Growing up in Byron Bay, I'd spent my teen years in fine dining at The Figree Tree working in both the kitchen (cooking) and the bar (flirting).
This job taught me a lot about hard work (typically working 60-80 hour weeks..yeah, 16 hour days) as well as the confidence to think for myself and seek out jobs that needed doing.
England
2015
From here I took off to Brighton, England and begun managing a small health food shop. I got the job simply due to being Australian and they know Australians make good coffee and this was where I was introduce to the business side of things.
This role taught me all about managing people and how extremely complicated that can be.
(picture in a cereal cafe in London, not the health food shop)
china
2016
After a year of England, I moved to Shanghai, China, I got the first taste of my career at The Mailman Group - one of Chinas biggest marketing agencies for sports, leisure, and travel.
While here I was tasked with learning web design and development, I couldn't be more grateful of this time as it set me up on a path I was searching for in life but didn't know existed.
dubai
2017
On a trip to Dubai to renew my Chinese visa, I was scouted by Amongst Few to run their online store and that's exactly what I did for the next 2 years.
In this role, I was focused a lot more on digital marketing than design and development.
unison
2018
During a trip home to Australia in 2018, I joined my friends at a birthday dinner, during this dinner I needed to get some cash from an ATM. On my way, I saw a completely packed barbershop, and about 100m from that, another fully packed barbershop and that got me thinking. Maybe I should open a barbershop, so myself and Khalid did.
Welcome to life Unison Barber
bikers
2019
3 months after opening unison, a deal was struck to open another location in Bikers Cafe with them in their cafe.
reef cuts
2020
Next up was Reef Cuts - a barbershop located in Surf House Dubai to mark barbershop number 3.
freelance
2020
😷 COVID HITS 😷
Weighing up my options of being stuck alone during a pandemic in my Dubai apartment vs wait it out in my family home in rural Australia. I picked the latter and begun an extremely busy freelancing career as every business needed to launch online overnight.
joolca
2021
Towards the end of November 2021 I joined the Joolca team as