I was a paramedic. Then I built four businesses.
I didn't come up through consulting and I've never worked in a bank. I was driving ambulances, the job was wrecking me, and I went and started something of my own.
First a landscaping business, built from nothing to seven figures — then I did it again with a second one. Then roofing, to multiple seven figures. Then DreamCourts, scaled to multiple eight figures and into one of the largest court builders in the country. In 2023 that got me named Young Entrepreneur of the Year — Melbourne first, then the national award.
Four businesses. Different trades, different crews, different sets of books. And underneath every one of them, the same handful of numbers deciding whether you make money or just stay busy.
That's what I do now. I work out why the whole business still runs through the owner, and hand him the plan to change it — then stay on while they do the work.