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They're rock bottom.
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The where we're their last resort, like both financially and and their mental health.
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My dad, um, plumber, owned his own business and I watched him struggle.
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Um, there was times like financially, there was um team members, there was all sorts of things, and he actually, like, for so long and probably would still to this day say to me, never own your own business.
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And I was like, but that's what I want to do.
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Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Level Up.
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We are back in the studio this afternoon for another cracking episode.
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Got something a little different for you today.
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So um I've been thinking about what to do because so many people either send me emails, reach out through Instagram or um in whatever way, and ask what is Live Life Build?
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What do we do?
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How do we do it?
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Uh and just always looking for more information.
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So I thought, what better way to uh tell you all than to get my general manager, Cherie?
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How are you?
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Yeah, good, thanks, Joane.
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How are you?
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Very good.
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So um Cherie is a general manager of Live Life Build, but not only that, Cherie is five-time Radio Queen, national barrel racing champion.
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So before we get into the Live Life Build stuff, give us a little bit of a background.
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Uh started riding when I was three.
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Um, my mum's always been into horses.
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So she got me started, uh, started showing horses, uh, then moved into Pony Club.
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Uh, and then from Pony Club, sort of worked out what I wanted to do.
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Uh, and then uh eventually rodeos, rodeo queen quests, and then bow racing is sort of where I found my groove and the people that I wanted to be around as well.
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It's also one of the hardest um disciplines of horse riding, I think, because you've only got a chance to get it right in 16 seconds, whereas other disciplines you've got a few minutes and they're broken down into different segments and you get marked accordingly.
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So barrel racing is really tough.
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Yeah, I I love it.
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So um to give everybody a bit more background of how Shree and I met, so my two girls, um Lottie and Violet, 13 and 15.
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Um, this is their second season this year of barrel racing, so um they're still learning.
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Um they they're going really well, but um Helen, who is Live Life Build's leadership expert, actually is really into her horses as well.
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She uses horses for um leadership coaching and all those types of things.
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And so we have a horse, it actually lives at Helen's property.
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Is it probably two years ago?
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Yeah, we're getting close, or more.
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More, yeah.
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Um we're out at Helen's doing some training out there, and um Helen said, I'd like you to, I've got someone I'd like you to meet.
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Um, she's a barrel racer, she'll be good for the girls, and um yeah, who knew that two and a two, two and a half years later you'd be general manager of Live Life Build?
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Yeah, I I remember the day really well actually.
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Well, first of all, that call from Helen and uh saying, Look, can you bring out some uh of the gear to show the girls?
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Like, you know, I don't have barrel racing gear, can you I was like, Yeah, no worries, and then I brought that out and did the barrel racing thing, and then we started to talk about what it is that I did at the time.
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Um I think I'd just finished strategic management um as part of my masters of business and yeah, kicked off that conversation about work.
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Uh and I well it was just a pretty casual conversation and uh yeah, pretty excited about what it led to.
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The um like you've now been with Live Life Build 18 months or a bit over 18 months.
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So um and you've bought a huge amount of talent and I guess like you've just widened the lens on on what Live Life Build can do and and will do in the future.
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So I'm really grateful for you coming on board.
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I I think it's fantastic.
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But back to the barrel racing, because I I f I would feel a few people listening to this podcast wouldn't even know what barrel racing is.
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And I'm I'm still amazed at my girls, like I don't even know where it come from.
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Like they just for years they just said, We want a horse, we want to do barrel racing.
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I'm like, the only place I can figure it out is I'm watching YouTube.
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Yeah.
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Um because it's not huge in Australia, is it?
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It's not huge in Australia, so uh I guess there's two types of competitions.
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There's you've got your rodeo girls that do barrel racing that are phenomenal, like they're the the best.
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Um they place from first to fourth um at rodeos, and then you've got divisional barrel racing, which is also absolutely amazing.
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Um, we've actually just had Australian Barrel Horse Association national finals in Tamworth um this past week.
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So if anyone did want to jump on and have a look, like that's what you should go watch.
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Um but barrel racing, yeah, not as big in Australia as what it is in America.
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Obviously, America is pretty big at everything.
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Um three barrels, you've got either a right hand turn and two lefts or a left-hand turn and two rights, and it's the fastest time wins in rodeo, and then like I said, there's divisional barrel racing as well.
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Um, but there's just such small room for error.
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Like it's hard to get right in one run in 16 seconds.
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Yeah, there's a lot of stuff that's got to come together, and uh like you you watch it like since the girls been into it, like we yeah, we definitely binge it on the couch sometimes watching YouTube and uh and even just seeing it from now taking the girls to events, like man, some of those bow racing horses are absolute lunatics.
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And um I take my hat off to anyone, male or female, that gets on them because uh you wouldn't see me getting on them.
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They're athletes, like they've got a job to do, they know what they need to do to to get the run done, but so much preparation goes into like just getting to that point where they're running that fast, you know.
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There's there's all the slow work behind it.
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I it's I guess similar to a business, right?
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You don't just start earning millions of dollars straight away, you've got to build those systems processes and whatnot.
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It's the same with the horse, you've got to build that foundation and softness, and you've got to um start to trust that horse too.
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Like the faster you go, you put a lot of trust into that horse that all of a sudden you're asking to turn or go flat out, you know.
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It's um yeah, it's pretty.
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I don't know.
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I like the adrenaline.
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I really do.
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You definitely do.
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The um one of the events last year, you had a new horse, and like I nearly had a heart attack watching you and it decided to nearly throw you over the head.
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Like um and look in two years now, we we've seen a few people fall off.
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Like, I I I definitely my heart starts racing as soon as I see the girls, and and my girls are by no means fast yet, but they um it's like I just think, holy shit, like that's a massive animal, and like they're small and like it can do whatever it wants when it wants.
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And um I I'm super super proud of where they've come to with it.
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Like, as you know, like it's been um for our youngest daughter, like the horse has been a huge um part of her growth in the last few years with her confidence and um even her communication with people and stuff.
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So and I you sort of see that out at the horse, like on the days, like they're an incredible animal.
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Like, I I never would have picked it that um that they they're so intelligent, and like even like you guys can maneuver them just by the pressure on the on your I don't know, like your feet and your reins and use your whole body, yeah.
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It's incredible.
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They give you that instant feedback, you know, if they don't like something they'll tell you.
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Um I think that's what makes it amazing when you see those top level competitors is they know that horse inside out, back the front.
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Um their their ears could be changing, their eyes could be changing, they could change their stance, like all the things that go into it that the general sort of public wouldn't see.
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Um yeah.
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Uh NFR's about to come up in I can't remember.
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It's at the start of December, National Finals Rodeo in America, and it's ten days of rodeo, and you watch ten days of barrel racing, and the conversations that are happening around that is just oh, it's so exciting.
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It it excites me.
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I I love radio, I've always loved rodeo, look.
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But um, yeah, obviously until the girls were in, I didn't really know or understand what the I just thought they were crazy.
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That's uh getting on these because some some of the horses are lunatics, aren't they?
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Like look well, they look like they are.
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Yeah.
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Um I'm I don't want to give anyone a bad rap here, but look, it it comes back to training, you know.
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Like you can if you spend the time on a horse and um you can get them to walk fairly calmly into the arena, but other horses like just know their job and they're they're there to do it, and you're basically a jockey until you get into the arena.
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Um but yeah, it's like I said, it's my favourite sport.
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It's what I've chosen to do now.
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I did dressage for many years.
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I loved the precision in that, the discipline in that.
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Um I had lessons upon lessons because I wanted to go to the Olympics in dressage.
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And at the end of the day, it it came down to I wanted to go fast.
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Um three barrels is hard to achieve, like in a perfect run.
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And the people, like I I much prefer the rodeo scene uh than the dressage scene.
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So look very pretty successful, like five time rodeo queen, and then um and you that well, I don't know if it was the first day we met you, or I think it was when you bought all that stuff out to show the girls, and like they just didn't stop talking about like you had your your folder there with all your awards and everything in it, and like I was like, holy shit, like I'm gonna have to start earning more money.
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The the Rodeo Queen stuff, I think, is also very important to me.
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So after I had won my different titles and whatnot, I went on to be um quest coordinator as well.
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Um, it's an opportunity for girls in rodeo or just girls into horses in general, um, to you get judged in a couple of categories.
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So sorry, I'm going backwards a little bit here, but personality, appearance, knowledge of horses, tack, um, knowledge of rodeo, and I'm probably missing something here, uh and horsemanship.
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So obviously how to how you ride a horse.
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Um higher levels, you have to submit a portfolio as well, which is what I showed you.
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Um but the growth that I saw from the girls that have entered the quest and you know, fundraise throughout the year to get to the point of getting to the finals and then they get judged, and then you know, riding into the arena and with the national anthem and as part of Grand Entry and and the conversations they're having with the general public.
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Like they go from these shy young girls to this blossoming young women.
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Like it's it's pretty cool.
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So that yeah, my passion for Rodeo Queen Quest is that's always gonna be there.
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I don't have a lot to do with them now.
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Um, judged occasionally here and there when I get asked to, but yeah, yeah.
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And then you've got boys, so they're in the motorbike.
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Yeah, yeah, I missed out on uh the Rodeo Queen Quest, but look, some may say it was a blessing for me because you know there is the clothes and the stuff that goes in.
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Yeah.
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And then yeah, you went on to be national champion, which like that that includes going to the or you're you've got the ability to go to the states now, don't you?
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Yeah, so um 2018, um I won that national title um as part of MBHA Australia.
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Um look, I would love to get to the States and compete in the worlds over there.
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That would be fantastic.
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However, um lots of people ask me, well, do you take your own horse over there?
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No, you don't.
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You actually have to hire one.
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Um, and that can mean, you know,$8,000 on a horse to hire, plus then you've got flights, you've got to get there early because if you don't get a chance to know your horse, well, like then you're just jump riding and getting on for the bale race.
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Hats off to the girls that can jump ride, but um, I'm not that type of rider I would like to go over and get to know my horse before I and it's a part of the experience too, I think.
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Yeah.
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We've um we've just started watching, and he because Helen recommended it, The Last Cowboy.
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I don't know if you've seen that with the raining.
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No, I don't think I've seen that one.
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It's another I'm pretty sure the um what's his name that wrote all the yellowstones and stuff.
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His I think he's behind it.
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It's a Doco one.
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Um and I I I don't know the full story, I might be completely wrong, but I'm assuming that he's put the prize money up.
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So um I don't know when this was in the last few years, they've put a a million dollar prize on reigning.
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So like all these reigners are working towards this Las Vegas championship for a million dollar prize.
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Um and like reigning's that's something completely different again, but holy shit, like that is a lot of work.
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But you see them, and they a lot of them are looking for a horse, like they don't have their own horse, so like those big stables that have good names and good breeds, and like so they're they're almost sort of um like trying to one up each other, so the stable gives them the horse to or I'm sure there's a lot of money changes here to hire them and stuff.
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Like everything in the States is just absolutely next level.
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And the girls, a lot of the videos the girls um what's the the young girl's name in the States that's just crazy with it with bar racing.
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Oh my yes, I've got her face and her writing like in my head, but that's going to annoy me that I can't remember her name.
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Um if you jump on YouTube, there's a young, young um like what is she she I think she's 13 now in or 12 or something, and like she just earns millions of dollars, like just goes and flogs everyone on these barrel racing events.
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It's pretty insane.
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Yeah.
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Um, I'd love the girls to get to that level, but uh I don't know if I'd be able to watch it.
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It really it really does scare me um seeing them go out there.
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But so what's your involvement now?
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Like you've you've taken a bit of a backseat to the horses for a little bit.
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Yeah, I have.
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Um so recently sold my competition horse.
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Um, I've still got my retired horse that I won that national title on.
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He's 26, end of this month.
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He's the biggest horse I've ever seen.
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He's a bit of a unit, yeah.
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He just looks after the kids now.
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Like I just lead people around on him and that kind of thing.
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Um, my involvement.
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So I sold that competition horse to a friend.
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Um, she's actually at me to go to the arena this weekend and she's like, I need a lesson.
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I'm like, okay, yeah, we need to get onto that.
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Um, so just helping out people sort of when and if they need it.
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And yeah.
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Um, I'll get back into it.
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Like, uh I can't stay away.
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Um I've I've like I said, I've known horses and competed since I was three, so it's just a part of my blood, I think.
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Yeah.
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Well, hopefully Live Life Build might be able to help you out sponsor you or something.
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But yeah.
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Live Life Build gooseneck.
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We've got to uh practice what we we well, we talk about practicing what we preach.
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Like you know I'm really passionate about people having their interests and their free time and that sort of thing.
00:18:52.880 --> 00:19:04.079
So before we jump into more about Live Life Build, like a bit more about your background, like you you've got some business degrees, you've studied a lot, like um like is that just a passion?
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You you just want to have more experience across the board?
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Like Yeah, I think it comes from that competitive nature as a as a kid.
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Like I wanted to be the best I could be, regardless of what sort of horse riding discipline I was doing.
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Um so like you know, I mentioned dressage earlier.
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I was state champion, represented Queensland and New South Wales, won a New South Wales championship, that kind of thing.
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Like I I really wanted to do well whatever whatever I applied myself to.
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So um I guess in school I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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I was good at computers and good at English, but you know, where does that take you?
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Oh like receptionist, I can tell you exactly where it took me.
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Um receptionist, I had a really unique experience where um my first job uh answering phones, and uh she said the owner of the business said to me, I can't hear you happy behind the phone.
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And I was like, What do you mean?
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I'm happy.
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She's like, No, I want you to stand up and I want you to smile when you talk to me and when you answer every one of those phone calls.
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And I was like, Okay, okay.
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And sure enough, it worked.
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Um, but I quickly realized I don't want to be receptionist forever.
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And so it kind of kick-started that passion for learning and wanting to be better.
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And so yeah, I've done a few diplomas and working towards my masters and that kind of thing.
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Um I just feel like it's very limiting if you stay stuck just doing what you're doing every day.
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Um for me, yeah, education's important.
00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:55.359
I think um my previous roles have been in the RTO industry, like my most recent ones, uh registered training organizations.
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Um seeing the impact that education has on doesn't matter like whether it's a builder or not, I guess.
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Like, you know, um it's it's huge.
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Yeah.
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And the opportunities it was giving those people to get into the roles they wanted, yeah, that's sort of my passion for education.
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Yeah.
00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:20.079
I don't I I'm still um I'm still unsure how it all took place.
00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:26.480
I think Helen had a lot to do with um encouraging both of us to uh to see where it could go.
00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:31.680
But like what what was your I guess main driver to come on board with Live Life Build?
00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:39.920
Yeah, so like I was just saying, the education piece, but um a bit of a personal story, I guess, here.
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So my dad, um, plumber, owned his own business and I watched him struggle.
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Like I watched um there was times like financially, there was um team members, there was all sorts of things.
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And he actually like for for so long and probably would still to this day say to me, Never own your own business.
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I was like, but that's what I want to do.
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Like I've I really, like from I don't know, say 20 years old, wanted to own my own business.
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And I think if I can help builders run a successful business, then it's changing their lives.
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But also I don't want them to be telling their kids the same story either.
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Like I feel like it kind of s squished an opportunity that I may have had.
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Um so yeah, look, it's important for me to, you know, help people run successful businesses.
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Yeah, and enjoy life.
00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:37.839
Like you're very passionate about helping people.
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:49.200
Um like seeing you at our live events now and the way you communicate and and G people up and stuff, like you're um you're just yeah, you're a I guess you're a bit of a bubble of energy to be around.
00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:56.559
Yeah, I remember um was it little it was last year, you level up event, and I was just jumping and going, yep, you've got this.
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Um yeah, I'm definitely a more behind the scenes person, not a in this scenario.
00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:03.519
Just saying.
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It's look, I I again I you've definitely brought a lot to the table.
00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:14.799
Um, and like a lot of people wouldn't be aware, like but like behind you and I, there's six other staff members.
00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:20.640
Um, like we have Chris, who uh you're a big sort of instigator and bringing to the team as well.
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So Chris is our growth and marketing manager, so um he looks after new ideas and um accountability with our members, and like he does a lot of behind the scenes stuff with that.
00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:40.079
Um we've got Raker who does a lot of the tech stuff and uh manages that side of things.
00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:46.720
Christine, who is a little bit of a sort of across everything, um, is a assistant to you as well.
00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:54.000
Um Mary Ann, who does a lot of social media and blogs and um helps out with members and stuff.
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We've got Nympha doing the uh bookkeeping, and then yeah, Sharon who works sort of part-time doing all the accounting and and stuff as well.
00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:15.920
So like it Live Life Build has grown into a pretty substantial business, and like I really don't uh have a lot like day-to-day, like it's it's on like you do it all.
00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.160
So I think I'm very grateful to have you in the team.
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.599
I I think you do a lot.
00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:40.640
We have our weekly well, we catch up a few times a week, but it was very good to see like as soon as you come into the business, like you there was a few things that you tidied up very quickly and um like wanted to review a lot of our data, and so it's for me it's really good to see Live Life Build have someone in the business like that because obviously that's what we're teaching our members as well.
00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:46.000
So um yeah, I'm I'm very grateful to have you and I think you do a very good job.
00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:46.640
Thank you.
00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:47.599
What do you think?
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:52.319
Like now being inside Live Life Build for 18 months, like what do you think?
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Like, how's it changed?
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How's your I guess perception on Live Life Build from when you started to to now being involved in it?
00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:03.599
I think I said this to you sort of not too too long into being in Live Life Build, you know.
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:14.000
Uh you talk about the community and live life build, but it's not until you get in and experience it firsthand that you realise how powerful it is.
00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:19.920
Um and I'm I'm not saying that just to be a dick, like it it's that that's how it is.
00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:24.960
Chris said the same thing this year after the so he Chris started what a week before our summer summit.
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Yeah.
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You kept saying to him, Oh, you it's all the community, like you're not gonna believe the community.
00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:33.519
And he like he said to us after the event, he's like, Oh, I was like, whatever, like community is community.
00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.920
And then after the event, he's like, Holy shit, like seriously, this is this community is incredible.
00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:39.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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He he said, uh, are you sure you want me to start a week before?
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I've got nothing to contribute.
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Like I don't know anything.
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I said, No, but you've got to experience it.
00:25:48.559 --> 00:26:06.720
Um yeah, look, I've I've watched several members in particular just go from being a wreck to being successful, like the confidence just in the the like how they hold themselves is huge.
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Yeah.
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Um you know, yes, there's uh obviously some data around it, and you probably know more of that side with the members than I do, but I I watch them and it's just it's really good to see.
00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.480
It's it's it's incredibly how driven you get by seeing that, isn't it?
00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:43.440
When you see people come in that um and I yeah, I don't want to name names, but like even since you've been in, there's I don't know, they'd probably be close to a hundred odd new members that have come through, and um like just seeing them like we we attract a very certain type of member, I think.
00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:46.720
Like absolutely, they're rock bottom.
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:53.759
The where we're their last resort, like both financially and and their mental health.
00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.839
Yeah, like and for their families, like this is this is it.
00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:07.200
Yeah, I'd say our members are generally uh quiet achievers, um struggle to believe in themselves, struggle with their confidence.
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:25.519
Um not not all of them, like we we have ones that but I think I I really like like I I think our membership, our community is very like there's no egos, there's no um this is probably a bit old school, like there's no dick swinging contests, like it's just there's no bullshit.
00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.079
Um and you see that at our events.
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:38.799
Like, I I I love that you can go to our events and people aren't all dressed up, like they're in boardies, they're in thongs, or sometimes no nothing on their feet at all if we have it like when we have it at Kingsliff.
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:39.440
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:56.319
Um like everyone's just so relaxed, so chilled out, and to see the vulnerability and how like you've got blokes that have never shed a tear in front of anybody in their life um standing in front of a group and being vulnerable.
00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:05.839
And um, I haven't said this for a long time actually, but like after having lived like Bill now for six years and seeing what happens once people be vulnerable, like it's the floodgates just open.
00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:15.200
Like it you you you start to have so much growth when you're in a community that makes you feel safe enough to to drop your guard and actually talk about what's going on in your life.
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:16.319
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:33.599
I'd look again, yeah, like you said, going back to that community, not and not really knowing until you experience it, like it was I think it was Kingscliffe, like when one member in particular like did break down and cry, and then we all hugged that person.
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:53.839
Um and that's wild, like being in a a room with grown-ass men who are builders who you know, like the way that they carry themselves, you would think that this would never happen to then feel safe enough to express themselves and what's happening in their life.
00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.440
And yeah, it's huge.
00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:01.039
Yeah, like I said at our Adelaide event last Friday, like I Camille cannot believe that I'm a hugger.
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Like, I like I just and I to be honest, I still can't either, and I still find it really awkward, like because like now when we have events, like the first thing members do is like we put our hand out, shake, and pull in and hug.
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.640
Like and it's just it just happens naturally.
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:24.640
I don't do that to people outside the membership, but that's just what our membership um has achieved, and I I think it's fantastic.
00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:27.440
I think that's why so many people get so much growth out of it.
00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:33.599
But like we'll dive in a little bit to what Live Life Build is because yeah, a lot so many people are always asking, like, what is it?
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:34.480
What do I get?
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.680
Like, do you want to explain what it what they get?
00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.640
Well, where where do we start?
00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:42.079
So we've got launch pad.
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Um, so launch pad has uh a few modules in it.
00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:53.359
Look, you can do it in say three to five hours, and you get really quick wins from being able to do launch pad.
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:57.039
It's it's affordable price, it's our entry-level program.
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:01.359
Um it's to give them it's gives people a taste of what's possible, doesn't it?
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.200
And it blows my mind.
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:08.079
Like we um So we literally get a new Launchpad member every day.
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And that's not exaggeration.
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Some days it's multiple.
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And yet when they get a phone call from myself or Chris, um whether it's three weeks later or three months later, it absolutely blows my mind that so many of them just haven't haven't even opened it.
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:47.599
And that was part of having this podcast today, to like give them a little bit of insight into like if you've taken if you've if you've taken the I guess the steps to sign up and purchase something, because I one thing I don't want Live Life to build to be is like these gym memberships where people buy them and never use them because it's just wasting everybody's time and energy.
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:55.759
But like we know what people the results people get just from launchpad, if they actually put the time into it and implement it, like that alone can change your life.
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:02.720
So if anything, if anyone gets just one thing out of this podcast, it would be if you've purchased Launchpad, use it.
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:05.680
Yes, like yes, yeah, it's insane.
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:11.519
Yeah, um, yeah, so there's there's launchpad, um there's pack.
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:16.400
I think you're probably best talking about pack because you apply it to your own business as well.
00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.519
Yeah, so paid as a consultant, so the pack process.
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:26.319
So that um and again, we like that's used by hundreds of builders now all over Australia.
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.160
Um so PAC is basically a pre-construction process.
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:38.799
Um, and I would say that one, if people got stuck into it, there's there's probably four to six weeks in that one.
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:54.319
Like there's it's pretty involved, it covers everything from uh basically how to manage and handle your inquiries, setting up inquiry forms, um, setting expectations with your clients, it touches on understanding your costs a little bit so that you can guide the process a lot better.
00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:59.759
Um, basically everything from when a client reaches out to you up to signing a building contract.
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:20.240
And I think the important part about that is we've actually got that sort of roadmap that um people can see because so many even builders, a lot of the time, because I've never sat down and documented anything or put anything on paper, they they don't actually know how much time and effort is involved in that pre-construction stage.
00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:27.839
And it's surprising to see when they see that roadmap and see it all laid out in front of them, like, holy shit, like I need to be charging for this, like that's a lot of time.
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:31.920
And then the other side of that is by like we provide the roadmap.
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:45.039
When you when you take that roadmap and put it in front of a client and say, look, for us to actually get you to contract, this is all the work that's got to be done over here, and then that's where clients see value and and pay you as a consultant to get involved.
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:51.039
So the pack process is um actually I don't even know the numbers on that, actually.
00:32:51.119 --> 00:33:12.079
But yeah, there's there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of builders across Australia um using that, and then uh part of that is like we know people finish that because when they finish it, the team reaches out to them and they send us their details, they get set up on our PAC trained page on our website, um, which again it helps with their marketing because we promote that.
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:12.960
So yeah.
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.839
Um, but even that, like it's it's amazing.
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:25.119
Like we've we've had hundreds of builders finish that that just haven't completed that last step, like and haven't given us their info so that we can help promote them.
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:27.599
Like it blows my mind this industry.
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:35.680
Like, there's so many things that builders can do, and again, they've signed up for it, they've completed it, but that last step could actually help their workflow a lot.
00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:36.559
Yeah.
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:43.359
I jump to PAC instead of going straight to Elevate, um, because with Elevate, you get everything.
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:47.839
So the Elevate program, you get Launchpad access, you get pack.
00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:57.279
Um in Elevate, so look, I I I don't even know where to begin explaining how much you get from Elevate.
00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.160
We've got obviously access to the community.
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.160
So that's um in the form of a Facebook group.
00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:19.920
And um we've got A teams, so they're accountable, smaller teams, um, where you can ask those questions that maybe if you're scared of asking in in the group of hundreds that you you ask in a group of 15 instead.
00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:33.840
Um so the community, obviously, all the lessons, like hundreds of lessons on leadership, personal development, like it's it's got everything in it.
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.639
Yeah, there's there's a lot of personal development stuff in there.
00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:46.320
There um just back to the A-Teams, like we hear from so many builders, like so many builders, their first thing is like, Oh, I I felt like I was the only one, or I'm I feel like I'm doing everything on my own.
00:34:46.480 --> 00:35:07.119
And um, as you said, like they feel quite comfortable in those smaller groups that we put them in, and we've seen a huge amount of growth in that because um like we've even got a lot of those groups now that are um organizing their own little weekly catch-ups, and then um obviously our team sort of monitor all that and what goes on in there, and then we set missions for them.
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:11.599
So um I think they work out to be about every eight to ten weeks or something.
00:35:11.760 --> 00:35:12.000
Yeah.
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:28.800
So we set tasks and then the they can work on it as a as a bit of a team, and I know that really helps a lot of builders because they in that smaller group they can ask questions, they can share documents, um, ask like flick each other emails, see if they're on the right track, all those types of things.
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:35.519
Because in the building industry, like communication is is non-existent, like builders just don't talk to each other.
00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.320
Like, yeah, I think that even came out of Adelaide.
00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.719
I uh like the latest fuel session we had.
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.760
There was people attending there that I don't know anyone, uh any other builders in my area.
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:46.639
We don't talk.
00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:56.719
Um to me, it's wild because um I I would see it as more of a support network, and there's heaps of work I would think for everyone.
00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:58.000
Yeah, there is, yeah.
00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:06.719
Um it's just a it's just a a really old-fashioned industry with horrible mentality, like just the way people think about things.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:20.800
But um, like with the um lessons, so like every week we do professional session, we do Zoom calls with the community, and um they all get voice recorded, video recorded, transcribed.
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:31.840
So, like there's no excuses, like it doesn't matter what type of learning you are, you can you can listen to our stuff drive into work, you can watch it at home, you can put it on your big screen, like you can do it however you like.
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:40.880
Um and I for me that was something that was pretty important because like I understand what type of learner I am, and I know a lot of the industry is very similar.
00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:54.960
So, to set like like everything we do inside um our programs up in a way that makes it easy for any type of person in the industry was really important for me, and again, I think that's another part of why our members have so so much success.
00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:11.280
And then obviously we've grown a lot now, like in the early days it was very much focused on on building and and business, but um we do a huge amount of personal development, which um I'm not sure about you, but like it like I grow from what we do as well.
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.559
It's not just our members.
00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:17.679
Yeah, like if I don't get to attend them live, I try to go back and and watch the recordings.
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:21.920
So like I and I know the other the other team members do as well.
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:26.559
Um so we're kind of I guess practicing what we preach there, you know.
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:35.119
It might the the context might be related to a builder, but it's still relevant to other parts of our lives.
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:36.719
So yeah, we go back and watch it.
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:41.679
Yeah, and it's definitely like those sessions are far more than you and I and the team now.
00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:48.000
Like we've um like we've got like Apples does our mindset coaching, we've got Helen does our leadership.
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:50.880
Well, Helen and Glenn now do our leadership coaching.
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:58.320
Um, like Christine looks like does a lot of the imposter syndrome and females working in the industry stuff.
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:06.159
Um like Lex Orange comes on board, talks to our members about contracts and liabilities and all those types of things.
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:20.320
Like we got a massive list of people that collaborate with us, and um like my reason for that early on with Live Life Build was like I I never want to be a person that I guess portrays that I know everything.
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:27.840
And so if if I'm not an expert at something, then I want to put people in front of my members that are experts and that can help them.
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:44.880
And again, that's why we see a lot of growth because it's not just what I say is the highway, like it's um we actually put incredible people um in front of our members, and I really look forward to those sessions because yeah, like I said, the members aren't just learning, like we're all learning from it as well.
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:58.800
Yeah, and I I guess to speak to the type of speakers that you get on board, they you you select them because it's based on member feedback, it's it's what the members are asking for.
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.159
So we're kind of lucky in a way that the business is so dynamic that we can change.
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:05.760
It's really funny too, isn't it?
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:10.480
Like, because we do get quite a few people reach out to us and say, Oh, we just want your systems.
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:12.000
We haven't spoken about the systems yet, actually.
00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:13.599
But uh we got a systems library.
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:18.639
So um, like we've spent over half a million dollars working with John Tonkin.
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:23.599
Like, we've uh I think off the top of my head, we've got 147 workflows.
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:33.840
Um, they're all a lot of them have templates, documents, email templates, checklists that are accompany them to to make it a full system.
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:38.480
And so many people reach out and just say, Oh, we just we just want these systems, like we just want to get our systems in place.
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.079
And they come on board, they start working on the systems, and they're like, Oh my god, I had no idea I needed all this other shit.
00:39:44.239 --> 00:40:01.119
Like, and uh like a lot of people think they're gonna have this silver bullet and finish, um, get it all in and out in a couple of months, and then they see what happens when you get all this other incredible information and how much not just business growth but personal growth you have as well.
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:01.679
Yeah.
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.360
Um, and that like it's giving me goosebumps now, even just talking about it.
00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:06.639
Like, it's just incredible.
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:12.239
Yeah, it's funny how we started this conversation, and I feel like I could talk all day about it.
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:19.280
It's it's I think Elevate's just such an incredible program that you were nervous 20 minutes ago.
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:21.599
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:27.360
Um, no, look, it's an incredible program because you get everything.
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:29.280
You really do.
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:35.360
And we haven't touched on partners and wives group either, which I think is really important for us to do.
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:43.760
So um, we have a dedicated partners and wives group um that uh they can join.
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:54.480
Um and watching them communicate within that group, you know, finally someone's hearing them, finally someone else feels the same way.
00:40:54.800 --> 00:41:01.119
Oh, what did you do to get past that with your your builder husband, your builder partner, whatever it may be?
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:15.119
Um it's a it's a great group, and I'm not sure that any other coaching business does that for the partners because as you said in Adelaide, and I keep referring to Adelaide as but I guess just because it's most recent.
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:24.159
Um the the partners are such a big reason why the builders are successful.
00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:28.159
Like without them, what what would there be?
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:28.719
Yeah.
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.360
Um you want to talk more about that one?
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:33.599
Yeah, well I openly talk about it all the time.
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:36.000
Like we wouldn't be where we are if it wasn't for my wife Camille.
00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:49.039
Like she um she's a a really big part of um the success of all the businesses, but it's and look, it's something that again, every day is a school day, we're always learning.
00:41:49.199 --> 00:42:06.480
And um I guess I've only I can't remember someone oh actually Christine brought it up at our Melbourne event earlier in the year and said, like, no no female goes to school and thinks I want to be a builder's wife, like um or a trade he's wife, and it I don't know, that's just the way the world's worked.
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:18.559
Like um you you start a family, you get married, and the husband keeps doing their job, and the wife is generally the one that gives up her career, which isn't very good when you think about it.
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:22.320
Um and it's awesome these days to see that it's it's starting to go a bit the other way.
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.760
There's plenty of females now that are going having career and the husbands are staying at home.
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:40.079
But like I'm a huge supporter for um the wives and partners that are behind the scenes because like the thing with like us blokes that get into the trade, we're always surrounded by people.
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:55.679
Like, even if you're a one-man band, you're going to the hardware store, you're going to the suppliers, you're you you're communicating with your trades on site, you're communicating with the clients, and so you're out and about and you're you're just living life.
00:42:56.000 --> 00:43:01.360
Whereas a lot of the time a wife or partner that gets into the business, like they're they're sitting in an office.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:11.599
Like there's no chit-chat, there's like they might have the radio on, and like I know, so I guess to let everybody know, like, I actually don't see what happens in the wife and partner's group.
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:20.239
Like you and Camille um manage that, but I I hear a lot of the feedback, uh, and it obviously flows through to the rest of the what we do.
00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:28.639
But um I know you guys are having Zoom coffee catch-ups or something now as well.
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:32.800
So everyone's yeah, the the the teams organise that.
00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:44.800
I think something I want to mention that um look, they uh in the group it it really highlights the shit that the partners also get to.
00:43:44.960 --> 00:43:52.320
Like the, you know, my family um isn't supportive of me going into the business, or it could be professionals.
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:57.920
Like the, you know, your accountant or or whatever it may be saying, Hey, why why are you doing that?
00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:58.880
Why would you do that?
00:43:59.280 --> 00:43:59.360
Yeah.
00:43:59.599 --> 00:43:59.760
Like
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.639
So they've they've left their career.
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.079
They know their husband partner needs support.
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:10.079
They want to be supportive, but then they're also getting knocked back there.
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:11.599
Like it's it's yeah.
00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:14.239
It's a hard slog for them, for for some of them.
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:14.559
Yeah.
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:15.039
Yeah.
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:21.760
I I'm r it's it's probably one of my most proud sort of things that that wives and partners are.
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:45.599
And that was actually originally started by one of our members, um, Callie, who was sort of new to the industry and um and she was sort of struggling and she she suggested like why because they'd come to live events and then all the wives and partners would end up sort of having a wine and stuff together, and yeah, she like I've it's I'm really grateful that she um she put that out there because it's been a huge success over the last couple of years.
00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.639
Um and then well, only in the last week.
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:56.320
Well, actually, I'll talk about it because I think by the time this podcast comes out, it'll be uh the members will know about it.
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:01.039
But um, like you and Camille have just locked in the first wise and partners retreat.
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:12.320
So like this year, earlier this year we did um the wise and partners day, which we bought a that's when we brought Christine Cochran in and talked about all the imposter syndrome and that sort of stuff.
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:18.320
And then we've just done last week we did our um working with your partner session down in Adelaide.
00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:23.280
And yeah, now we're moving on to a full, what is it, full day retreat?
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:26.480
Yes, yeah, three days, three-day retreat.
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:34.159
Um look, I I know how much the partners and wives are just absolutely itching for this to be able to get away together.
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.320
You know, it's it's with like-minded people.
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:47.440
Yeah, you know, I'm sure um there'll be a little bit of a chat about you know, kids and life and just the general chit-chat, but there'll there all also be a little bit of work chat in there too, I'm sure.
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:51.440
But but to be able to get away for three days is gonna be pretty amazing.
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:59.599
And I think the other thing that has really come out of that group as well, like we've actually got um quite a lot of wives in there that don't work in the building business.
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:10.000
And so and again, some of the feedback I've got when we go to our events or they've reached out to me online is this group's been fantastic because I didn't understand what my husband was dealing with.
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:12.239
Yes, and um that's a big one.
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:17.840
So it really like that group, um, well, everything Live Like Build does, but it's again it's far more than business.
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:27.840
Like it's we're building, we're saving marriages, we're saving families, like we're um and we're getting people, I guess, better quality of life across the board.
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:46.960
Um like the biggest I think this was not long before you started, like the best feedback we've had so far from a um from a wife or partner was that they could only cry in the shower because uh they didn't any other time they didn't want their husband to know that they were taking on all the stress.
00:46:47.039 --> 00:47:06.960
So um to think that we've created an environment where, again, we talked about before blokes being vulnerable and having the odd sort of tear up, um, to think that we've got an environment where the females are also um able to be a bit vulnerable and and share their experiences is um is pretty amazing.
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:10.400
Like it just doesn't happen in the building industry or in any industry.
00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:12.480
Yeah, that's it.
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:18.639
The um yeah, and then we got our events, like again, we could talk all night about what we do.
00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:23.360
Like Elevate, our main programme Elevate is a it's a lot of stuff.
00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:23.840
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:29.760
And um we we obviously get a lot of feedback about oh, I can't afford it, it's too expensive.
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.800
But like you can't afford not to do it.
00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:44.480
Like if you're a builder in the building industry, yes, you might have to cut back on some other lifestyle choices for a little while, but you can't afford not to join Live Life Build.
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:58.079
Like if you're a builder in the building industry, especially if you work with your wife or your partner, you um yeah, you can't afford not to be a part of this community because we it's it's shown from our existing members the growth and what comes out of it.
00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:04.239
Like um, but to wrap up on what's in Alevate, live events, yes.
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:09.360
Um so two summits a year, so they're multiple day events, winter summit, summer summit.
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:12.400
Um they're they're incredible.
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:14.159
Like I really look forward to them.
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:23.920
Like what comes out of them, the camaraderie, the mateship, the like this year at the winter summit, we um uh what did you call it?
00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:27.440
Um Live Life Build reconnect uh recharge, yeah.
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:28.400
Yeah.
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:33.599
Um so a lot of personal activities, golf, winery tours, lots of different stuff.
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:37.440
So a lot of time with our members just to connect and chill out.
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:41.119
Um and then obviously on top of that we do a lot of training and stuff as well.
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:42.400
And our awards.
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:46.639
Yeah, awards, um yeah, best awards in the industry.
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:51.679
Like I I think yeah, I guess it doesn't get talked about enough.
00:48:51.840 --> 00:49:01.360
Our awards, recognizing the work that the members do, because as business owners, you you don't get that recognition.
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:04.559
No one stands there and pats you on the back and says, Great job.
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:05.599
Yeah, you know.
00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:10.400
Um there's a submission process, we've got criteria and that kind of thing.
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:20.800
But um, Adam and Sarah won standout member of the year this year, and um to hear their story, it's phenomenal.
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:21.679
Yeah.
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:32.639
The um I I definitely think our awards are something that I I want to see grow a lot more because like every other award in our industry is purely dollar-based.
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:36.719
Like it's it's just a list of categories on dollar values of of buildings.
00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:37.679
Yes, yeah.
00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:40.079
And look, don't get me wrong, that that's great.
00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:47.440
Let's celebrate the work people are doing, but we're the only awards that celebrate the actual effort that's been put into the business.
00:49:47.599 --> 00:50:05.599
Um like we have awards for system systemization, um, best pre-construction process, um leadership, leadership, uh biggest uh action taker, action taker of the year, like um like meaningful stuff.
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:13.599
Yes like stuff that actually says to them, yes, I've I've put in the effort, I've done really well, and I'm getting recognized for it.
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:22.719
And a lot of them it's that self-reflection, like that stopping to take the time to reflect on holy shit, I have done amazing over this last year.
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:27.679
Like that's that in itself it it should be why people are doing it.
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:35.440
You know, the the awards is just an added bonus that you know you can put on your socials and that kind of thing to build your reputation.
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.719
But yeah, yeah, that self-reflection piece is very powerful.
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:40.559
Yeah, well that's actually just reminded me.
00:50:40.639 --> 00:51:03.440
Like, again, we've got so much always forget, but like we had the Zoom call yesterday with our drive members, um, and then we were talking about like part of their one of the modules they have to fill out is their reflection, and uh it was very interesting hearing a few of the members actually think about the last 12 months, three years, five years, and like when you're actually putting it on paper, like holy shit, like I've achieved a lot.
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:09.119
Um, but to give everybody a little bit of an insight, um, drive isn't well again.
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.079
By the time this it's it's a little bit on our socials and stuff, but not really, it's something we've only just started this year.
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:25.679
But because Livlife Build's been going for six years now, we've got a lot of members that have done really well, they've turned their business around, they're they're now making great money, their cash flow is building up.
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:29.840
So we wanted to give them another opportunity to go to the next level.
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.360
So um, Drive is about um creating wealth and leaving legacy.
00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:40.880
So uh we've got our first cohort that's um going into that group at the moment.
00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:48.159
So basically, once you finish the pathway through Elevate, we have set a criteria up.
00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:49.599
There's 15 modules.
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.639
Um, our members have to submit to become part of the group.
00:51:52.719 --> 00:52:11.119
We're not just letting anybody into it, but once you're in that group, uh it's a very, I guess, private, um what would you call it, intimate sort of group where we'll be holding boardroom meetings, and that's all about taking our members to the next level.
00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:19.440
So our first boardroom meeting is coming up in four weeks' time, um, and we're going to be talking a lot about setting yourself up for success.
00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:33.280
We've got guest speakers talking about money mindset and then uh teaching that group how to do developments, so private funding, um, overcoming financing issues, finding developments, how to do those developments.
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:42.559
So even just the calibre of people that we've got that are going to be in that room, educating our client, our members is um is amazing.
00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:47.360
Like, I'm really excited to see where that's where that group goes.
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:53.599
And um like I've set that sort of goal that I want that group to develop a hundred million dollars worth of property.
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:59.039
So um yeah, that's gonna be really interesting to see what happens with that over the next year or two.
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So yeah, there's a lot of shit in there.
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:14.960
Yeah, it's not until you start to sit down and you talk about it like on this level that you're like, wow, you know, yes, there we go.
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:16.400
I know we've forgotten.
00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:18.000
Yeah, like a lot of stuff.
00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:24.000
Like Friday wins, Monday Momentums, like there's some our our ment like daily mentors in our Facebook group.
00:55:24.159 --> 00:55:33.199
Like it's yeah, if you want if you want motivation and encouragement and the right advice, and like there's no better place to be than inside elevate.
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:37.599
Yeah, it's it it like yeah, like you said, there is so much.
00:55:37.920 --> 00:55:39.840
We could speak about it all day.
00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:44.000
So what what's your what's your plans for the business three?
00:55:44.480 --> 00:55:45.599
Oh gosh.
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:47.840
You didn't tell me about this one.
00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:52.559
Uh look, plans for the business, um, member base grow.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:56:08.000
I just the we know the impact that we can have on one member, which then spreads to the positive impact on their family, their friends, um, their team, that kind of thing.
00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:09.360
Grow the member base.
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:11.519
Because that then grows the reach.
00:56:11.840 --> 00:56:12.320
Yeah.
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:13.679
You're too humble.
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:16.639
Like you get uh you've got a lot going on.
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:18.800
Like again, you brought a lot to the table.
00:56:18.880 --> 00:56:35.280
So, like again, practicing what we preach, like just like we teach members, like you brought a lot of structure to the business, um, like what we've been talking about the last sort of month and getting things planned in advance so the team's not having to rush all the time and chop and change.
00:56:35.519 --> 00:56:41.039
Um so and that and that's like I need that as well.
00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:46.079
Like, I'm I'm a I'm the builder, I'm the one that probably has ADHD or whatever.
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:54.159
But um, and so I I know that brings frustration to the team because I'm like, I I'm always coming up with these ideas, and then you've got to pull me back a bit.
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:58.960
And so no, let's just ask a few more questions and see what we can do there.
00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:10.400
I think that's everyone knows that you're a visionary, that that you have these created ideas, and then um yeah, between myself and the team, it's up to us to try to execute them.
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:14.000
Um but it's a part of the business growth too.
00:57:14.159 --> 00:57:26.159
Like if if you didn't come up with those ideas, or we didn't come up with those ideas together, then then we're not like you said, practicing what we preach, like we're not improving ourselves.
00:57:26.480 --> 00:57:28.559
So yeah, a lot's going on.
00:57:28.880 --> 00:57:33.840
Obviously, Live Life Build does the normal business stuff, but um overall we're very structured, aren't we?
00:57:33.920 --> 00:57:39.119
Like, where's there's regular you and I have regular weekly meetings, same time, same day every week.
00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:41.360
Like there's a lot of structure around those meetings.
00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:50.239
Um, we have marketing meetings, we have growth meetings, um, you have regular meetings with each of the team members individually to make sure tasks are on track.
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:56.320
So yeah, there's a lot of structure around everything that we do, and um again, we practice what we preach.
00:57:56.559 --> 00:58:00.239
Yeah, those one-on-one meetings are important for the the team's growth.
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:14.320
Um, the weekly team meeting is uh probably I would say more about the tasks, but yeah, those one-on-ones give us that opportunity or me that opportunity to talk to the team about you know how how you're tracking along with the tasks that you're doing.
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:15.199
What do you want to do?
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:18.400
Like, is there an area in the business that you want to grow into?
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:24.079
Um I think for what we do, we have a really small team.
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.119
Like, like what we get achieved with the amount of people we do, I think it's amazing.
00:58:29.280 --> 00:58:38.800
Yeah, well, even just uh like we've learned the last couple of years with the amount of event events we do, like that the organizing an event is a huge task.
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:54.000
Um but again, you bringing more structure around that um has made that a lot more streamlined, and then every time we do something, like we're documenting it, we're we're having a system so that we can follow it for the next time.
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:57.119
But I I think we do, I think we do get through a lot of work for the team.
00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:03.280
And the other thing is that we haven't mentioned like our entire team's remote, like not one person works in the same building.
00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:04.719
No, yeah.
00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:06.880
Um communication.
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.360
Like I think we communicate really well.
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:15.840
Um, yeah, like our systems, like with Slack, you know, it's uh a great way to communicate.
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:20.079
Um there was something I was gonna say just before, but it's escaped my mind.
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So I hope as we keep continuing to talk, oh, it was about the um just about the ideas and bringing it to life.
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Um, I guess talking about the differences between us and the way that we think um and we communicate.
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So you like black and white, like you know, just tell me how it is.
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Um, and I like the detail.
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And so I think we complement each other in in that instance.
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Well, yeah, and we we practice what we preach, like we've done disc profiling, we know how each other um our strengths, our weaknesses, um, what we each shy away from.
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Um and again, I I think it it's probably again it's one of those things that I'm really proud of.
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Like we I don't ever want to put anything out in front of our members that um you and I wouldn't do or haven't tried.
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Um like and again, I think that's why Live Life Build's so successful.
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Like we we really do practice what we preach.
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We um we put a fair bit of effort in, like even when we've had some dealings with someone and we think they're a good fit to come in and put them in front of our members, like you and I have meetings with them.
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Um a lot of time it's multiple, like phone calls, Zoom calls, get their background, like we want to know what they're gonna deliver to our members.
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Like um they have to align with their the business values, like which is also aligned with our personal values, otherwise, well, I wouldn't be here, you don't have a choice.
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Um look, it's it's very uh strategic.
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Yeah, like you know, it it's all about yeah, what what can we offer to the members?
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How can we improve their lives?
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Who is it that they need to see?
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Yeah, I I love it.
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I think we've got a really good team.
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I'm really excited about the future.
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Like the last uh what's it been 10-12 months now?
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Like just there's been a lot of rebuilding, we've got all the new branding, um yeah, full rebrand, new logos, uh, new team members, um, lots of structure around things.
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And I feel like it's really only the last two months, even one month, and even the last week, like we've we've got some real clarity now around the the path we want to we want to follow and um we've set that target now.
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Like we want to have 200 full-time or at any one time we want to have 200 people in our elevate program, and uh and then others in drive and others in launch pad.
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So and then um like I I've definitely got bigger goals, like I think the 10-year goal would be a thousand um full-time, but and look, it's not a money like Live Light Build's never been a money thing for me.
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Like, it's just I know the shit that Camille and I went through, and if like we've seen it now, how many builders we've been able to help avoid those struggles, and like it's just such a bigger picture.
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Like, not only is it improving people's businesses and their lives, like we're helping the economy, we're we're helping deliver these homes that um Australia needs, where yeah, but mental health, like huge, huge part, like our industry.
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We um I actually had Glenn this morning, so he did the session with Live Life Build yesterday, and then uh this morning he attended a team meeting for my building business, and um he part of his talk this morning, which I didn't really know, was um like the building industry has a higher suicide rate than the uh all of Australia's Air Force, military, army, everything.
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And I was like, that really blew me away because you think those guys go to the environments they go to, they deal with a lot of shit, but um it just goes to show you how much shit people in our industry are dealing with.
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So the fact that we can help out with that as well, and we actually we haven't mentioned them, like we got an alliance with TX, we're one of their alliance partners, yeah.
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Um yeah, like I just absolutely love what Ann and Ann and Dan do, so I think it aligns really well with what we do at Live Life Build.
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Um but yeah, excited for the for the future and where we can take it with you at the reins.
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Yeah, thanks.
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Well um, who knows?
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We might have a Live Life Build bloody or a team, you reckon.
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We could have a goal, is that the bonus a gooseneck?
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Gooseneck.
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Silverado.
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Look, I could dream big.
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Yeah, well, that's we practice what we preach.
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That's what we say.
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Look, I really appreciate you coming on and having a chat.
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I know it's pretty out of your for a for someone that jumps on horses and races around barrels, it's um you you're out of your comfort zone.
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Exactly.
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Horses are my comfort zone.
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I could I could sit on a horse and do do this and not be nervous, but take the horse away from me and uh it's good it becomes nervous.
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That's awesome.
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Well um we'll have to get you back because we haven't even really chatted about any of our members' experiences or anything.
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But um, I definitely think there's another conversation around um what our members get out of it and the feed a lot more into the feedback and stuff that we get.
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:36.159
But before we wrap it up, um, what's level up mean to you?
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Oh, that's that's nerve-wracking, Duane.
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Level up or live life build.
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Level up.
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Level this is a level up podcast.
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Level up.
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Well, we'll do both.
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Do level up first.
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Yeah, level up to me.
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Uh like I I again going back to that education piece, like continuous growth.
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You know, you you continuously have to level up yourself both personally and professionally.
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Yeah.
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Um so yeah, that that's that's what level up means.
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Um and live life build means to me like that that reach changing people's lives.
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Like I see it every day.
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So yeah, that's important to me.
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Awesome.
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I appreciate you coming and have a chat.
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And uh, yeah, I think Shay will book her in for a second round.
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No, look, I before we go, I really appreciate what you do.
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I I definitely think you've you brought a lot to the business, and um, I'm really excited about the conversations we're having at the moment and and where we're going to go.
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So stay tuned, everybody.
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But um look, if you're a builder out there and you are sitting on the fence, reach out and and have a chat.
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Uh either I can give you a call or Chris, our um our growth manager, can give you a call.
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Um look, live life builds the real deal.
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There's no bullshit, and we definitely have what you need to get your business doing what you want it to do.
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But um, look, besides that, really appreciate you listening.
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Uh, make sure you like, subscribe, comment, all those things.
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Go to the DwaynePears.com website to grab your level up merchandise so that you can help us continue the level up movement and continue to make this Australia's number one construction podcast.
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We'll see you on the next one.