Warning - This Is Dangerous

A Personal Letter From Geoff. Only the Brave Should Read

I’m tearing up the script here.

Decades ago I was working as a Veterinary Surgeon in Europe, when the strangest thing happened. I started imagining stories, strong, compelling and beautiful stories.

I realized that although I liked animal work, I was absolutely over-the-moon passionate about telling stories.

So I tore up the my life-script sometime in London 2008 and I began writing screenplays. I went to the Cannes film festival and pitched them successfully (at first).

My life changed on a dime and I was sent to Los Angeles to meet top producers early in 2009.

For a brief moment I stood at the top of the world… Before everything came crashing down to earth with the stock market crash!

No one had any money to make films anymore… especially not mine. After-all it was a satire about America and the craziness that would happen if the place of the alpha white male were threatened by equity and diversity.

This would never happen. I was told this directly. There is not enough truth to your satire.

Hmmmm

Shortly after, I met another human being on this adventure we call life. I got married in America and a beautiful child followed shortly after.

The pressure of family. The need to provide. The call to a different adventure.

I tore up the script again.

And I threw myself into the business of helping people build relationship-based businesses. Using technology and social media in unique ways to help people connect deeply with the world.

It’s been terrifically exciting, loads of fun and very profitable. A large percentage of the thousands of people I’ve helped over the past 12 years have been REALTORS.

My mum passed away a couple of years ago.

We left Los Angeles and returned back to New Zealand to spend the last year of her life together. It was beautiful, it was important, it was necessary.

When she took her final breath, I felt a cool wind blow across my face in that hospital room. The seasons were changing again, another shift was coming.

That was two years ago.

For the longest time I’ve been resisting tearing up the script again. I liked my old life, it was comfortable and familiar.

It’s also been killing me.

Friends have tried to tell me this. “Something is missing? What’s happened to old Geoff?”

I’ve desperately tried to tell them that they were reading me wrong.

They were not.

Two weeks ago, I’ve grabbed that script and I’ve torn it right down the middle. It’s time to start again… AGAIN.

So today, it is with some excitement that I must tell you, I’ve never felt more alive, because this is not a new beginning but a rebirth.

A rebirth of everything that I’ve done on this great adventure. All the scripts of my life are now coming together as one.

• Through Veterinary work, I learned great compassion.

• Through screenwriting, I learned how to make a person’s story great.

• Through building relationship-based business, I learned how focusing on the smallest details can make the biggest difference.

• Through my mother’s passing, I learned the importance of not wasting anymore time.

And as I now turn the page AND I think about SPHERE and my work with you, I am jumping out of my skin.

This publication is no longer going to be solely focused on helping you grow your business.

It ain’t gonna be ‘3 Steps To A Compelling Social Media Presence”.

I refuse to let my voice and these offerings become formulaic. I will not be just another voice in a crowded market place.

I will be the person that my dying mother told me I should be…

The seer. The one who sees. The person who shares deep truths and life-changing concepts. The man who can reach into the lives others with great insight and compassion. I promise to be the best broken version of me possible.

The person who says to you who is reading this very long post:

“The only way forward right now is for you to refuse to be anything other than your utterly and truly most courageous self.”

I insist on you hearing these words: “You are brave beyond measure. You have already overcome so much in your life.”

And the only way forward, in a world that is at a dangerous inflection point, is for you to commit to being truthful and more courageous.

It’s a lot to ask. You’ve already been so brave and yet safety always lies in moving further on.

You only need 3 things to live your best possible life.

• You must surround yourself with catalytic people who give you energy and inspire you to be brave.

• You must engage with the world every single day by conversations that are memorable and unforgettable.

• You must collaborate with people who are committed to your success and who are able to help you in profound away.

In short, connections, conversations and collaboration. I will be helping you have these 3 things in the richest and most profound way through my words here and the trainings I offer.

If you are excited about this journey, then please leave me a comment below.

You are incredible.

Much love
Geoff x

NOTE: The picture with this post is of my mother. I dedicate this new direction of my life to her.