Jack Lawrence

So were you a studious kid?

Was journalism something you always wanted to do?

I see the answer straight away.

Would you say you were a risk taker as a kid?

So Sean had no ambitions to be a journalist growing up.

But eventually, in his final year of school before university, he meets a guy who would become his best mate.

And that mate was heading off to Oxford to become a journalist, a career again Sean hadn't even thought of.

So with that, he decided, why not?

For a guy in his early 20s, Sean is now basically getting paid to have fun.

Going to Barcelona, Ibiza, clubs in London, interviewing DJs and just having the time of his life.

And when he thought it couldn't get any better, he lands himself a side hustle with Australian TV broadcaster ABC.

OK, so just quickly for anyone not from Australia, Molly Meldrum is a household name here.

He was a music critic, journalist, record producer and music entrepreneur and a mainstay of Australian television for several decades, hosting many shows, but most notably the music show Countdown, which is the TV show that Sean was being interviewed for by the Molly Meldrum.

I'm sure it was.

Sean's really having the time of his life, getting paid great money to write about music, clubs, football and the social scene.

So how on earth or why on earth does a man go from that to war zones and meetings with the Taliban?

Well, Sean had had enough of interviewing DJs about beats per minute and was jaded and looking for a new challenge.

And it just so happens that that new challenge presented itself on the news in November of 1989.

Chapter two, meeting the Taliban.

So he had his new bug, gritty real news that was those life-changing events happening around the globe.