At age 4 I was living in a caravan. At 6, public housing on a street that looked like it was lifted straight from Once Were Warriors. By 8, we had upgraded — and that place was home until I was 19, when I built my very first home.
Age 8. The upgrade.
I was kicked out of high school at 16 for talking too much. My mother gave me an ultimatum: get a job or get out. I became an apprentice cabinet maker. From day one I knew it wasn't my destiny — but the pain of that took years to become unbearable. I have a high tolerance.
When I finally cracked, I packed a suitcase, grabbed my golf clubs, and boarded a one-way flight to the Gold Coast. No plan. No contacts. No idea what I was doing. Just the absolute certainty that I had no option but to succeed.
That was 18 years ago. What followed was one of Australia's fastest-growing fitness companies. We were the first in the country to launch an online workout program that generated over $100k in sales in the first 24 hours. We did that multiple times. To put that in context — this was before influencer marketing existed, before social media had taken over, before every second person with a following could drop a product and print money. We were building the playbook that people follow today. We launched a fitness franchise with over 35 locations in 6 months — 23 sold in the first 3 weeks. We built a registered training organisation, an online supplement brand, international wellness retreats, 15+ digital products, and a mobile app with over 100,000 paid users — before every second person even owned an iPhone.
A pattern worth noting.
If there is one thread that runs through everything I have built, it is this: I have been early to almost everything.
- Early to social media marketing — before brands knew it existed.
- Early to Facebook advertising — when clicks cost cents.
- Early to performance marketing — before it had a name.
- Early to digital fitness — we wrote the playbook others followed.
- Early to online education — Euka is now Australia's largest homeschooling provider.
- Early to cryptocurrency — in 2017, when most people still thought it was a scam.
- Early to AI — deploying it across my businesses right now, while most are still debating whether to try it.
- Every word on this page was created by me speaking to my personal AI agent. Not a line of code written by hand. Not a single agency involved. Built entirely by voice, in a fraction of the time and cost. That's what being early looks like in practice.
I actually had a back and forth with my agent about whether this paragraph looks like a layout error — or whether it works because it stops you. I guess it worked. You're reading.
Being early is not luck. It is a skill. It comes from obsessive curiosity, a willingness to back yourself before there is proof, and the ability to move fast when others are still watching. That instinct is something I bring to every business I work with.
"I uncovered the #1 secret weapon to growing any business fast: Marketing and psychology first. Everything else is detail."
I consumed every piece of marketing and psychology content I could find. Eugene Schwartz. Claude Hopkins. Gary Halbert. Dan Kennedy. I became obsessed with what it actually takes to build great companies — leadership, team structure, P&L, sales systems, the power of process. Then I did the most important thing of all. I took massive action and turned knowledge into outcomes. Not perfectly. But it worked.
Today I live on an acreage resort on the Gold Coast. A sprawling 900m² home with a fully equipped gym, sauna, pool, and my own private creek running through the property. The kind of house you dreamed about as a kid from a caravan and a public housing street. Three performance cars in the driveway. A portfolio of companies generating over $30M in annual revenue. This isn't a flex for the sake of it — it's proof of concept. And I'm still nowhere near done.
Left: the kids' cubby house — cost more than the first home I built at 19. Right: the gym. G-Unit on the walls. If you know, you know.
Business is the vehicle. This is the point.
I optimise for a lot of things. But above everything else — I'm a dad. That's the number one role I was put on this planet to play.
I tell you this not to flex — but because it matters. I would never work with an overweight personal trainer, a broke accountant, or a business advisor who has never built a successful business. You shouldn't either. I have runs on the board. That's the point.
I founded Navion in 2017 with a single goal: build a portfolio of exceptional companies. It's an investment and advisory firm that partners with outstanding entrepreneurs, and I act as Chairman or Chief Advisor to my partners and CEOs. My portfolio includes multiple award-winning marketing agencies, Men's Health Clinic, and Euka — Australia's largest homeschooling education provider, which recently took on a private equity partnership and is building towards a nine-figure exit. That's my current day job. I'm in the trenches. Building, implementing, executing across the board right now.
I'm not here because I have spare time. I'm here because I've never been better equipped. Right now — today — I'm in the middle of it. Building, scaling, implementing across multiple businesses simultaneously. I know exactly what works, what doesn't, and what to do when things go sideways, because I'm living it in real time.
That's why I'm now looking for my next founder CEO.
Someone who wants to grow and scale their business with the intent to potentially sell within a 3 to 5 year timeframe. My primary goal as your advisor is simple: help you become the best CEO you can be. Or help you hire the right one. Because your business will only ever grow as fast as you do.