2025 was the most expansive year of my life. In January, I moved to a small beach town in Costa Rica on a complete whim and turned it into my home. I committed to posting on Instagram every single day for the first 33 days of the year, saw progress in the numbers, and more importantly experienced a profound shift in my relationship with how I was perceived by others and what I should or shouldn’t post online. In February, I travelled around Japan with my brother and parents, went skiing with two of my best mates from Australia, and experienced a completely novel culture and way of life. Presence and connection with loved ones will always come before business and digital growth. In March, I returned to Costa Rica and was invited by @paulinthejungle to live in a beautiful house in the jungle with other young entrepreneurs who became my family. Two weeks somehow turned into two months in that house. I launched The Distance Project and got 25 people in my first group coaching cohort - a huge win. Long-standing internal patterns of fear and self-judgment began to dissipate. I took a friend of mine, Josh, on his first ultramarathon - 51km with 2,500m of elevation gain - which he described as an ayahuasca trip. The furthest he’d run prior was 10km. In April, I summited Mount Chirripó, Costa Rica’s highest mountain, with my mate Yostin. We climbed 2,800m and covered 21km in 5 hours and 50 minutes. Serious altitude sickness hit hard, and we were both viscerally reminded how much of a privilege it is to feel strong, fast, and capable in the mountains. On the descent, an old lower-back injury returned and put me through absolute misery. I began living off Bitcoin in my small town, paying for rent and groceries while being compensated by a handful of clients in the same currency. Organic market hauls, barefoot and shirtless gym sessions, heated ping-pong battles, morning breathwork sessions at the waterfall, family dinners, sunsets, and surfing with friends became the daily norm. Weekly ecstatic dance helped me unblock physical expression and creativity I had shut down for over a decade. (Full caption continued in the comments section below)