How to STOP Working for the Man and Start Your Own Business in 8 weeks.

Trent from Brains Bins made a promise to himself that would alter the trajectory of his life; he transformed from a 9-to-5 employee to a trailblazing entrepreneur. His candid story, recounted in our latest episode, is a heartening narrative of determination and the power of change. Trent's leap into founding his own skip bin company is not just entrepreneurial spirit in action; it's a testament to the courage needed to chase one's passion, a theme that weaves through our entire conversation.

In the heat of managing a waste management company, Trent’s insights on personal development as an integral part of business success are eye-opening. He lays bare the intricacies of cultivating a positive mindset and the significant role it plays in overcoming setbacks. Through stories of growth, from mastering social media to refining financial acumen, Trent illustrates the holistic approach necessary for any aspiring entrepreneur. And as we delve into the profound effects of discarding limiting beliefs, you'll be amazed to see how a dedicated pursuit of self-improvement can spark staggering transformations within weeks.

Finally, we navigate the delicate dance of work-life balance, a crucial act for anyone operating their own venture. Trent's experiences with financial planning and maintaining a personal life amid the frenetic pace of entrepreneurship are replete with invaluable insights. Moreover, we reveal the importance of building solid business relationships, like Trent's use of podcasting as a tool to connect with the community and grow his brand. This episode is a treasure trove of motivation for making the year ahead one of unparalleled growth and success. So grab your headphones and let your entrepreneurial spirit soar with Trent's inspiring journey!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

So there's literally someone out there that'll listen to this podcast, and if they're smart enough to listen and take the advice, they're literally eight weeks away from a new life.

Speaker 2: 0:08

Yeah, and that's why, before my mates and that you know, I would love to give anyone advice on it. You know it can be done. You just got to have the right mindset, right mind frame and you can do it. If it's true to you and it's what you love, you'll get it.

Speaker 1: 0:26

Good day guys. Welcome back to another episode of level up. We are back in the shed and this is actually the first recording for 2024. This is going to be an absolute cracker. Not just this podcast, but 2024. I'm actually super excited about this one. Today We've just done a little bit of a warm-up, a bit of breath work, but this is going to be fucking awesome. So I'm not gonna say too much, but a massive warm welcome to Trent from brains bins. How are you?

Speaker 2: 0:55

Good Dwayne. How are you, mate? Thanks for having me appreciate it.

Speaker 1: 0:58

Oh, I mean I, we've never met until about 10 or 15 minutes ago. Yeah, like I don't spend a lot of time on social media like everyone thinks I do, I, but I literally most of time it's just get on there, post the shit I want to post and get off. And One Friday afternoon not so long ago I was on there. I logged in and you popped up and you were doing a Give us your noise, like you do. Yeah, it was a Friday and you were dropping a bin off at I think it was Sandgate primary school, something for a fundraiser, and you're like Like I just connected with it, like doing a shout out like support local, get down here on the weekend, come to the school Fade, and I like miss guys, a fucking legend. So, um, yeah, I reached out doing, here you are today, yeah, thanks for the invite, mate, and here we are to chat.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Yeah, and mate, look, this podcast is Like, you've started following me. Now I'm on a mission to create a new industry, and a big part of that and we're having a low success now is through the podcast and just giving people a platform to tell their stories and Just watching you on your socials and then talking to you for the last 10 minutes, mate, you've inspired the craft out of me, and so I know that the conversation that we're gonna have you today is Gonna inspire a lot of people. So, like, let's get cracker. Mate, like you're, you're a character, you're a larrick in you. You've been in business for about two years now. Yeah, just two years. Yeah, yeah. But Like, so it's brains bins, so you run, skip bins, yep, around Brisbane You've, so you've had to make a call at some point to go it on your own, break the mold and start your own business.

Speaker 1: 2:50

Like, how old are you? Just turned 30 in January. Yeah, so you, you're a young fella. So I Just think it's unreal, mate. So I want to hear your story. I want you to tell all the listeners your story so you inspire them. For anyone that's sitting out there and Want to change or things like is letting their mindset hold them back from starting their own job and stuff. So what's? What's your background like? Where'd you come from?

Speaker 2: 3:14

Yeah. So I just worked at JJ Richards for about five years, just at Brandale there, yeah, doing big days 4 am 4 pm, working on the Saturday, all your public holidays and I loved it. You know, I just absolutely loved it picking up rubbish in the city from the city to Caboolture. It was just awesome, I just enjoyed it. But I just knew at the end of the day that they just had to be a little bit more to it, you know, and I just knew there was more to me running a business, yeah, so I got.

Speaker 1: 3:45

For those that don't know, jj Richards is a waste. A little weight yeah massive waste company.

Speaker 2: 3:50

They're huge, they do front lift compactors, everything.

Speaker 1: 3:53

Yeah so and so what? You were driving a little rear loader.

Speaker 2: 3:57

So they do all the little plastic bins in the laneways, corridors for cafes and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 4:03

Yeah, so, yeah, so what, like is business something you've always sort of had thought you might have a cracker. What's your?

Speaker 2: 4:11

yeah, I sort of as a young like. When I was a bit young I always thought I wanted to, you know, run a business and stuff like that, but it just never came along that I Could do it. You know, I just always thought, you know, you just work for a boss, my parents always work for someone, so you just thought that's normally what you do.

Speaker 1: 4:28

I was gonna ask, like what did your parents have their own business.

Speaker 2: 4:31

No, both my parents just worked at Campbell's cash and carry at Virginia there for about 20 years, yeah, so they've just worked for the same company, same people, their whole life, sort of thing, you know.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Well, it's just, it's a common mentality in it. Yeah, very obviously the schooling, I don't know. I got my own opinions and everything, but the schooling systems very one-size fits all and like. Unless you've got a bit of initiative, like reality is that's what most people end up doing is just working for the man.

Speaker 2: 4:57

Yeah, and especially the older generations and stuff like that. You know they wouldn't leave unless it's full-time. They wouldn't leave for casual work, you know. But now that's all. There is this casual work.

Speaker 1: 5:07

Yeah yeah, with a lot of businesses, yeah yeah, so so what you've been going to use so to like two years ago 27, 28, like Obviously you got to have big balls to take the leap to leave a good paying job with Holiday pay and overtime and all that stuff and have a crack on your own.

Speaker 2: 5:30

Yeah, and there was just a lot of times where you know I'd go home and say to the missus like you know I'm gonna, we're gonna do it, you know like we're gonna break through. Then I just come back to the old. You know it's gonna be too hard, you know we might not get clients and just the old limiting beliefs click, kick, kicked in and you just think you know it might not happen. You know you come up with all these ideas that you know probably aren't even true. So what?

Speaker 1: 5:55

like, how do you know? Like, how do you know that? Like, this stuff amazes me, like do you know so?

Speaker 2: 6:00

all this came along so we'll all like just cruising along doing this. I was working and my missus all the sudden started to get into personal development, and then I mean that's thing ever mate.

Speaker 2: 6:14

Yeah best thing you can spend time and money on yeah so and then she got into this little mindset course To change your mindset and your limiting beliefs and she was sitting down doing it every night and just Telling me what it was doing and it was just like literally mind-boggling because everything she was saying about you know, just you do it might say stories in your own head and stuff like that. I could just relate to it so much. Like that's me.

Speaker 1: 6:44

You know, I've got limiting beliefs and yeah, I just didn't have the right mindset to take that next leap right that is Well, depends when it comes out or whatever, but it possibly would have been out before this podcast goes out. But we recently recorded a podcast with a lady called dr Joe lukens and she's she's an incredible woman, very successful. She helps the cowboys Team like he actually heaps of sporting teams and heaps of athletes, but her big thing is the stories you tell yourself.

Speaker 1: 7:22

Yeah and it's like I know, like I've realized now, that is what held me back for Until I was in my mid 30s. Yeah, like I just and if you listen to podcast anyone listen to podcast I'll hear me say this all the time like I used to tell myself I was a school dropout, I wasn't smart enough, I can't read and write, like all this shit, that was just Forcing the universe to hold me back.

Speaker 2: 7:47

Yeah, making up stories, yeah.

Speaker 1: 7:49

So, like you, what's your missus?

Speaker 2: 7:51

doing. She's a deputy register in the Supreme Court. Yeah, so yeah, she just all of a sudden got on to personal development and mindset and now it's just her huge passion. She just loves it and every day she's just yeah, trying to kick goals, to bet, because all it does is just better yourself. Yeah, every day you just Kicking new goals for your beliefs, yeah, yeah mate, I love it and it look I well.

Speaker 1: 8:19

It's incredible how the world works in that, because if you, if you end up being inspired by your wife and Done what you've done, you wouldn't be sitting here today having a conversation and like. We've already talked a bit about breast work and and that sort of thing. But look, once you break those old habits, it's unbelievable how quickly shit happens in that.

Speaker 2: 8:42

Oh, it's amazing, and you just want to. Once you break them, few things holding your back. You just want to keep striving and keep bettering yourself. You don't and you want to help other people and try make your people closest to you. Want to try Help them better themselves as well.

Speaker 1: 8:57

I mean, I know, I know for a fact now and I'm not blowing wind up your ass but you, you're gonna help a lot of people because the whole reason why I connected with you, like the videos you're putting out on your social, I just they're not only helping your business but you, you're just a larrick in that's having a crack and like you just the way you talk and yeah, it's just, I think it's fucking awesome.

Speaker 2: 9:20

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:22

So what? Like walk us through, like. So you obviously got to a point where you like, fuck it, I'm, I'm doing this yeah and then you sitting at home Looking online for prices of trucks and yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:35

So then it all happened like we had to do a bit of background work, you know, because it was like then I was new to it all, I hadn't Registered and ABN, I hadn't done any of that. But then because I was working for JJ Richards, once I've done a bit of background check, it was a conflict of interest. So then I had to resign from my job before I could take any moves. So then we pretty much got everything Ready to rock and roll. You know, finance Sort of found a truck, half ordered bins, and then we resigned from JJ, I resigned from JJ's, and then it was just go busters, yeah. So then we found a truck we went out to it was out at King Roy, went and picked it up and then it was old as 50 grand off. An ex skip company had to get it all fixed up, repainted. Bought some old skips, got them re sprayed, all the holes fixed and Then so you do some of the stuff yourself.

Speaker 2: 10:35

No, we had to outsource it all because there was just. It came to the time, you know. So I just spoke to a lot of people I know, and my sister works at superior pack where they build garbage trucks, yeah, so they were because they were willing to help me out, fix a few things, paint the truck up, paint the bins, yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:52

So that was a massive help. And then, yeah, just created a little website from a coffee guy I met when I used to pick the bins up there, went back and seen him and said Pete's time to make that website, mate, and he was more than happy, created the website. And then, yeah, just spoke to a lot of my friends and family and the work just started coming in. That one phone call came from ACM Constructions. It was a first call. Standing at home, me and my partner, the phone rung and I said, what do I do? She goes answer it. I said, oh, hello, trent from Brains Vins. And it was the first ever skip first phone call. I'll never forget it, you know. And I just, yeah, it's just from then. It's just one thing's led to another.

Speaker 1: 11:40

That is so fucking awesome, mate. So what's the story now? Like two years in how many bins? You got Two years in.

Speaker 2: 11:47

We've just hit 85 skips Shit and about six months ago we just purchased a new truck.

Speaker 1: 11:55

Mate, fuck, I want to come over and give you a hug.

Speaker 2: 11:57

That's pretty awesome. Yeah, cheers mate.

Speaker 1: 11:59

So do you get a lot of work through your socials, or like, is it word of mouth?

Speaker 2: 12:05

A lot of my work is purely all our work is through word of mouth and Instagram. We don't have, we don't pay any advertising, nothing. All we got was that website made up at the start, and that's no. Google leads nothing. Just purely word and mouth and Instagram.

Speaker 1: 12:22

Yeah. So it's a. Obviously there's a lot more to it than that Like you've. And look, the reason I want to dive into it is because I, like I said before, I know there will be people out there that listen to this podcast, that it's running through their brain like I want to start my own business, like how do I do it? And so you've talked about how you've changed your mindset and those limiting beliefs and things. But like they don't just stop. Like I'm sure there's been a lot of points through purchasing your truck and like even making I'm sure when you're buying that new truck, you're saying, oh fuck, this is going to be a lot of finance, oh, I've never had this much debt. Like those thoughts never stop, do they?

Speaker 2: 13:04

No, they never do, and that's where you got to implement stuff. Like you know, one little thing I try to do most mornings is me affirmations, just three affirmations every morning. Just get my head clear, ready to rock and roll as soon as I jump in the truck, just boom. That's what I do every morning.

Speaker 1: 13:20

Yeah, so for people that don't know what that is, what are you doing so?

Speaker 2: 13:24

affirmations. It's something you tell yourself like I will be good today, I am great, I love work, and you say that over and over again. Say five or 10 times, and it just implements what you're feeling that morning.

Speaker 1: 15:09

Mate, I love it, absolutely love it. Cause this like people look at, like listen to this podcast and they follow my all my shit on socials and they think that it's different for me because of where I've gotten to, but, just like you said, like I still have to do that every day. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 15:32

I tell people like I fight my demons every single day and I think, well, I know I don't, it doesn't matter if you're working for someone else or you're, you've worked your way up to a billionaire. Like it's how you choose to deal with those demons that makes a difference. Like I call them demons, you can call them whatever you like.

Speaker 1: 15:53

But yeah, I regularly have to tell myself like you are good enough to be doing this. You do have the right to do this. You are. You do have enough experience to be telling people this Like it's. It's powerful stuff.

Speaker 2: 16:08

Yeah, and you just got to have the positive mindset to be able to be able to move forward. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 16:13

And shit happens, doesn't it oh?

Speaker 2: 16:14

yeah, mate, there's always shit happening and you cock up and you fuck up, you hit something and you go backwards and you think you know I've done that for free or whatever. But it's as long as you learn from your failures, that's all you can ask for. You just learn and think back and go. That's where I stuffed up. This is where I go moving forward.

Speaker 1: 16:34

Right, I need a Bradley dropping bombs. Bloody sound. Bloody button here, mate, because you're dropping bombs everywhere.

Speaker 2: 16:40

Yeah, yeah cheers.

Speaker 1: 16:43

So like, what's your plan now? So is it still only you Like? Do you plan to grow and hire people, or?

Speaker 2: 16:52

Yeah, so we're just still just me and the partner doing all the back end admin, pricing, bookkeeping, and then we'll just sort of see where 2024 brings us. We'll just keep cruising along in the new truck, keep trying to grow the business, get some bigger clients and then, yeah, see where 2024 ends up.

Speaker 1: 17:12

Yeah, so you've had to. You were saying before like you've, you're renting a little yard now, so you got all your bins and stuff there, Like I'm sure that was another thing that you had to tell yourself. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 17:25

That was just another leap, you know. But having that block of dirt down there just means you got your own bin storage and when it comes to it you can you know if you've got a bit of spare time sort, sort your rubbish.

Speaker 1: 17:35

Yeah, so you, you were saying before and I definitely want to chat more to you about it but like you, you've got a passion for waste. Yeah, when does that come from?

Speaker 2: 17:45

I don't know, it's just even when. I've just always had a passion for waste and garbage and garbage trucks, it's just always been my little thing. I've just always had a passion for it with landfills and recycling.

Speaker 1: 18:00

Yeah. So yeah, I was going to say like is that? Do you think that's where it comes from? Is it the? Is it more the? Well, how can we help? How can we reduce? Like, what can? What can we do better to stop everything going in a hole in the ground?

Speaker 2: 18:12

Yeah, that's exactly right and that's where I think you know, even if I'm doing one little bit to reduce it, it's helping you know sort of bit of concrete with concrete rather than going into a landfill, it's just helping. You know, then that's going straight back out the door as CBR and stuff like that for the next job.

Speaker 1: 18:29

Yeah. So when you've got a bit of spare time, do you take the time to do that Like sort of bit of rubbish at?

Speaker 2: 18:37

Yeah, yeah, if I've got a bit of spare time, I'll go down the yard and sort through a skip and put the concrete with concrete, timber with timber and, yeah, cardboard with cardboard, and then I'll take the cardboard to a cardboard recycler so then it gets bailed up, then goes to China and gets reused, you know. So it doesn't do much, but every little bit does count. It's doing a heap.

Speaker 1: 18:59

Yeah, and I'm well. Yeah, you know I inspire a lot of people because, like, building waste is one of the biggest contributors to the waste problem in the world. Like, and I, like we are definitely trying to do better in our business with it. Like, we've got our own tipping trails. We don't use them on every job, but and look, you might prove me wrong, but like, one of the reasons behind that was because we've got our own trail. Like we can take it to a facility that tells us that they recycle it. It's not just getting straight, taking straight out to a hole in the ground. Yeah, and I know, like the few times I've taken the trail there, like I think they do. Like I see the material handler pulling lengths of timber out and separating, like if you, it's pretty Waste, does amaze me as well.

Speaker 1: 19:47

You're driving the facility, the trucks covered in cameras, they see what you've got in the back and they, like they tell you before you've even told them oh, I see you got a lot of concrete. Make sure you dump that in the concrete. Yeah, every little bit really helps and I think it's really important to spread this type of message to our industry that we play a massive role, like we need to, whether it's allow more cost as builders or tradies, when we're pricing our work for a little Like a tiny little bit extra time to do a little bit of waste separation, or like something else we do on our jobs. You might you would have worked past it outside. Like we pull pretty much any usable hardwood out of all the renovations we do.

Speaker 1: 20:36

Like that's what we've got, piles of timber outside, down the plastic and electrical wire, copper piping, old air conditioning units. Like whenever we do renovations. Like we separate all that and like the supervisors will go around a couple of jobs and get a trailer full of metal. We take that to the scrapies. If there's all Any trees or hedges or stuff, we've got to cut it and we'll take them to green waste, Like we're trying to do a little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:04

And all that just is huge. You know that's yeah, that's massive. But once you said it all comes down to time, you know You've got a supervisor out there running around then able to do that. You know that's not sometimes viable for all the job sites.

Speaker 1: 21:19

Yeah, well, that's where I need to talk to you. Like you, we need to go into business and fucking separate people's rubbish.

Speaker 2: 21:24

Yeah, start making it all viable. No more wastage.

Speaker 1: 21:30

So like is that a goal of yours? Like, as well as growing the bins and the trucks? Like do you want to get more into the recycling?

Speaker 2: 21:37

Yeah, it is, and I'll always be passionate about it. And when I arrive time, that's what I'll be doing. You know, I'll be down the yard sorting this with that, this with that, but the door just comes down to the time factor and having someone else down the yard to be able to do it. Yeah, you know machinery, big block of dirt, stuff like that but if you get that then you could start having pretty much 90% recyclables.

Speaker 1: 22:04

Yeah, yeah, mate. For people again like and look, if you don't want to answer these questions, it's all good, but again, I know there's a lot of people out there that are just finding those excuses as to why not to go out on their own, like I'm sure getting finance wasn't an easy process.

Speaker 2: 22:23

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so that's where we just had to do up a bit of a business plan, Got all the pricing, all the structures, price of a truck website, put all that forward to the broker and then they then got us financed to then purchase the truck and the few bins.

Speaker 1: 22:44

Yeah, and I'm sure there would have been some like times there where you're like fuck it, like why do they keep wanting more information?

Speaker 2: 22:51

Oh, it was just backwards and forwards. They just wanted this what your house is worth, what your car's worth, what your contents are worth, it's just. It was just constant backwards and forwards. You know it was a bit tiring to get to that final stage. Once we got that tick of approval, you know it was just amazing.

Speaker 1: 23:08

The beers were popping, yeah, but it's all stuff that you have to work through, isn't it? And I think the message to get across to people is it's all doable.

Speaker 2: 23:19

Yeah, just never give up, and if you're passionate about it, you can do it. Yeah, you know, just keep kicking away and you'll get there.

Speaker 1: 23:27

So, with your finance side of things, did they take into account your previous employment and the salary or the wage and stuff you were getting there, or was it completely based on the business plan?

Speaker 2: 23:38

Yeah, completely based on the business plan. Yeah, my previous employer wasn't involved at all. Yeah, so, it was just yeah, had to do it all structured and then what we were going to make each skip was going to make for that month. So we're going to do 10, 6-metre skips and then you'd take 50% or 60% out of that for wastage and transport and that's what the remainder was.

Speaker 1: 24:04

Yeah, so like how did you? You would have to do a shit-later homework, or did you have to get on the internet and bloody.

Speaker 2: 24:09

Yeah, I probably spent, oh, 48 hours just on all the skip sites and calling all the transfer facilities, sending emails, getting pricing, getting tonnages. It was just consistent, you know.

Speaker 1: 24:24

So you have to pay to dump the waste you pick up at waste facilities.

Speaker 2: 24:29

Yeah, and that's the thing. You've got to be very mindful of it, because every waste is also different weight. You know you've got your concrete, your soil, but then after a while you start to realise you know one cube of concrete is 1.7 tonnes. So you start to be able to break down what you know the weights are going to be, which transfer to take it to, to make it more viable.

Speaker 1: 24:51

Yeah, because, yeah, all the facilities charge a different fee, don't they?

Speaker 2: 24:54

That's right, that's right. And if you take a soil bin to, you know BMI at Nudgee and it's a mixed load, you're charging 600 for the bin and it costs you 900 to dump it. So that's, that's not too viable, yeah.

Speaker 1: 25:11

I love it. So you're um, so look, look, I've never thought about this until you, like, you're sitting here now, so like when you go to pick a bin up from a job site, but you have to have a squeeze in the bin to see where you're gonna take it.

Speaker 2: 25:26

Yeah, pretty much yeah, and you gotta be very mindful of it. And that's why when you you ask to build up or the site form and what's gonna be in it, you know you got to be very on finger on the pulse to know what's in the bin. Yeah, well, I think it's a.

Speaker 1: 25:42

Well, I'm sure there's lots of assholes builders out there that don't. But, like, I would take that Seriously. Because if, like, if you ask me what I'm putting in the bin and you're doing that for a reason and Then I go and put something else in it, like, like knowing that now, like just in that conversation, like that five second conversation or sentence we just had, I'll be more conscious of that now, like I'll inform my team on site about that and my supervisor, because if we are using bins, I don't want to be putting the skip bin company out because I'm putting the wrong type of shit in there.

Speaker 2: 26:15

No, and that's right. And then, like it all comes down to streamlining, if possible. You know, keep the soil with soil, concrete with concrete, then I'll go to it. They'll both go to their own recycler and get reused.

Speaker 1: 26:26

Yeah, yeah. So Like, how much gear can you store at your yard? Like what's the, what's the options at the moment for recycling stuff?

Speaker 2: 26:35

Yeah, so it's pretty tight at the moment. So probably got our 600 squares but that's all just Chocobock full of full skip bins and old bins. So I just got a little pile there at the front of the yard with me scrap me, copper, cable, timber, concrete, just so when I get a skip that I got time, I put it in the front and then I just start took picking at it, yeah, and sorting it out.

Speaker 1: 27:03

Yeah, that is so good, mate. I know there's gonna be a lot of builders. Well, I hope there is a lot of builders in Brisbane that reach out to you, because I think it's just something that we all have to do. I know this, this company's in Melbourne. I know a lot of builders in Melbourne that they have, like, a plasterboard pile, a plastics pile, a brick and the concrete pile, a timber pile, and there's seems to be a lot more companies down there that do Allow builders to separate their rubbish, but I haven't really come across that up here.

Speaker 2: 27:32

No, because even like you poly pipe, you know there's like companies like Rezitech. They take, take all your poly pipe or your plastic, take it, chop it all up, crush it, remelt it and they sell it off as new plastic. Yeah, you know, and that's just a hundred percent recycling. They there's even a styrofoam little manufacturer at Hammett. They melt and Combine all styrofoam into little blocks, yeah, and then they on sell that as well. So a styrofoam recycler. So pretty much as much as people don't like to think, so Pretty much everything is recyclable.

Speaker 1: 28:10

Yeah, so you Like it's you. You found these places.

Speaker 2: 28:14

Yeah, and I've just always had it like I said it, I like to talk about waste and like what's going on here? Oh, what are you doing over there? You know, and like people do, call me Mrs Mangle, you know. I do like to. You know, no, it's going on around the neighborhood, but it's all for my own good, you know.

Speaker 1: 28:33

I just yeah so like that's something else I've always wondered with the bins, like and again, it's all a time thing and a costing, but it's always amazed me that you can't get a bin that's got dividers in it, so like you get an 8 meter bin or 12 meter bin on site and it's got, it might have three or four dividers in it, so that on site you do have the ability to put Different waste in, but obviously when that gets to where it's going, it's gonna be re-enloaded and yeah, and then with the skip bin, they just tip it straight over.

Speaker 2: 29:08

So then, unless you're gonna pull that aside and took picket out of each compartment, yeah, it's just gonna all go straight into the same C&D pile, yeah.

Speaker 1: 29:19

Yeah, now you know I need to work on a solution for that mate need a side to them bin or something. We'll talk more about that. But, um, I got all these crazy ideas made. I have so many ideas. I don't have enough time or money to implement them all, but that's why I need to team up with people like yourself that are passionate and motivated and kicking goals like Do you paint yourself to think that two years ago, you were working for someone else?

Speaker 2: 29:44

Oh, some like I'll get home some days and just say to the missus, like you know, like I just Driving along and I just like, yeah, this is my truck and my bins, it's like I can't believe it's true. You know like, yeah, finally got there and it is possible for everyone to do it.

Speaker 1: 30:02

Yeah, is there um Like. So, being so inquisitive like you are, like are you, now that you're in business and you're passionate about it, like are you Mingling with other people, like are you talking to other people about business or?

Speaker 2: 30:18

yeah, I'm always on the on the front foot, china, you know. Talk to people about other businesses and what they're doing and that's why you know if someone's doing a renovation on a big job, I'll 90% have a walkthrough at the end to see what their final products like to see. Just get an idea. You know I just do that to pretty much every job that I drop a bin off to. Yeah, and it's just so. I got a good understanding and I know what's going on, know what I like and when where you can make a difference also.

Speaker 1: 30:51

Yeah, what's the um Like in your videos? Like you always give a shout out to the company that you're picking the been up for, like is Is that it just a courtesy thing, or yeah?

Speaker 2: 31:40

I know they want to support me. You know they're supporting me and brains bins. I just feel like, you know, it's a bit of a Appreciation and a thank you to go. You know, thanks for using brains bins. I'll give you a shout out, you know.

Speaker 1: 31:54

It's so good, mate, I love your passion. It's infectious. The so what's the Like? Do you do journal? Like you do journal, write down gulls and that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2: 32:04

Yeah, no, we, we have like. So coming into 2024. My partner and I just sat down and done a life audit for 2024 and just saying you know Budgets where we can make a difference and things that we can improve on. You know it's starting 2024.

Speaker 1: 32:22

So what's some of the girls for brains bins, mate I just want to be a bit more streamlined.

Speaker 2: 32:27

We want to try get a bit more apps in play like bin manager and stuff like that, because I'm still using an old-school paper diary, so Typical trade yeah, typical trade. Ii just want to get in, just streamline things a bit and just make it so I've got a bit more, bit more time to go out see clients, customer relations and then even sort of bit more rubbish. You know Cuz if you look after the admin side and get all that down pat, all that does is leave more time, do what you truly enjoy.

Speaker 1: 32:59

Mate, I'm not laughing at you, I just. I'm so, so excited to hear someone like yourself that's Been doing it for two years and, like you, would just drop them bombs everywhere, like this is gonna inspire so many people, even people that have been in business for a long time, because but reality is the, the Mindset and the stories we tell ourselves. Like that affects every single one of us.

Speaker 1: 33:24

Oh 100% and Even the wording you use in those stories. Like you can tell yourself, I'm trying to think of an example, but I talk about things as if I've already achieved or done them. That's been a massive game changer for me. I don't say I will do that or I'm going to do that. It's all I've done, and so even the words you use in your stories are such powerful things. Everyone would have heard me talk about it before. I firmly believe now that those stories come from our childhood and the people we're surrounded with. Something I'm really passionate about is I want people to figure out who they really are. You don't have to be the person that you are. You don't have to be the same religion as your family. You don't have to have the same beliefs as your family or whoever brought you up. You don't have to have the same opinions as the people around you. You're allowed to be yourself.

Speaker 2: 34:36

Yeah, and that's just it, the people. It just takes over the brain sometimes. All the negativity, the socials, all that stuff. You think I should have this, I should be doing that, but you just got to come back to what's true to you.

Speaker 1: 34:54

So you seem like a pretty down to earth bloke. You and your Mrs pretty chilled out.

Speaker 2: 35:01

Yeah, yeah, pretty relaxed mate.

Speaker 1: 35:03

I think that's the best way to be in it. You just got to run your own race.

Speaker 2: 35:06

Yeah, yeah, that's right. And you just don't got to worry about what anyone else is doing, mate. That's why someone like me I don't even have Facebook, just don't, because everyone spends 20 minutes on Facebook scrolling up and down Just looking at what everyone else is doing. You don't? Have to worry about what you're doing and that's the main focus. You and your family and your friends just keep moving forward.

Speaker 1: 35:27

Who gives a fuck about anyone else?

Speaker 2: 35:29

Yeah, everyone's like oh, what are they doing? Oh, look what Jerry's got. Who the fuck cares about Jerry, you know? So it's just, yeah, all about being happy and just kicking them. Goals would have. True to you.

Speaker 1: 35:40

Yeah, have you got kids.

Speaker 2: 35:42

Yeah, we've got a 10-week old and a three-year old. So, you know, 10-week old, at home it doesn't stop, you know, coming home from work and it's just gangbusters, but I love it. You know, if I need to finish early, you know Mrs has had a hard day all right, I'll put that bin on to tomorrow. I don't got to call up the boss going. Oh mate, you know, can I knock off early? Just stuff like that. You know you can't put a price tag on that stuff. It just means so much.

Speaker 1: 36:09

Yeah, 100%. And to be, to have that mindset that you've got now with your kids at your age, it just means that your kids are going to get a lot of time with you.

Speaker 2: 36:19

Yeah, and that you know you say to the Mrs all the time you just want to drum this into the kids. You know like, just yeah, just mindset positive and just yeah, do what you want to do in life. Don't let anyone hold you back and just go for it.

Speaker 1: 36:35

Do you? I'm curious to know because, like it's definitely something that I've seen, as I've, like, I feel like the more time and energy you put into yourself and the more of those old beliefs you break and the more you run your own race, the more people you upset and your circle of friends changes. Even the amount of time or the family members that you hang out with can all change, because most people see personal development as jealousy, Like you're doing better, like who are you to do that, or why should you have that, or all that sort of stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 37:23

Like and I know my personal opinion is, aussies tend to be quite bad of it Like, instead of, like I said before, like fucking giving you a hug and a massive pat on the back and saying fucking, go for gold mate. Yeah, that's right, like keep smashing it. Most people will be like I don't know, this is my opinion, but like possibly people that you've grown up with or you've associated with could be looking at you and go like who the fuck's here to have his own business or why is he getting a new truck?

Speaker 2: 37:51

Like yeah, yeah, and I think that stuff never stops. You know, every time you're doing well or you celebrate something, everyone's got to knock you back 100%. There's always that jealous person out there. But yeah, and that's. You just got to keep moving forward. And it is going to upset people and you will leave people behind, but the new people you surround yourself love you for who you are and that's what's true to you, you know.

Speaker 1: 38:17

Bang wasn't. I'm not saying we need a bomb button, mate. He's dropping bombs. The um, that is so true.

Speaker 2: 38:25

Eh yeah, it's just like you, and they're just going to hold you back If you're hanging around them like just cruising around doing sweet fuck all you're just going to. Yeah, you're just going to be a drone, but you just break the ice and get out there a bit.

Speaker 1: 38:40

I've got two things for uh 2024 that I'm really focused on. Number one is, like I want to show up and like I put this out on my socials and a lot of people say like fuck me, like aren't you already showing up? Like I'm like no, I want to be the best husband I can. Like I want to be fit and healthy and I want my wife to look at me and go like fuck, like he's mine. I want to show up for my kids. I want my kids to look at me and like remember, as they're growing up, like that's my dad yeah, he's my dad spends a lot of time with me.

Speaker 1: 39:11

I want I want my team at work to look at me and like think, fuck, like he does all this to look after us and make sure we get paid. Like I want to show up for everybody. And the other one is I want to come back to being more of myself. Like I don't want to be shut up for swearing or saying the wrong thing or having my own opinion, and it takes a lot of courage to do that. Like have you had to work through? Like because you just said you've got to leave here behind? Yeah, like, that takes courage.

Speaker 2: 39:43

Yeah, and then, like you know, even like doing my posts on Instagram and that you know, like a few of my mates or whatever I've heard through the grapevine you know like, oh, why is he doing that? He looks like a bit of a dickhead, but it's like. That's what's true to me, you know, and I liked doing that.

Speaker 1: 39:58

That's why I connected on that. Like I saw one video, like I didn't even see the like. It only took five seconds of that video for me to go on and reach out to this place. Yeah, because he is being himself. Yeah, he is who he is, and it's fucking awesome.

Speaker 2: 40:14

And that's a lot, a lot of like. My energy does attract a lot of people because I am bouncy, I am 100 miles an hour, you know, but I like it. You know I don't want to be like cruising around. You know like, yeah, get it done, get moving. You know like, yeah, it's just a good way to be.

Speaker 1: 40:30

How did you overcome it, Like, how did you get the courage to realise that you're going to have to leave feel behind you just you just honestly, you just try not to think about it too much.

Speaker 2: 40:40

They mean the world to you, but you just know that what you're doing is just going to benefit yourself and benefit your mindset as well, because when you're around people that you know are a bit negative or, you know, don't have the best outlook on certain things, you just you hear it, you start to believe it, you know it's just natural what? Do you? Listen to in your truck. I'm, honestly, on the phone probably 10 hours a day.

Speaker 1: 41:07

The only reason I ask is it ties in what you're talking about? Like I can't stand the radio or the news. Yeah, I won't listen.

Speaker 2: 41:14

I literally talk to all my old garbage truck friends all day, yeah, on the phone and then just answering the phone. I won't listen to the radio, I'll just chat to people. I'll go into the job site and that's what they say. All me mates calling Mrs Mangle because I'll be, I'll drop a skip off. It should take 15 seconds. I'm there for 25 minutes, you know it's, but I just love having a chat to people. You know it's what I love doing.

Speaker 1: 41:37

Yeah, but yeah, like I just I am so excited for you to just smash it out and do incredibly well.

Speaker 1: 41:47

I really hope a lot of people reach out after listening to this podcast in Brisbane and well, mate who knows we're in Australia might end up national, but yeah but like it does take a lot of courage to overcome so many things that you've talked about today and I think the other, the other thing that really excites me and I hope it excites a lot of our listeners, especially the ones that that struggle like it doesn't take a long time. No like how long from when your wife started that personal development and you started hearing about changing the story you tell yourself and all that sort of stuff. How long was it from when that started to when you made the call to go out and look?

Speaker 2: 42:26

at your books. Yeah, I'd probably say it was probably about eight weeks. You know Shit.

Speaker 1: 42:30

Yeah, it was. I was expecting you to say eight years.

Speaker 2: 42:33

No, no it was actually a very quick transition because I was always it was always on the back burner, you know. And then it was just that final breakthrough that just you know, just coming over the limiting beliefs and you know why I can't do it and, you know, paying the bills at steady income, that was a massive one, you know. Like not having that money hit your bank account every Monday, you're super paid. If you need a SICKY, you have the day off. There was none of that, you know. So it was just overcoming that and just, yeah, doing it.

Speaker 1: 43:10

Yeah, and to me that is just so inspiring. Look, so there's literally someone out there that'll listen to this podcast, and if they're smart enough to listen and take the advice, they're literally eight weeks away from a new life.

Speaker 2: 43:25

Yeah, and that's why all my mates and that you know I would love to give anyone advice on it. You know it can be done. You just got to have the right mindset, right mind frame and you can do it. If it's true to you and it's what you love, you'll get it.

Speaker 1: 43:38

That's the sad thing is that you can't help people that don't want to be helped.

Speaker 2: 43:43

Oh, that's right, and you can tell people time and time again, but if they don't want to listen, it's just they don't want to listen, you know. But you can just try to guide them along, poke them along your friends and family, as much as you can.

Speaker 1: 43:55

Yeah, fuck, I just realized I forgot to put my new level up. Hold on, that's anyway lucky. Most people listen and don't watch the. For those that listen, our merchandise is coming, so stay tuned for that. But um, like I made I got so many questions for you. I honestly just keep going off track. But um, like, do you think? Like do you think the message like so something happened, or your wife said something to you or you heard something that she was listening to that connected with you. Like, do you feel? Like, looking back now, like had you been told that message before by other people and it just hadn't connected?

Speaker 2: 44:39

Not really, but before my partner came into the personal development and mindset, I honestly didn't you don't even really know it exists. You know what I mean. None of my mates or none of my family are into um personal development or mindset or anything like that, you know. So it was actually all really new to me.

Speaker 1: 45:00

Yeah, Cause one thing and I just know from my own personal experience like people can tell me things a hundred times and unless what they're telling them, unless I'm sort of in the zone, or even the words they use, or how they say it, or the timing when they say it, like it just doesn't connect. And this, like you'd know this from conversations with your partner Like how many times have you been told by your partner like fuck, I've told you that a hundred times, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1: 45:32

But we're humans and like if you and I are having a conversation and what you're telling me isn't on my radar or it's something I'm not, I'm not aware of or I'm not interested in, or whatever the case may be, it probably will go in my ear and out the other yeah. But, and then you could, we could be having the same conversation six months later and, for some reason, like I'm in a different state or I'm more chilled out, or whatever the case may be, like I might be, like holy fuck.

Speaker 2: 46:11

Like yeah.

Speaker 1: 46:12

So again, for people that are listening, so we get a lot of like I get a lot of questions now saying that, like you talk so much about your breathwork and your personal development and all this type of stuff and in my LiveLife Build business, our Elevate community, it is a lot of personal stuff because I know from my own experience and even just now, knowing your experience, you can have all the right structure, all the right documents, everything you need to run a good business. But if you're not in the right mindset and the headspace and in the right hanging around, in the right people, it doesn't matter what you've got. Your business is still going to be on that rollercoaster, that's right, just up and down and losing money and whatever the case may be. So personal development is massive. So what are you doing now? What's your personal development?

Speaker 2: 47:09

Well, right now I'm just sort of just playing it cool, just taking, just doing my affirmations every day and then moving forward. I want to start maybe trying to do a bit of journaling, putting down my goals and where we want to be in 2024 for Brains Bins.

Speaker 1: 47:24

Yeah, Do you do your breathwork.

Speaker 2: 47:26

You said you were saying before your wife's breathwork yeah, my wife's massive in the breathwork and we'll see that might even come into me in 2024, you know, see what she can get me into this year.

Speaker 1: 47:37

Yeah Well, mate, I massive shout out to. Well, I've got a few people that do the breathwork. My mate Justin from Inner Breath he's just absolutely kicking goals now with the stuff he's doing for the build well, mainly a lot in the building industry. And then Johannes from Breath of Sexpeditions the stuff he's doing. He's got a few free online breath sessions he does. Now there's just so much available to people, so there's really no excuses, is there?

Speaker 2: 48:07

No, and you just got to give people a bit of education on it, you know. Let them know what it does for you and how it can help.

Speaker 1: 48:14

Yeah, what's it if we go back even further? Mate, what's your background with schooling and stuff? Did you finish school? Yeah?

Speaker 2: 48:21

yeah, I went to Bracken Ridge for two years at high school and then went to Sandgate for three and then went to be a training property manager for a couple of years at Caleon Scott and Brighton. That didn't work out. And then my sister worked at Superior Pack and then the passion for garbage, she got me a job as a labourer and then I just started there 19, and then worked there till 21,. Just doing got a bit of training on hydraulics, electrical, became half a service technician sort of thing and then, yeah, straight into driving garbage trucks.

Speaker 1: 49:05

Yeah yeah, Well, it just goes to show, doesn't it Like it doesn't?

Speaker 2: 49:10

Oh yeah. It doesn't matter where your journey starts. That's right and you know. Go from picking up bins on. You know people, you know doing cafes and that and Wilston and the Grange. You're picking up bins as maggots and people turning their nose up to you, wheeling the bin over to the truck and it's rotten. You know, but you just think you know. And now, two years, I'm moving forward. Just look back and go God, look what we've created.

Speaker 1: 49:36

It's amazing. And then you've got your own business.

Speaker 2: 49:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 49:39

You've got your own bins, brand new truck. Yeah, just kicking goals.

Speaker 2: 49:43

Two years later, after picking up waste, it's just amazing what a positive mindset and just what creating goals and where you want to be can create.

Speaker 1: 49:54

Yeah. So have you done any sort of mentoring, like, have you have you spoken or done anything about the business side of things, like who's keeping you on track with all your books and like your numbers and making sure you're financially stable?

Speaker 2: 50:07

So we just recently in 2024, got like a bit of a bookkeeper accountant which got recommended by my local barber and Rackenridge you know and yeah. So now he looks up because that's what we also want to do 2024 is streamline it. So he looks after all of that now and he just we have a phone consult once a month and he just says how he thinks the business is running and what we should do moving forward for that next month.

Speaker 1: 50:34

Yeah. So a bit of advice like get your head around the numbers. Like it's all good to have those people giving you that information, but you've got to have some understanding of, like the most important is your overheads. Like what is your business physically take to run? Yeah.

Speaker 1: 50:54

And, like my recommend, like I think businesses should review it weekly, like especially in your business, like with fuel fluctuation and all that sort of thing, like you want to be on the ball so that, like you don't want to get to a point where all of a sudden you're like, oh shoot, I'm actually not making money. I should have put my bins up 10 bucks.

Speaker 2: 51:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 51:13

Three months ago. So the and like my advice to you is don't do what I did and just sit on it and think, oh yeah, no, it's all right, I'm paying him. He's given me the advice. Like ask him if you can sit, like just say, hey, mate. Like, rather than do these on the phone, like can I come in with you and just like taught me through it.

Speaker 2: 51:34

Yeah, you get more understanding.

Speaker 1: 51:36

Yeah, yeah, like you got to as a business owner, you have to be over your numbers. Like you need to know your break even points. What, what, what does it take you to walk out the door each morning and actually have a business, um, up there? If you hurry up and stop at Lahore, go look it up 10 bucks and it's worth it. Okay, and yeah, just constantly be reviewing it, reviewing the cost of your bins and like all those types of things, because things can change like in a heartbeat and all of a sudden you can go from making 10, 20, 30% to making five. So, yeah, that's something I'm really passionate about and I try and explain to a lot of people. Like you don't have to be doing everything, but you need to make sure everything's getting done. You need to have enough understanding that you can look at it once a week, once a fortnight, at a quick glance and go, yep, we're making money.

Speaker 2: 52:27

Yeah, that's where we're at.

Speaker 1: 52:28

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, look, I think you're just an inspiring person, mate, and I really, really hope that there's a lot of people out there listening to this that, whether you've been in business for a long time or you're just starting like, they're inspired by how your growth has been. I think we should book in another one for bloody 12 months to come, and, who knows, you might have five or six trucks by then.

Speaker 2: 52:54

Yeah, see how we go. That's the dream.

Speaker 1: 52:59

How do you like? Have you managed people before, like in your job?

Speaker 2: 53:03

No, I've always just literally just been a truck driver pretty much, so I'd have no idea how to manage anyone. You know I'd be hopeless at doing that sort of thing. But yeah, that's why.

Speaker 1: 53:18

Yeah, you'd see telling yourself the wrong story.

Speaker 2: 53:20

Yeah, that's right. I'm making up stories in my own head, so I'll break through that this year. You watch, I'll put someone on, yeah, so just see where we come.

Speaker 1: 53:32

Yeah, and like is there plans for your wife to come into the business and do more, or she got her own career?

Speaker 2: 53:41

Yeah, she'll hopefully move forward into the mindset of coaching. She wants to be a coach, so I'm going to keep pushing her forward to do her coaching full time. Yeah. I could on her yeah, so that'll be amazing. And then I'll just, yeah, just keep running the business and see if we can keep growing it.

Speaker 1: 53:59

Is there like, is there ever any conflict there? Like because, like I know, my wife and I butt heads every now and then because, like I do all this personal stuff and I'm like, oh you know, like you really should be doing this. Like she yells at me and screams at me and tells me what do I know? But like, is there a conflict there? Like, do you ever get home and your wife goes oh, you know, you should be doing this.

Speaker 2: 54:20

Oh yeah, I get that every now and then, Like I should be a bit more structured, or you know. But that's just her trying to look out for me, you know, and she's obviously just been doing that all day and she's just finger on the pulse and this is the way I can do it better.

Speaker 1: 54:34

Yeah yeah, and it's all about having an open mindset, isn't it?

Speaker 2: 54:38

That's right and you can. You can walk in the door and go, oh well, she knows. Or you can actually open your ears and say, oh well, that's true. I need to take that on board for tomorrow. Yeah. And that's just where it comes down to mindset as well. If you come home grumpy or whatnot, you just got to come home and be in the right mindset. Yeah, be grateful for what you've got.

Speaker 1: 54:59

It's really important, hey, especially when you've got kids your age. So one of my I don't have very many regrets, like something I've learned to let go is being regretful of past situations. But one of the ones that I do struggle with is the business just controlled me for so long and, like my eldest daughter, lottie, like she's not long turned 13. Like the first three, if not four, years of her life, like I hardly seen her, like I'd be gone when it was dark and I'd get home and she was asleep, like most of the time well, I shouldn't lie. The only time I saw her was like I'd get up when she was crying through the night and give her a feed or sit with her or whatever, because that was the only opportunity I had. Because over the day, the business just controlled me. And, yeah, that is a massive regret of mine and that's why I'm on this mission now to like I've done it for a long time now.

Speaker 1: 55:58

But yeah, I want to be the dad that puts enough time, energy, money into myself and runs a like sets my businesses up in ways that allows me to. If I want to drop them at school, I can drop them at school. If my wife needs a hand, I can give her a hand. If I want to pick them up, I can Like. If they come from school and they want to go and ride their scooter down the park, like I can do that. That's right, like it's like. I think you've got so much opportunity, mate, to have your mindset at your age and with a young family Like it must excite you.

Speaker 2: 56:36

Yeah, yeah, definitely excites me. Just see what 2024 brings, you know it's only just started and I can see big things happen. Big things, just don't know what.

Speaker 1: 56:46

yet Well, you need to do your thing in the morning mate.

Speaker 2: 56:52

Yeah, I'll start, you can keep up my affirmations and my audit, and then we'll see what comes through the pipeline.

Speaker 1: 56:57

Yeah, is that the only routine you have? Like? What else do you do Like?

Speaker 2: 57:02

that, yeah that, and I walk the dogs of an afternoon. Yeah that's my two routines. What dogs are you? I've got a German Shepherd and a sausage dog. I got the best of both worlds.

Speaker 1: 57:16

I'm only laughing mate, because my wife wants a sausage dog and I'm like how stupid were we with a massive German Shepherd and a little sausage dog.

Speaker 2: 57:23

Every time you walk them, they go mate. That's a weird combination. Yeah, yeah, I know, but they're honestly the best friends.

Speaker 1: 57:29

Hey, yeah, so that is funny, as we were at the coast one day and these couple of sausage dogs came along and one of them was like along the boardwalk down to the beach, tried to go down the stairs and it literally just kept going head over.

Speaker 2: 57:42

Yeah, legs were too short, kept rolling. So that's your chill out Like you just get home and spend some time with the kids and take the dogs for a walk, go for a walk around the park and yeah, it's super important to have your own time in it.

Speaker 2: 58:01

Yeah, yeah, and just a bit of exercise too. You know, just stretch the legs being in the truck all day, just go for a bit of a walk, clear your head, see what comes to life. Yeah, it's a truck, auto, a manual. The old one was auto, so I'm blessed. Now we got an auto. Oh, I don't know myself Even something like that. You know, going from a manual up hills with the bang bin clanging, chains clanging. Now it's just reverse straight up, piece of cake. Much easier.

Speaker 1: 58:31

It's well, at least you can drive a manual, but we've. I think it's so funny, like the way the world's gone and everything is fucking easy, like people wind up they can't be successful in this day and age, like we're living in the easiest times possible, and we've been lately. Like just prior to Christmas we had break-ins everywhere around here and they got into ARB and, like Walter bloody bowed them up and chased them out. But the funny thing is they've been stealing shitloads of cars. If they break into your car and it's a manual, they don't take it because they can't drive it.

Speaker 1: 59:09

So, having a manual is actually a security device.

Speaker 2: 59:11

Yeah, it's everyone buying manuals. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 59:14

Like can you believe we live in a world where young kids just have no idea of how to drive a manual car?

Speaker 2: 59:20

Well, that's right. And now all the new automatic cars you hit reverse and it part reverse parks it for you so soon people won't even know how to park. Yeah, you know so, yeah, everything is just getting easier and easier. Same as the new truck, it's got a remote so I can see where the bins going. So if I'm close to an awning or roof on there the old truck had the old levers I'd have to walk backwards and forwards like 50 times. Yeah, now I'm just.

Speaker 1: 59:47

Yeah, done. And it's crazy, isn't it? Because you need a lot of that stuff. That they're taking away from us because they think that they're making things more efficient is actually completely ruining common sense and life skills.

Speaker 2: 1:00:01

Yeah, and that's what it is common sense and life skills. They're just going out the window.

Speaker 1: 1:00:05

Yeah, like, what some of the things I like what would happen if you're out with a bunch of mates camping or whatever and someone injures themselves and they got a manual car? Yeah, like, do they die because you fucking didn't know how to?

Speaker 2: 1:00:16

draw a manual car.

Speaker 1: 1:00:17

Yeah, that's right, like just silly little things. But, mate, look, we'll wrap it up. It's been absolute pleasure having a chat to you. I'll talk to Shave, but I'm deadly serious. I would love to have you back in 12, 18 months and have another chat and see your growth and where you're at and what you've become. Because, yeah, like you have just dropped bombs everywhere today and look where can people get in contact with you?

Speaker 2: 1:00:47

Just Instagram or just give us a call on the mobile.

Speaker 1: 1:00:51

You're on the phone all day so I can get in on it. Yeah, I'm on the phone all day.

Speaker 2: 1:00:54

There's no excuse not to answer.

Speaker 1: 1:00:57

Yeah, now look, hopefully you've been inspired by this podcast today. And yeah, look, if you're in what you do. Northside of Brisbane, inner City of Brisbane.

Speaker 2: 1:01:06

Yeah, Northside of Inner City. If you need a skip, let us know.

Speaker 1: 1:01:09

Yeah, give him a buzz, because you will end up on his socials having a shout out and getting a little bloody. What is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, mate, really appreciate you coming on and yeah, sweet thanks, dwayne, really really excited about your future. So, look, guys, if you love the episodes, make sure you subscribe, like, share all those types of things, because, yeah, we're on a mission in 2024 to make this podcast number one in the construction industry and we can only do that with your help. So, cheers, we'll see you on the next one. Are you ready to build smart out, live better?

Speaker 2: 1:01:42

and enjoy life. Then head on to livelikebuildcom forward slash elevate to get started.

Speaker 1: 1:01:57

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