"And woke up on the next Monday ... with nothing to do ... no-one called me, no-one was thinking about me."

This episode features a classic example of a person who totally adopted the Max’s Island way … and made a deliberate decision to change everything.

As we say on Max’s Island, that moment in life where you made a decision … for yourself.

However, in this case … for a range of reasons, it didn’t end there. In fact, it eventually ended back to where it all began.

Darren Green made a decision in 2018, after 15 years of running his own successful mortgage broking business … and within a week of him sharing that decision to walk away, with his bosses … it was abruptly over.

Waking up on the next Monday morning, he was a free man … or so he thought.

Since then and until now, he has wrestled with what was best for his mental health, what are his passions and thinking about what he does best.

But nothing really stuck or satisfied him. This meant that Darren bounced around a few jobs, sat out his time during COVID and generally tried to find what was right for him.

Eventually he circled back to where it all began … being a self employed mortgage broker … but with a different frame of mind and a refreshing outlook of where work sits in his life. He feels that he now has achieved the freedom to self actualise and make the necessary judgement calls that allow him to live his life … on his terms.