From mindless delinquent to mindful hypnotist, Mark Anthony´s story takes us from the criminal world of Southeast London to a successful career as one of Australia’s most sought after hypnotists. A roller-coaster of family violence, children’s home, expelled and suspended from schools, child abuse, drugs, crime and loss of freedom; cancer, bankrupt, divorce and false accusations, and the power of a man’s mind driving his way out to a brighter life of love and success.

Mark´s incredible story goes beyond anything told before: a real emerging phoenix. Fatherless, poor, beaten, abused, arrested, belted, threatened, on the verge of death…Mark´s childhood and adolescence elapsed like the worst of nightmares.

The brother of a murderer, he lost four friends to heroin and was employed by an underworld figure. Treated like scum but trusting there was a way out, it was when the game seemed lost, behind bars, that Mark decided to change his life. It was an arduous path, rich in disappointments and great mistakes, albeit Mark´s life tells us that nothing is fatal and never everything is lost. An inspirational story showing us that, no matter where we are at, there is always a way up if we put our mind to it.