29/08/2026
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I ended up in a job I hated. Quitting to qualify as a PT was the first decision I made to take charge of my own life.
I had no gym and no clients, so I needed experience more than anything. James was my mate and my first ever client, in a local park, with kit I’d bought from Lidl.
You can’t build anything impressive training people in a park, so I moved into a local gym and built a name for myself in the area. When things turned sour with
the owner I decided I’d rather back myself, and this was the first kit I bought for my own place.
The studio filled up fast, 50+ people a week, and it was the first time I’d had any real control over my own life. My head never stopped though. I spent my weekends trying to escape the busyness of my own mind. My health took a battering in this season.
Running a studio with 50+ people a week, and I did what everyone does for their 21st birthday and bought a dog off my neighbour. No thought went into it at all. You’ll spot that pattern more than once in here.
A month into lockdown it was clear it wasn’t reopening. 20,000 hours building that place and it was gone overnight, with no idea what came next.
I gave myself a month of feeling sorry for myself and then put £10,000 I didn’t really have into a mentor. The online world was tiny back then and everyone told me not to do it. I did it anyway.
Things started to work. And once the work could happen from anywhere, I left my hometown, moved down south and started travelling a lot more.
I had the freedom I’d been chasing my whole life and the business stopped moving. It was
fine, made a bit of money but nowhere near what it should have been. It stayed that way for
years. Everything felt heavier for me than it looked for everybody else and I couldn’t work out why.
The first time in my life my head had ever been quiet. It became my version of meditation and I was obsessed straight away. It was also the moment I realised how loud my mind was the rest of the time.
£150k on mentors and courses across those years. I had a library of knowledge and couldn’t apply any of it consistently. So I came to the only conclusion I had left, whi
