As a professional adventure athlete, best-selling author, documentary producer, motivational speaker and coach, I have had an awesome opportunity to learn so much about what it takes to achieve big scary audacious goals.

Over the past 25 years, I've competed in some of the toughest endurance events on the planet including over 140 ultra marathons and expeditions.

I've faced many challenges throughout my journey. I battled severe asthma since early childhood.
Then, at the age of 21 I broke two vertebrae and compressed two discs. Doctors told me I would never be able to run again. I have since run 70,000km!

Most recently I have spent over 3 and a half years helping my mother who suffered a debilitating aneurysm (bleed in the brain) and who was left with massive brain damage at the age of 74 and virtually no higher function beat all the odds and all the prognoses to regain her life.

She had no ability to speak, to control any body functions, she had virtually no memory, no focus, no balance or spatial awareness at all and was unable even to chew or to sit properly and again the doctors told me I had to put her in a hospital level care rest home facility and that she would likely never do much of anything ever again. I absolutely refused to believe that and scoured the world for therapies, studied endlessly and pushed every boundary I could in my attempt to bring her back from the brink. Now after a hugely long and arduous battle she is my little miracle, she is completely normal again and even has her full drivers licence back and her independence.

My book "Relentless" tells her one in a million comeback story and what we did to get her there. The biggest piece of the puzzle? The absolute belief that I could and a willingness to do whatever it took to get her back. None of these achievements would have been possible without the right mindset towards achieving goals.

I have also overcome many personal tragedies including getting through a divorce, losing everything in the process including the house, business and even the country I was living in to coming to terms with losing two children. One to miscarriage and the second our precious Joseph who only lived for a few hours. 

I know real pain, real grief, I understand what it means to be so low there is only one way to go and that is up and I know what it takes push my mind and body to beat the odds and achieve big dreams.

Now I want to share my real-life learnings with you, so you can achieve things in your life, professional, personal or sporting - that you never thought possible!

I've already had the privilege of helping plenty of others achieve their own version of success.

Will you be next?