From the 23rd-30th of October 2025 we held my first seven-day retreat in Negril, Jamaica the theme of which was, the Seven Steps. The personal development coaching anchors each step in the confidence and clarity that comes from operating from a Global Majority mindset. On day five, in the hours before the ‘uninvited guest’ in the form of an unprecedented Category Five Hurricane named Melissa ripped through Western Jamaica, we were tested. Not fully appreciating the literal pe