So, who am I?.... More importantly who do I think I am, to tell you that the pain, the frustration, the confusion and the disappointment you feel, can in fact end!

The answer to that is easy.. I'm you!... and her.... and him and them over there! I'm human just like you, and as I'm just like you, then I'm evidence and testimonial that YOU can make what currently seems like the impossible happen!

But I guess you need to see some facts to understand that! Ok a little bit about me.... and trust me, you get it warts and all!..so sit back, relax, and I'll begin!

I was born to parents of traditional values that you would find almost anywhere in a South Wales mining community back in the early seventies. My father ran his own car body repair business, my mum looked after us kids and helped him with his paperwork! We lived in a nice house had a car and even went on holidays to Spain. I was the youngest by far (though i have it on good assurance I wasn't a mishap!) of three children, not particularly suited to academia, i spent my adolescence with a deep seated feeling that I had something special to give, an amazing life to live...but no idea what it was and easily distracted by teenage hormones!

Leaving school at sixteen, I found myself in an engineering apprenticeship; married young and had two beautiful kids. I did everything I should have to be a typical Welsh Valley's family man! Which included listening to every "thoughtful" word about: not being pushy; how that I couldn't achieve much more without a degree; how money was hard to come by; dreams were for fools; that happiness was a luxury and I should be grateful to have a job; and how only really gifted people become wealthy and successful!.... and I took it all in, I accepted unhappiness and stress as my lot in life, supported in this argument by all the other people in the same position, as if trying to justify our own failure to follow our dreams and be happy!..... Those many voices became one, an ever moaning one, inside my mind that doubted me and my value! I made pictures up of me failing, told myself I couldn't do it and felt my confidence fall.

I fought like hell against it though, and threw myself into high stress jobs in companies I didn't like, sought out added responsibilities way above my capabilities in an attempt to impress, blindly climbed each step up the ladder, driven my need for happiness, thinking it could be bought with salaries!!! Until as with all lies, suburban life came crashing down.

To protect the innocent (and not so innocent) I shall not go into the detail, but suffice to say that following on from a broken marriage, there came clinical depression, excessive and dangerous alcohol misuse, inappropriate relationships, job losses, the darker side of city life and random violence. I'd gone from being Mr Average, mild mannered semi professional career junky and suburban family man; to near bankrupt, skipping from job to job, working as a city centre bouncer, bar-man, asbestos stripper and soldier: From owning my own home to living on friends floors, moonlight flits from rented accommodation to escape drug gangs, to rooms above pubs.

There was at that time only one semi-stable element in my life, where the British Army did its best to discipline me and give me strength and confidence in myself once more. Even that had its down sides, when in summer of 2003 I was mobilised and posted to serve in Basrah, Southern Iraq for six months. The result of that little adventure was the end of another long-term (though far from stable) relationship, no job, nowhere to live, a slight case of post traumatic stress disorder and sense of complete abandonment and on the verge of turning back to drink!

I was at that time, the lowest I'd ever been, yet Iraq had taught me one thing, that most of life troubles are nothing compared to someone wanting to shoot you!......And then I had my revelation, my epiphany, my awakening....I don't actually care what label you attach to it, but one concept/idea/philosophy started me on a path that was to create a world where depression does not exist, where hope is eternal, and limits are there to be ignored!..... My close and loyal friends consider me to have sold my soul to the devil in January 2004. I of course know different and want to show you how to make significant changes in your life, just as I did!

So where am I now?

Well given my "suburban" years and the last six, I've now got over 20 years experience across the SME and Corporate environments, in both the Public and Private sectors, I've held Technical, Consultancy and Managerial positions. During the last four years I became a Corporate Director and have grown multi-million pound businesses and been involved with and benefited from acquisitions and business sales, I live a life most people envy. And During that Time, I've used the skills, knowledge and philosophy that I'm going to show you to achieve huge success. More importantly, yes sure I know what success looks like on the outside, and I've paid the price for it on the inside too. However over the last few years, I learned who I was and what my values are, and from that point, set about being who I needed to be to achieve "happy" success on the inside as well as out.

"You don't have to be rich to be happy, but then again being happy doesn't stop you being rich either!"

Oh, on the serious side, just so you know I'm not just some crazy guy with a crazy idea, I've got the paperwork to prove it: A Certified Mastermind Executive Coach and Licensed Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotic Practice, I've trained under Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP), Paul McKenna and follow the works and paths of other internationally renowned Coaches and Personal Development Professional such as Michael Neill and Jamie Smart. While I value the people who signed the paperwork, my Coaching Change-work skills and development are based upon dynamic learning at source and practical application with real people (I find they say thank you more than dummies).

Underneath it all, my own personal goals are directed towards helping others in achieving the same level of success, be it personal or business, and living life through aligned values, using the gifts I was born with. My mission in life is to show and help others to do what I have done... That way, we're all happy!

So that's my story.... what's yours, and how can I help change it? Just go to my Contacts Page to email me direct, or leave a response to My Blog