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Late last year I met with a friend of mine. I was expecting a good conversation but within it he’d say a few words that have led to an experience of a life-time: the words “would you like to climb Mt Kilimanjaro?” Do you reckon I could, was my response… then without...

This is a thank you to all the mentors out there, all the people who give their time, who understand that our success in life is not determined by what we achieve individually but through how we learn from our experiences to move, to connect, to care, to inspire a...

On a recent flight I had an awesome talk with the man beside me about inspiration, connection, challenge and attitudes within the world. Speaking about the power of communication to eliminate assumption we got to the point where he said, “You could...

“You have a great vision, you know what you’ve got, you know what you want, but you identify your lack of desired outcomes buy saying ’someday I’m going to succeed”. A teacher shared these words with me once I’d come out of a...

We live in a world where our perception of ourselves, others, and all that surrounds us is so influential in the lives we live. As a speaker I love learning from everyday experiences, and as someone living with Cerebral Palsy I get some very interesting perspectives...

During May 2018 I was in the most beautiful part of the world... Queenstown! With the autumn leaves the hills were covered in shades of orange, red, and yellow, and with a dusting of snow it was like icing on top of a cake. It was truly majestic and calm, at...

Last month I was speaking at a conference in Hawaii and on the way home I bought a book entitled ‘the subtle art of not give a f**k’. I found this title humorous and contradictory to the environment in which I found it found it in. Back home at...

The other week I was in a conference watching some truly great names tell their stories and be interviewed on how to build, lead and leave great teams. I guess the ultimate desire of an event like this was to inspire everyone to consider their role in society and what...

Isn’t it funny the things we remember in our life, things that occurred so long ago or from the smallest of interactions. One of my my earliest memories is my primary school friend Logan. He was a tough little soldier; walking to school barefoot and one day I...

No matter the number of flights I do in a year, or where I’m going, I continue to get a huge thrill and learn so much from the experience of travel. I like to have fun with my dreams when going through airports and on occasion opt for the incognito look not...

Monday morning; wake up have breakfast. Get in car. Go to work. Look up and see the Sky Tower. Meet with people and in places I know. Wednesday morning, wake up have breakfast, but where is the breakfast I know? Navigate the subway. Look up and see the Empire State...

To start of this column I wanted a nice positive quote about ‘trust’. Jumping on Google I thought this would be easy, that the perfect quote would pop of the screen, instead I scrolled, and I scrolled, and I scrolled through quotes that YES were about...

How was your… I think you would like… I just wanted to write a short message to say… Communication whether it be through the words we say or emotions we display is one of the the most important things for optimising our network. Be it online on...

“There is life how it is and life how we think it should be, the more we cling to the latter the more we struggle” - Andy Puddicombe. The other day I was at an event talking with a man for whom I had respect for and whom I believed had respect for me....

Ka Mate Ka Mate, Ka ora Ka ora it was these words that raced around my mind as All Black after All Black (our national sporting legends) filtered into the lounge at Auckland International Airport, they were departing for Argentina, mum and I were off to New York City....

When life throws us a curveball there are three things I have found that will serve us well; humour, strength and balance. Recently I was speaking at the MAS (Medical Assurance Society) Talks in Dunedin. The audience was medical professionals from diverse fields of...

Life is one awesome journey and on it we can come across people who question why they do what they do. Many of these people have the potential to be or are already leaders, trail blazers and there's a reason they find themselves in this place, it's because...

As a speaker with Cerebral Palsy I regularly go to speak in schools and get asked "how did you respond to bullies when you were at school?” I feel useless that I can't answer it to the degree that one may expect, that I don’t have a black and...

Last year a good friend of mine brought me a jigsaw puzzle with the words Dream Big surrounded by illustrations of the sorts of dreams people have. The completed image looked totally awesome but as a jigsaw I thought to myself what the heck! One, it was a thousand...

The other day I’m in my office that over looks a whole lot of empty land plots. I see this car pull up and a couple get out with their dog because it’s the perfect place for their dog to play catch with a ball, for the dog its game time, it’s wagging...

The other day I’m at this conference and as I finish my speech and appreciate the audience applause I’m given a brown paper bag by the M.C and I’m thinking this is one of two things, my left over lunch or a gift. Now usually it’s a bottle of...

Public speaking is ranked up there as one of the most terrifying things we can do, in regards to stress it is right up there with buying a house. Just as with buying a house, it can be one of the most rewarding things we do. In actual fact the things that challenge us...

I want to kick things of with a thought about that four letter word we use when things are good and bad, it rhymes with truck, buck, and duck that’s right I’m thinking about ‘LUCK’ and how it comes about. Luck isn’t so much something that...

  How do we motivate ourselves to keep going? To keep going when life throws us obstacles? Let’s face it when we build our dreams / our lives unpredictability is gong to happen. Maybe we wake up on the day of a presentation not feeling to well, maybe we...