Chew On It – A Life Too Interesting
For many decades, I chased an interesting life. These days, I’ll take simple and harmonious over interesting any time.
Interesting is exactly what it’s been. The highs have been genuinely high, success in sports, martial arts, business, and the lows have been brutal. Failed marriages, bankruptcy, dark periods of depression and PTSD. But none of it comes close to the pain of losing my daughter, Talena. Nothing prepares anyone for that, and nothing compares.
I’ve lived enough for several lifetimes, and somewhere along the way I realised that all these experiences, the joy and the heartache, might be worth sharing. Not as a lesson. More as a reminder that we all carry our struggles, and that picking yourself back up after each one, as difficult as it is, is possible. I’ve had to do it more than once.
Since opening Elixr in 2002, I’ve been writing the monthly newsletter Chew on It, and over the years many of you have told me you enjoy my ramblings. Your encouragement is a big part of what inspired me to write my memoir, Chew on Life, an honest and personal account of everything I’ve lived through.
If this resonates with you, the book is now available through Elixr’s website. I am sure you will find something in it that’s useful, comforting, or at the very least, entertaining.
Elixr Health Clubs, Easts Leagues Club and Rally4Ever are proud to host a live panel featuring leaders from sport and fitness to explore mental health, resilience and the realities of pressure in everyday life.
This event creates space for honest, practical and human conversation around mental wellbeing, highlighting how discipline, connection and support systems can help build resilience over time.
Throughout the evening, the speakers from Elixr, Easts and Rally4Ever will bring together three distinct perspectives united by a shared focus on mental strength, community and lived experience.
- Date: Thursday (Thursday 30 April 2026 )
- Time: (6pm for a 6:30pm start) 6:30pm – 8:00pm
- Location: East Bondi Junction
