Welcome to invest in yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. Join the podcast mogul Phil Better as he interviews successful entrepreneurs that make their living in the digital world. Now, let's join your host, Phil Better, and your special guest today on Invest in Yourself, the The Entrepreneur Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur podcast. I am, of course, your host with the most feel better, and I'm very excited to have our guest today from the man can project himself, Lackey Stewart, who I probably just messed up his name, but, Lackey, thank you.

Thanks for having me on, Phil. That was an awesome intro, by the way.

Thank you. Thank you. Spent big bucks doing it. That was me working, like, 5 hours on, DaVinci Resolve, figuring out how to do all that crazy stuff. But, Lackey, thank you so much for being here. I'm excited to learn more about the Man That Can project and everything that you do on your journey here on Entrepreneur, but if you could just quickly introduce my, yourself to my audience.

Awesome. Well, firstly, thanks for having me on. So, for myself, I'm a husband and a athlete and also entrepreneur. I've been in business or running my own business for since 2014 now. So 8 at 9 years, but changed businesses along the way to sort of get more in control of what I wanna do that's gonna suit my life style and also, you know, find that perfect storm between business and earning a living from it, but also something that gets me up every day excited to live my best life. And as you mentioned, I'm I'm based down in Australia. So best part in Australia, I believe, in Brisbane along the East Coast. It's you know, we're in this beautiful, you know, key area where we're, you know, an hour from the Sunshine Coast, an hour from the Gold Coast, and then about an hour and a half to the bush if you wanna go out to the bush as well.

So it's like this perfect

perfect spot. Yeah. Like the perfect storm, a place to be for all, all you need. I wanna start with the beginning. What was it that sparked your journey in this entrepreneurial world in 2014?

So prior to that, I was playing professional rugby, so I was playing over in France. And what led me to that point was I always had a belief that in order to be successful, I you know, where I'd shown promise was in sport, but I believed success would solve every other issue I had in my life. And my idea of success was having status and money, and the women would love me. My life would take care of itself. And what I experienced, in France was when I moved overseas, you know, pretty much the other side of the world, that all the insecurities and issues that I was dealing with in Australia came with me. The money didn't solve it. The playing professional support or being at the elite level of what I wanted to achieve didn't change anything. I was still the same bloke.

And when I, finished up rugby, I came back and I was like, what's what's next for me? I didn't, you know, get good grades to really I had the right grades, actually, but I didn't wanna do university or anything like that because I just wasn't passionate about it, and I didn't wanna do a trade because I felt like, at the time, my belief system was always better than that. I was destined to do something bigger. Mhmm. So it left me with a bit of downtime to think about what was next. But during that downtime, Phil, spent a lot of time partying and doing what most people were doing the that age, and I hit a rock bottom point. And, fortunately, a guy I was just playing local rugby with at the time, and he was someone I respected, was at England International. He gave me a book, and that book Phil I was like, well, if he's giving it to me, I'm gonna read it. I'd never really read books before in my life, but reading that book was game changing.

Really the first book that I'd read with intention, and what I learned throughout that book changed my life and changed the way that I perceive myself and what I could or the future that I could crave for myself. Because once one sport was finished for me, I didn't believe I had much value to offer in any other area because I'd never, I guess, excelled in that. And when you don't excel in an area, it's really hard to believe you can be good in it. I didn't have people telling me I was good outside of that. But with that book, it challenged my thoughts, and I wanted to see what else I could challenge in my own mind. And I started seeking out information, reading books, attending seminars, listening to Podcast. And along the way, it was just like breaking a barrier, breaking a barrier, breaking a barrier, and I utilized Instagram back in the day, to to share what I was learning. So I was this dude who'd come from, you know, inland Australia and was a terrible communicator, but I was like, look.