Justin Heazlewood
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Podcast Appearances
And my teachers going, Justin has good leadership potential.
It's like I wasn't allowed to stop because I'd been given this amazing opportunity.
So I just had to hit some kind of wall.
And even if I hit the wall and kept going, like not even a wall could slow me down.
I hit a few metaphorical walls.
Like that's how fast this machine of me was going.
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.
It was going so well.
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.
Like it was a lot of fun.
It's sort of mostly awesome.
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.
little wisecracking nerd, me.
So when I was popular with girls in my 20s, it was amazing.
I've just got to point that out because like life, it was...
brilliant and amazing and behind the scenes sort of terrifying and anxiety ridden in equal parts.
I rode the waves just like a crazy cool ride at the show, which you can do in your 20s, you see.
Your 20s are absolutely designed for that.
But your 30s are a different picture and the whole narrative of my life in my 30s changed completely.
Oh, yeah.