My Story
I had to walk the bridge first — before I could become it.
For seven years I ran a six-figure construction business in Sydney, specialising in external finishes on residential homes. I worked six to seven days a week, ten-hour days. The business was my identity. I was proud of what I'd built, but I was surrounded by people who took advantage of the kindness I led with — scammed, betrayed, manipulated. I told myself I wasn't good enough, wasn't worthy enough. The only worth I felt I had was the business.
In December 2020, four days before Christmas, my dad fell from a six-metre scaffold on our jobsite. He fractured and broke his neck on impact. I held him in my arms with his head split open and blood gushing out, certain in that moment I was going to lose him. He survived — with a spinal cord injury that meant he would never work again.
I blamed myself. For two years I held the guilt, ran the business as a way to stay busy, looked after my employees, and quietly fell apart. Depression. Anxiety. Withdrawing from everyone. By 2022 my family had to sit me down and tell me the truth — I had to close the business. It was too high-risk and I couldn't carry it anymore. So I closed it. I let go of the identity I'd spent seven years building. It was the hardest decision of my life.
Then I went looking for answers.
I spent over a hundred thousand dollars on personal development. Therapy, NLP, mentorship programs, every protocol on YouTube, entrepreneurial podcasts daily, cold showers, ice baths, breathwork, meditation, visualisation, morning routines, workouts, every course I could find. I studied Chinese metaphysics. I looked into religion and philosophy for deeper meaning. Some of it helped — temporarily. Most of it left me more lost. The harder I searched, the more confused I became. I knew something deeper was missing and I couldn't name what.
In 2024, I won a prize at a real estate investment seminar. Five prizes were drawn from a hundred and fifty people. The woman who won the first prize was a stranger to me. By chance I won the fifth. We shared a lift down after the event. She told me about a Shuyi class being held for the first time in Sydney. I went.
That one class changed the trajectory of my life. Every question I had been searching for an answer to — why certain events kept happening, why the same kind of people kept entering my life, why my money felt hard-earned, why I was operating in a state I couldn't explain — got answered. Shuyi gave me the personalised blueprint I had been looking for: my map across health, wealth, relationships, and career, in alignment with who I actually am. The map showed me where my treasure was. My only job was to walk the path.
The course cost me three hundred and forty Australian dollars. It was the most affordable investment I made in my entire personal development journey, and the only one that fundamentally changed me. Within eighteen months I had gone from rebuilding my life as a salaried employee to running a seven-figure business as a business development leader — internally aligned for the first time, finally clear about who I was and where I was going.
But one piece was still missing. The body.
I had pushed myself through 75 Hard, a 24-hour military-style training camp, martial arts, the gym, bodybuilding, cold exposure — looking for resilience through punishment. I built mental toughness, but my body started to break down. Inflammation. Sciatica. Back pain. Knee pain. Brain fog. Short-term memory loss. I tried supplementation, fasting, every diet protocol — results were temporary at best. I avoided mirrors. The way I looked was the part of me I couldn't respect.
Then my aunt introduced our family to Nu Skin's TRME 90-day program. Within ninety days the inflammation subsided, the aches and pains disappeared, the brain fog cleared, my memory came back. I felt energised, alive, healthier, stronger — happier in my own body than I had been in years. I learned how to eat properly for the first time. I learned how nutrition actually works. I learned the biology and the processes the body requires to perform at its best. I learned how to slow the ageing process. I learned what visceral fat does to a body and why reducing it changes everything. The body I had given up on came back.
Shuyi gave me internal alignment — from lost to clarity. TRME gave me physical transformation — from low self-worth to self-respect.
I spent over a hundred thousand dollars looking for the solution. The solutions were in two systems I didn't create and didn't invent. I just found them. I walked across both bridges myself.
That is why I now stand on the other side and offer the same crossing to anyone ready to take it. Both solutions came from others who shared them with me — solutions that transformed my life. Now I live by this:
“I crossed the bridge myself. Now I am the bridge for others.”
