About Martin

For fifteen years, I lived a life most people only imagine.

I worked as a photographer, producer, and television commercial director in Mumbai, shooting covers for GQ and Vogue India, creating campaigns for the biggest ad agencies in Asia, and working with Bollywood’s top stars. My wife and I raised three children there. We had a beautiful life, and I was very good at what I did.

Then, in 2023, we left it all behind.

We moved home to Canada, to Salt Spring Island, so our kids could grow up hiking, camping, and knowing where they came from. It was the right decision. It was also one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

The next few years felt like a chrysalis. Inside a cocoon, a caterpillar doesn’t simply grow wings. It dissolves first. I turned fifty in the middle of that dissolving, asking the questions so many of us eventually face: Who am I now? What’s next? What actually matters?

I didn’t come to those questions empty-handed. For years, whenever we could, my wife and I travelled to the Anand Prakash ashram in Rishikesh, where I trained as a yoga teacher under master Dr. Yogrishi Vishvaketu, immersing myself in Buddhist and yogic psychology. Those teachings carried me through my own transition. They became my book, The Weary Traveller’s Guide to a Life Worth Living, and my podcast, Odyssey & Alchemy, where I explore inner work and transformation, especially with men.

I work with people standing at a threshold: a career change, a loss of identity, a decision they keep circling, a version of their life they can see but haven’t yet stepped into. I don’t give advice or offer quick fixes. I ask the questions that help you hear your own answers, and then I help you act on them.

I’m currently completing my ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) training. But my real training has been my life: building something, letting it go, and finding out what was there all along.

If you’re in your own chrysalis right now, I’d love to talk.