1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,200 Sean Aylmer: Welcome to the Fear and Greed Business Interview. I'm Sean 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,520 Sean Aylmer: aylmer my guest today, made his name in comedy and 3 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,640 Sean Aylmer: radio broadcasting every morning from the very same building I'm 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,480 Sean Aylmer: in right now. Merrick Watts spent years hosting the Breakfast 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,759 Sean Aylmer: Show on Nova in Sydney, one half of the comedy 6 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:24,160 Sean Aylmer: duo American Rosso. In the year since the show wrapped up, 7 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,000 Sean Aylmer: Merrick has only increased his output, including programs on other 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,160 Sean Aylmer: radio stations, podcast TV shows, a Wine and Comedy Business, 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,960 Sean Aylmer: and then a hugely successful appearance on the show Sas 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,280 Sean Aylmer: Australia The Ruling Program which puts celebrities through the incredibly 11 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,680 Sean Aylmer: difficult sas Selection Course or Merck come out on top. 12 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,040 Sean Aylmer: This year, he co founded a new company, a sports 13 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,239 Sean Aylmer: hydration drink called Posca Hydrate. Merrick Watts joins me in 14 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,200 Sean Aylmer: the studio. Merrick, Welcome to Fear and Greed. 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,520 Merrick Watts: Sure, it's an absolute pleasure to be here. Longtime listener, 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,480 Merrick Watts: first time caller, So I started I was mentioned off air. 17 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,760 Merrick Watts: I've been listening to this podcast since twenty twenty during 18 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,960 Merrick Watts: COVID when the Lockdown's happened. I found this podcast and 19 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,000 Merrick Watts: listened to it every single day when I was training 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:06,600 Merrick Watts: for SAS Australia. So there you go, Hakuna matata. That 21 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,240 Merrick Watts: means the cycle of life, you need to watch more 22 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:09,800 Merrick Watts: Disney films. 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,600 Sean Aylmer: Let's move on, right, Musafa said, it tell me SAS Australia. Yes, 24 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,440 Sean Aylmer: why why? Why? 25 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,679 Merrick Watts: Why? For a few reasons. I love a challenge. I 26 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,720 Merrick Watts: do like to do something. I particularly drawn to two 27 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,160 Merrick Watts: types of things people. I've drawn to things that people 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,200 Merrick Watts: think that I can't do, that they think I'm not 29 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,240 Merrick Watts: capable of, and things that I've never done before. So 30 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,240 Merrick Watts: if it's something I've never done before, or if it's 31 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,200 Merrick Watts: something that people think I'm not capable of, I'll end 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,320 Merrick Watts: up doing those two things. 33 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:41,240 Sean Aylmer: What was it like? 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,400 Merrick Watts: It was brutal. It was absolutely brutal. It's worse than 35 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,480 Merrick Watts: it appears on television. Within the first twenty four hours, 36 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,400 Merrick Watts: I'd sustained too fractured ribs and continued for fourteen days 37 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:56,760 Merrick Watts: without any medication or medical treatment whatsoever. And it was very, 38 00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,040 Merrick Watts: very tough going. But I look back at it now 39 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,400 Merrick Watts: and it was normative, absolutely formative. 40 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,040 Sean Aylmer: Why it was life changing. 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,320 Merrick Watts: Definitely life changing, one hundred percent life changing because I 42 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,640 Merrick Watts: went in one person and I came out another and 43 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,320 Merrick Watts: I went out. I didn't regain I went in to 44 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:15,600 Merrick Watts: regain myself, to regain my I suppose mental composure and 45 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,480 Merrick Watts: my mental strength and my confidence. But when I came out, 46 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,240 Merrick Watts: I was it was accelerated. It was far greater an 47 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:23,720 Merrick Watts: impact than I anticipated. 48 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,960 Sean Aylmer: And is that because you put yourself through things you 49 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,000 Sean Aylmer: didn't think you could do. 50 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,960 Merrick Watts: It's because I did things that I knew other people 51 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,840 Merrick Watts: couldn't do, that the average person couldn't do that would 52 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,760 Merrick Watts: or wouldn't select to do. You know, they don't have 53 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,320 Merrick Watts: to be superman or superwoman to do it. It was 54 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,959 Merrick Watts: more just about fulfilling my desire to do what I 55 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,600 Merrick Watts: said I was going to do. It's an imperative thing 56 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:48,200 Merrick Watts: to me. If I say I'm going to do something, 57 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,440 Merrick Watts: I'd do it. That's it. It gets done, no matter 58 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,600 Merrick Watts: what the costs. So to be able to you know, 59 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:54,280 Merrick Watts: I didn't open the garun and saying, oh, I'm going 60 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,760 Merrick Watts: to go and smash Sas Australia. But privately to my 61 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,720 Merrick Watts: wife and to my family, I said, I'm going to 62 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,240 Merrick Watts: complete that course and I'll come home victorious. 63 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,000 Sean Aylmer: You're doing Kakoda shortly next week? Fall in the same bucket. 64 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:08,120 Merrick Watts: Yeah, absolutely, I always like to pick out a yearly challenge, 65 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:11,560 Merrick Watts: something that is difficult, something that is literally quite painful. 66 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,760 Merrick Watts: If it's not painful, it's not usually worth doing because 67 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,960 Merrick Watts: I believe that the growth comes from suffering. So if 68 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,760 Merrick Watts: you deliberately find things that are tough physically and mentally, 69 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,960 Merrick Watts: then you can grow from that. And for me, life 70 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:26,840 Merrick Watts: is all about growth. 71 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,320 Sean Aylmer: You're obviously very fit, but how much of this is 72 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,679 Sean Aylmer: actually a mental challenge rather than a physical challenge. 73 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,920 Merrick Watts: I'd say a lot of the great physical achievements that 74 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,040 Merrick Watts: anybody gets with it they achieve those in sport or 75 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,040 Merrick Watts: through their own hobbies. I think if it's difficult, it's mental. 76 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,840 Merrick Watts: It's probably something like Essays Australia I think is probably 77 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,320 Merrick Watts: sixty seventy percent mental. It's just the ability to suffer pain. 78 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,120 Merrick Watts: It's the ability to go forward when others will stop, 79 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,800 Merrick Watts: and to go forward when you want to stop. To 80 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,520 Merrick Watts: read recognize that you know, failure is always a possibility, 81 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,640 Merrick Watts: but it's not an option, and that's the difference. So 82 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:09,040 Merrick Watts: I think, you know, failure is absolutely a possibility. You 83 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,320 Merrick Watts: can do attempt anything and you could fail, absolutely, but 84 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,120 Merrick Watts: it's not an option. I think that's the mental barricade 85 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:18,680 Merrick Watts: that some people are able to deleep. It's just no, 86 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,640 Merrick Watts: it's an option, but I won't take it. 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,000 Sean Aylmer: Changing course, here a sports hydration drink. Why give me 88 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,159 Sean Aylmer: the background on that one. 89 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,920 Merrick Watts: I'm a qualified wine expert, amongst other things. 90 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,240 Sean Aylmer: And I was actually I saw that literally in terms 91 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,640 Sean Aylmer: of wine tasting. Is that qualification of wine tasting? 92 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,120 Merrick Watts: Yes, I'm a qualified wine Just keep that one in. Well, 93 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,360 Merrick Watts: I see, I'm I'm a man of many talents. You see, 94 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,960 Merrick Watts: you're a surprised that I can read. This is quite common. 95 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,240 Merrick Watts: People are very surprised and pleasantly when they find out 96 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,880 Merrick Watts: I can read. No, I'm a qualified wine expert. I've 97 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,360 Merrick Watts: got what they call level three. Were set level three 98 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,800 Merrick Watts: and wine, and I'm a brosso master as well. So 99 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,039 Merrick Watts: I've studied wine for many years. When I left radio, 100 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,680 Merrick Watts: I started studying wine so that I could have a 101 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,560 Merrick Watts: better appreciation of the wine istry, the people that I 102 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,600 Merrick Watts: was working with, and events. And it was during Lockdown, 103 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,960 Merrick Watts: the second set of Lockdown, I was researching for a 104 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,120 Merrick Watts: wine show that I was writing, court a Idiots Got 105 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,000 Merrick Watts: the Wine, which is now about to go into its 106 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,080 Merrick Watts: third iteration, and I discovered an ancient formula for a 107 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,120 Merrick Watts: drink called pasca was an ancient Roman formula for a 108 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,280 Merrick Watts: drink that was the drink of the gladiators and the 109 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,680 Merrick Watts: warriors and the social elite and emperors and plebs and 110 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,120 Merrick Watts: everybody drank this drink and it was a form they 111 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,640 Merrick Watts: didn't know at the time, but it was an excellent 112 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:33,120 Merrick Watts: form of hydration based on very very basic ingredients. And 113 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,479 Merrick Watts: I read about it in Lockdown and I thought, I'll 114 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:37,800 Merrick Watts: give that a crack. Is what else am I going 115 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,279 Merrick Watts: to do? Talk to my family? No, thank you. I 116 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,040 Merrick Watts: mean you were just saying off airhoe about how much 117 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,520 Merrick Watts: you despise your own family, and I was like, wow, 118 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:45,800 Merrick Watts: that's strong. He never said that. 119 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:45,960 Sean Aylmer: He did it. 120 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,359 Merrick Watts: It doesn't matter as if your family listened to this. 121 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,200 Merrick Watts: I think that lives. 122 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,080 Sean Aylmer: The lad love it. You know. The funny thing, though, 123 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,680 Sean Aylmer: you're actually being dead serious about its origins because you're 124 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,840 Sean Aylmer: a COMMI we know that, but you're not jaking here. 125 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,279 Merrick Watts: You're serious, absolutely. That's the funny thing is like, I 126 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,920 Merrick Watts: am a comedian and I take comedy very very seriously. 127 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,360 Merrick Watts: But everything I do I take seriously. I prepare, prepare, 128 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,279 Merrick Watts: and prepare for everything I do, which is why I 129 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:13,680 Merrick Watts: do things like a code. I do a lot of 130 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,440 Merrick Watts: preparation and even for Oscar. We launched Posco Hydrate at 131 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,479 Merrick Watts: the end of last year, but it was four years 132 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,200 Merrick Watts: in the making and that took everything, and I prepared 133 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:23,760 Merrick Watts: myself in all sorts of different ways. I went and 134 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:25,960 Merrick Watts: studied at the Austrain Institute of Company Directors so that 135 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,680 Merrick Watts: I have an appreciation of board dynamics and how to 136 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,200 Merrick Watts: structure a company effectively, and also importantly how to pick 137 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,840 Merrick Watts: partners and find investment and all those things. So I've 138 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,560 Merrick Watts: got a little bit of information along the way from 139 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:42,840 Merrick Watts: your podcast, genuinely, and that's kind of started that process. 140 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,480 Merrick Watts: But yeah, everything everything I do, I do quite seriously. 141 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:47,400 Sean Aylmer: We take our advertisers very serious. 142 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,760 Merrick Watts: So excellent advertiser. Your advertisers some of the best in 143 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,599 Merrick Watts: the business. Name some of them. 144 00:06:51,760 --> 00:07:00,800 Sean Aylmer: Will be back in a minute. I'm speaking to Mery 145 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,279 Sean Aylmer: Wat's comedian and co founder of Poscar Hydrate. AK. Before 146 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,359 Sean Aylmer: the break, you said you went and did an AICD course, 147 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:09,600 Sean Aylmer: which you know, yep, kind of along with your wine 148 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,480 Sean Aylmer: tasting and knowledge of Roman history has surprised me today. 149 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,960 Sean Aylmer: What is it that you've found in terms of launching 150 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,440 Sean Aylmer: a business four years in development. You know, what are 151 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,280 Sean Aylmer: some of the lessons you've learned along the way there. 152 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,080 Merrick Watts: Everyone will tell you that it's twice as hard as 153 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,160 Merrick Watts: you think it's going to be, and I don't think 154 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,800 Merrick Watts: that's true. I think it's about thirty times harder than 155 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,240 Merrick Watts: anybody will tell you. It's interesting. I think that the 156 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,840 Merrick Watts: difficult parts for me, and I'm still very much in 157 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,160 Merrick Watts: the process of learning. I'm constantly observing and learning, and 158 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,880 Merrick Watts: I think sometimes when a comedian is quiet, people might 159 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:51,120 Merrick Watts: confuse us for being disinterested. But often I find myself 160 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:54,120 Merrick Watts: been quite in certain circumstances. I need to absorb, I 161 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,280 Merrick Watts: need to learn, and I'm learning on the run. So 162 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,240 Merrick Watts: it's the uptake of information is massive. You have to 163 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,440 Merrick Watts: learn very very fast, and you have to make decisions accordingly. 164 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,480 Merrick Watts: So I think that's been a huge awakening for me 165 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,440 Merrick Watts: how difficult it is to be across so many aspects 166 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,560 Merrick Watts: of a very seriously designed business. This is not a 167 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,920 Merrick Watts: small business. This is a company with a board with 168 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:20,800 Merrick Watts: very very experienced members across it. So it's had to 169 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,160 Merrick Watts: I've had to raise my standards in preparation just to 170 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,800 Merrick Watts: join it, and then I continually find I need to 171 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,080 Merrick Watts: constantly raise my own standards. 172 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,560 Sean Aylmer: Red Bull, Gatorade, Powerade. You're taking on some pretty heavy 173 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,320 Sean Aylmer: players out there, yeah. 174 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,079 Merrick Watts: But I mean, we're not directly taking on anyone. The 175 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,920 Merrick Watts: great thing about Pasco Hydrate is we kind of sit 176 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,840 Merrick Watts: as a very very unique drink. We are in our 177 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,800 Merrick Watts: own little camp, in our own little circle. But we 178 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,360 Merrick Watts: obviously have designs to be as big as we can 179 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,720 Merrick Watts: possibly be. But I don't feel like we're taking on 180 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,560 Merrick Watts: you know, the titans of the industry. But I suppose 181 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,200 Merrick Watts: they view anybody as a threat, no doubt. But at 182 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,400 Merrick Watts: the moment, you know, we're just trying to find our 183 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,800 Merrick Watts: feet and do our very very best and offer an alternative. 184 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:04,480 Merrick Watts: And that's the most important thing. Is you know, somebody 185 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:06,920 Merrick Watts: like Red Bull, which you know strangely and goes, oh, 186 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,040 Merrick Watts: I do not like it, and I go no, I 187 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,080 Merrick Watts: like red Bull, but I can't drink Red Bull after midday. 188 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,520 Merrick Watts: It's not for me. It's it jacks me out where. 189 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,920 Merrick Watts: It's something that Pascal Hydrate delivers all the hydration and 190 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,559 Merrick Watts: all the other benefits. And to me, that's the yin 191 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,600 Merrick Watts: and the yang. So say, I like to do things 192 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:22,440 Merrick Watts: that haven't been done before, and to me, Posca fits 193 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:24,480 Merrick Watts: that mold. It's not been done before. It is a 194 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,600 Merrick Watts: unique drink it is. It's got all these hydration benefits, 195 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,360 Merrick Watts: but it doesn't have any caffeine or stimulants or anything 196 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:31,800 Merrick Watts: like that. It's a different type of drink. It's not 197 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:32,560 Merrick Watts: an energy drink. 198 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,160 Sean Aylmer: Now at the moment, where's it sold. 199 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,960 Merrick Watts: It's sold in petrol convenience stores right around the country 200 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,400 Merrick Watts: and starting to move into are the small grossers as 201 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,240 Merrick Watts: well independent grossers and shops as well. So it's in 202 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,160 Merrick Watts: about two and a half thousand locations around Australia. Yep. 203 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:48,600 Sean Aylmer: What's the goal? 204 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,120 Merrick Watts: The goal, the dream or the goal? Hold on? 205 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,800 Sean Aylmer: You just hesitated? You just hesitated? You never hesitate. 206 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,480 Merrick Watts: No, no, because there's a difference between dreams and goals. 207 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,920 Merrick Watts: The goal is obviously to create a very very successful, 208 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:10,080 Merrick Watts: large scale drinks and beverage company. The dream is to 209 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,839 Merrick Watts: have a drink that was made, designed and nurtured here 210 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,360 Merrick Watts: in Australia that then can go onto a global platform. 211 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:19,760 Merrick Watts: I would love to see this drink internationally. That's my goal. 212 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,880 Merrick Watts: I'd love that because it's a sense of achievement. 213 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:24,959 Sean Aylmer: You called yourself a comedian and you've done it a 214 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:25,520 Sean Aylmer: couple of times. 215 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,200 Merrick Watts: In this way. That's because I am Sean and a 216 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:28,240 Merrick Watts: very good one. Thank you. 217 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,280 Sean Aylmer: I was just going to reiterate that, thank you. Do 218 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,720 Sean Aylmer: you want to be a businessman or a comedian question? 219 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,040 Merrick Watts: That's a very good question. At the moment, I live 220 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,320 Merrick Watts: between two identities, Andy, I don't identify myself particularly to 221 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:42,680 Merrick Watts: one association because I think that's dangerous and I reckon. 222 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:44,600 Merrick Watts: I've got in trouble with that in the past, and 223 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:46,079 Merrick Watts: it was a learning for me that I got through 224 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,960 Merrick Watts: SSAS Australia is that before I went on Essays Australia, 225 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,280 Merrick Watts: identified myself too strongly as a radio personality, and because 226 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,559 Merrick Watts: my personal identity was too heavily anchored to that. When 227 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,719 Merrick Watts: I was no longer doing that, even though it was 228 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,880 Merrick Watts: on my own volition, it was a crash of identity. 229 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:07,840 Merrick Watts: So then I redesigned my identity and what it was 230 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,720 Merrick Watts: a real struggle for me. It really was, and I 231 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,400 Merrick Watts: battled very, very heavily with the idea that I was 232 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,160 Merrick Watts: a jack of all trades and a master of none 233 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,400 Merrick Watts: because I have so many different interests. What I've come 234 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,120 Merrick Watts: to realize is that I am actually a polymath and 235 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,400 Merrick Watts: I have multiple qualifications across many different sectors, many of 236 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,800 Merrick Watts: them in congruous, but that's what makes me unique. So 237 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,040 Merrick Watts: by being me, I am myself and I am my 238 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,480 Merrick Watts: truest form. I am unique. So to answer your question, 239 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,880 Merrick Watts: I'm a comedian when I choose to be. I'm a 240 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,080 Merrick Watts: businessman when I choose to be. I'm a weekend warrior 241 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,120 Merrick Watts: when I choose to be. So being able to go 242 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,440 Merrick Watts: through the different mindsets and very rapidly too, to be 243 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Merrick Watts: able to be dexterous enough to move through the different mindsets, 244 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,120 Merrick Watts: I love that. I love being challenged to move through 245 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,000 Merrick Watts: the mental landscape. 246 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,080 Sean Aylmer: You have to really confident within yourself though to do them, 247 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,000 Sean Aylmer: because what you're talking about is quite a challenge. Is 248 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,000 Sean Aylmer: to actually have the confidence. I can be a comedian, 249 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:03,959 Sean Aylmer: I can be an audio person, I can be a 250 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:04,679 Sean Aylmer: business person. 251 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,520 Merrick Watts: Yeah, and look that came from great challenge, great personal challenge. 252 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,920 Merrick Watts: I literally had to break down my personality through process 253 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,720 Merrick Watts: and it was very confronting. And then I looked at 254 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:17,960 Merrick Watts: all the different aspects of my personality and asked myself 255 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,679 Merrick Watts: a lot of very hard questions. But at the end 256 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:21,600 Merrick Watts: of it, I came out and went, you are you 257 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,400 Merrick Watts: the culmination of all your interests the culmination of all 258 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,240 Merrick Watts: your expertise makes you unique, which is the one thing 259 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,840 Merrick Watts: I want to be. I want to be unique. I 260 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,079 Merrick Watts: want to be me. So I am incredibly confident in 261 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,920 Merrick Watts: who I am and what I do as a result 262 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,640 Merrick Watts: of the decisions I've made to address that and to 263 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Merrick Watts: have awareness around that, but also to around the disciplines 264 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,440 Merrick Watts: that I employ on a daily level to make sure 265 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:46,560 Merrick Watts: that I can do those things. 266 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,240 Sean Aylmer: Merk, thank you for talking to You're and greed? 267 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:48,920 Merrick Watts: Is that it? 268 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:49,800 Sean Aylmer: That's it? 269 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,079 Merrick Watts: Is that the podcast. You don't get paid for this. 270 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,920 Sean Aylmer: Dude, you don't get paid for this. 271 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,480 Merrick Watts: Soon as you get paid. 272 00:12:56,520 --> 00:13:02,160 Sean Aylmer: That was Mark Watt's comedian businessman entrepreneur. There you go, 273 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:04,360 Sean Aylmer: and of course, most importantly at the moment, co founder 274 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,440 Sean Aylmer: of Oscar Hydrate. This is the Fear and Greed Business Interview. 275 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,040 Sean Aylmer: Join us every morning for the full episode of Fear 276 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,480 Sean Aylmer: and Greed Business News the people who make their own decisions. 277 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,560 Sean Aylmer: I'm Seane Elma Enjoy yourday.