ABOUT ME
Here’s a little bit about me and who I am. I grew up in a normal lower working-class family in a small town in Surrey. A normal life with my Croatian mother and English father. I have a brother and younger twin sisters and we are a very close family full of love. Life was very simple and always felt good especially when we visited our family in Yugoslavia, those days always felt adventurous, exciting, free, sunny and fun.
From as early as I can remember my memories were really good but somehow I always felt that I thought differently to everyone around me. I would try to fit in, I guess we all try to be part of the crowd but I knew I looked at life from a slightly different angle and would often ask the simple question why? I know kids generally ask a lot of questions but I remember wanting to understand why people did the things they did or said things that didn’t make sense to me. My mum told me once that I came home from school saying the teachers couldn’t really be that clever as they kept repeating themselves telling me the same things over and over again or things I just didn’t believe were right. Trouble maker or just curious, this made things tougher than they needed to be especially growing into my teens, I was just being me. I’ve been labelled a dark horse, black sheep, difficult, a trouble maker, clever, stupid and I was always asked why I couldn’t I just be like everyone else and fit in? This to me seemed like a strange thing for parents and teachers to say to me and made me want to fit in even less, I actually then started to want to be as different as I could be.
Then in my teens, I felt life change and I started to clearly see things for what they really were, not what I was being told or what people wanted me to believe.
I then grew into a young adult and started to live life going through the things we all go through trying to find the right job, the right partner, my identity, purpose, meaning and all the while dealing with the life issues we all face, like everyone one of you reading these words, trying to find my place on this beautiful spinning rock?
I’ve done as much as anyone, I’ve loved truly, felt heartbreak, laughed till I cried, had success, lost friends to suicide, been tricked, made mistakes, been divorced, took risks, played it safe, people close to me told me their dark secrets, started my own business then lost my business, bankruptcy, home owner, home loser, lived abroad and have been hospitalised with a life threatening injury!
I have never let life hold me back and pushed myself to see what I'm really capable of. I’ve hand made and sold wood art, boxed for over 10 years, raced BMX, flown a plane, built a music studio for a close friend, then released 3 hip hop albums with him, made music videos with hip hop icons and been on the radio. I played golf for 2 years and won 3 championships, and I am now happily married to the most amazing woman on earth.
