My Wild Ride Story

Long before starting my YouTube Channel, I was a writer. I've been writing ever since I could pick up a pencil. It began with poetry and when I was ten years old, I - well my parents - published my first book which was creatively titled, Poems of A Ten Year Old.

This led to a lifelong dream of becoming an actual published author which I achieved in 2012 with my first book, Real, Raw & Original: An Authentic Approach to Public Speaking (born from overcoming a paralysing fear of public speaking).

I went on to publish several more books including three memoirs, Finding Paris, Meet Me In Milan and Write Way Home: Writing My Way Back To A Meaningful Life. In 2023, I published my first Law of Assumption book, I AM Money: Assume A New Story & Enjoy More Money.

Alongside my writing career, I was a corporate trainer and coach specialising in communication and public speaking skills. This was more of an accidental career. After doing numerous public speaking courses in a bid to overcome my paralysing fear of it, someone asked if I would be interested in running the course. I reluctantly said yes and spent the next 10 years coaching and training managers and executives to become more confident and effective presenters.

In early 2021, after 20+ years of working and writing, I took a much needed break to figure out what I wanted to do next. Having always loved our elders and with an interest in the End of Life space, I became a qualified Support Worker and got a job in Aged Care. The plan was to start a business helping people prepare their end of life paperwork.

But then I rediscovered the teachings of Neville Goddard and after experiencing incredible results in my own life, I realised I wanted to help people live their best life now rather than prepare for the end of it. This reignited my passion for teaching and I began posting videos on YouTube. My channel grew quickly as did the requests for coaching. I dusted off my Life Coaching qualification and got to work. And it's been the greatest, most rewarding work I've ever done.

These days I live a beautiful and simple life on NSW's North Coast with my dog, Dora. And it really is all thanks to I AM.

Professional Qualifications

BA Human Movement

Graduate Certificate in Writing

Certificate IV Life Coaching

Cert IV Business Management

Cert IV Training and Assessment

Certificate IV Individual Support

Non-Professional Qualifications

Numerous questionable decisions

Plenty of failures

A ridiculous amount of therapy

One too many yoga teacher trainings

A handful of relationship break ups

A week in a hospital psych ward

Way to many self help books

Unknowingly joining a cult (and getting out of it)

Character building travel experiences from living abroad

Two 10-day Vipassana Meditation retreats

Losing money in the stockmarket

In other words, life!

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