About me

I was born in Odessa, Ukraine and spent much of my early childhood travelling and living in Odessa, Moscow, Melbourne, Larnaca (Cyprus), until settling in Auckland, New Zealand.

I was always extremely involved and interested in sports and fitness. After completing my BComm at the University of Auckland, I went onto becoming a certified personal trainer.

On the face of things, I had all the 'right' things. The esteemed business degree, married, two kids, had owned two homes in Auckland, a business sales management position in the FMCG industry. But there was something missing. I wasn't fulfilled. My mind was not clear. I was always chasing something to make me happy, like the next promotion, the next salary review, a bigger and better house, I always 'just needed' to lose that last 10kg, but these were all 'things'. I wasn't happy. In fact, I couldn't even remember the last time I had even been happy. So, I gave it all up (except the kids, they get to stay), all in my pursuit of happiness.

Now, the pursuit of happiness is no joke. It's the journey of all journey's and at times you have to go to some deep and dark places to find the answers you are looking for. I can tell you finding clarity and creating a solid direction is a feeling like no other. That feeling of finally knowing exactly what you want from life, where you're going and how you're going to do it and then actually doing it. The things that you said you wanted or were going to do but never did by allowing your fears, insecurities, low self-esteem, confidence issues or even possibly a lack of moral support to talk yourself out of it. Inevitably, leaving you feeling worse for not achieving those things then you were at the start. The answers are there, they lie inside of you and most of you either don't know it yet or know it and have no idea how to find them. 

Here's where I come in.