The story.

I grew up in sport. Football, basketball — county level, then England squad at 14. At 16 I joined the army. Sat the BARB, came out in the top two per cent. I had a direction. I had a plan.

An injury ended the military path before it fully started. At 19 I was working three jobs and college simultaneously. Not out of ambition — out of necessity. That period taught me more about resourcefulness than anything that came before it.

I'm not going to dramatise this. Eight years of homelessness isn't a montage. It's repetitive, exhausting, and mostly invisible. What it actually is: a long sequence of small decisions made without a safety net, in a system that isn't built for people in motion. I learned what helps. I learned what doesn't. I learned that most support arrives at the breakdown point, not the intervention point.

Mentors. Education. Music — I earned the ISAS bronze award in 2021, co-founded a venue, a studio, and a label, and put on events that booked DJ Ironik and Kid Bookie. Not as a career move. As proof that building things is possible when you have the right conditions around you. The mission became: create those conditions for other people.

Solent Sports FC Pride. I built a club where the word 'inclusion' means something specific — not a badge, not a statement on a website. Real access for people who don't usually get it. The work earned us the EDI Heroes award. More importantly, it changed people's weeks.

FCOS — Founder Core Operating System — is the tool I built to power all of this. A system that gives founders the operating infrastructure that big companies take for granted. It's free to start. It exists because I needed it to exist. fcosthinktank.site

Because the gap between the intervention point and the breakdown point is where most damage happens. Because I know what it costs to fall through that gap, and I know it doesn't have to. This site, this work, this name — it's all the same instruction. Pay attention to the person next to you. Sometimes that's enough.