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Royce back from Sweden
Royce Maloney
THE 2023 WRAP
It has been a busy and productive year for Royce in relation to both his business and private life. Getting rather sick of working in Australia and being stuck in the one place after the pandemic, Royce decided to take some time away on his own working in the office in Sweden. Sweden has become a large part of the global business due to the growth of crime and gangs in Stockholm. Royce has always had a soft spot for Sweden, the first great love of his life of Swedish decent. He began a major restructuring of the Stockholm office before moving down to Skane, to Ystad in particular, where he set up a new regional office. Royce spent many years reading the Henning Mankel Wallander series of novels, so he took it upon himself to set up business premises close to Mariagatan in Ystad. He acknowledges that Kurt Wallander’s view throughout the novels that crime would soon become unmanageable in Sweden was correct. The surge in drug use and drug production by gangs in Sweden has directly contributed to the mental health crisis and so to our ongoing global work.
This is where Royce and Roxanne and his team come in, in terms of recovery and the rebuilding of lives.
It wasn’t long before Royce began frequenting restaurants, pubs, and bars in Ystad, Malmo, and Copenhagen. It was in a bar in Copenhagen where he met Edi Lindstrom, a singer and musician from Stockholm who was working in the band at Sylvie’s Bar on the waterfront. Royce and Edi hit it off straight away after Royce sent a drink to her table.
Edi also has a history as a peer worker in mental health due to her struggle with addiction earlier on in life, a war she has fought and won. After many long chats in Ystad over coffees, Royce decided to recruit Edi to the team. Edi will join Royce and Roxanne in Australia, after spending time getting acquainted with the recovery work they practice globally at the Stockholm and new Ystad offices. Royce has assured his treasured Roxanne that the relationship with Edi in Sweden was platonic since Roxy knows Royce has always been a ladies’ man, with a special interest in young Scandinavians of the opposite sex.
Read Royce’s Recovery philosophy below.
ROYCE’S RECOVERY PHILOSOPHY
It all begins with an idea. Without the germ of the idea, the inspiration to change, you don’t have anything. Maybe you want to walk a straight line, maybe you want to give something up, like an addiction, or decisions that are making you weaker with every single breath you take. Maybe you want to turn your life around. It aint no cliche that all of these things begin with one small step. One small goal at a time. One game at a time, as they say. Your goals must be simple, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and timely. Once your first germ of an idea is accomplished, then you need to keep building on that indefinitely. Learning about yourself is a lifelong process, which, with age, changes over time. What applied back then does not necessarily apply now. It’s something of a farce, a comedy, a joke considering that the Truth is that there is no such things as time. And you need to realise that these days, we are all now swimming in The Rise of the Negative pond where you are going to be constantly put down by guilt. As such, you will need, with all your might, to remain true to yourself, to just be yourself, be who you are, and do it your way. There is no substitute for a life well lived. Many people believe that changing into a better from of themselves means drastic changes to who you are. But no, you need to start to love who you are because self-love comes straight from the Higher Power. We find our job is to help you find your inner Truth and to iron the rough edges and footfalls which we all suffer from as imperfect human beings. Come join us. You won’t be disappointed. Royce.
Edi Lindstrom
Roxanne Maloney
ROXY’S RECOVERY PHILOSOPHY
Where do you start in rebuilding a life? First, you need to figure out where you think you are on the ladder of life? Are you living a good life? Are you doing what you want to do in life? Are you wasting your life on the dark side? Are you stuck in a dead end job for which you are blaming everyone else and the world for? Wherever you are on life’s ladder, do youse want to go higher? Second, wherever you are on the ladder of life, you need to take personal responsibility for where you are. There is one great truth in life and that is that it’s no one else’s fault. You are in the driver’s seat of your Mustang. You can be in the passenger seat of my Mustang if you’re damn lucky. Me and Royce have seen it all. We’ve been there and we’ve done that. Like Royce says, we believe in excellence. It’s the only fucken way to go. Come join us and share our process. We’ll take you higher but without the drugs and substances.. And then, once you’ve achieved some of your outlined and specific goals, which we will help you formulate, you will start the process of small steps in putting them into place over time. The puzzle will slowly start to be solved. As a reward, you can stare at my legs and arse in person. Royce will help you to be yourself. I will concentrate more on dragging you out of the Dark Side into the Good life. It’s a joint effort. We work together in everything as a team, as couples should. But we’re not giving away any of our secrets just yet. Roxy.
EDI’S RECOVERY JOURNEY
I met the beautiful Edi at a bar in Copenhagen where she was singing in the band there. I found her voice to be so Angelic that I decided to buy her a drink and send it to her table after the show. Since then, Eli and I have met in Malmo and Ystad in Sweden where we are opening our new southern regional branch of the Convict Streak Coaching Academy due to the severe rise in crime and associated drug and addiction problems in that country due to the rise of immigrant gangs in Stockholm and elsewhere.
Edi proved to be a remarkable woman, having been through her own recovery journey from addiction to opioid painkillers, which occurred after a near fatal car accident, spinal surgery, and chronic pain. Her addiction to opioids and then the use of prescription hydromorphone and also regular use of marijuana for pain relief, led her down into a very dark abyss that continued for several years. Edi was strong and brave enough to finally take action and went into rehab in 2017 in order to save her love of singing, playing music, and writing songs. She relapsed only once and re-entered rehab.
I have learned that Edi is a first class pianist and she used her love of music and also acting to put into place a structured recovery program. It has been an absolute blessing meeting this beautiful and remarkable soul.
Apart from her love and practice of music, her band touring, and other creative pursuits, Edi possesses in spades what we consider to be all the real life training and experience to make a huge contribution to our work at the Academy both here and in Australia where we teach our clients not to be victims, not to see themselves as victims, not to blame the world for their problems, together with other associated matters of resilience, including never giving up, and the general use of love and discipline in the pursuit of lasting resilience.
Since, in life, which will always knock you down, often when you least expect it, and often continually, it is necessary to keep getting up off the canvas in order to live a long and prosperous and productive and meaningful life.
That is the essence of what we teach at the Convict Streak Coaching Academy.
Edi has decided that it would be great to have a change, as I have just done by going to work in Sweden. This change would see her coming down under to Australia and working with myself and Roxanne and we are so looking forward to her impending contribution.
Edi has a past connection to Australia in that it is not her first visit down under. She toured with her band many years ago when she was just starting out, trying to replicate what Abba had done here in the seventies and eighties. The band had modest success and soon found themselves concentrating on the European market, but not before she met these rock chicks (see photo at left) while on tour in Sydney.
In the past, before her car accident, Edi worked in an administrative capacity in the Eurovision song contest but never performed there due to her accident. Maybe one day, we can encourage or convince Edi to sing in this worldwide competition.
We are looking forward to Edi starting work with us in Melbourne in February.
ROYCE