When a journalist once asked me what qualifies me to help people with their lives, I said that for starters, I’ve built a pretty damn good life for myself, one that suits me perfectly. But it hasn’t always been that way…

I came to London 20 years ago on a 27-hour bus from Poland because I couldn’t afford a plane ticket. How I got my first job remains a mystery, as I could barely speak English. I spent the first six years in retail, which I found uninspiring, to say the least. When I started my coaching practice, I was £5k in credit card debt. For most of my life, I was useless with women and in okay shape at best. And some of the limiting beliefs I used to have were so ridiculous you wouldn’t believe them.

Now, I do what I love with the clients I love. I live in a penthouse overlooking London’s most iconic landmarks. I’ve travelled the world, staying in the best hotels and dining at the finest restaurants everywhere I went. I couldn’t ask for a better dating life. I’m in the best shape ever. And I live fearlessly, seeing no limits.

None of this is to brag but to show that when I say, ‘You can have it all’, I’m speaking from experience, not just repeating a fancy catchphrase.

Since 2011, I’ve spent over 13,000 hours working with over 500 people, so I know exactly what works and what doesn’t. I've also spoken at around 250 events on personal development and business, and written a book and 100 articles.

I’ve been interviewed on several TV channels, including the BBC and Sky, as well as numerous radio stations and podcasts. I’ve appeared on Eamonn & Ruth: How The Other Half Lives, Made in Chelsea, and Leap, the world’s first full-length coaching documentary. I’ve also been interviewed by or written for GQ, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Entrepreneur, City Matters, Square Mile, Luxury London, Evening Standard, Metro, Arabian Business Magazine, Portfolio Magazine, and Luxury Lifestyle Magazine.

I’ve been featured in the prestigious Spear’s 500 (the definitive guide to the top private client advisers and service providers for HNWIs) every year since 2017, The Telegraph’s list in the ‘Best Life Coach’ category, and recognised as one of the Top Personal Coaches by the Coach Foundation.

I truly believe in coaching. Over the years, I’ve seen its profound effects on my clients, other coaches’ clients, and experienced them myself.

Other things about me:

• I'm OCD.

• I say fuck a lot.

• I used to play polo.

• I’m 42 and I can’t drive.

• I’m a failed jazz trumpet player.

• I'm a crypto and angel investor.

• I'm very much non-monogamous.

• I say what I think and do what I say.

• My confidence is sometimes mistaken for arrogance.

• I always laugh at my jokes, others occasionally join in.

• I'm not always happy and will forever be a work in progress.

• I've always been a maverick, and the black sheep of my industry.

• By far my biggest personal fear is losing my mother — we’re very close.

• I’m prepared to try everything once, except heroin and sex with a man.

• In everything I do, I aim for perfection and occasionally settle for excellence.

• People say my kitchen looks like it’s never been used, that’s because it hasn’t.

• I'm the type of person who'll always tell you when you have food in your teeth.

• I'm as materialistic as I am spiritual, and as egocentric as I am compassionate.

• I have a strict ‘no arsehole’ policy, meaning I only work with genuinely good people.

• I used to take so much MDMA in my late teens that it eventually stopped working. Now, my only ‘drug’ is wine.

•  Three of my clients got married as a direct result of our work together. Meanwhile, I’m happily single and child-free by choice.

• Among other things, I’ve been called the Ferrari, James Bond, Gordon Ramsay, Chuck Norris, king, and dominatrix of coaching…

• I know little to nothing about most things, but I know a few things exceptionally well: people, personal development, male-female dynamics, and the psychology of success and winning.

• Despite my often irreverent humour and overall political incorrectness, I’m a pacifist and feminist, and I feel very strongly about racial equality, sexual orientation equality, religious equality, and equality in general.

• It took my parents 10 years to get over the fact that I quit school at 17. Now that I support them in a big way (which I consider one of my most meaningful accomplishments), funnily enough, they don’t mention it anymore.

• If I could have dinner with any eight people I don’t know personally (dead or alive), I'd pick Muhammad Ali, David Attenborough, David Beckham, Dave Chappelle, Miles Davis, Ricky Gervais, Barack Obama, and Jim Rohn.