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Justin Heazlewood

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430 total appearances

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

And my teachers going, Justin has good leadership potential.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

It's like I wasn't allowed to stop because I'd been given this amazing opportunity.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

So I just had to hit some kind of wall.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

And even if I hit the wall and kept going, like not even a wall could slow me down.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

I hit a few metaphorical walls.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Like that's how fast this machine of me was going.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

I mean, I got car doored on my bicycle when I was 30, halfway through a Melbourne comedy festival where I could have won the best show award.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

It was going so well.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

And it almost accidentally on purpose had this accident on my bike because I didn't really know how to get a break from my life.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Like it was a lot of fun.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

It's sort of mostly awesome.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Like girls liked me a lot because of it and in terms of having a kind of lonely childhood or even a lonely high school years because I was this Coke bottle kid with a bowl cut and girls didn't really pay any attention to me for three years at high school, which really bummed me out because I had a lot to offer.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

little wisecracking nerd, me.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

So when I was popular with girls in my 20s, it was amazing.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

I've just got to point that out because like life, it was...

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

brilliant and amazing and behind the scenes sort of terrifying and anxiety ridden in equal parts.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

I rode the waves just like a crazy cool ride at the show, which you can do in your 20s, you see.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Your 20s are absolutely designed for that.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

But your 30s are a different picture and the whole narrative of my life in my 30s changed completely.

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New Beginnings: Justin Heazlewood on swapping fame for his hometown

Oh, yeah.