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Nigel Marsh



Nigel Marsh is the bestselling author of Fat, Forty and Fired, Overworked and Underlaid and Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up. He is the co-founder of Earth Hour, the founder of the Sydney Skinny, the host of the award-winning podcast The Five Of My Life, and a proud ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. He also came second last in the 2005 Bondi-to-Bronte ocean race.

Highly in demand as a public speaker, Nigel regularly gives speeches to major corporations on both his business and personal views. His TED speech on work-life balance remains one of the most viewed outside of America

Books by Nigel Marsh

Smart, Stupid and Sixty

From the bestselling author of Fat, Forty and Fired comes this humorous, thought-provoking, poignant and life-affirming account of turning sixty.

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Fat, Forty And Fired

One man’s frank, funny and inspiring account of losing his job and finding his life.

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