December 22, 2024 • 14 mins
Des is Nyoongar-Yamatji and a passionate business person. He is the CEO/Director of Spartan First, an Indigenous owned, mainstream health services provider offering a wide range of health and well being services to industry, Government and community. Whilst being highly recognised for his AFL sporting history, Des had spent his subsequent years creating, developing and advocating for the Indigenous community. Des is an active, social family and community member, maintaining cultural and sporting commitments.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Nine our voices.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We respectfully acknowledge the Watchup newing of people as they're
traditional owners of the land in which this was created. Hi,
I'm a crystal Ken seller. I'm a proud Jarwin and
Brad Drew Woman, a supply diversity expert and published author.
(00:32):
Welcome to Meet the Mob, a series dedicated to showcasing
black excellence in business. I get to interview Deadly First Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Business owners from around the country and learn about their
white Today I'm joined by Dez Headlin from Spartan First.
We'll share with us he's why why you got into
business and why he does what he does. So let's
kick it off. How are you going, Davis K? Really good? Well,
tell us who you are.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here's your mob.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, well, obviously a lot of my connection comes from
YOURMIG connection. So the southwest wa here in watch O
Country and north of person you at Morbyn also got
some Yellow Magana, which is Shark Bay region. So if
we're up north, yeah, but at eight hour drives, so
just part of four hours north of Jordan. The main
(01:18):
sort of the city country region from that area. So yeah,
it's a bit of a mix, but also Sweetish heritage
as well hence the name Headland Headland, so yeah, a
bit of a bit of a mix and that. So
it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, I think we've all got a little bit of
are there. It's the first time us meeting, so it's
really great to have you on the show. So look,
my opening questions always about you know, tell us your why,
like what's driving you to get out of bed each
day and do what you do.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I look at it in the health sector and obviously
Spartan First is one of my businesses. I've got a
couple of small anentities that that I delve into with
my family and community. But with Spartan, we're a health
business and we're an average owned business, but we're a
mainstream service. So the opportunity to be delivering quality healthcare
to the sector, not just in the morning sector, do
(02:03):
primary healthcare, mental health and well being as well. So
and we delivered for a deliver for our communities, for
the schools, for regions here in person and throughout w A.
But you just getting up understanding that you can create
an opportunity for an individual first it gets good health
checks and don't get employed. So we're working in that
sort of closing the gap initiative in terms of health
(02:24):
and employment and education as well. So that's sort of
a why. But I just love getting up and doing
what I can do best and getting the kids all
sort of. I've got three to all my kids working
for me as well in the businesses and they going,
they're going very well, and you know they love to
see the opportunity as well. Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, there's such a need when we look at the
health statistics for black followers, and you know you mentioned
they're there closing the gap, but to be an Aboriginal
business delivering mainstream health services, I just think it's really phenomenal.
I how to look at your website and.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, look when you think about like that as great,
And I think the best thing you do is when
you walk into a few of our clinics and you have,
especially calgool who got two one guy girls as our
nurses that are delivering all the healthcare, health checks and
all the medical requirements for the big mining companies through
the gold fields. And you know, you look around and
sitting in the waiting room and this all non Ooriginal
people getting checked up our mob. And then also you
(03:18):
look back and you see the community members coming in
through the job active space and getting opportunity to get
into work, getting employment and making sure that economic value
back to community too. So health and well being is
about major part of that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah. And is there a particular member of your family
or is there a story that kind of sits behind
why you chose to go into health industry.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not so much in the health industry, it's more the
opportunity or seeing a bit of a bit of a gap.
My business partner had an opportunity to work in the
health industry with one of our competitors now it was
a CEO, and he saw a gap and another original
man too, and he approached me. We're both doing some
native tid of work and business development through the regions
here in Wa, and he's like maybe in the thought
(04:00):
about looking at these medical space and more to me,
he's like, you know your job fit and sonic do
and so forth, and we go, oh, yeah, that's a
good idea. And my previous history of working in construction
with Ruskal brother Services over years and sending people off
of medicals and make sure they're fit for the role,
and I sort of had a sort of idea what
sort of industry we're going into. And yeah, he's sold
(04:22):
the pitch to me. I loved it and in the
back and mind, I did have the opportunity of creating
creating good health care for our people. But you've got
to make a lot of to make a difference. And
we're starting to get to that phase now where we're
given back to our community. We do a lot of
seven months five health checks for Modala scholarship holders over
four hundred and fifty Aboriginal touris show and the kids
that come to private schools here in Perth, which is
(04:43):
fantastic and we get to see them flourish in life
and education.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, we've really jumped on I guess the market need,
particularly when you think about yeah, every time someone's going
to go inside on a mind sight, yeah, they've got
to have their medical assessment, their health check. And then
you know, through the schooling as well, particularly kids that
like on contact and other boarding schools and things like that,
having the checks.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, that's right, And we don't really go into the
seventy one and fives or the indigenous health checks too
much because our abridge and medical services do a fantastic
job and that's their bread and but we we like
to help where we can and help you know with
infrastructure and services where we can provide our doctors and
our nurses where some of our community and regional areas
are sometimes lacking with infrastructure. You know, we've opened up
(05:28):
Newman in the Pilborough, Calgooley Bumbrias our regionals our centers
and they send their work very well at the moment,
and you know, we like to give opportunity where we
can and at currently at the moment we're doing that.
And we've just got our first scholarship order for average
of lady doctor studying medicine, so while we're putting it
through through university at the moment, and that's sort of
(05:49):
our first initiative and really excited to see where we
can grow that far more, you know. So that's what
sort of makes you that's your wives well, a bit
of a passion and you know, getting getting healthcare and
more doctors and nurses and psychologists into into private average
and health businesses. We've always had the AMS's and public
health sector there and why can we have private health
sector as well, which what we're looking at doing or we.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Are doing currently creating that opportunity for that scholarship is fantastic.
And you mentioned before having two of your children working
within the business. I mean, that's just what it's all about,
is being the role model, creating the pathways, creating those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, exactly right. My dad, you know, one of ad
am as most Aboriginal families have big families, and yeah,
he's one of me, one of the youngest too. And
you know, one thing that's stuck in one one that
he always said to me, even through my AFL career,
my footy creer to make to that level, was just
whenever you have kids, you make sure they see you
get up every morning and having a purpose in life,
whether it's going to work or studying or you know,
(06:47):
just cleaning the house up and doing the gardening. So
mob made sure I've done that's from day one. And
you know, my oldest daughter, she's nearly twenty three, and
my boys are twenty one and seven am. So yeah,
they're they're the oldest tool well and truly working within
the organization, and they're training themselves in certain aspects of
what they can deliver as well and looking forward to
see what they do in their liss as well.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So you mentioned your AFL career and you know you
played for Brisbane, you played for Fremantle. What's that transition
being like from you know, being the sports legend to
then going and going into business.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wouldn't say sports legend, but I participated. Yeah, no,
look I think it's don't get me wrong. It gives
you the opportunity to get to the table and have
a conversation with the industry, but you have to have
a great capability in service to be able to deliver
what you're talking about. You know, I remember back in
the early days when I was in Brisbane, Richard Champion
(07:43):
actually was one of the older players and he's good fellow.
He always said to us boys at footynt last forever.
When you're young, you never you never think of that
when you go to all these events. Make sure your
network and grab their business cards because you never know
you might need them one day. And that's always stuck
in my mind as a seventeen eighteen year old And
when I retired. Before I retired in twenty ten, I
(08:03):
actually ventured into my first business and didn't go too well.
You know, I went very very sour quickly, so you know,
lost the house out of it, and you know I
had to have to put a bit of yeah, put
a bit of effort in to get that back up
and going. And so there are ups and downs in business,
but yeah, have an AFL career and people loving the sport,
(08:24):
especially over in West Australia. You can get to the
table and have a conversation. But unless you don't, unless
you've got the capabilities and service and they know how
on the back end support to be able to deliver that,
that opportunity then doesn't mean nothing really. So I'll be
able to build that over the last sort of ten years.
And you know, businesses up and down, but as I
said earlier, you always want to give back the community.
(08:45):
That's the mindset we have in our community. And we've
got to make a dollar to make a difference and
that's where we're at the moment. As long as you
can do that, and we're happy that what we're doing
at the moment, especially with organizations a lot Madala Madala
is called making a difference and looking ahead. They have
over four hundred and fifty kids in scholarships throughout the
way from the top of the Kimberers of the South
of Albany and everywhere between. I'm out of the desert.
(09:08):
It's just an amazing effort for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, definitely, I really love that kind of manta have.
You've got to make a dollar to make a difference,
because you know sometimes I do here within the indigenous
business sector, people they're almost frown upon if you're making
too much money or you're not giving back. But you
do have business. You're not in business if you're not
making money.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You've got to make money.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That's right, Well, that's exactly right, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right in business for and yeah, you know you're getting
a bo you're getting a business to look after your
family and yourself first, to make sure that you can
deliver quarterly healthcare outcomes, economic value to your family and community.
And then if you are doing well, then you give back.
And you know, we're fortunate to start doing some programs
throughout w A and particularly with Spartan First, and you're
(09:50):
excited to see where that takes us in the future
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, that's probably a good segue to go what does
the future hold? What's the big legacy piece for you?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, look, we're a national business and we'd like to
say We're a business first and foremost just have average ownership,
you know. So I think the future is depends how
you look at it. Where we see ourselves, as I said,
as one of the big competitors in the health sector,
particularly in the mining sector, government, defense, construction industries, we'd
(10:20):
like to deliver quality healthcare the medical We also do
all your background screening as well pre employment and we
also do injuries, so any injury management and work when
we return to work and work as comp issues. So
we do a bit of wrap around service which is
which we built over the last five years. But yeah,
we've got now nearly ten medical centers, mostly in WA.
We open up in Queensland in November. We've got over
(10:42):
one hundred affiliate clyans across Australia, so we want to
grow our space into those regions and then who knows,
could be international. You just don't know. You don't know
what the future holds, a right, you have to have
a vision somewhere and you know, the good thing about
what we do is people are getting employed from all
over the world of work in WA particular and in
the mining sector, which is our bread and butter. And
if we can deliver those medical services and work with
other First Nation businesses across the world than you know,
(11:04):
who knows what Spartan first can do moving forward.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Sky's a limit. Well, I haven't heard of anyone that's
sort of in another indigenous business or another abridge owned
business that's in the same space as you like.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well, we first set up. That's that is the main
reason why we went into the procurement supply nation and
as you know, trying to see where the gap was
and there was no competitors, right, But there's a couple,
there's a couple floating around now and whether that's because
they're seen a similar that they said that we're doing
okay in the industry and they wanted to try and
prime copy and go forward a bit of competition. How
(11:37):
the competition is good competition and it's always good to
see how the Aboriginal business going. Well. You want to
make sure that people you work together. We use a
philly clients across Australia and they're all our competitors. If
you say, but if there's other aberage online businesses that
are in that sector, and you know, why not work
together and collaborate and try and make a change together.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, so if you had a final message for my audience,
you know, you wanted to share something with them, or
if you had a couple, what would they probably.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Be on the spot? Now, well, look what I when
I say color my footy. My footy background has put
me in a good stad in terms of your commitment.
You know, the old the old terminologies and footy talk.
The harder you work, the lucky you get sort of matches.
But I got I got drafted. I was a year
eleven student in high school, so I didn't get finish
high school and I didn't get to study at university,
(12:23):
and but I got taught in the football industry about
you know, you got to work hard on anyone else.
But what people see behind closed doors is what makes
me become a champion. I'm sure Adam Goods would have
said those sort of things as well internally because he
was a champion. It was one of the one of
the best going around. But yeah, look, I just think
you know, the harder you work, the luck you get.
You got to you got to put in the effort
to get rewarded. And you know, so for the audience
(12:47):
and for the people listening out of that's probably it's simple.
That's all I think about every day is what can
I do to make myself better? Because I can make
myself better than I'm making my team better. And you
know the staff that we worked towards, and you know
my family as well, so how we can flourish together.
I've started a business with my mum, I dad and
my sister. Oh look, how do Marley Swan Tools. So
you've had a bit of a plug. We've been a
(13:08):
culture tours and on the de year again. Behind us,
you've got a one hundred and fifty set, a boat
that goes along and cruises along and yeah, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So yeah, well happy for you to give that a plug.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
If anyone's visiting.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, coming to earth, look up Marley Swan Tools and
my sister runs it, which is good. So it's the
first time working with family. It's a bit different at
times because you know that they're they're new to the
business industry. But yeah, really excited to see where that
business can take. My sister and my dad particularly who
will work on that day to day and I just
bring up and make contacts and make sure that everything's
(13:39):
going well or the folks available, can I get on it.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I love that it's been a pleasure to meet you
and to have you on the show. And I really
love what you just said in regards to the harder
you work, the lucky you get. So thanks so much.
That's coming and join me.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thanks having me, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Thanks for listening to today's episode. If you love it,
please share it on your socials. With your mob, let's
help amplify as many and did youness businesses as possible
and get everyone supporting each other. Thank you.
Nine our voices.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We respectfully acknowledge the Watchup newing of people as they're
traditional owners of the land in which this was created. Hi,
I'm a crystal Ken seller. I'm a proud Jarwin and
Brad Drew Woman, a supply diversity expert and published author.
(00:32):
Welcome to Meet the Mob, a series dedicated to showcasing
black excellence in business. I get to interview Deadly First Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Business owners from around the country and learn about their
white Today I'm joined by Dez Headlin from Spartan First.
We'll share with us he's why why you got into
business and why he does what he does. So let's
kick it off. How are you going, Davis K? Really good? Well,
tell us who you are.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Here's your mob.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, well, obviously a lot of my connection comes from
YOURMIG connection. So the southwest wa here in watch O
Country and north of person you at Morbyn also got
some Yellow Magana, which is Shark Bay region. So if
we're up north, yeah, but at eight hour drives, so
just part of four hours north of Jordan. The main
(01:18):
sort of the city country region from that area. So yeah,
it's a bit of a mix, but also Sweetish heritage
as well hence the name Headland Headland, so yeah, a
bit of a bit of a mix and that. So
it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, I think we've all got a little bit of
are there. It's the first time us meeting, so it's
really great to have you on the show. So look,
my opening questions always about you know, tell us your why,
like what's driving you to get out of bed each
day and do what you do.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I look at it in the health sector and obviously
Spartan First is one of my businesses. I've got a
couple of small anentities that that I delve into with
my family and community. But with Spartan, we're a health
business and we're an average owned business, but we're a
mainstream service. So the opportunity to be delivering quality healthcare
to the sector, not just in the morning sector, do
(02:03):
primary healthcare, mental health and well being as well. So
and we delivered for a deliver for our communities, for
the schools, for regions here in person and throughout w A.
But you just getting up understanding that you can create
an opportunity for an individual first it gets good health
checks and don't get employed. So we're working in that
sort of closing the gap initiative in terms of health
(02:24):
and employment and education as well. So that's sort of
a why. But I just love getting up and doing
what I can do best and getting the kids all
sort of. I've got three to all my kids working
for me as well in the businesses and they going,
they're going very well, and you know they love to
see the opportunity as well. Fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, there's such a need when we look at the
health statistics for black followers, and you know you mentioned
they're there closing the gap, but to be an Aboriginal
business delivering mainstream health services, I just think it's really phenomenal.
I how to look at your website and.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, look when you think about like that as great,
And I think the best thing you do is when
you walk into a few of our clinics and you have,
especially calgool who got two one guy girls as our
nurses that are delivering all the healthcare, health checks and
all the medical requirements for the big mining companies through
the gold fields. And you know, you look around and
sitting in the waiting room and this all non Ooriginal
people getting checked up our mob. And then also you
(03:18):
look back and you see the community members coming in
through the job active space and getting opportunity to get
into work, getting employment and making sure that economic value
back to community too. So health and well being is
about major part of that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah. And is there a particular member of your family
or is there a story that kind of sits behind
why you chose to go into health industry.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not so much in the health industry, it's more the
opportunity or seeing a bit of a bit of a gap.
My business partner had an opportunity to work in the
health industry with one of our competitors now it was
a CEO, and he saw a gap and another original
man too, and he approached me. We're both doing some
native tid of work and business development through the regions
here in Wa, and he's like maybe in the thought
(04:00):
about looking at these medical space and more to me,
he's like, you know your job fit and sonic do
and so forth, and we go, oh, yeah, that's a
good idea. And my previous history of working in construction
with Ruskal brother Services over years and sending people off
of medicals and make sure they're fit for the role,
and I sort of had a sort of idea what
sort of industry we're going into. And yeah, he's sold
(04:22):
the pitch to me. I loved it and in the
back and mind, I did have the opportunity of creating
creating good health care for our people. But you've got
to make a lot of to make a difference. And
we're starting to get to that phase now where we're
given back to our community. We do a lot of
seven months five health checks for Modala scholarship holders over
four hundred and fifty Aboriginal touris show and the kids
that come to private schools here in Perth, which is
(04:43):
fantastic and we get to see them flourish in life
and education.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, we've really jumped on I guess the market need,
particularly when you think about yeah, every time someone's going
to go inside on a mind sight, yeah, they've got
to have their medical assessment, their health check. And then
you know, through the schooling as well, particularly kids that
like on contact and other boarding schools and things like that,
having the checks.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, that's right, And we don't really go into the
seventy one and fives or the indigenous health checks too
much because our abridge and medical services do a fantastic
job and that's their bread and but we we like
to help where we can and help you know with
infrastructure and services where we can provide our doctors and
our nurses where some of our community and regional areas
are sometimes lacking with infrastructure. You know, we've opened up
(05:28):
Newman in the Pilborough, Calgooley Bumbrias our regionals our centers
and they send their work very well at the moment,
and you know, we like to give opportunity where we
can and at currently at the moment we're doing that.
And we've just got our first scholarship order for average
of lady doctor studying medicine, so while we're putting it
through through university at the moment, and that's sort of
(05:49):
our first initiative and really excited to see where we
can grow that far more, you know. So that's what
sort of makes you that's your wives well, a bit
of a passion and you know, getting getting healthcare and
more doctors and nurses and psychologists into into private average
and health businesses. We've always had the AMS's and public
health sector there and why can we have private health
sector as well, which what we're looking at doing or we.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Are doing currently creating that opportunity for that scholarship is fantastic.
And you mentioned before having two of your children working
within the business. I mean, that's just what it's all about,
is being the role model, creating the pathways, creating those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, exactly right. My dad, you know, one of ad
am as most Aboriginal families have big families, and yeah,
he's one of me, one of the youngest too. And
you know, one thing that's stuck in one one that
he always said to me, even through my AFL career,
my footy creer to make to that level, was just
whenever you have kids, you make sure they see you
get up every morning and having a purpose in life,
whether it's going to work or studying or you know,
(06:47):
just cleaning the house up and doing the gardening. So
mob made sure I've done that's from day one. And
you know, my oldest daughter, she's nearly twenty three, and
my boys are twenty one and seven am. So yeah,
they're they're the oldest tool well and truly working within
the organization, and they're training themselves in certain aspects of
what they can deliver as well and looking forward to
see what they do in their liss as well.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
So you mentioned your AFL career and you know you
played for Brisbane, you played for Fremantle. What's that transition
being like from you know, being the sports legend to
then going and going into business.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I wouldn't say sports legend, but I participated. Yeah, no,
look I think it's don't get me wrong. It gives
you the opportunity to get to the table and have
a conversation with the industry, but you have to have
a great capability in service to be able to deliver
what you're talking about. You know, I remember back in
the early days when I was in Brisbane, Richard Champion
(07:43):
actually was one of the older players and he's good fellow.
He always said to us boys at footynt last forever.
When you're young, you never you never think of that
when you go to all these events. Make sure your
network and grab their business cards because you never know
you might need them one day. And that's always stuck
in my mind as a seventeen eighteen year old And
when I retired. Before I retired in twenty ten, I
(08:03):
actually ventured into my first business and didn't go too well.
You know, I went very very sour quickly, so you know,
lost the house out of it, and you know I
had to have to put a bit of yeah, put
a bit of effort in to get that back up
and going. And so there are ups and downs in business,
but yeah, have an AFL career and people loving the sport,
(08:24):
especially over in West Australia. You can get to the
table and have a conversation. But unless you don't, unless
you've got the capabilities and service and they know how
on the back end support to be able to deliver that,
that opportunity then doesn't mean nothing really. So I'll be
able to build that over the last sort of ten years.
And you know, businesses up and down, but as I
said earlier, you always want to give back the community.
(08:45):
That's the mindset we have in our community. And we've
got to make a dollar to make a difference and
that's where we're at the moment. As long as you
can do that, and we're happy that what we're doing
at the moment, especially with organizations a lot Madala Madala
is called making a difference and looking ahead. They have
over four hundred and fifty kids in scholarships throughout the
way from the top of the Kimberers of the South
of Albany and everywhere between. I'm out of the desert.
(09:08):
It's just an amazing effort for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, definitely, I really love that kind of manta have.
You've got to make a dollar to make a difference,
because you know sometimes I do here within the indigenous
business sector, people they're almost frown upon if you're making
too much money or you're not giving back. But you
do have business. You're not in business if you're not
making money.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You've got to make money.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That's right, Well, that's exactly right, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Right in business for and yeah, you know you're getting
a bo you're getting a business to look after your
family and yourself first, to make sure that you can
deliver quarterly healthcare outcomes, economic value to your family and community.
And then if you are doing well, then you give back.
And you know, we're fortunate to start doing some programs
throughout w A and particularly with Spartan First, and you're
(09:50):
excited to see where that takes us in the future
as well.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, that's probably a good segue to go what does
the future hold? What's the big legacy piece for you?
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, look, we're a national business and we'd like to
say We're a business first and foremost just have average ownership,
you know. So I think the future is depends how
you look at it. Where we see ourselves, as I said,
as one of the big competitors in the health sector,
particularly in the mining sector, government, defense, construction industries, we'd
(10:20):
like to deliver quality healthcare the medical We also do
all your background screening as well pre employment and we
also do injuries, so any injury management and work when
we return to work and work as comp issues. So
we do a bit of wrap around service which is
which we built over the last five years. But yeah,
we've got now nearly ten medical centers, mostly in WA.
We open up in Queensland in November. We've got over
(10:42):
one hundred affiliate clyans across Australia, so we want to
grow our space into those regions and then who knows,
could be international. You just don't know. You don't know
what the future holds, a right, you have to have
a vision somewhere and you know, the good thing about
what we do is people are getting employed from all
over the world of work in WA particular and in
the mining sector, which is our bread and butter. And
if we can deliver those medical services and work with
other First Nation businesses across the world than you know,
(11:04):
who knows what Spartan first can do moving forward.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Sky's a limit. Well, I haven't heard of anyone that's
sort of in another indigenous business or another abridge owned
business that's in the same space as you like.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Well, we first set up. That's that is the main
reason why we went into the procurement supply nation and
as you know, trying to see where the gap was
and there was no competitors, right, But there's a couple,
there's a couple floating around now and whether that's because
they're seen a similar that they said that we're doing
okay in the industry and they wanted to try and
prime copy and go forward a bit of competition. How
(11:37):
the competition is good competition and it's always good to
see how the Aboriginal business going. Well. You want to
make sure that people you work together. We use a
philly clients across Australia and they're all our competitors. If
you say, but if there's other aberage online businesses that
are in that sector, and you know, why not work
together and collaborate and try and make a change together.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, so if you had a final message for my audience,
you know, you wanted to share something with them, or
if you had a couple, what would they probably.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Be on the spot? Now, well, look what I when
I say color my footy. My footy background has put
me in a good stad in terms of your commitment.
You know, the old the old terminologies and footy talk.
The harder you work, the lucky you get sort of matches.
But I got I got drafted. I was a year
eleven student in high school, so I didn't get finish
high school and I didn't get to study at university,
(12:23):
and but I got taught in the football industry about
you know, you got to work hard on anyone else.
But what people see behind closed doors is what makes
me become a champion. I'm sure Adam Goods would have
said those sort of things as well internally because he
was a champion. It was one of the one of
the best going around. But yeah, look, I just think
you know, the harder you work, the luck you get.
You got to you got to put in the effort
to get rewarded. And you know, so for the audience
(12:47):
and for the people listening out of that's probably it's simple.
That's all I think about every day is what can
I do to make myself better? Because I can make
myself better than I'm making my team better. And you
know the staff that we worked towards, and you know
my family as well, so how we can flourish together.
I've started a business with my mum, I dad and
my sister. Oh look, how do Marley Swan Tools. So
you've had a bit of a plug. We've been a
(13:08):
culture tours and on the de year again. Behind us,
you've got a one hundred and fifty set, a boat
that goes along and cruises along and yeah, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
So yeah, well happy for you to give that a plug.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
If anyone's visiting.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, coming to earth, look up Marley Swan Tools and
my sister runs it, which is good. So it's the
first time working with family. It's a bit different at
times because you know that they're they're new to the
business industry. But yeah, really excited to see where that
business can take. My sister and my dad particularly who
will work on that day to day and I just
bring up and make contacts and make sure that everything's
(13:39):
going well or the folks available, can I get on it.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I love that it's been a pleasure to meet you
and to have you on the show. And I really
love what you just said in regards to the harder
you work, the lucky you get. So thanks so much.
That's coming and join me.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thanks having me, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Thanks for listening to today's episode. If you love it,
please share it on your socials. With your mob, let's
help amplify as many and did youness businesses as possible
and get everyone supporting each other. Thank you.
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