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My Personal Story

Scottish-Fijian. Alternative. Neurodivergent. Pansexual. Perpetually weird and completely at peace with that.

I grew up caught between worlds. Half Scottish, half Fijian, fully alternative in a world that did not quite have a box for any of that. At home I always felt safe (to a point because I equally felt isolated). My family gave me that. But outside of it I spent a long time being the kid who was too different, too unwilling to pretend. I got bullied for the music I listened to, the way I dressed and even just because I had long hair.

I did not care then and I care even less now.

Music has been the thread running through everything. I studied it at university, played it, lived inside it. Metal, emo, post-punk and gothic rock are not just genres I enjoy. They are part of how I understand the world and process being in it. Alongside that I am an unashamed nerd. DnD, anime, kawaii culture, Lord of the Rings, board games, alternative fashion and an ever growing Pokémon card collection that I refuse to apologise for. These are not phases I grew out of. They are who I am.

For seven years I volunteered as a zoo keeper specialising in owls. I want to be very clear that this was one of the greatest things I have ever done and I would do it again without hesitation. Owls are remarkable creatures and that chapter of my life taught me more about patience, presence and paying attention than almost anything else.

My working life has been anything but linear. CeX. Lidl. McDonald's. Retail management roles I took because money is money and there is absolutely no shame in that. I have always been someone who shows up and figures it out, even when the path was unclear and the destination kept shifting.

I was in a relationship for ten years from the age of eighteen. It shaped me enormously. It gave me independence and taught me things about myself I could not have learned any other way. It also left marks that took a long time to understand. I am not someone who hides from the complicated parts of my story because the complicated parts are where the most honest version of me lives.

These days I am with Petrina, who is extraordinary, and we are building a life together that feels genuinely like ours. She has been one of the most important people in my journey of becoming more fully myself and I am grateful for that every single day.

I am neurodivergent and I have spent a long time learning how my brain actually works rather than fighting it for not working the way everyone else seemed to expect. That shift changed everything. Not just professionally but personally. There is a version of me that spent years masking and shrinking and a version of me now that simply does not have the energy or the interest in doing that anymore.

My path into personal training and coaching was as unconventional as everything else about me.

I made my first attempt at online coaching in 2018 for £20 a month while I was still studying my music degree. I had the passion and the belief but not yet the foundations to make it work. It did not last and I am honest about that because failure is part of the story and pretending otherwise helps nobody.]

In 2020 I went full time as a personal trainer at Anytime Fitness in Bathgate, running one-to-one sessions and classes while simultaneously working shifts at Lidl to keep things moving. That part of my life taught me an enormous amount about coaching real people with real lives, real pressures and real barriers. I was not working with athletes. I was working with everyday people who were trying to show up for themselves despite everything else pulling at their time and energy. That experience shaped how I coach to this day.

From there I moved to train clients at my dad's gym where I worked as a freelance personal trainer. It was a chapter with a lot of heart and a lot of difficulty in equal measure. Family dynamics and business do not always sit comfortably alongside each other and the environment became increasingly challenging. Foot fall dropped. The business struggled. I kept going anyway because the work itself still mattered deeply to me.

Throughout all of this I kept retail management work running alongside coaching because that is what you do when you are building something from scratch and the bills do not pause to let you catch up.

In 2025 I made the decision that changed everything. I walked away from in-person training and retail entirely and went fully online. No safety net. Just the belief that what I was building was real and that the community I wanted to serve genuinely needed it to exist.

That decision became Obsidian Circle Coaching and it is the thing I am most proud of building. But it is also only the beginning.

I am not someone who is built to stand still. The coaching business is the foundation but the vision is much bigger than that. A podcast. A YouTube channel. Courses, digital products and resources that reach people who are not yet ready for one-to-one coaching but still deserve something built for them. A brand that grows into every corner of the alternative and neurodivergent wellness space and refuses to leave until the industry finally makes proper room for this community.

I think of myself as an entrepreneur first and a coach second. Not because the coaching is less important but because building something that lasts, something that creates real change at scale, requires thinking bigger than any single service or product. I want to create, build and expand across multiple platforms and formats because this message deserves to reach as many people as possible and I am not willing to limit it to one channel.

I am not a coach who arrived here easily or quickly. I took the long road, worked the hard jobs, failed publicly and kept going. And I think that matters because the people I work with are not looking for someone who has had it figured out from the start. They are looking for someone who knows what it actually costs to keep showing up when things are hard.

I know that cost. And I am just getting started.

Stay weird 🖤