HeLLO!
I’m Dave, it’s good to be with you.
You may be wondering how I ended up here. It certainly wasn’t planned!
I started out in advertising and spent the first 15 years of my career working for some of the biggest brands on the planet.
Beginning in Sydney, I then moved to New York City followed by Amsterdam and worked with brands like Heineken, Volkswagen, Google, Unilever, Tourism Australia and Booking.com, including a 4 year stint at the world’s best creative agency, Droga5 NYC.
It was all seemingly successful on paper, but as the years went by I started to feel more disconnected and unfulfilled by what I was doing.
I was increasingly finding it all very meaningless.
In those final years, it became clear to me that the work I was doing wasn't aligned to my values. At all.
It got to the point where I simply couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't keep faking it. I knew I was not here for this.
And that's where breathwork came in.
I booked a series of sessions with an amazing facilitator here in Sydney, and working with her gave me the clarity and confidence to do what I really wanted to do (which, by the way, wasn't to become a facilitator!).
But as always, you just need to take the first step and things will start flowing from there.
And that's exactly what happened for me.
I left my job, started a brand consultancy for brands and businesses in the environmental space.
At the same time, I was so in awe of the power of breathwork that I went on to complete my HypnoBreathwork certification (and also completed the Wim Hof Fundaments, Dan Brulé Fundamentals and Peter Lichtfield’s Professional School of Breathing Sciences courses) as well as other modalities such as Vedic meditation.
Fascinated by a whole new world of health, I also studied to become a certified practitioner of Zach Bush's Journey of Intrinsic Health, an eye-opening immersion into the incredible capacity of the human body to regenerate and transform itself.
It challenged pretty much everything I thought I knew about health and wellbeing (including the breath!).
Following my curiosity of altered states of consciousness (particularly after reading Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler), I decided to study a Flow State certification with the Flow Research Collective in the US.
I had an inkling that there’d be a way to combine my interests around health, creativity and regeneration into a unique offering for people who were just like me in the corporate world.
And here we are now.
Today I run a flow state, breathwork and wellbeing business (and still do a bit of brand strategy for businesses doing good things for the planet!).
It hasn’t been easy - but I’m chipping away at it, motivated by a deep desire to help people reconnect to themselves, their health, their innate creativity, and ultimately nature itself.
I look forward to meeting you!
CREDENTIALS
Certified HypnoBreathwork Coach | Mastry
Certified Flow State Coach | Flow Research Collective
Breathing Sciences Certification | Professional School of Behavioural Health Sciences
Certified Intrinsic Health Practitioner | Journey of Intrinsic Health
Founding Coach | andOpen global coaching collective
Bachelor in Business + a Mini MBA in Brand Management
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