Aussie men embark on the adventure of a lifetime –
Blase Grinner
INTERVIEW AND ARTICLE MICHELLE R PRICE
Sunshine Coast local, Blase Grinner, has a surprising amount of energy considering he has three kids aged three and under. He and partner Melinda recently welcomed a baby girl after having two boys. After working as a tradie for 10 years and playing rugby league for New Zealand and later Queensland, Blase has dedicated the recent years of his life to helping other men live their best lives.
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uring his construction years he became a Foreman by the age of 24 and found himself giving orders to men as old as 50. “Those two industries, the rugby league and the trade [construction], were… that hyped-up masculine, or if you look at energy, this tyrant energy, so a very macho culture here in Australia,” he said. “Through that process of [working in] the construction industry, what led me to becoming a coach, was a gentleman, very, very dear to me, he attempted suicide. I was 22, he was 18. Slit both his wrists, got 26 stitches and he survived. “I wasn’t very spiritually aware, or consciously 20
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aware of my emotions and went on a wayward spiral, so drugs, alcohol, pornography, prostitutes, gambling… anything that I could do to numb or avoid the pain that this caused me.” Blase adds here that his father left when he was just seven, “So from a very young age I was always aspiring to older men as a mentor and these men didn’t fit that role effectively for what I needed and so that was that search and that yearning for older men in my life.” During his career in construction, Blase came across Mates in Construction (MIC), which focuses on the prevention of suicide. www.spiritualeventsdirectory.com
