Christian “Boo” Boucousis: Journey From the Aussie Air Force to Entrepreneurship

Christian “Boo” Boucousis is an established entrepreneur, business owner, and today, an executive leadership and performance coach. At the age of 19 Boo was recruited into the Royal Australian Air Force as a pilot, one of only 400 trained over a 38 year period. After serving 11 years as an elite fighter pilot, Boo was medically discharged with a diagnosis of "bone-fusing" Ankylosing Spondylitis.

This was the catalyst that brought Boo some of the most challenging and emotionally stressful times of his life, through which he entered the next phase of his life; building disruptive businesses and helping others to do the same.

Today, Boo has founded a humanitarian business that develops projects on behalf of the United Nations, built the world’s tallest prefabricated modular hotel, and bought and revamped his favorite childhood magazine, Australian Aviation. Now as a life coach, author, and podcast host, he serves people in an entirely new way.

This Episode’s Heavy-hitter’s:

Since he was six years old, Boo knew he wanted to be a fighter pilot. This made focusing on achieving that goal much simpler, and Boo was networking as a kid trying to meet fighter pilots and get exposure to that world every chance he could.

Boo almost didn’t make it into the Air Force because of his slightly below average eyesight– since he was close enough the examiner passed him anyway and told him to get glasses after the fact.

One way Boo has managed to get more done is the “want, plan, do” method. Essentially, by setting our goals too high, we usually fall short and get nothing done. He starts focusing on the smaller goals that are feasible so that he’s more motivated to do more in the long run.

Boo’s number one qualifier for selecting a new business or vertical to get involved with is that it has to be disruptive. He says it’s because he has always challenged conventional wisdom and how things have been done.

The life-or-death nature of his old job as a fighter pilot still drives Boo to make the most of his time. His mantra “never give up” reinforces this for him and other veterans.


Please check out Boo's podcast, The Few: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-few-podcast-with-boo-sean/id1535177847

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