SPIRALLING INTO CONTROL: MY CAREER CREATION STORY

This isn't a graduation party, and it's not really a celebration of any one achievement. It's a reflection on ten years of creating a career. We're often told that successful careers are supposed to make sense: pick a field, choose a profession, become an expert, and stay there. My career didn't happen that way. At nineteen, I was upgrading my marks and reading The Artist's Way. Those pages eventually became my first book, The Truth Shall Bloom. Then I studied film, received an Honours scholarship, and created a film called Transmute. I went on to complete a Master's degree researching blockchain technology, reinvented myself through cybersecurity, travelled to Egypt, sat in silence at a Vipassana retreat, and eventually found myself exploring content creation, community building, AI, blockchain security. Looking back, it doesn't resemble a straight line at all. It looks like a spiral. Every spiral started with something small: a book, a question, an idea, a project, a conversation, a risk. At the time it never felt significant, but years later I could see how each one changed the direction of my life. That's why I've called this Spiralling Into Control. Over time, those spirals began building on one another. What's beautiful is that I still have many of the journals I've written over the last ten years, so throughout today's experience you'll hear from different versions of me through the words they left behind. So over the next five courses, I'm going to take you through five spirals: Creation, Storytelling, Curiosity, Reinvention, and Expansion. Each spiral taught me a lesson, each spiral contributed something to the career I've built, and together they created the work of art that became my twenties. Because when I look back on the last decade, I don't see a career path. I see a creative project. Not because this is a story about finding myself, but because it's a story about creating myself. Chef: Chef B