Rebuild your identity

Helping young people rebuild identity through discipline, structure, and lived experience.

Michael D'Avolio

My Mission

Built By Dav is committed to helping young people rebuild their identity in the face of adversity.

Through mentoring from someone who has lived it, not studied it, you develop the discipline that rebuilds identity from the inside out.

The goal is simple: stop surviving what's happening around you, and start building who you're becoming.

My Story

At my heaviest, I was 120kg. I was the kid who walked into every room expecting something to go wrong and the one who made himself smaller just to avoid becoming a target.

I was bullied throughout high school, carrying weight no one could see on top of the weight everyone could. The worst part was feeling like I had no control over any of it. Every day felt the same, heavy, invisible, and stuck.

Before anything changed externally, I made a decision. I was going to build.

Discipline came first, then structure, then a standard built on showing up every single day, especially when I didn't feel like it.

Eventually, I changed schools and stepped into a completely new environment where I knew no one. I had to rebuild who I was from the ground up.

It wasn't easy and it wasn't linear, but through that process, I lost 30kg, and more importantly, I became someone I actually recognised.

Everything Built By Dav stands for started with that one decision.

What I Offer

1:1 Identity Rebuild Coaching

Personal 1-on-1 coaching designed to rebuild your identity through discipline, structure and real accountability. Built on lived experience, not theory, and someone genuinely in your corner on a personal level.

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Live School Talks

High impact talks for primary schools, high schools and workplaces. Focused on awareness, discipline, identity and building resilience from the inside out.

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Workshops

Structured workshops for students, parents and workplaces. Every session delivers practical frameworks that can be applied immediately.

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Discipline Coaching

Coaching for all kids and teens built around discipline and consistency. Whether it's school, sport, or anything else, this is where the build starts.

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Resources & Insights

Building Real Discipline

The framework that actually works. How showing up every day, even when you don't want to, rebuilds who you are.

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Identity & Personal Growth

What happens when everything falls apart, and how rebuilding yourself from scratch is possible, I did it.

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Overcoming Bullying

You've been told to wait it out. You've been told it gets better. Here's what actually works.

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