M.L. Brocklehurst - 50 Dates in 50 States: One Womans Journey to Positive Change

Special thanks go to:

• Ann Brocklehurst (mum) for all of your love, support and encouragement in this process. Love you x
• David Brocklehurst (dad) for your sage advice over the years, accepting my sudden life changes with grace and loving me despite not understanding some of my choices. Love you x
• Aunty Barb (Barbara Middleton) for your love and support throughout my life. I owe you one final promise and I intend to keep it.
• Deborah Bargh for always being there for me to turn to you are my rock. Dubs ya x
• Ghis and Phil Kearon who saved my life when I was 16 and have felt responsible for it ever since. Thank you for being my surrogate parents for the past 20 years. Love you x
• Daisy, Andrew and Kiara Wilson for being my Aussie family and for looking after both me and Jessie when we needed it. Love you x
• Margaret and David Hays for allowing me to write about your son, Adam.
• Isabel Ault for helping me survive university.
• Annie Kwan for Nepal and always being an inspiration.
• Jo Bransby for showing me there is more to life than work, leaving corporate life before me to become one of the best personal trainers in Melbourne.
• Georgia Ramsay for always being up for a bacon and egg roll.
• Rachael Jackson for being Thelma to my LouiseDennys!
• Loral Langemeier for suggesting I write this in the first place and creating a situation which gave me no other choice than to do so.

To the people without whom I could not have made this journey, I would like to thank:

• Kim Bozell, Terry Kloepfer, Kat and Max Thomson for welcoming my dogs, Ralph and Lauren into your family. Thanks for being my American sister, Kim, couldn't ask for a better one!
• Nathan Winn for looking after the majority of my worldly goods
• Kim Williams and her mum, Jill, for looking after the rest and making the room even when baby Caitlin Jean arrived!
• Lorence Eshoe for providing me with a safe haven in the US.
• Larry Michaels at Match Matrix for allowing me free use of your services in an attempt to see if my potential dates were worth it!
• Renee Furbush of Off Centre Skin Care, Hartford, CT.
• Jessica Lorentz at Epic Bodyworks Massage, Minneapolis.

To the people who helped me in the process of writing this book, I would like to thank:

• Cynthia Lamb for being such a wonderful editor and now friend.
• John C. Robinson for being a great book coach and helping me through the rough patches.
• Bonnie Boezeman AO, Marla Martensen and Charmaine Hammond for your amazing support and encouragement.
• Lucian James, Jo Bransby, Andrew Machon, Annie Kwan, Kim Bozell, Rachael Jackson and Daisy Wilson for providing feedback along the way

And I also want to thank the following people for being part of my life and my journey.

Family: Ann Brocklehurst & Ian Hill-Pickford; David & Janet Brocklehurst; Nicola and my fabulous niece and nephew, Daniel and Lucy Wade; Barbara, Keith, David, Caren, Cara and Cian Middleton; Debbie, David, Sam, Nathan and Jacob Bargh; Malcolm, Luke, Josh, Jordan, Bethany and Joel Brocklehurst; Melvyn and Pam Brocklehurst; Wendy Morford; Dave and Doreen Blockley; Michelle, Steve, Liam and Jake Symonds; Geraldine, Georgina and Jamie Naughton; Stephen, Rachael, Christine, Stephen Cadywould and Anna McCarthy.

UK: Isabel Ault, Caroline May, Sarah Middleton, Karen Hyland, James Goldsbrough, Lucy Wheatcroft, Andrea Milward, Jean Snoxell, Lindsey Adderson, Alison Ibbotson and Georgie Browne.

Australia: Kevin and Barb Rowe, Tony, Carolyn, Chris, Andrew and Sarah Howe, Yvette Kerr, Rachael Jackson and Simon Kelly, Jacinda Hoskins, Victoria Prowse, Aleksandra James, Vera Krisko-Jowe, Isla Hale, Mark Brady, Peter Hammond, Nicole Macdonald, Graeme, Judy and Emma Howard, Kathryn Jones, Elisabeth Bateson, Anne Kinsella, Beth Parkin, Belinda Dennett, Nicolette Maury-Vassy, Naomi Viccars and Damien Coke, Greer Harris, Narelle Morley and Claire Burleigh, Scott Marett and Christine Cartledge.

US: Katrina Johnson and Joel Toney, Renata Dionello, Richard Nash, Stefan Krawczyk, Greg Carver, Julie Walker, Barry Murphy.

The Live out Loud community: Tracy Blay, Dona Donato, Nancy Sherman, Ellie Josephs and Joyce Gass, Annette Magee, Shannon Gutierrez, Sarita Stevens, Jana and Ricky Colter, Elizabeth Pitt, Randy Tate and Karen Baur, Eric Metcalf, Valerie Soeters, Rebekah Hall, Ken Course, Mike Mullen, Jennifer Walsh Jedow, Larry Micheal, Jiah Miesel, Hope Suhr as well as many other wonderful supportive people.

My friends from the Academy of Coaching and NLP: Andrew Machon, Diana Harris, Lindsay Hahn McDonnell, Linda Marchesani, Mindy Kobara-Mates, Lucian James, Terri Sullivant, Laurie Cozart, Elena Nagorskaya, Audrey Green, Elaine Alves De Jesus, Ilona Ivannikova, Ivar Lukk, Kim Von Berg, Cheryl McCormick, Tara Lee Ford, Mumtaz Levent Akkol, Ed Martin, Maggie Kilbourne, Karen Feltes, Fiona Wong, Matt Cusick, Jannick Pitot Rosenblatt, Simone Janssen, Jaime Gonzalez Molins, Hong Xu, Linda Delgado, Benita Jacque, Rossana Magana Ruiz, Tim Callan. And last but certainly not least to a wonderful trainer and coach, Helen Attridge I will try and make you proud!

Singapore: Rich Atkinson, Steven Liew and Simon Flann.

Mexico: Juli Goff at Se HablaLa Paz for teaching me Spanish and allowing me to speak in words rather than simply gestures!

France: Julie and Charlie Elston for your lasting friendship and support x