1
00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,160
Speaker 1: Nathan Stafford, Well, straight talk mate, thanks to every I've

2
00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:05,840
Speaker 1: been trying to get you. I've been following you for

3
00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,760
Speaker 1: a bit and I've been trying to get the guys

4
00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,280
Speaker 1: to get hold of you to come on the show

5
00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,200
Speaker 1: because I'm fascinated with what you do. I think it's

6
00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,200
Speaker 1: quite amazing and apart from the the.

7
00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,520
Speaker 2: Good nature of what you do, that is the actual

8
00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:21,320
Speaker 2: nature what you do.

9
00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,640
Speaker 1: For people, where you actually go and do stuff and nothing,

10
00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,160
Speaker 1: just the way you go about it, the way you've

11
00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,400
Speaker 1: run your Instagram, the way you've grown, you you're following,

12
00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,120
Speaker 1: but also the fact that it was crazy is mad.

13
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,239
Speaker 1: There's so many people really interested in your activity, not

14
00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,880
Speaker 1: so much from a gardener's point of view or looking

15
00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,840
Speaker 1: after lawns gardens. I'm sure some of it is that,

16
00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,720
Speaker 1: but it just seems to be there's so many people

17
00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:48,440
Speaker 1: interested in.

18
00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,360
Speaker 2: What you do for others. It's crazy.

19
00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,360
Speaker 1: It's like people are vicariously sort of living through you

20
00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,360
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I just wanted to explore that

21
00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:58,080
Speaker 1: a little bit too.

22
00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,680
Speaker 2: But I guess start off with.

23
00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:06,640
Speaker 1: Is Nathan's Lawns and Gardens, which there is an Instagram

24
00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,800
Speaker 1: page for it for those people interested in it. I

25
00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,679
Speaker 1: think that's it. Nathan's lawns and gardens. Whether we should

26
00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,280
Speaker 1: follow him everyone else in the country and he's been

27
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,720
Speaker 1: following him. There millions of people following him, but not

28
00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:22,520
Speaker 1: just as straight around the world for that matter. Tell me,

29
00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,520
Speaker 1: I started off like a can you go back? Well

30
00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,440
Speaker 1: watch your background like gardener.

31
00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,480
Speaker 3: All right, So there's a lot of people know a

32
00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,720
Speaker 3: little bit about me. I have a story. Like a

33
00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:39,880
Speaker 3: lot of people. That's not the best story. I shared

34
00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,480
Speaker 3: a little bit that, you know, I want to let

35
00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,600
Speaker 3: everyone know. So basically with me, I left school in

36
00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:49,760
Speaker 3: year nine. I love sport, I was good at sport.

37
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,880
Speaker 3: I was okay in Sydney. Yeah, morning road. I just

38
00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:56,640
Speaker 3: I just didn't like school.

39
00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:01,960
Speaker 1: And months because I think you didn't live be fourteen

40
00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,520
Speaker 1: ten months yeah yeah yeah.

41
00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,680
Speaker 3: And everyone was against it. And I started working full

42
00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,800
Speaker 3: time at McDonald's looking back. Great place to work, by

43
00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,959
Speaker 3: the way, I will always say it is the best

44
00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,840
Speaker 3: place back then to learn some hard work, especially for

45
00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:18,360
Speaker 3: a young bloke.

46
00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,840
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, systems per all that kind of stuff. And

47
00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,480
Speaker 1: I started working there and then obviously what do your

48
00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,560
Speaker 1: parents say.

49
00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:35,880
Speaker 3: Well, they weren't too impress put it that way, really, yeah, yeah,

50
00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,320
Speaker 3: they didn't like that. But I was a teenager, and

51
00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,760
Speaker 3: you know what teenagers are like, and I was going

52
00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,440
Speaker 3: through a few things and I wanted to do my way.

53
00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:49,959
Speaker 3: That's always it's been, was my way. And through doing

54
00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,280
Speaker 3: my way, I've learned a lot of lessons. And I

55
00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:58,639
Speaker 3: guess from there to about twenty four or twenty three,

56
00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,280
Speaker 3: my life went in directions that I should not have

57
00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,919
Speaker 3: trouble a new period. Yeah, yeah, chopping from job to job.

58
00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,200
Speaker 3: The work was never a problem.

59
00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,560
Speaker 2: I always had a work ethic, but it was just

60
00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:15,760
Speaker 2: what was going on with me.

61
00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,080
Speaker 1: I was not going to say, Nathan, work ethic meaning

62
00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:21,760
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to get up and do work.

63
00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,600
Speaker 3: How did you go to work? I'll take on anything.

64
00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,520
Speaker 3: I remember skateboarding an hour at five o'clock in the

65
00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 3: morning from Rye Dina's Hill to go and be a

66
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,839
Speaker 3: brick layers laborer. Right.

67
00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,800
Speaker 2: But as I said, all that stuff was never a problem.

68
00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,520
Speaker 3: It was just me and living life and life terms

69
00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,200
Speaker 3: became a problem through stuff that went on in my

70
00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,800
Speaker 3: life that I don't want to really talk about just

71
00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:48,320
Speaker 3: at the moment, but yeah, and it led me to

72
00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,839
Speaker 3: basically which document has led me to the streets where

73
00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,440
Speaker 3: the Salvation Army stepped in. You are you so you're

74
00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,440
Speaker 3: living on the streets? Yep?

75
00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,560
Speaker 2: Left your family home?

76
00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:04,560
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, out of the street doings? Well where

77
00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,720
Speaker 3: that ended? Early twenties. So early twenties, and I had

78
00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,640
Speaker 3: two choices, and there were two amazing people that stepped in.

79
00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,680
Speaker 3: One was like the mother figure to me and the

80
00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,400
Speaker 3: other one was like the father figure, where she gave

81
00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,960
Speaker 3: me the nurturing that I needed, and he gave me

82
00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,719
Speaker 3: the brutal reality of what I really didn't want to

83
00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:26,800
Speaker 3: hear but I needed. How do you find people at

84
00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,080
Speaker 3: that or how did they find you? I had a

85
00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,200
Speaker 3: contact that came up to me on the street and said,

86
00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,600
Speaker 3: I reckon, you should get in contact with these people.

87
00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,320
Speaker 3: And so eventually I decided to bring them the professional

88
00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,400
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, And they came down and spoke to me,

89
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:45,240
Speaker 3: and it took a lot of negotiating because I still

90
00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,760
Speaker 3: run my own race and back then, nothing's wrong with me.

91
00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:49,880
Speaker 3: Getted Yeah, all that.

92
00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,280
Speaker 2: Stuff, all that stuff, and I couldn't be told that's right.

93
00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,960
Speaker 3: I got three kids there, so it's all coming back

94
00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,479
Speaker 3: to week. But yeah, there I went and got some help.

95
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,839
Speaker 3: That took a little bit. I didn't get it right

96
00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,960
Speaker 3: straight away, but we're in about two years my life

97
00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,440
Speaker 3: changed Touchwood. Ever since then, twenty years later, my life's

98
00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,920
Speaker 3: gone on the right track.

99
00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,120
Speaker 2: Well, so that's pretty hectic like that.

100
00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,200
Speaker 1: They are able to make that, Yeah, I mean without

101
00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:21,919
Speaker 1: going into I don't want you under details of it.

102
00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:27,520
Speaker 1: But what are those the nurturing and the looking at

103
00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:29,280
Speaker 1: your screw in the face and telling what you needed

104
00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:33,080
Speaker 1: to hear. What did those two people bring to your life?

105
00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean, and how does it happen? Do you just

106
00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,719
Speaker 1: say you see them every week or do they just

107
00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,360
Speaker 1: come and check in on you every now and then,

108
00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:39,480
Speaker 1: or what's the problem?

109
00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,200
Speaker 3: I was in a facility where they were where they

110
00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,839
Speaker 3: were to now I'm still in contact with them, and

111
00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:47,880
Speaker 3: I actually was lucky to go to a video with

112
00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:48,960
Speaker 3: them here just recently.

113
00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,440
Speaker 2: That's where I invite my followers a little bit into

114
00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:52,120
Speaker 2: my journey.

115
00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,880
Speaker 3: And I know it's nothing in the big scheme of

116
00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,359
Speaker 3: the picture, because they basically saved my life. But I

117
00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,279
Speaker 3: was able to give a little bit back and do

118
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,000
Speaker 3: something for them moving forward, which for me was you know,

119
00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,120
Speaker 3: it was a good thing.

120
00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,599
Speaker 2: Look what they did for me was basically that saved

121
00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:09,000
Speaker 2: my life.

122
00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,200
Speaker 3: My next step would have ended up being over jail

123
00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,000
Speaker 3: or I would have been to That was the reality

124
00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,480
Speaker 3: where I was heading. And as I said, I always

125
00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:19,960
Speaker 3: believe there's always a reason for everything, and they will

126
00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,520
Speaker 3: put in my path for a reason, and I'm glad

127
00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,200
Speaker 3: they were so that. I love that word. Lad.

128
00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:32,520
Speaker 1: So is that Where did that sort of bring to

129
00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,280
Speaker 1: the front of your mind? Obviously as a young man then,

130
00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,920
Speaker 1: not a year old now, but a young man then

131
00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,480
Speaker 1: that sort of sense of gratitude and understanding what gratitude is.

132
00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,479
Speaker 3: It took a long time. I will always say, Okay,

133
00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:47,960
Speaker 3: it's good to turn your life around. It's a hard thing.

134
00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,800
Speaker 3: I always say, when you cross a line, it's very hard,

135
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,320
Speaker 3: and that becomes your normal. It's very hard to get

136
00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,480
Speaker 3: back on the other side and live a sort of

137
00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,719
Speaker 3: normal life. And I'm impatient, that's one thing about me,

138
00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,440
Speaker 3: things like that. So to do a process and learn

139
00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,359
Speaker 3: that this is a daily thing that was hard for me.

140
00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,360
Speaker 3: But no, I would say for me to get where

141
00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:13,040
Speaker 3: I was and just have especially a bit of peace,

142
00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,520
Speaker 3: a little bit of peace, and not be controlled by

143
00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:18,440
Speaker 3: consumed with anger and all this hatred and all this,

144
00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,760
Speaker 3: I would say that only really started in the last

145
00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,240
Speaker 3: six five to six years where I literally I feel

146
00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,480
Speaker 3: all right, last six years of your current life, my

147
00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,640
Speaker 3: life got better. YEA, things change, but I had to

148
00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,520
Speaker 3: really start working on myself and I needed help. That's

149
00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,200
Speaker 3: a that's a for me anyway.

150
00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:41,400
Speaker 1: It's a sort of like a really transactional like it

151
00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:45,240
Speaker 1: changes from day to day. Some days you have, Oh,

152
00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,600
Speaker 1: you wake up, you feel like you're a good peace

153
00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,000
Speaker 1: of mind. Other days you know, Jimmy cricket's been over

154
00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,520
Speaker 1: your head or not, scratches your legs, shitn't.

155
00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,480
Speaker 3: And it's sort of a it's a sort of a

156
00:07:58,480 --> 00:07:59,280
Speaker 3: pretty changeable.

157
00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,800
Speaker 1: So when you say peace, do you mean I'd love

158
00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,560
Speaker 1: to be able to see but completely at peace or

159
00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,840
Speaker 1: just you know how you can get.

160
00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,680
Speaker 2: Peace of mind and it's one of those redeeming things

161
00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:11,160
Speaker 2: you find.

162
00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,120
Speaker 3: I don't believe I'll ever be at peace. There's a

163
00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:14,800
Speaker 3: lot in my life that's happened, and there's a lot

164
00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,560
Speaker 3: that is happening in my life. I've got a little

165
00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,600
Speaker 3: boy that's got a lot going on, and that's a

166
00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:24,600
Speaker 3: constant worry for me. But it didn't consume my life.

167
00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,800
Speaker 3: You know, I could find, as I said, works and

168
00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,200
Speaker 3: escape for me I can just charge into that and

169
00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,040
Speaker 3: my mind's off. But even though I'd be doing that,

170
00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,560
Speaker 3: I'd still be fueled with his anger or hate. All

171
00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,520
Speaker 3: things would annoy me. But now, yeah, it's all good

172
00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,480
Speaker 3: because I said, what I do now is like my

173
00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:42,120
Speaker 3: medicine that I need for me.

174
00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,520
Speaker 1: It's funny, you know, many, oh not many years ago,

175
00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,120
Speaker 1: maybe two years ago, I had Danny Abdulla on the

176
00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,720
Speaker 1: show and Danny unfortunately children died as a result of

177
00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,000
Speaker 1: an accident. I don't know if you watched it on

178
00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,600
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, and Danny told me that the reason he

179
00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:04,240
Speaker 1: was prepared to forgive the person who causes drop problem

180
00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:10,080
Speaker 1: was for his own for himself selfishly. I mean, he

181
00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,959
Speaker 1: didn't mean it as a bad thing, but his forgiveness

182
00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,680
Speaker 1: was in order to help himself out. And it's interesting

183
00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,920
Speaker 1: how easy it is for us to not be kind

184
00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,840
Speaker 1: to ourselves and be art on ourselves all the time,

185
00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,840
Speaker 1: and in order sometimes we have to be a bit

186
00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:31,040
Speaker 1: selfish about ourselves in order to be better for everybody else.

187
00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,240
Speaker 3: And I'm not there yet with some things. But sometimes

188
00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,840
Speaker 3: I find in life sometimes you've got a cuffings for

189
00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,240
Speaker 3: your own peace of mind. For me, anyway, to move

190
00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:45,520
Speaker 3: forward in my life because that stuff was consuming me

191
00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,640
Speaker 3: and it wasn't positive. So in my life there are

192
00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,199
Speaker 3: things I've said I have to walk away from and

193
00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,920
Speaker 3: it's sad and that's life. But for me it works better.

194
00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,600
Speaker 2: Is it a permanent do you say, is the technique?

195
00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:07,320
Speaker 1: Obviously you've had people sort of help you, you know,

196
00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,280
Speaker 1: psychologically do this, like you know the technique wise, but

197
00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,920
Speaker 1: as a technique in that regard to say I'm going

198
00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,439
Speaker 1: to permanently work walk away from this or I'm walking

199
00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,240
Speaker 1: away from it, you don't have to decide whether it's

200
00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:19,920
Speaker 1: permanent or not.

201
00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,920
Speaker 2: You say, right now, I'm walking away from from it?

202
00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:23,800
Speaker 3: Is it already?

203
00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,440
Speaker 2: Have some that's it, It's it's done.

204
00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,760
Speaker 3: There's some things in my life family that I've had

205
00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:30,920
Speaker 3: to say I've got to walk away permanently, permanently.

206
00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:35,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's sad, but it's it's it's just it's

207
00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,719
Speaker 2: the best for everyone. Does that sort of.

208
00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:45,040
Speaker 1: Created other forms of emotions like guild or stuff like

209
00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,360
Speaker 1: that regret? Yeah, ye, which means you deliver that too.

210
00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:56,800
Speaker 1: So I have to be careful what I say.

211
00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,880
Speaker 3: Hmm. I don't speak to my parents and spoke to

212
00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:03,760
Speaker 3: them for about five years and I had to cut

213
00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:05,800
Speaker 3: them out of my life. I don't want to go

214
00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,640
Speaker 3: into why or what, but I had to do that

215
00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,200
Speaker 3: for my own peace of mind. And as I said,

216
00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,120
Speaker 3: there's a story about me that I'm not ready to

217
00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,560
Speaker 3: share one day. I will when the time is right.

218
00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,880
Speaker 3: But it's sad, and it is a sad story, and

219
00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,040
Speaker 3: it is I've got kids, I've got to keep a disability,

220
00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:29,520
Speaker 3: and you know, it's a terrible but unfortunately for me.

221
00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,360
Speaker 3: I just sometimes I wish people the best in life

222
00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,720
Speaker 3: and just move on. And that's why I do what

223
00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,640
Speaker 3: I do, because it sort of feels that avoid in

224
00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,840
Speaker 3: me by trying to help other people. I couple lot

225
00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,360
Speaker 3: on social media about you know, I can't stand when

226
00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,200
Speaker 3: I get a comment about it it's for views or

227
00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,000
Speaker 3: likes or anything like that. A lot of people don't

228
00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:53,320
Speaker 3: know me. When I help someone, it's not about views

229
00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,800
Speaker 3: or likes. It's just about trying to feel that hole

230
00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,120
Speaker 3: in me. Because if I help someone and I get

231
00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,560
Speaker 3: a smile out of them.

232
00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,560
Speaker 2: It makes me feel better. There's no a better than

233
00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:03,520
Speaker 2: a smile. Mate.

234
00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,040
Speaker 3: How many kids? You've got three? Three kids? But he

235
00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:07,960
Speaker 3: got boys and girls. I've got two boys, and a

236
00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,720
Speaker 3: little girl. How old are they? So? My oldest is twelve,

237
00:12:10,880 --> 00:12:13,480
Speaker 3: he's Benji years. He's all two stick and he had

238
00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,280
Speaker 3: open heart surgery on the first day of his life. Wow.

239
00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,640
Speaker 3: And he's been for a lot and you'll have a

240
00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600
Speaker 3: little bit more going on in his life function At

241
00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,240
Speaker 3: the moment, he's okay, good, but there's definitely some more

242
00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,160
Speaker 3: stuff that needs to be done there. We've all got

243
00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,280
Speaker 3: four vows in our heart and he's got three now.

244
00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,280
Speaker 3: He had one removed and that one needs to be replaced.

245
00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,280
Speaker 3: So that's a challenge. It's a worry. It's always on

246
00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,400
Speaker 3: my mind. Worry. I've got Maddie. He's in the middle.

247
00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,080
Speaker 3: He's he's got a cause any trouble. How old is

248
00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,720
Speaker 3: he's nine? He loves his sport. I come from a

249
00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:52,960
Speaker 3: sporting family, so you know, I think he'll he goes

250
00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,480
Speaker 3: down that path. And I've got a little daughter's age.

251
00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,640
Speaker 3: She's four girls. It's different.

252
00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,520
Speaker 1: It's differ very one of those four boys and.

253
00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,000
Speaker 3: It's different. But she's beautiful and it's fantastic.

254
00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,559
Speaker 2: And you're still with their mum.

255
00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,000
Speaker 3: You're on your own. My first two sons to my

256
00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,920
Speaker 3: first previous relationship, Yes, and then my little dad. Yeah,

257
00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,880
Speaker 3: she's too, Kelly. So you may remember, I believe you're

258
00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,960
Speaker 3: on the board of the Roosters. So Mark Hughes from

259
00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,120
Speaker 3: the Hughes Brothers eighty Grand Finals. So that's her dad Mark, right,

260
00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:35,240
Speaker 3: So he's my soon to be father in law. Mark

261
00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,440
Speaker 3: Heugh's from the Bulldogs from the Yeah, yeah, Mark, I

262
00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,400
Speaker 3: know him from school. Did you go to say to school? Yeah, okay,

263
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,480
Speaker 3: Michael ahead of me. I was in Graham's year.

264
00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,839
Speaker 1: Okay, so Gary, Mark and Graham. I haven't seen Mark

265
00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,280
Speaker 1: for a long time, but once he's there at the Bulldogs.

266
00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,600
Speaker 1: He was like in charge of recruitment at one stage.

267
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,040
Speaker 3: I soon recall he was recruitment at the Bulldogs and

268
00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:57,960
Speaker 3: then he left and he went to recruitment at South

269
00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,640
Speaker 3: in twenty right twelve and then you finish stuff in

270
00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,760
Speaker 3: Penrith here a few years ago, recruitment there. So Mark's daughter,

271
00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,360
Speaker 3: Kelly is my partner for over five years. Oh wow.

272
00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,839
Speaker 3: And he's a great man. I go a lot to

273
00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,920
Speaker 3: the games with him and it's interesting watching him. He's

274
00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,280
Speaker 3: still follow the Bulldogs. I'm a big Tiger's friend. Yeah.

275
00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:21,880
Speaker 3: So he comes out to a lot of the gates

276
00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:28,000
Speaker 3: he's sort of like the Tiger's bandwagon, but he's always bulldogs. Yeah.

277
00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,040
Speaker 1: Actually when he played, I think they'll called the berries.

278
00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll called the bulldogs in those days.

279
00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,560
Speaker 3: Well, I'm learning a lot about this. He has a

280
00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,040
Speaker 3: lot to do with it. He had lots of the

281
00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,480
Speaker 3: New Challenge Jets stuff there and he was doing some

282
00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:39,000
Speaker 3: stuff there.

283
00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,800
Speaker 1: But so Marke played Origin. Do you know that he

284
00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:43,880
Speaker 1: plays State of Origin? I think he might have had

285
00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,480
Speaker 1: one one one crack. His brother Graham played State. I'm

286
00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,240
Speaker 1: pretty sure Mark plays that of Origin, maybe for one

287
00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,880
Speaker 1: or two seasons, like you know, three game Origin period.

288
00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,880
Speaker 3: Yah, I'm pretty sure in the early eighties a total

289
00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,560
Speaker 3: different era. Yeah. I love hearing his stories and there

290
00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,480
Speaker 3: pretty interesting. Well, the whole.

291
00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,000
Speaker 1: Family is a great family. I knew their mom and dad,

292
00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,560
Speaker 1: and I knew the whole family really well. And I

293
00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,120
Speaker 1: now know graham son Ethan who's recently called me and

294
00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:17,240
Speaker 1: Ethan's titter with actually Driggs Duplessius, the South African UFC

295
00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,640
Speaker 1: middleweight performer world champion as a small world.

296
00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,400
Speaker 2: So well done, Kelly. We'll say hello to Mark when

297
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,280
Speaker 2: you see next week.

298
00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,480
Speaker 1: Please, how did you learn how to be so good

299
00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,720
Speaker 1: at filming shit and doing stuff on Instagram and all

300
00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,320
Speaker 1: that stuff you do, like all that social media stuff.

301
00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:36,960
Speaker 2: How did you learn that or was you just add

302
00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:37,920
Speaker 2: of instinct.

303
00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:42,240
Speaker 3: Self taught If you actually go back to my first

304
00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:47,680
Speaker 3: video somewhere in the archive, say not good. Still not

305
00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,440
Speaker 3: that great now. But I'm really basic, like literally a

306
00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,000
Speaker 3: lot of people know. I just have an iPhone. I

307
00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:56,480
Speaker 3: stick it in my son's shoe, I stick it on

308
00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,200
Speaker 3: a ladder or been. I don't have a tripod. That's

309
00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:02,560
Speaker 3: just what I do. Just basic stuff, and I don't.

310
00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,520
Speaker 1: Know there's holding it for you. You set up yourself.

311
00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,080
Speaker 3: If it's windy, it falls off, and yeah, there you go.

312
00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:12,600
Speaker 3: That's probably why it's so popular. As I said, I

313
00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,560
Speaker 3: found my phone basic works, and I just sort of

314
00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,520
Speaker 3: self learn it and I try to watch a lot

315
00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,200
Speaker 3: of things to educate myself a little bit. But again

316
00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,680
Speaker 3: that's not my strong point. My strong points getting out

317
00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:28,320
Speaker 3: there and just demolishing stuff and all that stuff. So

318
00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,920
Speaker 3: I do have my partner helps me a lot with

319
00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,040
Speaker 3: that kind of angle, but you know, it's just sort

320
00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,040
Speaker 3: of I'm learning by doing.

321
00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,160
Speaker 2: And you stayed out right, Yeah, you're still right, that's

322
00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:39,800
Speaker 2: where you grew up.

323
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:45,280
Speaker 3: You're still right all right. Obviously through my life I

324
00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,280
Speaker 3: do a lot of damage and I rented all my

325
00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,920
Speaker 3: life until last year. I bought my first home at

326
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,400
Speaker 3: forty six and that was probably the biggest achievement of

327
00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,640
Speaker 3: my life. Great job that helping obviously with my partner.

328
00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,840
Speaker 3: That's just a team and we got little place, but

329
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,280
Speaker 3: it's fantastic. It's in North fried and loven't it. So

330
00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:07,440
Speaker 3: take me to when.

331
00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,160
Speaker 1: There's obviously been a crossover period, so early ten years

332
00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,920
Speaker 1: after you left home at twenty four to twenty five,

333
00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:23,639
Speaker 1: around the period you've met these people who have assisted

334
00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,920
Speaker 1: you to sort of get you back together, so to speak,

335
00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 1: or feel better about yourself at least and give you

336
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,320
Speaker 1: some hope that you can conduct a fairly normal life.

337
00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,000
Speaker 2: Where were you working at that point?

338
00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,080
Speaker 1: So we start off mcdology as you've been through lots

339
00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:44,600
Speaker 1: of things, brigs, labors, et cetera.

340
00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,200
Speaker 2: Where were you when just before you started doing lawns?

341
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,199
Speaker 3: Just before I was in a homeless shelter here in

342
00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,680
Speaker 3: Surrey Hills and I was in there for a few

343
00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:05,119
Speaker 3: months and I started working. I was in a in

344
00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,080
Speaker 3: a kitchen bakery out near Mascot and I used toick

345
00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,520
Speaker 3: it up every day seven o'clock, get the bus out there,

346
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,359
Speaker 3: more so just to save some money and all that

347
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,280
Speaker 3: kind of stuff and get out of not being that place.

348
00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,640
Speaker 2: That's a sad place. It's a lot going on.

349
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,320
Speaker 3: A lot of men in there with what going on,

350
00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,840
Speaker 3: and that sort of kept me going. But it was not,

351
00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,040
Speaker 3: as I said. It wasn't the work ethic. It was

352
00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 3: how I meant It's life, and that was the big issue.

353
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,359
Speaker 3: So that's where I see it. I could earn it

354
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,080
Speaker 3: had a problem easily. You couldn't keep it. It couldn't

355
00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,000
Speaker 3: couldn't manage myself if my life depended on me. That

356
00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,679
Speaker 3: was my biggest problem. You know. My head would always

357
00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:50,640
Speaker 3: say to me, you never do that again, and I'll

358
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:53,159
Speaker 3: be doing it again tomorrow. And I knew I was

359
00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,640
Speaker 3: doing it, and I had no control. And I think

360
00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,520
Speaker 3: that's the best thing about my life now, is I

361
00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,439
Speaker 3: have control or someone control over my actions and what

362
00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 3: I do, and I can live a normal life. But

363
00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,639
Speaker 3: that was the last job I did. How'd you get

364
00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 3: into the lawns and why did you decide that? Because

365
00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:15,200
Speaker 3: I'd done laboring law knowing seriously, I'd done every job

366
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 3: in the world possible, seriously, So I did that, and well,

367
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,720
Speaker 3: you know, I had learned out of my lawn that

368
00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,560
Speaker 3: was what i'd do as a kid. You get fifty

369
00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,040
Speaker 3: cents if I was lucky, and you go out there

370
00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 3: and struggling with my lawns pretty much, so I could

371
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,760
Speaker 3: do it. And I always wanted to run my own

372
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 3: business because yes, because I I would work hard, and

373
00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,840
Speaker 3: I always think, you know when I was laboring, that

374
00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,639
Speaker 3: I'm working for someone else pretty much. And I just

375
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 3: never could take that step or I never could. I

376
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,439
Speaker 3: didn't have the backing to get me because literally to

377
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,680
Speaker 3: go by you or equipment, I don't have the money, yeah,

378
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,840
Speaker 3: you know, because I'd waste it or whatever I did.

379
00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,760
Speaker 3: And then obviously through that, my arm and uncle we

380
00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:04,000
Speaker 3: were always stuck by me. They're like the closest family

381
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:08,080
Speaker 3: to me. They gave me a little hand there and

382
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 3: we have a car. There was a little car and whatever,

383
00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,080
Speaker 3: and from there that's where it started. And it was

384
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,080
Speaker 3: more for me about Look, as I said, I wasn't

385
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 3: an angel, but there was a lot of people that

386
00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 3: say I was going to fail, and even I thought

387
00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 3: I was going to fail. And as a maintenance person,

388
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:30,360
Speaker 3: just in general. And I left school in and I'm

389
00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 3: going to be nothing. And I knew I could be something,

390
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,640
Speaker 3: knew it, but I just didn't know how to do it.

391
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 3: And I thought, I'm going to take this step and

392
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 3: I'm going to see what happens, and I'm going to

393
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,439
Speaker 3: back myself run my own law knowing and gardening business.

394
00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:45,399
Speaker 3: Do you remember the moment.

395
00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 1: Do you remember sitting there, laying there on the bus

396
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 1: in the bed something, thinking I'm going to do this.

397
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 3: I remember thinking about it for a while, but I'll

398
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 3: never forget. When I went to my money and uncle,

399
00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,840
Speaker 3: I said, okay, I'm ready to change my life. And

400
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,280
Speaker 3: the right thing I'm showing is I need a hand.

401
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,439
Speaker 3: This is what I want. Can you help me? And

402
00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:12,879
Speaker 3: they did, and I didn't forget. I was straight down.

403
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,399
Speaker 3: I just got flyers, just literally paper. I wrote something

404
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 3: on a paper and my deal was so so average,

405
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 3: just so funny. My name, what I could do, bang

406
00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 3: bang bang, And I went straight out. It was the

407
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 3: beginning of spring, and I just walked the streets and

408
00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 3: I just handed old box. I never had a website

409
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 3: in my whole career until just recently, because now I've

410
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 3: got merch and all that I had to otherwise I

411
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,040
Speaker 3: wouldn't have one. And I was so basic, an old

412
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:43,400
Speaker 3: school and I just found that this will work, and

413
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 3: I backed myself and here we are today.

414
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: It was interesting about that when you were saying that,

415
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: I remember a long time ago, two thousand and three

416
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 1: or something, two thousand and two, we had I had

417
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,360
Speaker 1: this physical wizard anyway, was it? We had all these

418
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: fancy advertising agencies and big names and.

419
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 2: Stuff like telling us how to do two v ads.

420
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 1: And we did this well fancy advertising campaign costing bloody fortune.

421
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 3: And Kerry Packerd grabbed me. He was my partner. He

422
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 3: said to me, is said, I saw.

423
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,880
Speaker 1: That advertising the ad you put on TV last night.

424
00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 1: He said, it was a wayful. I thought I'd just

425
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 1: spend bloody fortuning the biggest advertising agents in the country.

426
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 3: He said, son, you don't need all that crap.

427
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,160
Speaker 1: He said, you just look at the camera and tell

428
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,639
Speaker 1: them what your product is, what your interest rate is.

429
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,360
Speaker 1: That we were lending money, so how much your interest

430
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 1: rate is? And how can they find you? Phone number

431
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,960
Speaker 1: and website if you have a website, but phone number

432
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 1: was at the time. That was in two thousand and two.

433
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,160
Speaker 1: I can't remember what is said. That's what you need

434
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: to say. I remember Seeinger ran an advertising campaign for

435
00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,640
Speaker 1: a takeaway bottle shop it was and the ad went

436
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,480
Speaker 1: like this said, it was a terrible sounding voice, but.

437
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 2: Where do you get it?

438
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 3: Do you remember that?

439
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: It was the most annoying thing you've ever heard? But basically,

440
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,880
Speaker 1: where do you get it? Where do you get the booze?

441
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: And you know, how do you find the places? And

442
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: that's all people want to know. Where do I go

443
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,880
Speaker 1: to get this case of beer or whatever? It is

444
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: unbelievably successful to your point, very fundamental, pretty basic, and

445
00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,360
Speaker 1: actually someone is seeing that in a mailbox. Reason might say, well,

446
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: ang on this blake. I might give this blake you go.

447
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: Some might say what the hell's isn't ditch it? But equally,

448
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,360
Speaker 1: maybe future percent are going to say, what you just said,

449
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 1: let's I'll give it a crack. I'll contact this bloke.

450
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: Do you remember your first first phone call or whatever

451
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: it was?

452
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 3: What was it? I remember it was a lady.

453
00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 2: And where we're talking about.

454
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 3: I walked all the streets, so literally I got about

455
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:58,560
Speaker 3: a thousand coffees, just walked and yeah, a lady, beautiful lady.

456
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 3: I ended up looking after for about ten years, and

457
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: you got me up a whole lot of clientele as well.

458
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 3: And I remember doing it was twenty dollars. It was

459
00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 3: in twenty ten, twenty dollars. I was there for an hour.

460
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 3: I did a hedge in a front lorn and you know, look,

461
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 3: I know looking back there, it wasn't a lot, but

462
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 3: I loved it, and all I cared about was doing

463
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 3: a good job, because I was a big believer on

464
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 3: word of mouth is the best form of advertisement. And

465
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 3: what I remember doing there was I had a thing

466
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 3: where say I did so your house. I would always

467
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 3: put a flyer in either side of the neighbors and

468
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 3: I'd go across the road and do three. So as

469
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 3: soon as I'd finished the job, I would put one

470
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 3: of my little paper in the letterbox on the left,

471
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 3: the letterbox on the right, walk across the road and

472
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 3: do one, two, three across more leafless. Yeah yeah, it'd

473
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 3: be five, yep. And then I would hope that I

474
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 3: could get one of them. So all of a sudden

475
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 3: I got two in the street, and then I would

476
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 3: build and the goal was if I can get five

477
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:08,479
Speaker 3: or ten in the street, and then all of a sudden,

478
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 3: it's not so much traveling. It's cutting down all that

479
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 3: and I'm going to be able to do more in

480
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 3: the time. And I was happy. I'm not the best businessman,

481
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 3: and I was I must say that loudly from where.

482
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that, that that's actually quite algorithmically,

483
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 1: we say today, that's quite clever and intuitive because it's

484
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: all about travel and it's also about that they can

485
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: see you doing the one over the road and then

486
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 1: one other. If you do a good job, we'll tell

487
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: them because you know, like everyone's going to say, well,

488
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 1: what was Nathan like? And then I said, it was

489
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: a good blow. Just charge me whenever you charge me. Look,

490
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: come and have a look. Did a good job? That's

491
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: actually algorithmically quite smart? Well it it was, as I said,

492
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 1: from where I'd come from, I was.

493
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 3: Sort of like, my conscience was not the best, so

494
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 3: I need to look up to people to hopefully square

495
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 3: up if I ever ended up in the gates. So

496
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 3: I'll be let it or whatever it is. But it

497
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:06,959
Speaker 3: was it was basically yeah, it was just look, I

498
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 3: just want to I always I could work hard and fast.

499
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 3: You know, back then I didn't realize that when you

500
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 3: get older, your body's gonna don't slow down. But then

501
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 3: I was just determined, and I think I had a

502
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 3: lot of goals. It was like I want to I

503
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 3: want to be looking after this street and I want

504
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 3: the next street and all of that. But yeah, it

505
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 3: worked really well and she was a lovely lady too.

506
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: So that was your That was your first job, you remember, Yep.

507
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't buy much but definitely not now. Didn't pay

508
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: the rent in those days. What did you buy first?

509
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: So I mean, and how did you know how to buy?

510
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 1: And did you buy a second one or a new

511
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: one to go by victim or what was the deal?

512
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 3: So everything, you know. And it was also with my

513
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,960
Speaker 3: family that my auntie and uncle, they won't going We're

514
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 3: going to go buying you the best of the best.

515
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 3: You got to earn it, you got it, you know.

516
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 3: That's very strong with them. So I was a second

517
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 3: hand car. There was nothing flash, second hand lawmower. Everything

518
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 3: was secondhand, and I slowly, over time upgraded until obviously

519
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: then when my accounts grewed and sponsors start coming in

520
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. But as I said,

521
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,400
Speaker 3: everything with me has always just been basic. I've never

522
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: had you know back then, never nothing was the best

523
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 3: of the best.

524
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 2: That's sort of like the appeal though to some extent, because.

525
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: You're not walking around and not there's anything wrong with

526
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: these franchises, but you're not walking around on to someone

527
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: else's franchise is running a big franchise game, you know,

528
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: like you know, like advertising, marketing, all that sort of stuff, digitally, television,

529
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: whatever they're doing. It's just Nathan's lawns and gardens and

530
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: that has a certain maybe in Australia at least, but

531
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: it has a certain appeal to it. It's pretty basic,

532
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: pretty fundamental, no frills, no fur blows. So it just

533
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: is what it is. I get the job done, and

534
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: I do it for a fair price. And and I'm

535
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: I guess brand wise, how important is it for people

536
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: to trust you?

537
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 3: That was very important, very important to you. I mean,

538
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 3: no one trusted me. I lost trust from everyone growing up.

539
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 3: I did a lot of wrong things. I ended up

540
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 3: with no one. You know. I came from one of

541
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 3: the most popular kids in the school too. No one

542
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 3: wanted to buy with me and through my own doing so.

543
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 3: For me now to be trusted in someone's house, yeah,

544
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 3: I you know, I'll always make sure one hundred percent,

545
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 3: like I'm out their backyard there going out. Okay, well

546
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, like I don't want any

547
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 3: to go wrong here or anything like that. But I

548
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 3: guess the goal for me was I always had goals

549
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: and I never had goals in my life. And I

550
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 3: remember that was a big thing that I told you

551
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 3: that to have goals, I read. I used to read

552
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,719
Speaker 3: stuff and see stuff you know, on TV and whatnot

553
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 3: about you know when you see people say those statements

554
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 3: and all that. Sometimes you listen, sometimes you date. But

555
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 3: there was something about, you know, setting a goal. And

556
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 3: I never could sider go Really, if you said to me,

557
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 3: set your goal to save one hundred dollars in a

558
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 3: week and guarantee your road last week in the day,

559
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 3: it wouldn't because I could not. I could not control

560
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: what I was doing. You couldn't think it through like

561
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 3: I could think it very without a problem. I just

562
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 3: I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it because

563
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: I was too busy ton stupids distract, yeah, doing all that.

564
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: So to set a goal for me was a big thing.

565
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,479
Speaker 3: And I just as I said, with verying, my business

566
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: was goals. It was to get five houses in that street,

567
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 3: you know, to make x amounting that week, you know,

568
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 3: to get an upgrade from that to that equipment. Erring

569
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 3: was about goals, and I learned over time it says practice, practice, practice.

570
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 3: If I just set those little goals, it is true

571
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 3: they will come and eventually And did Nathan, did you?

572
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: You know? It's interesting officer to like sometimes we think

573
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: we aren't growing. Whether there's people that were business owners

574
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: and we get it's easy to compare yourself to everybody

575
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: else too, by the way, because lots of people talk

576
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: it up, but sometimes that happens. And obviously the people

577
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter whether you made five hundred dollars a

578
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: day or twenty bucks. The fact you got out of

579
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: bed and went to work in bank your little wins.

580
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean, did you sort of embark on that process

581
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: of always trying to not congratulate yourself but just at

582
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I did a good day

583
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: on a stay's work, got paid for it.

584
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 2: Did you used to go through a process for that?

585
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 2: Did just think it through?

586
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 3: I only started. The truth is obviously now I'm seeing

587
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 3: the rewards twenty years later from my hard work. And

588
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 3: I never thought i'd get to see it, nor would

589
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: I be able to appreciate it like I do now.

590
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 3: But back then, no, it was just your sort of

591
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 3: for me when I, as I said, when I'm working,

592
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: when I'm in that frame, I really will push myself.

593
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 3: You know, it doesn't mat if it's grain rain, if

594
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: it's one hundred degree whatever. I'm out there, I'm working.

595
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 3: I'm doing this to achieve. Yeah, and no, I just

596
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 3: think a goal for me or a win was that

597
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 3: I'm able to save some money, I'm able to pay

598
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 3: my rent, I'm able to put it on the table.

599
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 3: There they were the wins for me, but I didn't

600
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 3: really appreciate them. It just became now, this is how

601
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 3: I live life, and I'm now sort of doing what

602
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 3: normal people do. How important do you think it is

603
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 3: then for someone like you at least?

604
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: Is it then to acknowledge and recognize that these habits work.

605
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 3: Oh, fantastic habits. Yeah, I mean what I'm doing now

606
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: as in the good things, it's fantastic. You know, everything

607
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: I was told that I didn't want to listen to.

608
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 3: I didn't believe it's also true. It's just it just

609
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 3: takes time, and you just got to go one day,

610
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 3: you know, and it is it is. You know. I'll

611
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 3: tell you, Ma, if you had have given me five

612
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 3: dollars twenty ago, that they'll have been gone in two seconds,

613
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 3: guarantee you. If you said leaving you can't, don't touch,

614
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 3: it would have been gone straight away. Now I can

615
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 3: leave five thousand dollars and I'd even remember that. That's

616
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 3: the difference of where I'm at to that and for me,

617
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 3: trust me, that's a good thing.

618
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: But it sounds like a total turn around that league,

619
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: but I need it. Yeah, But that didn't just happen

620
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: because of me. That's happened from two amazing people from

621
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: this Sowos, the major mister and Missus Dolan, from people

622
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: in that group, and you know my family, my auntie,

623
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: my uncle and my partner and even in the last

624
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 1: five years with Kelly, she's an amazing woman. And I

625
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 1: always say she's she's that person.

626
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: That grounds me and keeps me in check and when

627
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 3: things I get a little bit because I'm still human,

628
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 3: I'm still going to be like, what's going on? You know,

629
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 3: She's when that comes in and it right, just take

630
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: a chill, and I need that.

631
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: She's anything like your grandmother, Knowlan who's you won't get

632
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: away with much of this I've ever heard, or her

633
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: grandfather Noel and and or any of the uncles or

634
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: a dad for that matter, because they're fairly grounded family

635
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: like that.

636
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: That's a pretty important thing that ha in your life.

637
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: By the sound of things, you know, they've got good

638
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: foundational values.

639
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. And that's how I didn't say. And

640
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: they are you know, Mark and Sandy, they they they

641
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: are really good people. Mark so many times he calls

642
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 3: me up and he just says it straight to me,

643
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 3: you know, he checks in on me. A different generation

644
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: you know, will be seventy three or something said, yeah, yeah,

645
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 3: beautiful family, you know, and it helps me.

646
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 1: Do you remember when you start, you first realize that

647
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: you will become an incensensation, like a social media sensation.

648
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 2: It was there like a day when all of a

649
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 2: sudden it just went.

650
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: You know, let's say you had a thousand followers, went

651
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: from a thousands and ten thousand, like.

652
00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 3: I remember it. With social media. This is a different thing.

653
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 3: It's I'm out there working. That's a physical thing that's

654
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 3: easy for me. It comes natural. On this part of

655
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 3: the thing. It's different I got to think and that's

656
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 3: probably not a strong point. And so I'm now on there,

657
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 3: you know, online all that kind of stuff, and with

658
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: that it's every day you have to be committed.

659
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: I just need to show the audience of this because

660
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: I like both of you've been very.

661
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 3: Being very what do you call it, Nathan's lowns.

662
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: And guards if you're being very modest, so Nathan Stafford.

663
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 3: So I'm just we're zoom in on that.

664
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: But it says two point seven million followers. That would

665
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: be pretty up there in Australian terms, really up there

666
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: in Australian terms, like it wouldn't be too many that

667
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: I know of around that territory.

668
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,240
Speaker 2: You only follow five hundred and fifty four people.

669
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: You've only put up three thy seven hundred posts, so

670
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: the number of posts you got a relative the number

671
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: followers you've got is very low. So that sounds like, therefore,

672
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: the quality of what you are posting, given that you've

673
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: got so many followers and you only posted a few things,

674
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: is being really loved, I mean, and or shared and

675
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: like incredibly shared because there's not too many posts. So

676
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: in a statistical analytical sense, it's pretty amazing. Facebook five million,

677
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: TikTok two point nine million? That IZI guy that mowsed

678
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: lawns for free?

679
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 3: Can you actually?

680
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: I can see my cousin follows you, and brath and

681
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: Asta follows. There's a few people here, and Adam Morris

682
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: follows you too. But can you remember the day when

683
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: you thought and why did you do this? But the

684
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: thought I'm going to put something this up on Instagram?

685
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: Do you remember the day? Why did you do it?

686
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 3: So? Obviously my business that's going all right. And I

687
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 3: had seen I was watching one night there was this

688
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 3: lady doctor pimple pop or whatever it is.

689
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 2: I have doctor actually discussing one of those things you

690
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 2: want to watch.

691
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sort of look at it. And then at the

692
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 3: end this ad or whatever thing came up and it

693
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 3: was a gum on a lawn really fast. They sped up. Yeah, yeah,

694
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 3: I was. They gave me an idea, what what did

695
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 3: I try it? So I did. I went to one

696
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 3: of my customers if my film now? Yeah right, And

697
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 3: so I opened the page I did it got about

698
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 3: I always got about two or three views, one of

699
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 3: them meet whoever was the other one was no I

700
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 3: And I thought, let's just keep going on this, so

701
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 3: I did. The quality was horrible. They were seriously a

702
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: good videos, and I just started doing that and then

703
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 3: over time I just introduced other things and it started

704
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 3: growing a little bit, and then it was it was

705
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: one night at that point, a month leading up it

706
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 3: was starting till I was hitting about twenty thousand followers.

707
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 3: So at that stort, that was quite big for a

708
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 3: lawn moment. That's still big and small business. I put

709
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 3: up a video. It was a Sunday five o'clock I'll

710
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 3: never forget it, and that stage I had only TikTok

711
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 3: and Instagram, and it just went crazy. I've never seen

712
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 3: something like it. I got that video. It was video.

713
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 3: It got over a billion views. It was ship yeah yeah, yeah,

714
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 3: it was shared one billion. I had lad Boy and

715
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 3: everyone coming on to me sharing it. And I have

716
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: never seen something like that before. Obviously through myself, my

717
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 3: whole phone just shut down, literally no because there was

718
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 3: so much traffic coming through. So quickly, tell me about it.

719
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,360
Speaker 3: What was it? What was it was? It was? It

720
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 3: was actually it was it was a hard video. It

721
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 3: was it was a it was a driveway I did.

722
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: There was three parts. It was just a driveway. Wheeds

723
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 3: all that as tall as me. Was this someone who

724
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: booked you were just when you were different for nothing? No, no, no,

725
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 3: this this was a page job. So basically all my

726
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 3: page jobs they stopped about two years ago, rally around

727
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 3: two years earring now upload vering is free and obviously

728
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,239
Speaker 3: because that response. So yeah, it was just a three

729
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 3: part thing. It was overgrown driveway, a hedge, and for

730
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: some reason, I never get them right, but this one

731
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 3: rounded off perfectly. The backyard was really long. It was

732
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 3: a nightmare of a job. But I put it up

733
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 3: in three and I remember I put on a song

734
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 3: what was his name, I forget his name, but it

735
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 3: was a song in there and it worked well with

736
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: it here, and I put it up and literally in

737
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 3: an hour, I was like a million views on talk

738
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 3: and it did the same on Insta, and it was

739
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 3: just I'd literally refresh and I was like two thousand followers.

740
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 3: Just I just kept me on with that, and I

741
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 3: was like, I was exciting. I was like, what is happening?

742
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 3: But then I got a little bit anxious because I

743
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: was like, oh, look at all these people now following me,

744
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 3: like the pressures on, Like I felt a bit like

745
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: there's a few eyes on me now. So it was

746
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: great a lot. It was great, but it was a

747
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 3: bit scary, to be quite honest, I didn't expect that

748
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 3: was going to happen. And then obviously from there I

749
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 3: always sort of say, once you sort of get a

750
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 3: bit of a following, it just kicks off from there. Yeah,

751
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 3: and it'll just it would just what do you think

752
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 3: it is?

753
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: It intrigues people, but at that stage and not maybe

754
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: the stuff you do for free, the pro bonus stuff

755
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,720
Speaker 1: is maybe slightly different.

756
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 2: But that was a paid job.

757
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Why are people interested in watching Nathan clean up someone's

758
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: backyard or drive away?

759
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,960
Speaker 3: What is it? Do you think I reckon? Back then?

760
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 3: It was probably a music that I added to it.

761
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 3: It does worked well. I forget that I because I

762
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 3: wanted to contact him and say a baite. It was

763
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 3: very much Yeah, but I think a lot of people

764
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 3: like to watch someone else doing the work with something

765
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 3: really overgrain and really quick. As long as it's quick,

766
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: you know, you sped it up, spat it up into

767
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 3: forty five seconds. It was like a five hour job

768
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 3: in a forty five second once. So's it's quick, but

769
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 3: not quick enough to do that just playing around with

770
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 3: things and watching you know, other forms of videos, and

771
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 3: just how long it take you to do sort of

772
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 3: the editor, Yeah, edited that video to edit, probably it

773
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: takes me about I mean it's getting quicker now, but

774
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 3: back then, probably about eleven minutes. Well that's not bad.

775
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 3: You know, it's basic app, but I still use that

776
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 3: app today.

777
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: It's just so use you use an app to an

778
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: app that's available on the app Store to edit your videos,

779
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: your jobs into forty five seconds or whatever it is.

780
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just speeding it up and then you know,

781
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 3: you can crop in and change font and whatever. But yeah,

782
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 3: it's really, really really I wanted to make forty five

783
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 3: seconds because I've looked over some of my videos and

784
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 3: I sort of realized with time frames of you've got

785
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 3: to keep the audience captivated. And I just learned that

786
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 3: sometimes the quicker and the more that's happening, people will

787
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 3: sort of keep watching. So let's just learned by doing.

788
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 3: I still have a mistake all but yeah, it's just

789
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 3: the quicker, the better did you get you sort of

790
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 3: brought me.

791
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: Now, there's probably got analytics and stuff of that going on,

792
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: and what properly managed, so to speak. But when you

793
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: did that for the forty five seconds and you saw

794
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: the thing that numbers of followers ticking over, did you

795
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: think to yourself, I'm a parting gett a bit nervous

796
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: about it. Do you think yourself, what have I created here?

797
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: This is not the Nathan stuff that I know.

798
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:31,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was fat boy slim right here right now. Yeah,

799
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 3: it was just it was just I remember saying to

800
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 3: my partner, I said, I think things are going to

801
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 3: change now, like I don't know what's happening, but yeah,

802
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,800
Speaker 3: something's happening.

803
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: And did you start getting requests to come and come

804
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 2: and do my garden?

805
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 3: Yeah? I share. I like to mix things up on

806
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 3: my socials. You got serious, you got a bit of

807
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 3: fun you whatever, And every now and then I share

808
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 3: a few d ms that I get, and then I

809
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,880
Speaker 3: started getting some pretty funny, hectic stuff resides. Yeah, basically

810
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 3: laugh you know, it's like okay, but yes, it was.

811
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 3: It's good. It was interesting you.

812
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: And how long did you keep running the business that

813
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: way as opposed to being like more an entertainment page.

814
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: How long did you keep doing work and actually videoing?

815
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 1: Did you so, for example, the next week you better

816
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: do another one of these.

817
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, I knew then there's an audience, a

818
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 3: huge audience coming over because they liked that video. So

819
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 3: my next video needs to deliver somewhat otherwise. Pressure. Yeah,

820
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 3: the pressure was on. So I found a good one

821
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 3: actually too, and I deliberately did a three part thing

822
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 3: again another garden. Yeah yeah, yeah.

823
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 2: It was a big on a rock cliff.

824
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 3: It was a crazy one, and I did it into

825
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 3: a three part series again and it went pretty big

826
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: as well, and I went right, that is what a

827
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 3: lot of people are here to that. But as I said,

828
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 3: then over time, when when you grow, sponsors now coming

829
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 3: and all that stuff starts happening. And then obviously through that,

830
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 3: I had two choices. I can I keep collecting money

831
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 3: I say, double tipping. I can go and keep working

832
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 3: and making money from my lawnmowing business fifty bucks an hour,

833
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 3: yeah we twenty. Then you know make obviously you can

834
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 3: make money through some social modi and mer platforms or whatever.

835
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 3: I can you know, cash in through that or which

836
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 3: is some people would say yep. Or I can go

837
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 3: right get rid of that completely or pretty much and

838
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 3: then focus on let's just help people and run that

839
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 3: risk because you know, I go out and help people.

840
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: I'm not guaranteed anything, you know, this is now. Yeah, yeah,

841
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:02,760
Speaker 3: So I tried it over a period of a few months,

842
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 3: just a little bit, a little bit, a little bit,

843
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 3: and see how when and when it sort of got

844
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 3: to the point that it was enough to cover my

845
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 3: costs and my family. Yeah yeah, And then I thought,

846
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 3: you know what, to be honest, this it's better better

847
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 3: with me. I feel better to do it this way.

848
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 3: It's not double dipping, and I can help someone and

849
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 3: now I can go on my journey for whatever that is,

850
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 3: highlight issues, help people, whatever. And it works well for

851
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 3: me and I get aim and sleep a little bit

852
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 3: better at night. That's sort of do you remember the

853
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 3: first freebe you did?

854
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: Yeah?

855
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 3: How to come back? Just driving home on days? This

856
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 3: guy's an easy garden done so I'd seen it done

857
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 3: in other parts of the world, and there's another guy

858
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 3: that does it over here in Australia, and all right,

859
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 3: well I'm going to try it. And I put a

860
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 3: message out on my you know there was another boat

861
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 3: doing it because I'd done one with him. Yeah yeah, yeah,

862
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 3: I forgot yeah yeah, yeah. His name's Tim. How did

863
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: he find you? Will you find it in the lawn

864
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 3: care industry or whatever. You're obviously gonna come across each

865
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 3: other's platforms and all that kind of stuff. And you know,

866
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 3: I'd seen his work. He does great work, and I

867
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 3: was like, I went out and did one with him,

868
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 3: and then I said, well, I'm going to try my

869
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 3: hand in this, you know, why not? And so I did.

870
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 3: I put a post up on my page back then.

871
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:29,280
Speaker 3: Then I started a Facebook page. That was the last

872
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 3: I started started that put a post up anyone want

873
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 3: their lawns done for free? This is what I do.

874
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 3: I got a few residues. A lady contacted me, all right,

875
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 3: well let's let's go. So I set up me tripod

876
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 3: can share when all that and knocked on the door

877
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 3: and didn't have a microphone back then, so it was

878
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 3: really budget Philby, but I did it and she was fantastic.

879
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 3: She was fantastic, really good sport and it was good.

880
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 3: It was it was fun and it was it was

881
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 3: eve and I was like, all right, so that's where

882
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 3: I was started. It's changed a bit now. But do

883
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 3: you remember your.

884
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:12,359
Speaker 1: Most fulfilling it's called a pro bono free garden. Yeah,

885
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: the way you felt and here's something really full.

886
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there there is. There's one I always say

887
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 3: about when I now take it out of Australia. I've

888
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 3: been in New Zealand. You're doing overseas now, Yeah. I

889
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 3: started last year in New Zealand. I went there for

890
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 3: three days, seventy two hours to do as much as

891
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 3: I could. I helped out five beautiful families over there.

892
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 3: There was one over there that I always say it.

893
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 3: There's another one, a different one that I've never shared.

894
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 3: And that was over that was here, and I was

895
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 3: last year, and I always got to give a big

896
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,800
Speaker 3: plug to Nathan Lyne around the corner from Mericke. Yeah

897
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 3: and legend and yeah, yeah, and I inappropriately when I

898
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 3: do work in the street inappropriately. He just went and

899
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 3: knocked on his door and no I knew he lived there.

900
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 3: I just went and knocked on his door and I said,

901
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 3: I've got someone I want to help. Have you got

902
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 3: any you can give me for merch?

903
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,720
Speaker 2: He's a big fan of yours, et cetera, et cetera.

904
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 3: Who is this bloke on by door? To his credit,

905
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,479
Speaker 3: he was He was really nice. And then his wife

906
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 3: happened to just pull in and she said, oh, my god,

907
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 3: I follow you on TikTok. I was like, okay, this

908
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 3: is good. Now I've got who is his bloke? But

909
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 3: he was straight on an absolute really good guy. And

910
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 3: it was for a man down in Melbourne. The contacted

911
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 3: me he had that mode of neuron disease yep, yep.

912
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 3: I never didn't know much about that stuff. And he

913
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 3: had about five weeks to live and he contacted me

914
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 3: about battery powered equipment if he knew if I could

915
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 3: recommend stuff, because when he was to pass, he wanted

916
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 3: his wife and kids to be able to use something.

917
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 3: And so it was horrible and I got on. I

918
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 3: rang him up. After I got on the plane that

919
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 3: weekend went down to mill Dura and Melbourne and Victoria

920
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 3: and Nathan h donated shirt and silln gloves and all

921
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 3: that stuff. We were able to raise around ten thousand

922
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 3: dollars for him his family, and you know, Hawthorne stepped

923
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 3: in and got a whole lot of stuff. All these

924
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 3: people just there was a lot more other people. They

925
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 3: just all jumped in and I got to meet him.

926
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 3: Do they do all through you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. And

927
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 3: that's the thing. And when it comes to stuff like this,

928
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 3: look I'm a straight shooter. I don't always get it right,

929
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 3: but I don't muck around. I just I say how

930
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 3: it is. You know, I'm busy, people are busy. I

931
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 3: knew there's going to be formats here, emails, ringing, all that,

932
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 3: and even with Hawthorn Club, so they were fantastic. I

933
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 3: just said, look, it's like this, I'm going to be

934
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 3: down there in twenty four hours. I didn't have much time.

935
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 3: This man does not have much time left. What can

936
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,760
Speaker 3: you do for me. We've got to skip this email process.

937
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 3: Please come to the party here, let's go. They give

938
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 3: jerseys and yeah, it signed stuff. Yeah, because that's what

939
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 3: I knew. I was sussed out what he was. He

940
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 3: sings and he said, you know, I said, what's sports?

941
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 3: You loving cricket as your favorite play anywhere? Nathan Line.

942
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, he's got it beautiful. So you know,

943
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 3: all these kinds of things and the community just moves

944
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 3: so quick and that made it easier. Fantastic, but obviously

945
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: sadly he passed a few weeks later. Really nice bloke.

946
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 3: He organized it was one of those things that they

947
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 3: actually organize this to happen. His last moments and all

948
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 3: this stuff, and he contacted me the night before and

949
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: we chatted and good man, And.

950
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: Because I saw on your Instagram page if you don't

951
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: mind rom example, I love your Instagram page. It says

952
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: in it please do your thing. It says the most

953
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:48,960
Speaker 1: saddest story I've seen. Please in it, do your thing.

954
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: Go fund me link in my bio and hashtag helping others.

955
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: Australia trauma, single mum trending reels blah blah blah.

956
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 3: That was put up any five days ago? You remember

957
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 3: that one? Yeah, that was that was so that's that's

958
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 3: obviously that's a different that was a single mother. I

959
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 3: stay away from gofundmes and all that kind of stuff

960
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 3: because it gets difficult. And again I've said because of

961
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 3: my lifestyle, you know, a long time ago. You know,

962
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 3: trust was a big issue with me. You know, I'm

963
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 3: trusted here. And so I went, I knocked on this

964
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 3: lady's door. I didn't know she was there, know about her.

965
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,879
Speaker 3: I drive out west, I go out to like bid

966
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 3: Will all those places. Once a month, I go to

967
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 3: see if I find a family. Went out there, but

968
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 3: no one answered the door. I was like, oh, what's happening.

969
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 3: So I drove back home. And as I was going

970
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 3: back home, I went through this area. It wasn't meant

971
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 3: to be. I just took a wrong turn and I

972
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,239
Speaker 3: saw this overgrown yard and it was it was going

973
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 3: to be knocked down. But I can't only sell about

974
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,920
Speaker 3: the street, make a video, do something cool, whatever. And

975
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,720
Speaker 3: then I decided to knock on the door and steady

976
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 3: and said I expected no one to live in there

977
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 3: because it wasn't livable, and yeah, yeah, it's about to

978
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 3: get knocked down. And then she started talking to me,

979
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 3: and I said, well, can I do it? And she's

980
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 3: like yeah, okay, And then she started talking to me

981
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 3: and I just started doing it. And then she came

982
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: out of a drink. And I never expect nothing, but

983
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 3: when someone comes out with me, it's down a tough

984
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 3: with a drink that says to me that they are

985
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 3: a decent person. That's just how I look at it.

986
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 3: And then we started chatting and then I don't know

987
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 3: what it is. I'll always share a bit of my

988
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 3: life to some people if they're struggling, so that they

989
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 3: know where on equal ground here. I'm no better, We're

990
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 3: the same, you know. And she just started opening up

991
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 3: and it was horrific. I can't go in all lot,

992
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,439
Speaker 3: but it was horrific. And she's been through her helm

993
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 3: back and I said, right, we've got to do something here.

994
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 3: I know I've got platforms here. People always say get

995
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 3: behind it. Help. I thought, okay, let's go. So I said,

996
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 3: We're going to do a go fund me page. To her,

997
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:58,799
Speaker 3: I said, whatever we get, it's all yours. We're going

998
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 3: to hopefully get you a place to rent, you know,

999
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 3: you licensing all these kinds of things, and her daughter

1000
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 3: and yeah, we're in five days. It was like just

1001
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 3: over seventy thousand dollars raised, and I did not expect that.

1002
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 3: I thought I'd be lucky to get five thousand dollars

1003
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 3: because you know, the times are tough for people. And

1004
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 3: so many people jumped on and I cut the I

1005
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 3: stopped it on, and I made it clear, you've also

1006
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 3: got to find the fine line too, where you're not

1007
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 3: getting too greedy and whatnot, you know, and it was

1008
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 3: it was just it was just perfect, and I went,

1009
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 3: that's it. So I took my partner now stepped in

1010
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 3: for the female support, and we came around and obviously

1011
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 3: we told you again, and we obviously stripped it, put

1012
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 3: it all into account. I have to upload it all

1013
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 3: and show every dog's Everyone knows what's happening. And we

1014
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 3: spent I spect to all yesterday, we spoke all the

1015
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 3: time of things. Now she's nearly got an apartment, she's

1016
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 3: got driving lessons and all this stuff. She getting the

1017
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 3: car registered, she's got a care that she's looking for

1018
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 3: for a daughter, a financial advisor, all these things that

1019
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 3: we make sure that it will set. So it's going

1020
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 3: to go because it's a lot of money and obviously

1021
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 3: she can't buy a home. She's unsandling. You're not gonna

1022
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 3: get the homelane, no savings. But see how we can

1023
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,240
Speaker 3: do this that it's used properly.

1024
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 2: That's life changing.

1025
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 3: That So is that like therapy to you? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1026
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 3: yeah it's But I always say that that's and I

1027
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 3: mean this, that's not me. And I say that that

1028
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 3: is not me. That is the audience, the followers, that's

1029
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 3: them coming together facilitating it. Yeah, but again without them,

1030
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 3: this wouldn't happen. So the credit goes, the credit goes

1031
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 3: to them. And I say that for me doing that,

1032
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 3: it gets me able to go home, be appreciative of

1033
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 3: what I got, because you can easily be unappreciative. I'd

1034
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 3: be grateful for what I've got. I can remember where

1035
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 3: I came from, I can remember hard times and then

1036
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 3: so feeling that as a stranger that's allowed me in

1037
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 3: and we're able to help. But also when I see

1038
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 3: that there's a kid involved, there was a three year

1039
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 3: old daughter, beautiful, a little daughter. That's the bit that

1040
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 3: gets me to most, because I'm a father and they

1041
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 3: deserve be more than that. And that's where that's where

1042
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 3: I feel good, is that there's a little kid there.

1043
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 3: Now we're adults, but they're innocent, and her life now

1044
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 3: will hopefully be changed.

1045
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 1: You are I was going to say, you are changing

1046
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: people's lives in that regard. I mean you and most

1047
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: people sort of try to make money out of their platform.

1048
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean obviously make a living out of it, but

1049
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,720
Speaker 1: most people just keeping for themselves. You're using your platform

1050
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: to help others and that and in that example, that

1051
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: is that will change their kid's life, the trajectory of

1052
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 1: their kid's life and the mum's life. Given where they

1053
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: were and probably about to get turfed out of the house.

1054
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: There there's no reason I herd to go and get

1055
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: the lauds. Much a matter of money to do it anyway,

1056
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: or the equipment, but that you actually have changed her life.

1057
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: You're introducing her to things that you would never otherwise

1058
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: get introduced to. She now can get a license, you

1059
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: can get a driver drive, or she can go and

1060
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: get driving lessons, et cetera. She can become independent, probably

1061
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,760
Speaker 1: get a cheaper car, but unless you can get around,

1062
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: she could probably the daughter three or probably won't know

1063
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: the difference that much at three, but we'll certainly remember

1064
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 1: it one day.

1065
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 2: I mean, do you feel as though you're being blessed

1066
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 2: with this opportunity?

1067
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? And as I always say, this has a lot

1068
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 3: to do with her people following getting behind this. But

1069
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 3: I believe I was meant to go to where I went.

1070
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,760
Speaker 3: There was a reason for it that I didn't understand,

1071
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 3: and now I believe that I was meant to struggle

1072
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 3: to then be where it is today and be able

1073
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 3: to to because I understand the situations, be able to

1074
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 3: go to them and use these platforms that I've been

1075
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,319
Speaker 3: luckily given to do the right thing to. I always say,

1076
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 3: to wrong my to right my wrongs, the same, whatever

1077
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 3: it is to do that to spread some positivity and

1078
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:26,160
Speaker 3: get the community together and show the people that follow

1079
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 3: me that I'm grateful for they've given me. If that

1080
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:30,799
Speaker 3: makes sense. Yeah.

1081
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: What's interesting man, that too is that you've found a

1082
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: way to help all of us help others. And that's

1083
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: good for all of us. Which is why when you

1084
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 1: put up a go fund me for example, and that example,

1085
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 1: that people are willing to put some put a few

1086
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: bucks up, because actually people canice a lot of people

1087
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,480
Speaker 1: can see themselves in those situations a little bit. You know,

1088
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: there's quite often people can maybe not as extreme as

1089
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: that that particular example, but they can see everyone through.

1090
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: Mostly everybody's been through some tough times, especially business owners,

1091
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: and they can just something that they can say they go, aye,

1092
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: but for the grace of God, I could be in

1093
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: a lot worse position. I could be in her position

1094
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: but for someone or something that has helped me. In

1095
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: your case, it was the two people from the s

1096
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: and your uncle a Nati and probably some other some

1097
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: other examples that you haven't shared with say, but a

1098
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: lot of people never get that, never get those opportunities.

1099
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 1: It gets and then to some extent, and I always

1100
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: talking abot about paying forward my luck, paying forward your luck.

1101
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: It's but it comes a big responsibility too, because do

1102
00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: you get hit up a lot? Now do how do

1103
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:45,960
Speaker 1: you manage that part of it?

1104
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: Look, what's for real? I well, first I say, look,

1105
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 3: I'm I'm old school, and I'm sadly, which is nothing

1106
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 3: to glorify, but sadly, when you've lived a life like

1107
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 3: I am, you become streets smart. You know, when the

1108
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 3: bullshitter I would say, you got a bullshit a bullshitter,

1109
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Unfortunately and fortunately in your case. Now, Yeah,

1110
00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 3: and I am very aware of real and not real.

1111
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 3: But look, I can't help everyone. I try my best,

1112
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 3: and I always when I look at stuff, I'll see

1113
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 3: what I feel is a more priority in all the

1114
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 3: messages you know, obviously sickness or I'll senior sits and

1115
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 3: stuff like that, and I'll focus that that's the first thing,

1116
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 3: you know, and going back. Look, and I always say money,

1117
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 3: Money was not good with me. It was a disaster

1118
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 3: thing from me. I couldn't handle. It couldn't no, it

1119
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 3: was it was my enemy. And that's why I say

1120
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:52,479
Speaker 3: now like, obviously my life's different, but I pay my bills,

1121
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 3: I save, I do whatever, fantastic. But at the end

1122
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 3: of the day, what I learned is I thought money

1123
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 3: would make you happy, make happy, money not make you happy.

1124
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 3: It doesn't.

1125
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 2: It doesn't, and things make it more committed, and all

1126
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you got shit.

1127
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: I got that.

1128
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 3: More work. So that's why it's easier for me to

1129
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 3: give it, to give stuff away, because it helps me

1130
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 3: in the longer run. You know, it just makes me feel.

1131
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 3: It feels I was always looking for something, and I

1132
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 3: thought money was what was going to make me happy.

1133
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 3: But it's not so doing this, that's what feels. Doing

1134
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 3: the stuff. That's honestly what does can actually bear this anything.

1135
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 2: So this this post was put up five days ago.

1136
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 2: That's pretty fresh.

1137
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: The adventures of Nathan's Lawns and gardens. And it's got

1138
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: there the Haunted Jungle and they can't readly be there.

1139
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: So Nathan stuff and Kelly Hughes and what is that

1140
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: a book or something or a movie or video.

1141
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 3: There's a picture of you. Yeah, So I'm actually really

1142
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 3: proud of this. This is a team effort man, Kelly

1143
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 3: and obviously the illustrators and and that. So I got

1144
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 3: a lot of kids, you know, watch my videos for

1145
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 3: the sound of the noise and you know, machines and

1146
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 3: all that stuff. And I got a lot of messages about,

1147
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 3: you know, what can you do for the children. So

1148
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 3: I said, okay, what are we going to do here?

1149
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 3: So we decided the platforms are there, let's I'm all

1150
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 3: for taking risks. Let's let's do something here. So we've

1151
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 3: come out with a kid's book. It's a picture book,

1152
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,800
Speaker 3: twenty eight pages, a little story, and the story is

1153
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 3: basically about helping an old lady Nancy. That's my NaN's name,

1154
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 3: she's ninety seven. Yeah, I had alf day the other

1155
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 3: day helping helping someone. So trying to spread that message

1156
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 3: of kindness and that and what. And also because I'm

1157
01:00:45,600 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 3: big with the Hearts Center for Kids at Westmain Children.

1158
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 3: They saved my son's life. It's important to me. So

1159
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 3: everything I do, I try to raise some money for them.

1160
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 3: So for every order, two dollars will go. I know

1161
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 3: it's not a lot, but all that's something. Two dollars

1162
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 3: will go to the foundation. It's important to me. And look,

1163
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 3: I'm really happy with it. As I said, it's it's

1164
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 3: not our we don't have it physically yet. It's just

1165
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 3: I've just brought out for pre orders and we're navigating

1166
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 3: through this whole process of pre order. Yeah, so it's

1167
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 3: coming out, Yeah, it's all. It's all. It's coming out

1168
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 3: in the end of October. It's everying on my website only,

1169
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 3: and I'm excited about it. You gotta laugh because I've

1170
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 3: already had heaps of requests to come and do readings

1171
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 3: in school, and I'm like, I left school. If you died,

1172
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 3: I am gonna go and read books.

1173
01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,880
Speaker 1: That's got that's one if will buy one, but and

1174
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: we'll put up we'll do a little video on it,

1175
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: because I love that sort of stuff.

1176
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty cool that. Do you think about

1177
01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 3: where you've.

1178
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,439
Speaker 2: Come from, mate, Like, left school year nine.

1179
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,919
Speaker 1: Here you are producing kids books and you got nearly

1180
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: three million, millions and millions and millions of followers. Like

1181
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 1: engaging with such a huge community, doing good stuff for

1182
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: all sorts of all types of people, helping people change,

1183
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: change people's lives.

1184
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 2: Has it made me feel you reflect back.

1185
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 3: On I think, h mm hmmm. I think what I

1186
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 3: try to do here is as I said, I wasn't

1187
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 3: maybe the perfect son, but sorry, man, I've got kids

1188
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 3: and I want.

1189
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 4: I want them to be proud of me and and

1190
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 4: not live the life that I did and have a

1191
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 4: better life. And you know, your father is someone that

1192
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 4: you look up to, and I want them to sort

1193
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,240
Speaker 4: of look up to me. And so you did a

1194
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 4: good job.

1195
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,520
Speaker 1: Well, well, I think that's pretty much. Sitting here today

1196
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,440
Speaker 1: is going to be guaranteed. You're doing a great job.

1197
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: And as one of your followers, and I've been following

1198
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 1: it for a long time, this wasn't.

1199
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 3: A produced thing.

1200
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: I requested this as a result of seeing you somewhere

1201
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: and know where I saw you, and I've been following

1202
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:17,840
Speaker 1: me ever since, and I've been trying to get to

1203
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 1: you for ages because I just wanted to meet you.

1204
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:23,680
Speaker 2: You probably never thought you'd be sitting on my podcast.

1205
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 3: Made I used to watch you on Framers. Yep. I

1206
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 3: just a lovely bit where you say you fired. Yeah,

1207
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 3: but you know about that.

1208
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: When they first asked me what I do it, I

1209
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:39,360
Speaker 1: felt quite uncomfortable with saying you're fired. And the first

1210
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:41,360
Speaker 1: time I said you're fired, I didn't. I just said

1211
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: you're fired, okay. In when we were filming and they

1212
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 1: said no, no, no, you have to do it again,

1213
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: I said, I just fight him. I can't do it again,

1214
01:03:50,040 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: they said, but you got to point. It was Donald

1215
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 1: Trump used to point, and you've got to have that

1216
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,120
Speaker 1: thumb up like that and the thinger like that and

1217
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: handle that and you've got to point at him with it.

1218
01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 2: Right hand and say you're fired.

1219
01:03:59,320 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 3: You got to say.

1220
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: I found it really difficult, like I felt bad because

1221
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 1: apart from anything that didn't work for me, it's a

1222
01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: TV show and I had to act this out and

1223
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: I did it about twenty times. They made me do

1224
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: it late twenty times. And the poor person who was

1225
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: sitting there I came who was the first person I fired.

1226
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: But in the very first show, that person had to

1227
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: sit there and watch me say you'll fired twenty times.

1228
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: So that was and well, thanks for watching it. But mate,

1229
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: now I'm a fan of yours. I'm watching you and

1230
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: importantly you're doing a great job. We all of us

1231
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: who follow we appreciate what you're doing and allowing us

1232
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: to participate in your good dunes bade and what a

1233
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 1: great story, brilliant story.

1234
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 3: And say, lady your father law for me, mate, wait,

1235
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 3: thanks for having me. Thank you