Why are we here? What is the point of it all? To live our best lives? To do our best work? To find happiness?
Where do we find happiness?

‘There is a woman…. and the way she wears her wildness is intoxicating. Luxurious, ferocious. stylish… she is untamed of heart but sophisticated of stance.

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.’. This is the opening line to the extraordinary poem The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer.  A poem introduced to me by Nick Clitheroe, a good friend … Read more

For most of us it’s not that we’re ‘dying’ wondering but that we’re actually ‘living’ wondering instead! We forget that we still have that choice. But how might you come to reflect on your life and the choices you’ve made and meaning of it should you find yourself faced with the very real potential of … Read more

Ultimately, all of the stuck places in our life are only solved by going through something… They don’t just magically disappear, that is the fantasy of childhood!’ ~ OOOFFFTT! It was way back in early 2017 that someone first handed me a copy of James Hollis’ book ‘Finding Meaning in the 2nd Half of Life … Read more

In 2019, 41 year old ‘purpose coach’, Nick Clitheroe, was diagnosed with bowel cancer. Wallop. Sh*t got real. Taking advice from his doctors he chose to do the most sensible thing suggested and had surgery, undertook a course of chemotherapy, switched up his diet and took time out to rest and recover. Whilst he considered … Read more

‘As I breathe this moment with a simple breath, the world grows clearer with this new lense and I could smile… As I surrender the worry that I’m not enough, my heart grows wider, wide enough to feel… To feel that we are one, we are ‘gold’ and we raise up, raise…’ When you really … Read more

I don’t know about you but learning how to love and accept myself is just about the most elusive lesson I’ve yet to learn with any sense of mastery. And in the absence of knowing how my inner critic runs amok and can make me feel a fool. Worse still, it can play havoc with … Read more

You find me on this episode at another crossroads in my life. Having come so far and yet still feeling like I’m missing the point somewhat. Feeling like I’m still getting wrapped up in how to will things to work and exhausting myself in the process, not really being any the better for it.  Time … Read more

Tune in as I interview David Hieatt, Mr Howies, Hiut Denim and DO Lectures himself about what it means to be alive, backing yourself and DOing your own thing. As you’ll quickly learn, he wasn’t a man that necessarily had the means or the qualifications. Instead he just put himself in the right environments to … Read more

oin me as I take a deep dive into what it really means to say ‘F**K IT’ in our lives with the author and creator of the books and infamous retreats of the same name and fame, John C. Parkin. An insanely curious, dry witted northern bloke with a healthy and very humorous knack for … Read more

Join me as I take a deeper dive into the life changing magic of saying ‘f**k it’ and the idea that ‘you’ll never hold it right if you can’t let it go’. In life, your relationships, your work projects, your kids, the ideas you have for yourself, your Instagram ‘strategy’, how to show up in … Read more