I’m Dylan, the founder of Master Your Path Mentoring, a dad and someone who understands that life doesn’t always follow the path you expected.

My path into mentoring comes from both professional training and lived experience. I grew up around difficult circumstances and spent years making decisions without really understanding the patterns behind them or how much my own thinking was affecting the direction of my life.

In my late twenties, the loss of one of my closest childhood friends caused me to look at life differently.

For much of my life, when something difficult happened, I would ask:

“Why me?”

Over time, that became:

“Why not me?”

Instead of only asking why something was happening to me, I started asking what it might be trying to teach me. I began looking for the lesson in difficult experiences and sometimes the blessing that could come from the lesson.

That shift didn’t make difficult things less difficult, but it changed what I did with them.

After around nine years working in the civil and mining industries, I realised the part of life I found most meaningful was connecting with people, hearing their stories and helping them see things from a different perspective. That led me to professional training in life coaching and eventually into disability support and mentoring.

Becoming a father has shaped me even further and reinforced something I strongly believe — there is often much more behind a person’s behaviour or circumstances than what we see on the surface.

I’m a down-to-earth person and I don’t pretend to have all the answers. Sometimes people just need someone who will genuinely listen and give them the space to see things differently.

That’s what I want Master Your Path Mentoring to be — a place where you can be yourself, talk openly and start finding your own way forward.