself as an explorer of life and am on a never-ending quest to discover all life can offer. Like all explorers, we delve into the unknown and less common. My two books Sort Your Sh!t Out and Mastering the Art of reinvention are guidebooks resulting from my adventures and explorations. Humour is something that can bring light into our darkest moments. My laidback writing uses humour and life experiences to provide practical guides to changing lives.

I have had over 44 different jobs throughout my life and counting. Try out The Gig Game to see what your count is. I have been a teacher, lecturer, consultant, topless waiter and actor. I have been a startup founder and CEO advisor who has both succeeded and failed along the way. Sometimes I feel like I am the real-life Forest Gump as my life has allowed me to lead the creation of a bank for famous people, play a key role during COVID, teach people to load planes, fly planes, run a fashion business, abseil into live volcanoes, get altitude sickness trekking through the Himalayas and surf waves with dolphins.

Despite doing all these things, my biggest challenge is the continual fight to overcome my inner feelings of not being enough. Along the journey of self-discovery to manage my darkness of depression I consulted a gaggle of counsellors always looking for that one magic pill that could fix it all. Some sat there and patiently listened to me, while others sent me on my way telling me there was nothing they could do for me. Oh the shame, I was even failing at being an insecure depressive patient. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that there was no pill, but rather a path that can lead to realising that life is not all roses. Sometimes you are going to get pricked by the thorns, but if you keep moving forward and doing the work you can avoid life’s pricks. That is why mastering the art of reinvention is so critical.

I have been featured in over 80 media outlets including Channel 10, Channel 7 Sunrise, News.com.au, CEO World, Body + Soul, Australian Financial Review, Manspace, The CEO Magazine, Maxim, The Australian, Nova Radio, ABC Radio, and many more.

Some of my key life learnings are:

• Be yourself, everyone else is taken.

• Success comes with failure

• This too shall pass

• Be weird, normal will not let you shine

• Kindness is a superpower

• Give it a go, you never know what you will learn along the way