Wondering where to start this post...
I’ve always been an anxious person. Age 15 I suffered from Bell’s Palsy – where basically half your face stops working. Just what you want age 15. After my eye also stops working my neurologist thought it might be Multiple Sclerosis. I also came-out as gay to my parents that year. This was the year 2000 and Ireland was a very different place, but that’s another post. I was lucky enough to have parents that understood the best way they could support me was to bring me to therapy.
2008
Finished college and landed my first role as a Technical Trainer in the Telecoms industry. I was the globe-trotting Irish lad bringing the tech talk to corners of the world that weren't exactly tourist hotspots! Summer in Saudi anyone? 🌍✈️
I had the gift of the gab and the confidence of youth. I was frequently learning the course I was teaching on the plane to wherever I was teaching it. Sometimes only a chapter ahead of the students. I loved arriving at swanky hotels i…


