The Quiet Architecture of Anxiety Hi Reader, Been a crazy busy first week back from travels, loads on the go and still doing a lot of work on the backend of the website and newsletter as well as wrapping up details on a pretty amazing PVT trip I'm hosting at the end of November. So this week, let's get straight into it. Saw the following graphic online, really made me think and then I started writing: There's this thing that happens when anxiety becomes your baseline. You stop noticing the...
8 days ago • 10 min read
The Weight That Sets You Free Hi Reader, Just got back from the Pantanal in Brazil. Jet-lagged as hell, but the good kind. This trip was one of those rare ones where the group just clicked. Easy, fun, no drama and loads of laughs! Everyone got along without anyone having to work at it. Those trips remind you why you do this in the first place. They also remind me when it's time for things to change. For those who've been following along, you know where this is heading. For all intents and...
16 days ago • 9 min read
Hi Reader, First weekend home in quite a while. Still processing the Arctic - the silence, the clarity, the way everything unnecessary just falls away up there. In 72 hours or so I'll be on a plane to Brazil, so this time at home has been about catching up on life, training, and the things that actually matter when you stop moving long enough to notice them. This week I want to talk about something I see every single day. In friends. In colleagues. In the people I work with. We hide. Behind...
30 days ago • 8 min read
Thoughts from the Arctic Hello Reader, I wasn't planning to get a newsletter out today. I'm writing this from EastFjord in Svalbard, two days away from finishing another incredible expedition in the Arctic. But this place does something to you - strips away the noise, leaves you with clarity that demands to be shared. We've had eight days of pure magic. Seven polar bears, including one unforgettable moment where a bear walked straight into a group of around 300 walruses. The kind of wildlife...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
The Weight of a Broken World 3:47 AM. Another sleepless night scrolling through the wreckage of human decency. You know that feeling, don't you? That hollow pit in your stomach when you witness another social media mob tearing someone apart. Another family dinner ruined by political rage. Another friendship sacrificed on the altar of being right. Here's what's eating at me – and if you're honest, it's eating at you too: We've forgotten how to be human to each other. When did we lose the...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
The Last Week, Cape Town and a Mindset Summit Hello Reader, It's been one of those stretches where everything just lined up perfectly. Started with Sani Pass - those mountain roads with good mates, the kind of trip where real conversations happen between the curves. Something about being up there that cuts through the usual small talk and gets to what actually matters. Spent a few days at Pilanesberg after that, deliberately staying offline. Just me, some focused work, and enough quiet to...
about 2 months ago • 12 min read
The Rest You’re Not Optimizing Hi Reader and welcome to Sunday. I’m writing this after just getting home from Clarens this morning, following an incredible few days that included a 4x4 drive up the Sani Pass. My Tank 300 was an absolute beast - handled everything the mountain threw at it. I am deep in the process of building the new MAPC platform right now. Pilanesberg next week followed by Cape Town, then one final week at home before heading to Svalbard on the 16th. The new platform is...
2 months ago • 3 min read
It's Time To Stop Performing Your Growth Hello Reader! Welcome to Sunday and I hope life is being kind. Last week I wrote about the work you're avoiding. About how the magic you're looking for is in the stuff you keep putting off, and how you need to stop waiting for confidence to arrive before you start. The response was pretty intense. Lots of people recognizing themselves in that mirror, finally ready to stop negotiating with the part of them that's been keeping them stuck. But here's what...
2 months ago • 12 min read
The Work You're Avoiding Hi Reader Week one off social media has been great. No notifications, no distractions, just slowly chipping away at what matters. Training harder, writing more, making real progress on Greenland planning, and building the programs that have been stuck in my head for months. The shift from thinking about things to actually doing them feels right. What I wrote below started as a note to myself this week, but it applies to anyone tired of their own excuses. The Magic...
3 months ago • 3 min read