Revisiting your scars and saving others with martial arts with Chris Futcher-Coles

Kintsugi Heroes: Uncovering our Hidden Value

Chris describes his early years of low self-worth as a result of family and school issues. Then he became only the second male nurse in Queensland and then an anaesthetic technician and a successful corporate job.

He discovered martial arts which set him on a path and he eventually started a small martial arts school in Sydney and a new career in martial arts and helping people.

His business failed during the pandemic but he realised he wanted to help others in different ways by seeing people who were victims become survivors.

Biography

I've been preaching for years to the multitude, be authentic, face your fears but I kept my story to myself. I knew my beginnings shaped my life with lots of bumps and blind corners but I could feel a force pushing me to help others. A Martial Artist for 45 years, I didn't just do martial arts, I let the philosophy of Martial Arts shape the part of me that was the most damaged. I let my Martial Arts save me to help and save others.

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