About Me

My Story

Hi, I'm Nick.

I was born in Bermuda with profound hearing loss and fitted with my first hearing aid before the age of two. I was raised — entirely deliberately — in the hearing world: mainstream schooling, lip-reading, and hearing technology carrying the load, with no sign language at all.

That foundation carried me a considerable distance: a BA (Hons) in Advertising and Brand Management, a Master’s degree in Insurance and Risk Management, and a professional diploma from the Chartered Insurance Institute, followed by an international career across insurance, technology, and ventures of my own. Along the way I have lived in six countries — Bermuda, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates — and today I am based in the UAE with my wife.

None of it was luck. It was technique, technology, preparation, and a family that never lowered the bar — and, above all, a positive mindset and a self-belief instilled in me early: never giving up, never limiting myself, and holding an unshakeable conviction that I could do anything I set out to do. I learned to move towards the challenges that frightened me and the situations that felt uncomfortable, repeatedly, until they became comfortable — and that discipline, more than any device, is what brought me here. It is the core of what I now pass on, through mentoring and life coaching, to hard-of-hearing teenagers, adults, and hearing parents around the world.