My 27-Hour Ultramarathon In Madeira
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was midnight. What a strange time to be setting off! Sleeping in the daytime hadn’t really happened. But resting had. For the rest, I was counting on adrenalin to see me through. As the event came closer and I studied the elevation and length online whilst in Lisbon my nerves grew. My longest event […]
Getting My First Tattoo Drunk In A Bar…..In Thailand
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was 18 and in search of adventure. I hadn’t enjoyed most of my childhood – at least the parts of it I remember anyway. I’d been most nervous, shy, felt ugly like I didn’t fit in, and focused on staying alive. I’d never really thought about thriving. I wanted to thrive. I wanted to […]
Applying To The SAS Part 2 (ATC Pirbright)
Reading Time: 5 minutes (Please note army vets – this is just the recounting of my application process – nothing I write is intended to reveal/mislead/misrepresent anything about the British Army) I’d had an incredible week in Georgia with Davit that showed me there was a pain I never knew. Now it was time to head out for the […]
Training For An Ironman With A Former Paratrooper and National Swim Coach
Reading Time: 6 minutes In a couple of months, I was going to be on a plane headed to South Africa via Dubai. Right now I was living in Via Vanchiglia in Turin, Italy whilst trying to figure out what to do with my career. It was 2015 and Daniela and I, after my various trips around the world, […]
Preparing To Train With A Former Georgian Special Forces Sniper In The Mountains Of Tbilisi (Part 2)
Reading Time: 5 minutes I touched down in Tbilisi. So far the journey had been smooth. I was a little worried as I came in about being stopped and searched as I had a load of military gear with me. Furthermore, I was coming to Georgia – I wonder how many British Indians go there on an annual basis! […]
My Heroes; My Gratitude And The Life Lessons They’ve Taught Me
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, I wanted to talk about some of the people that have inspired/enriched my life and attach a lesson to each one of them that hopefully, you can learn from as well. My father – Ram Laut Shukla: loyalty, hard work and responsibility LOYALTY My dad has taught me many things. ‘Happy wife, happy […]
Coming Last In My Very First Triathlon in Lausanne Switzerland (Part 2)
Reading Time: 9 minutes I was wondering what the deal was as I walked along the pathway where the other swimmers were waiting for the triathlon to start. It seemed that absolutely everyone except me was wearing a wetsuit. I wasn’t really sure why as the weather was great and I didn’t think you’d need it. As I walked […]
Coming Last In My Very First Triathlon in Lausanne Switzerland (Part 1)
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’d just flown in from Barcelona where I’d got this awesome tattoo of a muay Thai fighter on my thigh. The plan on landing in Geneva, Switzerland was that I’d stay with Luc for the month at his family home in Lausanne. It was August 2014 and a brilliant time to be in Europe. Once […]
Fighting Muay Thai And Winning via TKO in Rio, Brazil
Reading Time: 6 minutes I stepped into the ring with my headgear on and nervousness living within me. This was it. This is what I’d been training relentlessly for – for the last 7-weeks. I’d have gruelling sessions 5-6 times a week in the general classes with the pro and amateur fighters and then I’d have my own private […]
From Recording My First Rap In School To Battle Rapping At A Live Set
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s 11.35 am here in Poppins Cafe near my folk’s place in West Drayton. Here’s me: I’m being mega unproductive with good reason lol I’m listening to one of my old albums on Soundcloud: Road Rap Season 1: It’s crazy to think it’s almost been a decade since I recorded this mix cd. I’m still […]
Preparing To Train With A Former Georgian Special Forces Sniper In The Mountains Of Tbilisi (Part 1)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, It’s time to go back to my military training. As you know I made a decision to apply to the British Special Forces a few years back. At the time it seemed sensible that I should get as much preparation as possible. I’d already started going through the induction process with 21SAS and […]
Being In A Physically Abusive Relationship; My Nightmare
Reading Time: 8 minutes Maria was a singer I’d found via Facebook within my 2nd-degree network. She looked pretty; she was a singer, and I was taken by her. So, I angled to try to get her to come and record at my studio. After some back and forth she did come, she did record, and then we would […]
My Parents Arranged Marriage And My Relationships
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey guys, I spoke a while back about discovering my own relationship disorders which ultimately relate to any type of relationship I got into – whether with a friend, intimate relationship partner or my family. It’s easier to look back at it now and see how ‘the dots connect’. In this instance, the dots I […]
I had 22 jobs I think by the time I was 23. Let’s go through them and what they taught me
Reading Time: 12 minutes It used to piss me off a bunch when I was growing up – and I was the spoiled one in my family to begin with anyway! But we grew up – 8 of us in a three-bedroom house. My parents were minimum wage employees and my grandmother (her husband had passed away many years […]
Quitting Deloitte And Leaving The Corporate Rat Race Behind
Reading Time: 7 minutes I was an English literature graduate! Getting a job at Deloitte on the graduate tax scheme in 2007 at the height of the credit crunch was like a dream come true. I was among only three people in my graduating class I knew of that had landed such a prestigious job. Hugo had landed a […]
My Dodgy Business Dealings Part 1 – Joining A Pyramid Scheme
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hey Guys, I want to keep pulling the curtains back on some things I have done that I’m not proud of – but have still taught me much about business and life and everything in between. Let’s begin with a conference that a girl called Stacey (a PhD student from Aston University I was dating […]