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…during Covid lockdowns I created manreclaimed.com

…participated in Ayahuasca ceremonies with shamans in the Amazon rainforest.

…rode a horse through the low Andes.

…visited Lord Krishna’s birth place in Mathura, India while I was visiting factories and inspecting goods for a client.

…after several violent attacks, I studied street security and self-defence with an ex-Belgium foreign legion mercenary.

…learned the ancient shamanic practice of fasting with reverse osmosis from a disciple of the master Hawaiian Kahuna Auntie Margaret Machadow who came from a long lineage of Hawaiian healers.

…was a guide and interpreter for the president of the International Cocoa Organisation when he visited Ecuador.

…was sent by a great yogi and macrobiotic master as his apprentice to one of HRH Queen Elizabeth II´s race-horse trainers who had become sick.

…fasted for over week at a time.

 …went walking in the Botswanan bush with the khoisen who showed me how they survive.

…travelled across South Africa by train.

…ate Kudo and ostrich at a township braai in Johannesburg with Zulu and Xhosa people and an amazing curry in Durban, South Africa.

…learned to play backgammon with Greek and Turkish community in London.

…was promoted from dishwasher to manager of a busy London restaurant in under 6 months.

…practiced Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gung. This gave me an appreciation of flow and the importance of breathing.

…danced on stage in Lisbon, London and Quito. Contemporary and Latin.

…was assistant manager to local street arts community, crowd management was my life!

…was a barman in a busy Irish pub in South London. I often found blood and broken glass in the toilets. Violence was common.

…made a book about life in prison to help prison officers in the UK dissuade school children from a life of crime.

…changed tractor tyres from pig farms by hand in the winter with steel tyre bars and my bare hands.

…collected samples for a sugar beet research laboratory.

…sold shoes in a Swiss shoe shop.

…sang entire albums of music from start to finish to relieve the boredom while working in a plastic bottle factory. Nobody heard me over the sound of the machines!