Back in June, I did a radio interview with 3AW. During the interview I mentioned that one of my goals (#18) was to meet Sir Richard Branson.

Shortly after the interview, a caller rang in and said that they might be able to help put me in touch with him. They had the details of his personal assistant.

I spoke with the caller (Bronwyn) and took the details she had. Until a week ago, I had done nothing with them.

Last week I thought it might be time to try the email address that Bronwyn gave me. So I sent an email, hoping that maybe I would get a response. Personal assistants tend to be the gatekeepers, so if I could get through this one, I might have a chance.

I eagerly checked my email inbox the next morning, and to my shock, there were two emails.

One from the person that I emailed, saying that she was not the personal assistant but would pass my email on.

And one from his actual personal assistant. Saying she loved Project 183 and had passed on my email to Sir Richard.

Cool I thought. But I still didn’t want to get my hopes up.

The next morning I eagerly checked my inbox, and to my shock and excitement, was an email from Sir Richard Branson!

Here is what it said:

Dear Heath,

Flattered you should want to meet me. Happy to get together the next
time that I’m in Australia. We’ll send your note to Danielle Keighery,
who will fix it up. Likely to be in December when I come to launch our
Pacific routes. Great idea!

All the best,
Richard

Can you believe it?! I now have a direct line with Sir Richard Branson (and his actual email address!).

Given I am moving to the UK next month, the meeting in Australia would not work, but we have spoken again since this email, and will be meeting in the UK in September.

Until I actually shake his hand (and maybe get a picture of him with a Project 183 magnet) I won’t get too over-excited, but just for him to write an email to little-old me is pretty damn awesome I reckon.