What Others Are Experiencing | The Grounded Leader

"When you're not living your vision, you're essentially living a life of mediocrity, waiting for death. The worst thing you can do is run from your vision — from that golden thread of authentic purpose that's been calling you all along."
Tom Brown Jr. — Tracker, Teacher & Author of The Tracker

What people find

Most people come to breathwork because something isn't shifting the way it should. Most come to coaching because they've run out of external things to try. What they tend to find is something they weren't expecting. Not a technique. A way back to themselves.

"The biggest problem we solved together was a huge step change into who I am being at my core. I actually love myself now. I've never done that before."
Katy Green — CEO & Co-Founder, Centred Excellence

"I became not just a better coach, but a better human. I'm a completely different man, husband, father, son, brother and friend because of the time I've spent with him."
Vaughan Paynter — Head Business Coach, The Expert Project

"I describe it like being Teflon — something that would usually set my heart racing and anxiety skyrocketing now doesn't stick like that. I can actually take a breath and think, does this affect me, why would I even give this any energy, and I breathe."
Emma Hogan — Veteran Police Detective

What they noticed

"He doesn't give me the answers — he's got this really clever way of helping me find the answers on my own, which is incredibly powerful. Once I have that awareness, often that's enough."

Tess Milton — Founder UnearthHER, Mum of 5

"The calmness in my mind after finishing each session really makes me realise how quiet my mind is probably supposed to be all the time."

Ricky Ballard — Project Manager & Engineer

"Breathwork is far more grounding, supportive, and transformative than you expect — and the benefits ripple into every part of your life."

Josh Patterson — Dr of Osteopathy, Lismore Osteopathy

"I realized the issue wasn't specifically with business. It was more mindset — it was how I was showing up to the table. It's already resulted in more clarity, better decision-making, and more certainty when I go into my day."

Daniel Taylor — Founder, Morgan Capital

"I discovered that there were some deeper things happening within me that I hadn't realised needed attention or release. Breathwork brought some of those emotions and patterns to the surface, making me aware of things I didn't even know I was holding onto."

Rachel Gallagher — Professional & Caregiver

"He calls you on your bullshit — there's no doubt about that."

Michael Fordyce — Sales and Marketing Manager

"I have a place to go now, internally, where I can calm myself and get better access to my intuition. I also find I am more sensitive to feelings from my body."

Ricky Ballard — Project Manager & Engineer

"I'm now able to hold space more effectively at work and feel like I have more capacity to give to the people closest to me. I'm also responding to others with more patience and presence."

Josh Patterson — Dr of Osteopathy

"He has this magic about him to go deep within you and help you do that same thing in a fraction of a second."

Nikhil Kumar — Founder, Bulletproof Teams

"I'll forever be grateful for what you've helped me find. I'd thought I needed to find something new, but it was actually an act of letting go of old stuff that opened me up to a love like I've never known before."
Tess Milton — Founder UnearthHER

"It blows my mind that I've spent a lifetime looking for something that was right there inside me. With your help, I removed my blind spots and let go of what was taking up space. The result? Pure admiration for the woman looking back at me."
Katy Green — CEO, Centred Excellence

More voices

"When you speak with Max, he gives you his 100% focus and undivided attention. He is a master at reading between the lines when it matters."

David Purdie — Firefighter & Co-Founder, We Do Design

"I am still a work in process, but I am slowly peeling away the layers of trauma and walls I've created, thinking I was protecting myself. I feel like I can start to finally see the real me, and it's exciting."

Emma Hogan — Veteran Police Detective

"These sessions have been the key to tapping into a quiet place in my mind that I'm not sure I've ever experienced before."

Meg Xerri — PT and Account Specialist

"I have been able to create more time and space and be more present for my family and also for myself than I have ever been."

Brendan Felix — Lead Culinary Teacher

"I feel safe knowing that breathwork is something I can turn to when I'm facing challenges in life. It's become a grounding tool that helps me navigate difficult moments with more stability and calmness."

Rachel Gallagher — Professional & Caregiver

"I've become more present in my life not only as a dad but as a business owner."

Marty Spink — Business Owner, GC Print

"If you're looking for a sign to get your shit together, this is it."

Amy Wallin — CEO, LinkedVA

"I wanted a flourishing business and life. But who I was was a sales dog. I was constantly chasing and not closing. Max helped me realise this, and ever since that day it has become my creed, my way of being."

Nikhil Kumar — Founder, Bulletproof Teams

"I feel like I was having a conversation with myself — a clear distinction between my non-physical self and my physical self. And the conversation was very rewarding."

Ricky Ballard — Engineer

"Once we have taken the first tentative steps toward worthwhile creative work, we have brought to life embers inside us that would signal some kind of inner death should they then go out."
David Whyte — Poet & Author of Consolations

"Just fucking do it mate, seriously — I wish I had looked after myself years ago. What have you got to lose, nothing apart from an hour of your time, but you have lots to gain."
Emma Hogan — Veteran Police Detective, 46

Cargo

You enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and gifts
sent to be delivered to a hungry world.
And as much as the world needs your cargo,
you need to give it away.
Everything depends on this.

But the world forgets its needs,
and you forget your mission,
and the ancestral maps used to guide you
have become faded scrawls on the parchment of dead Pharaohs.

The cargo weighs you heavy the longer it is held
and spoilage becomes a risk.
The ship sputters from port to port and at each you ask:
"Is this the way?"

But the way cannot be found without knowing the cargo,
and the cargo cannot be known without recognizing there is a way,
and it is simply this:

You have gifts.
The world needs your gifts.
You must deliver them.

The world may not know it is starving,
but the hungry know,
and they will find you
when you discover your cargo
and start to give it away.

Greg Kimura

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The same voices, expanded. What they carried in, what the breath surfaced, and what life looks like on the other side.

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