They Say People Come Into Your Life For a Reason

Author: Leigh Robshaw

They say people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Stuart Wilde came into my life for a season in my mid-20s and made a huge impact on me. His public persona was often brash, belligerent, even downright offensive to some. But in person, he was one of the kindest, funniest, most generous and caring people I have ever met.

It was 1995 and I was a little lost bird, floundering around London, trying to find my feet after having left Australia for the first time. I’d backpacked around South America for three months and landed in London, penniless.

The day after I arrived, I nervously called Stuart Wilde’s London home to ask him for a job. THE Stuart Wilde. I was a big New Ager back then and I had read Stuart’s books, like The Quickening, The Trick to Money is Having Some and Affirmations. I loved his wit and irreverence, and he struck me as kind of a Carlos Castaneda crossed with a comedian.

I had met him briefly in Sydney through my employer at the time, Leon Nacson of Hay House — Stuart’s then promoter and close friend. Leon had put in a good word for me and said to call “Stu” when I got to London to see if he had any work going.

On the phone, Stuart said he didn’t have any work for me, but he must have taken pity on the poor lost Aussie girl stranded in London and agreed to meet me at a pub in Notting Hill, just around the corner from his apartment. We had a couple of beers and got along like old mates.

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