With its retro, glow in the dark theme, it would be easy to classify the Afterglow Half Marathon as little more than one of those novelty runs that are all the rage these days, but make no mistake, this is a serious, and seriously beautiful twilight trail run event. For me though, a race is [...]
One question I get asked almost more than any other, is what the heck is a ‘Swashbuckler’? Well, the traditional definition says it’s “a swaggering swordsman, solider, or adventurer; daredevil.” As you can imagine, I'm less about swords, and more about adventure here. So let’s go with that. And I'm not just talking about [...]
The world used to have a lot of empty space. Physically and mentally. There were gaps. Places you could go where there was… space. Nothing. Just you and the world. And your thoughts. Slowly but surely we’ve ‘progressed’. If you can call it that. I’m not honestly sure we should. But we’ve started filling [...]
Whenever I speak to business people, start ups or about marketing in general, I almost always come to the point of the presentation where I remind everyone of this one, fundamental truth: people care more about their shit than yours. So much so, I have one particular person who books me to speak, who always [...]
Lately I've made a point to put myself and my ideas out there a little more than usual. And it hasn't been easy, because when you do that, you open yourself up to all kinds of feedback: good and bad and absolutely fucking brutal. And as thick as my skin (and head) is, it isn't [...]
With 2016 coming to a close it's time to set my sights on what the new year has in store. And it's starting to look like there's more than a few cool things brewing. There's a new book, for starters, a new Kindness project that I'm working super hard to launch in the first few [...]
I recently had a chat to Sam from MediaManoeuvres about Crisis Management. It's ironic that no one really wants to think about the thing we most need to think about - what happens when something goes wrong. It can even be seen as a bit of a waste of time, because, you know, what if [...]
After mentoring a lot of young creatives over the years, I got sick of saying the same things over and over again and decided to write The Swashbucklers Guide to Becoming an Astronaut with a collection of some of the best advice I could think of, and the best advice from some other awesome creative [...]
When I first started running, it was a very steep learning curve indeed. Mostly, I learned by doing - the right things, but as often as not, the wrong things as well. So I decided I'd put a book together called Running Away from Dinosaurs with the best stories, tips and advice I could think [...]
In 2012, I went to Nepal to run the Manaslu Mountain Trail Race. To say it didn’t go quite according to plan would be a bit of an understatement. But hey, shit happens, and it made for some fairly interesting videos. Here’s a bunch of ‘webisodes’ about what went up, and down. View the trailer [...]
