About the author
Until 2020, Mish circled the globe, consulting and coaching in large organisations grappling with complex change in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Before he became a coach in 2007, he co-founded and was first CEO of a successful software and services company in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to that he taught A level Physics in Harare, Zimbabwe in the 1980s. He was born in Cape Town as a privileged white man under the apartheid system.
Since his radical prostatectomy because of prostate cancer in February 2020, Mish has continued working worldwide as a coach, consultant and trainer of organisational and relationship coaches, but on a more modest schedule. Soon after the operation, Mish began blogging his experiences on RecoveringMan.net and drew in others to tell their stories. He set up and has facilitated monthly live online support groups since 2020 with men around the world who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer or experience difficulties with their sexual health, and he also coaches couples grappling with the impact of age and changing capabilities.
The tens of thousands of visitors to his website and hundreds who have participated in the discussions revealed overwhelming interest in how to have a satisfying sex life with a soft cock – and that this desire is not confined to those who have had prostate cancer.
His explorations have led to his participation in a variety of public conversations and podcasts, including The Penis Project, Cam Fraser’s Men, Sex & Pleasure, La Nogalera (Spanish), CRR Global’s Relationship Matters, and Soft Cock Week. Mish was given the Ron Hering Mission of Service Award in 2021, awarded to men involved in the Mankind Project who excel in missions of service to the wider community, for his work on the Recovering Man support groups and website. In 2023 Mish delivered a paper to the Annual Clinical Meeting of the UK Institute for Psychosexual Medicine.
He and his life partner Colleen have two adult sons, whom they followed to North America in 2023. Mish and Colleen now live near the shore of Lake Ontario in Toronto.
Avid parkrunner
On a Saturday morning, wherever in the world they are, you will usually find Mish and his wife Colleen at the local parkrun. As parkrunners say “run it, walk it or crawl it” – 5 km in a natural park area
Making clay vessels since 2007. Enjoying playing with clay feeling how alive it is.
Author: Beyond Erections
Inspired by men and their partners around the world finding new ways to be sexual in spite of erectile differences, Mish decided to write the book helped by his wife Colleen, a professional publisher.
Mish has been an international faculty member for CRR Global, Inc since 2015. He co-leads systemic coach training courses around the globe in the Orgamisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) method
Organic vegetable gardener
Mish’s maternal grandparents were farmers and his paternal line were gardeners. Cancer got him to take organic veggie gardening more seriously. There is always something fresh on the table.
Holding space for couples dealing with the impact of prostate cancer.