He’s a multi Guinness World record holder (board breaking) and this success has overflowed into his corporate career. Glenn is also a specialist Coach & facilitator who has worked with a broad spectrum of Australia’s largest private and public-sector companies including the big 4 banks, Telstra, Optus, Vodaphone, Foxtel, Universal Studios, McDonalds, Zara fashions, NSW Health, Sydney Harbour Authority, AFP, to name a few. He now heads up ClubManager, a software company in Australia.



I wanted to take you to this point to show you that Glenn, is a highly motivated and determined person. He is also very methodical in the way he strategizes and plans everything, meaning nothing is left to chance.

Now at a time in his life where he is happy with his successes, reflecting upon his many achievements and then BANG! He gets the news, ‘you got cancer and its pretty advanced’.

Back on the Cancer, first of all there’s the shock, of a dire health challenge and the possibility of dying very soon. Just as he has always done before, Glenn makes a plan to tackle this challenge. He does the research, gets the right surgeon, improves his nutrition and gets as strong as he can physically, in between times.

There is one more thing he does, that I feel was that special something, that raised his chances of success. He tells people he is going to break his previous Guiness Book Of Records Board Breaking Title, after he blows this cancer crap away. He had already decided he was going to continue his life and could see what that would look like in the future. He switched his mind to the new martial arts goal, even before facing the unknown and highly invasive surgery.

Leapfrog to post operation, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, to setting up a 1,000 board break in a massive stadium with TV cameras, officials from Guiness Book of records and 1,000s of other martial arts fans watching. He has put everything on the line to get here and I’m wondering where the hell does he get his determination from.

This he tells me, was symbolically putting the last final nail in the coffin to cancer. He needed to obliterate it and the physical outlet was, smashing these boards, faster than anyone had done before.

Observing him from just a few meters away, I was watched his preparation very closely. Checking each stack and board, pacing himself and giving instruction to assistants on what to do if a board didn’t break. He was definitely in the zone and now he was ready to do it for real, he was finishing the biggest fight of his life. Cancer was now that little distraction he had along the way to this challenge.

The crowd was roaring as he set off at an enormously fast pace, using both hands simultaneously through four boards at a time. Up until this point, I still didn’t know what he had tapped into to fight cancer. I was following him around the circuit with a camera and kept feeling as though I was literally being pushed backwards. It was so tangible I had to put down my camera as he was emitting so much energy and I was compelled to just stop observe and take it in. It was like every board being smashed was literally releasing more energy, it was electric! Then to me, it felt like that was the special ingredient that was needed, the absolute belief in conquering anything.

As humans we have some amazing abilities, if we take the time to explore them as they are available to all of us. Obviously there is so much more to Glenn’s story and that’s something you can ask the man himself.

‘Bouncing back from cancer required me to reach inside and tap into all I’d learned through my training and every challenge up to that point from struggling to do my very first push-up when I was a kid, to now facing a true life-threatening challenge. My martial arts had taught me to take each challenge one battle at a time and helped me develop a stronger spirit, a stronger determination to win’.