I started with a blender. Now I build networks.

The short version

Fear first. Then everything else.

Standing in front of a camera was the most frightening thing I could imagine. That is exactly why I pursued it. I decided early that my fears would not control me. I saw actors who had a platform to be heard, to make the world a better place, to actually help people. I wanted that. Not the fame. The microphone. The chance to say something that mattered.

Then I realised business could do the same thing. Not on a stage. One conversation at a time. That is how I got into entrepreneurship.

That led me to health. I picked up a blender, travelled across Australia, and started learning everything I could about the human body. I talked to doctors, nutritionists, trainers, biohackers. I thought I understood health because I could make a good smoothie. Then I started having real conversations with people who had spent decades studying it, and I realised I was barely scratching the surface.

That was 15 years ago. Since then I have built businesses, lost businesses, lived in more countries than I can count, and had thousands of conversations with entrepreneurs and investors who are trying to build something that matters.

Five years ago it all fell apart. Business collapsed. Relationship over. Faith gone. I was left with nothing but the question every man eventually has to face: who am I when everything is stripped away?

A friend invited me on a water fast. I said yes because I had nothing left to lose. I planned on 5 days. I did 14. By the end of it I was a different man. Not fixed. Not finished. Reset. Everything I have built since traces back to that moment.