The Moment Guy’s Life Changed Forever

In 2003 Guy launched another fitness innovation, an aquatic boot camp on the shores of Sydney Harbour. The classes were a combination of paddling, running & dry land exercises and quickly attracted hundreds of participants every week. Some 13 years into these classes, an event changed Guy’s life forever. An event so tragic that it made Guy rethink his entire life’s purpose and question everything that he was doing both personally and professionally.

On Jan 6th 2016 one of Guy’s best mates, former Channel nine sport commentator Charles Stewart (known as “Chucky”) suffered a heart incident at the end of a class. Guy instinctively began CPR while others called 000. It took ten minutes for the ambulance to arrive and they quickly took over, transporting Chucky to the hospital. Chucky fought for life in hospital before passing away 3 days later. In the weeks following, Guy learned that had he had a life-saving defibrillator on hand, Chucky would have had more than a 70% chance of surviving.

Once he came to grips with losing one of his closest friends, he made the decision to dedicate his life to heart health and saving lives. He launched Heart180 in 2017 a national based defibrillator company that educates & distributes the world’s leading defibrillators.

Heart180 is now the no.1 distributor in Aust supplying thousands of these life-saving devices to the community. One of their devices saves a life every 6 weeks.

Now age 60, Guy is married with two daughters living at Collaroy Beach on the northern beaches of Sydney. He remains fit & healthy with his mission: to get defibrillators within 180 seconds of any Australian at any given time. If he reaches this goal it will save 70 Aussies a day!