G’DAY, I’M NICK.
I am a motivational speaker, a best – selling author, and trauma therapist .
And I’m a successful and UNsuccessful entrepreneur.
I started on this journey as a small business owner and startup founder. I built and sold a few businesses.
And I failed.
A lot.
Some of my best ideas turned out to be terrible ones and, thankfully, vice versa. I’ve built agencies.
I’ve built apps.
I’ve sold stuff online.
And I’ve helped loads of people tell their stories to the world by honestly telling mine.
Storytelling was key to me being able to build and sell startup businesses, and it was key to me leaving the small biz world when Facebook recruited me to start, build, and run their small business operations in Australia and New Zealand.
After leaving Facebook, I went on to work at Twitter, and to this day, I am still the only Australian to have worked at both Facebook and Twitter and the only person in the world to have worked in marketing departments at both brands.
But you know that feeling when you’ve got a good job, and you’re doing fun work … but you just feel like you should be doing something else?
And so I did.
The pandemic knocked me around a bit, as it did for millions of people all over the world.
But as we come out the other side of it now, it’s time for us all to reset, reboot our thinking, and keep moving towards being the best version of ourselves.
And whether it’s seeing me speak at a conference or an event, reading one of my books, or engaging in some one-on-one counselling, coaching or therapy work with me, I would love to help you reset from all of this in the best position and putting your best foot forward.
Motivational Speaker
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Best-Selling Author
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Coach and Therapist
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Recovery is hard.
IT’S A BIT EASIER WHEN YOU’RE NOT DOING IT ALONE.
ARE YOU READY TO GET STARTED?
You deserve to be happy.
I mean, finally, actually, happy. I wasn’t happy in my life for a long, long time. And for much of that time, the people around me in my life weren’t happy either. It wasn’t until I found someone that I could unpack all of the hard stuff with, the pain and the trauma and the sad stuff that I finally started to move forward and become … happy. I want that for you too. Are you ready?
Are you a participant?
If you are accessing the NDIS, and you have a psychosocial disability and have been allocated some hours on your NDIS plan for Psychosocial Recovery Coaching, we can work together at no cost to you under your NDIS plan.
Are you a participant?
If you are accessing the NDIS, and you have a psychosocial disability and have been allocated some hours on your NDIS plan for Psychosocial Recovery Coaching, we can work together at no cost to you under your NDIS plan.
My Most Recent Articles
The Journey
Something in me gets a bit triggered when I hear someone talk about their ‘journey’. I don’t know what it is, it just seems a
Throwback : The 50 things nobody tells you before you become a Dad
I wrote this article 7 years ago when my kids were 5, 4, 3 and 1 year old, and all of it is still absolutely
The 5 reasons not to take unsubscribes from your mailing list personally.
There was a time when I would send an email newsletter out, and then for the next few hours, obsessively monitor the report and pore
Words have power: the stigma of labelling mental illness
Labelling mental health and mental illness, and applying those labels to people living with mental health conditions – or even people who are just experiencing
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are as old as time, but it’s only in more recent years that psychologists have begun to unravel the belief that some people
Beating depression with magic mushrooms
It’s kind of amazing that something that must have been a terrifying discovery back a long time ago when someone accidentally ate the wrong kind of mushroom
Smacking a child may affect their brain development
You just know that smacking children is going to get a response. Everyone has an opinion on this, and because of the nature of it,
Nobody is more resilient than anyone else.
At least, nobody is naturally more resilient than anyone else. Resilience can be built and fostered, when needed, and the more resilient we are, the more resilient
There is no such thing as an addictive personality.
Do you know someone who has an ‘addictive personality’? Or have you ever said that you have an addictive personality? Maybe they (or you) just can’t seem
Events and Conferences in 2020
2020 has seen a big change in how people run events, how people like me speak at events, and how everybody else attends events. We’ve
Magical thinking
Magical thinking is one of the many kinds of unhelpful thinking that can bring us undone and stop our growth and progression towards being the
Motivational Speaking: What I’ve learned from the last 11 years
This week marks 11 years since I started as a motivational speaker, delivering keynote addresses at, and MC’ing, professional and corporate events and conferences. Motivational
Decision Fatigue: Why I wear the same $10 shirt every day
Having to make complex (or even simple) decisions every day can be really draining and lead to decision fatigue and impaired mental health. Here are
Finding Strength
Finding strength is hard at the best of times, but in THESE time, when leaders and leadership seem missing, how do we find our own
How to find the best ZOOM motivational speaker for your event or conference
Post Covid-19, the conference and events space is going to look a lot different. It already does, of course, but where at the moment pretty
Is it feedback? Or is it criticism?
I do a lot of public speaking at conferences and events both in Australia and internationally. The audiences who hear me speak are usually a
Motivational Speakers, Inspirational Speakers, Keynote Speakers, Event Speakers … which is the right one for your conference or event?
I have been a professional motivational speaker now for over almost 15 years. In that time, I have delivered hundreds of presentations to an audience
Let go of fear and doubt
Fear is a very motivating thing. And, particularly for people who are co-dependent or don’t feel like they should be at the top of their
Healthy Shame or Toxic Shame?
Shame. Even the word sucks. I want you to think about something that you have felt shame about, either recently or long term. And, in
What CAN we do?
One of the funny things about being human is that, for a lot of us, our default position has become something less than positive. Sometimes,
How has the 2020 Pandemic changed business forever?
There’s no denying all of our lives have changed. Maybe not forever, but certainly in the midst of the COVID-19 Coronavirus crisis, everyone’s world is
People are good.
Humans are funny old things.
On the one hand, we are pretty non-compliant. We tend to, largely, not really go along with what we are asked to do, and we are even less likely to do what we are told to do. If that weren’t true, there would be no need for police, or even laws for that matter.
How you can go ahead with your event or conference if it’s under threat from Coronavirus
By now, you would probably have had to have been living under a rock – or at least have a very strong boundary set for yourself and how you interact with news and social media – to not at least have heard about a virus that is moving relatively quickly between countries on the planet, carried by unsuspecting human carriers, called COVID-19 or Coronavirus.
How to make space for growth
I talk a lot about growth, for one very good reason: I think a lot about growth. Whether it’s personal growth or business growth, I think that it is such an important aim for all of us to keep growing, keep changing and, hopefully, keep improving ourselves.
The Ultimate Step By Step Guide to Planning and Hosting an Event or Conference
My daughter is 10 right now. She is already a capable and confident person, and I can’t wait to see what kind of adult she becomes. These are the things that I want her to know, now as an 10 year old, but also for her whole life. I’m her Dad, and it’s my proudest job title.
What are the 3 things that stop us being the best version of ourselves?
And throughout my recovery, I have realised (finally) that there are 3 things that will also stop my growth, and always send me backwards to where I don’t want to be any more.
Meeting My Inner Child
Part of my treatment in rehab included a 5-day intensive workshop that was designed to root out the cause of my dysfunctional behaviour as an adult, by starting to heal the damage to my inner child.
What’s more important? The rupture or the repair?
Dan Siegel is a parenting and brain development expert. His insights into how children and adults sometimes resort to activating the most primitive parts of our brain because a situation becomes so emotional or so many other things are going on for us that we can’t clearly reason, problem solve and find a resolution.
The 33 things I want my daughter to always know.
My daughter is 10 right now. She is already a capable and confident person, and I can’t wait to see what kind of adult she becomes. These are the things that I want her to know, now as an 10 year old, but also for her whole life. I’m her Dad, and it’s my proudest job title.
The best sentence to ask someone if you want an honest answer.
We ask each other a lot of meaningless and trivial questions throughout every day: “How are you?” “How was your night?” “How’s the family?” Nothing sinister, sure, but how many times do we ask those questions because we are
