To help give you insight to the reason this course was developed, you might want to understand a little more about who I am, and the journey that lead me to write it. I was 16 when someone told me about the exciting possibility of working on the yachts and traveling the world. Not being someone who fit into the traditional schooling system, I was naturally drawn to this career path. So after school, I studied journalism for a year. By studied, I actually mean stu-DIED. 

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I flew to Cape Town as a naive 20 year old to start my Yacht training courses. Being from land-locked Pretoria, there weren't any references who could tell me what to expect from it, or what to do to get a job. 

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After completing my courses, I landed in Antibes, with no set guidelines and mentorship on how to land a job. I managed to find a job for the season, but ultimately returned to South Africa because of problems with my visa.

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This felt like I was back to square one, until I saw a company that I wanted to work for, sailing the islands in Croatia and entertaining international guests. After completing my Yacht Masters, I started working for this company, where I worked every season for 5 years. This made me realize that my first season, not finding permanent work in Antibes, was actually a blessing in disguise, because I could view it for the stepping stone it was.

 

While I was not sailing in Croatia, I started doing courses in Neuro Coaching, NLP, Brain Profiling and Personality Analysis, which opened a whole new world for me in terms of deeply understanding myself and the people around me. I learnt the necessary tools for radical positive transformation and self-awareness. I could see the unprecedented positive change it brought to my life.

 

Since then, my passion has been to help people achieve the same for themselves, to help them create the life of their dreams by embracing themselves and transforming into the person that makes those dreams become a reality, and stepping into a bright future.

 

This course was born from feeling the need to help others make this exciting journey easier, to equip them with the necessary skills to be able to handle the challenges that come with it and a dream to level up the yachting world.