5. Sliding Doors, Coke Ads and Hitchhiking Through Belanglo

In this episode of Just Glen, I ask a simple question:How did I get here?From starting a Commerce degree at Melbourne Uni (inspired, if I’m honest, by Alex P. Keaton), to hitchhiking through the Belanglo State Forest in the 80s, to working retail, replacing cigarette ads with Coke branding, teaching overseas, starting software companies and eventually founding The Life Coaching College — the path hasn’t exactly been linear.Along the way, I lost my mum.I didn’t realise how much that shaped me at the time.I kept moving. I kept saying yes.Sometimes I was building. Sometimes I was running.This episode is a reflection on youth, invincibility, risk, grief, reinvention, meeting the right people, and how small decisions quietly shift the timeline — a bit like Back to the Future.At 55, looking backwards, it all feels intentional.Living it?It felt chaotic.Maybe the answer isn’t one big decision.Maybe it’s just turning up… and eventually choosing to stay.Thanks for listening.