About Me
I've spent over thirty years in three of the most demanding performance environments - as a courtroom lawyer, as an entrepreneur, and as a high-stakes professional poker player. What I learned in each of them is the foundation of everything I now bring to clients.
I was named in The Times as one of the best young barristers. I co-founded a law firm and built it from a local practice into one competing on a national stage, winning cases other lawyers had declined. And I made my living for a decade at the high stakes poker tables.
Those three careers look very different from the outside. From the inside, they made the same two demands. The first was performing under pressure - delivering when the moment arrived, whether that moment was a cross-examination, a negotiation, an investment decision or a pot worth more than most people earn in a year. The second was less visible but equally important: doing the consistent work each profession demanded, day after day, whether I felt like it or not. The defining difficulty of a high-performance career is not only the big moment. It is producing your best again and again, and keeping up the unglamorous work that makes your best possible - the lawyer staying on top of the case law, the poker player still studying the game after ten years. If you work in a demanding field, you will recognise both.
my story
After fifteen years of running my own law firm I had built success - by every conventional measure. Strong practice, good people, financial security, professional recognition.
Then came a day when I looked up at the clock and, for the first time in my working life, simply wanted it to be over. For someone who had always been last to leave - absorbed, engaged, with no interest in watching the clock - that moment was unmistakable. Something had shifted. The work hadn't changed. I had.
What followed was a combination of burnout and depression. My doctor told me I had been living on adrenaline for years. What remained when that stopped was not just exhaustion - it was the weight of sustained misalignment between the life I was living and the one I actually wanted.
What I did next went against conventional wisdom and every external expectation. I sold my share of a thriving business, stepped away from a fifteen-year career, and started again - this time as a professional poker player.
Then came a day when I looked up at the clock and, for the first time in my working life, simply wanted it to be over. For someone who had always been last to leave - absorbed, engaged, with no interest in watching the clock - that moment was unmistakable. Something had shifted. The work hadn't changed. I had.
What followed was a combination of burnout and depression. My doctor told me I had been living on adrenaline for years. What remained when that stopped was not just exhaustion - it was the weight of sustained misalignment between the life I was living and the one I actually wanted.
What I did next went against conventional wisdom and every external expectation. I sold my share of a thriving business, stepped away from a fifteen-year career, and started again - this time as a professional poker player.
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A Mindset Journey
The decade I spent at the poker table was one of the most concentrated educations in performance, decision-making, and psychological pressure available anywhere. What separates consistently successful players from everyone else is the ability to make sound decisions under genuine uncertainty, manage emotional state under sustained pressure, and identify - and correct - the patterns in their own thinking that cost them money in real time.
That environment accelerated my understanding that the gap between knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it is not a knowledge problem.
It is a subconscious program problem.I came back from both the depression and professional poker with a clearer sense of what I wanted to build. I trained and qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist because my legal background in brain and psychological injuries had given me a rigorous, evidence-based framework for understanding why this intervention worked where others failed. The neuroscientific evidence is compelling and was fortified by my own personal experience with coaching that used hypnotherapy as a modality for bringing about the changes in my patterns of thinking and performing that I wanted. I then qualified as a mentor with the Flow Genome Project whose flow state neuroscience and protocols have been used by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Google, US Navy SEALs, Olympic athletes, and other elite performers.
As a result I created the Flow Programming Protocol. This structured program identifies the goal, the mental obstacles, and uses a combination of flow state neuroscience and subconscious reprogramming to remove the obstacle and achieve the goal. It is the methodology I wished had existed when I needed it most. And it is built entirely from the inside out. I work with people who want to perform better under pressure in the field they have already mastered, with people whose consistency has started costing them results, and with people who want the life around their success to match the success itself.
That environment accelerated my understanding that the gap between knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it is not a knowledge problem.
It is a subconscious program problem.I came back from both the depression and professional poker with a clearer sense of what I wanted to build. I trained and qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist because my legal background in brain and psychological injuries had given me a rigorous, evidence-based framework for understanding why this intervention worked where others failed. The neuroscientific evidence is compelling and was fortified by my own personal experience with coaching that used hypnotherapy as a modality for bringing about the changes in my patterns of thinking and performing that I wanted. I then qualified as a mentor with the Flow Genome Project whose flow state neuroscience and protocols have been used by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Google, US Navy SEALs, Olympic athletes, and other elite performers.
As a result I created the Flow Programming Protocol. This structured program identifies the goal, the mental obstacles, and uses a combination of flow state neuroscience and subconscious reprogramming to remove the obstacle and achieve the goal. It is the methodology I wished had existed when I needed it most. And it is built entirely from the inside out. I work with people who want to perform better under pressure in the field they have already mastered, with people whose consistency has started costing them results, and with people who want the life around their success to match the success itself.
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