What Bon Jovi taught me.

Self-sabotage, fear, and the monsters under the bed that kill ambition—this is what’s really holding me back (and maybe you too).

It’s funny (strange, not ‘ha-ha’) what holds us back and, indeed, what motivates us.

Back in 2001, I read shock-jock radio host Howard Stern’s autobiography, ‘Private Parts’. The book planted the seed of becoming a radio personality. As a then fledgling professional magician doing comedy stand-up shows and working to a live audience, the notion of prese…