My First Profession

At first, I followed a traditional path with my life being encouraged to become a scientist. I knew early on that it wasn’t the path for me, but I was encouraged to stick with it. I had a great time at University; it helped me open my mind to the bigger world around me and to mix with an interesting range of people.

A New Direction

After gaining a degree in Chemistry, my first job was in the pharmaceutical industry as a microbiologist. One day I just walked out and never returned and went straight into show business for ten years of my life. When I left that profession, I took a long hard look at my life to decide my new direction. Apart from the chemistry degree period, I had always followed my heart and my passion. Although, even the University period of my life was right for me at the time as I find real science and exploration exciting. Also, I feel this period of my life set me up with thinking in a very clear scientific way about the issues that clients bring to me, certainly useful.

A Genuine and Authentic Passion For Helping People

The next section of my life also needed to be genuine and authentic for me. I am passionate about helping people. To me, that has the utmost value in life, which gives life meaning, I knew whatever I did next had to include that. I also love learning, if you choose to do something, do it to the best of your ability. There are no half measures for me, never have been, so seeking knowledge at the cutting edge and applying it to help others ticked every box for me. I chose to train as a psycho-hypnotherapist. Fascinating stuff, interestingly enough during this time I found out my father had been a hypnotherapist in the nineteen fifties. Interesting!

Training In Counselling Leads To…

Then I added to my skills base by training in counseling, working in a doctor’s surgery for a year in addition to my private practice. My thirst for knowledge led me to training in NLP and to America, where I became an American Board of Neurolinguistic Programming (ABNLP) recognized training institute and also a hypnotherapy trainer. The training had been a challenge but invigorating, the best kind of training, it pushed me, just what I needed and wanted.

Back In The UK

Next, back in the UK, I trained in EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques. I went on to become an EFT trainer, one of the first in the country recognized by an organization called the EFT International. At this point, I started running both NLP and EFT training courses. Then I went to America and trained with Gary Craig, the developer of EFT. Shortly after Gary set up a program called the “EFT Masters”, this was to identify experts in the field. It wasn’t training as such, more like boot camp where you were faced with challenges you had to overcome. I applied for it. After going through a rigorous testing program, I was acknowledged as an “EFT Master”. (Many people call themselves EFT Masters, this is not the same program, people who successfully went through the original program are often called, Founding Masters) I then started my journey into becoming a conference speaker, the ultimate Adrenalin buzz as my talk’s often involved live demonstration of the techniques I was talking about. When you do live demonstrations, there is a level of unpredictability due to the client. As I said, the ultimate Adrenalin buzz and certainly one of the ultimate challenges as regards to public speaking.