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Last week as I was tuning in to listen to one my favourite sources of thinking, the podcast by the most influential public intellectual of the west of our times, the Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, and bestselling author of “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” Mr. Jordan Peterson, my plans were completely ruined. Shocked by the details of a road less travelled by his guest, I was forever changed and led back to reconnect with my deepest intention for a life of public speaking and helping to support our fragile values of life, all due to the incomparable spirit of his guest, Mrs. Yeonmi Park. Although her physical transformation deluded me momentarily, beyond that heavy make up she was still the North Korean defector and human…

I am not a fan of tattoos. I don’t like them for many reasons, since I am working on the body and I receive so many information out of a clean natural skin that maps all of one’s emotional and physical state. But if for a reason legitimate and just for my life I was ever to have one that would be one phrase that I would like to accompany me forever.  七転び八起き (Nanakorobi yaoki) meaning “Fall down seven times stand up eight”. I don’t remember when I first heard this Japanese proverb but it was love at first sight. Profoundly simple and accurate; to get through life you need to rise again after any fall, any failure, any loss. Most of the times losses or failure are nothing but…