Aussie LawnStars

Cairns Lawncare with Trina Lee and Jims Mowing

23 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I'm back to tropical FNQ looking for Ross River Fever and crocodiles and the best 4wding in the world! This time I've got the pleasure of speaking wit...

Ben Toll builds NDIS business in Darwin

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Toll has been busy building a business to give quality of life to people who are often treated as less than or inferior. When someone has a disabi...

Alice Springs Lawncare with Caleb Hearn

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caleb Hearn shares about the weather and the culture and his path to running a successful lawncare business with multiple employees.

Clint Adams from Lawn Hub and Waterpro on business, landscaping and irrigation

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Clint from Water Pro made time for me in his busy schedule so he could share some wisdom from his experience. His pursuit of business goals is evidenc...

Tropical FNQ business owner Ben Reiss

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben and I have remarkably similar experiences in business despite the geographical distance between us. Ben is working in a regional area where there ...

Peter Richards lifestyle and retirement

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today We are talking to Peter Richards from Gracemere AKA Rockhampton half way between Brisbane and Townsville on the QLD coastline. Peterworked in Gl...

Dan Ridley has lifestyle and a great business perspective

12 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Ridley shares about leaving the corporate world and running a business that gives him time back. Time with family and time to balance life and tim...

Darren Gallagher coaches Luke Smith

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today we've got some double magic working as I bring you the Guru who coaches Luke Smith. If you want to learn some critical business skills to improv...

Kieran moved to Aus to start again

26 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kieran Morris moved from Auckland to the Gold Coast. He sold a profitable lawncare business in NZ and started again in Australia. He shares this proce...

Business buy outs with Matt Palfrey

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Palfrey is in South Oz and he has taken a strategic approach to growing his business. Why let fear and insecurity get in the way of progress and ...

Luke Allred from Canberra

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luke changed his life to suit a young family so he can prioritise what's most important to him

Scott Dennis on Lifestyle and regional business

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scott and I talk way too much about motorbikes and we cover what it is like running a business in regional areas where the rates and route density are...

Dirks Back Yard and how horticulture lead to Robotic mowers

29 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dirk Streefkerk has an extensive history working in horticulture and landscaping in Australia and overseas and he has now focused on maintenance work ...

Mark Bennett loves the life his business gives him

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Bennett is from Sunny QLD where the weather is hot and humid. He works in and around Gladstone and he has 2 and a half hours of business gold to ...

Ross and Tracy climb trees in NZ

15 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us today as we look outside of the lawncare industry at a close relative, Tree work! This husband and wife team know what they do and it works we...

Alecia Sayer from Newcastle

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alecia has a long history working in the industry and after moving to Newcastle and working with another company in the area she went out to start her...

Kaye Stirland hand weeding and mental health

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kaye Stirland shares her history from her corporate career history to starting her gardening business and how her mental health has been affected and ...

Mitchell Robinson from Townsville

25 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mitchell has a great history, working with the army and in car sales before opting to run his own business so he could get his life balance back.

Wade Beaumont from Nurtured Lawns

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It never ceases to blow my mind, for every person I've interviewed from Brisbane, they have a different business structure, and different client type ...

Brian Vegh from Media Sales to Lawns and Gardens

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Vegh has a career history working with Sony records, and ACP magazines. His insight into sales from his history is great, and his approach to la...

Luke O'neill talk about facebook groups, business and personal growth

04 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luke O'neill runs a business in South East QLD on the Sunshine Coast. Luke and I cover a wide range of topics as we look at his business, Facebook gr...

Grant Osborne on contracts, commercial and industrial requirements

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Grant has been in the lawncare business for a while and he knows a lot about quoting contracts for commercial and industrial. Workcover, safety and p...

Reuben Buchanan bought a business and left mining

20 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Reuben bought a business before leaving his job and had an employee to help. Let's look at what has and has not worked well for him.

Tyrone Cashin from Townsville

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tyrone Cashin is from Townsville and he's come from the army to running his own successful business in lawncare.  There's a lot to learn from Tyrone ...

Michelle Wilson is killing it in Kalgoorlie

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Wilson proves that motivation and determination can help you build a great successful business, no matter where you are. Make sure you subsc...

Brent Davies from Chef to Truckie to Lawnie

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brent Davies is driven and knows what he wants from being in business instead of being an employee.  He tells us about the background and what he get...

Benny Hoover is back

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Ben Van Der Giesen as we fill your ears with nonsense for 2 and 1/2 hours today

Lurking amongst the WA lawnies Geoff Bennett

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff has run his own business for many years and is now retired but heavily involved in the lawncare community in West Australia.

40 years in Mark Paisley from Newcastle

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Paisley has more experience than I have years of living. There's a lot to his story. 

Jordan Merritt on Adversity and YES, robots!

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Merritt has a story to tell you. He has been thru a lot of adversity. He also has built an amazing business and an amazing network of support w...

Michael Carroll's story, only took me 12 months to pin him down

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Michael Carroll today as we talk about his experience and acquisition of larger commercial contracts.

Anthony Hahn explains the West coast

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Hahn has been running his business for two seasons but his insight into success, cylinder mowing and different customer needs is well worth li...

Daniel Barna knows which way to skin his cat

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Barna runs a great business in QLD. Tune into his episode to get insight into the way he runs his business.

Tim Samuel in the dungeon

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Samuel lives and works on the Central Coast NSW. He has a successful business with several employees and he has a lot of experience to share.

Prosper Financial is supporting Aussie LawnStars

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Prosper Financial is offering the listeners of Aussie LawnStars a free consultation, and they are supporting the podcast with any listeners that sign ...

Accountants offer us insight and planning for business growth

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Adrian and Charles from Prosper Financial as we talk about business planning and utilising an accountant to gain insight into the business planni...

From Bank manager to Lawncare business Matthew Wandmaker

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew began his business as a frachisee and now he has gone independent, but he has no gripe against the franchise model.  He has certainly proven ...

Adam Ratcliffe from car sales to lawncare business

14 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam left the Car yards for a lawncare business.  we discuss working around other priorities, running a business that works for you, and... Lets talk...

Stewart Marfleet mows from his wheelchair

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stewart Marfleet suffered severe injuries in a 4wding accident that left him a paraplegic. Following this he has accumulated extensive experience work...

West Aus Entrepreneur Andrew Thomson from Busselton

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Thomson has built a quality business where employees and teams deliver to the local shire and commercial sector. In West Australia that means a...

Tom Hazeldine is helping new people into the industry

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tom has run his own successful business, and made mistakes. Now he helps others with the things you need to now to run a great independent lawncare bu...

Ash Smithers new business and great support network

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ash Smithers has been in business for two year and he has some great life experience to share with us about the industry he came from and the support ...

West Australian Cylinder expert Thomas Riedel

10 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Riedel knows cylinder mowing and West Australian conditions at expert level.  He shares a ton of information about the mowing conditions and e...

Andy B's got a similar story to me

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andy B shares a lot of similarities to my story.  listen in as we talk about lifestyle, life choices and running a business while balancing life.

Richard Hogan's Robotic Lawn Mowers

26 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Hogan lives in Mackay QLD and runs a lawn care business that successfully uses robotic lawn mowers as a part of the service for his customers....

Safa from Garden Maintenance and Care

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Safa from @garden_maintenance_and_care shares about her garden and lawn maintenance business. Not only is it great to see more women out there runnin...

Adam Vinnicombe's story

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Vinnicombe shares how he started without any community support and the struggles he had with his health. LMCA and Aussie Lawn Contractors have gi...

Trimax Mowing Systems

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael shares with us about his family business that manufactures Flail and rotary, wide area mower decks. Trimax is a New Zealand based company wit...

Sandy Fairbanks on your mental health

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandy Fairbanks runs a part time business in lawn care and works as a mental health professional. She has recognised the need to find balance which sh...

EGO powertools Barry Crowhurst

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Barry Crowhurst operates Chervon Australia which is the sole distributor for EGO powertools in Australia. We talk about the history in australia, the ...

Keith Kalfas walks us through growing business

15 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Kalfas has been the light on the hill for many of us, sharing helpful and heartfelt advice from years of his own experiences and mistakes. If y...

Conrad Brookman the Electric Lawn pioneer

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Conrad Brookman launched one of the first Australian battery powered lawn care businesses. He has run several brands of battery tools and talks to us ...

Sean from Blade Mate Lawn Care

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sean has a unique story from the Defence Forces to a unique business model and finding balance with family, work and life. https://www.youtube.com/c/...

Andrew Tulloch ART Landscape Tools

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Tulloch has run a successful landscape maintenance company and is now managing three business opportunities which help his balance and lifestyl...

Ian Stathers, rocks the rough stuff

17 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Stathers has been in business longer than a lot of us can remember. His experiences in mowing and business and life are so interesting and it is c...

Scott Osbourne the legend

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Osbourne has a wide experience in both mowing and running a dealership. We cover his history mowing and running the shop. We cover Wright Stande...

How to improve your route density and quality

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cody Owen runs Light Speed Social Agency and shares with us about his specialty in facebook marketing and how to improve targeted advertising to impro...

Aaron and Cassie have a family and work together

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron McDaid comes from the fifo world and wanted to work closer to home while Cassie Sellars has a corporate background. They have brought their skil...

Luke Smith Knows his numbers

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Smith runs a business with around 10 staff in West Aus. We talk more specifically about knowing if you are profitable, employing staff and assess...

Steve Tyrell's 36 years in lawns and landscaping

20 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Tyrell started mowing in 1986 and he still mows today. Along the way he has done some big landscaping jobs and moved between his own lawncare bu...

Kalib from Wood Lawn and Gardens

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kalib has built on years of experience in several countries and has built a social media following to match his business skills and gardening skills.

Travis Egan Part time and specialty lawncare

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Travis is not interested in working as many hours as he can. He has another job and lawncare needs to provide balance, not destroy it. Listen in as we...

Macca, Mowing, Mining and mastering his business

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Macca realised mining was preventing him from being with his family when it's most important. Mowing has proved to be a win win for his family life an...

Sunshine Coasts latest with Jakk Hamilton

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jakk Hamilton shares how he started and how education can drastically improve your business.

Steve Gornall on medium priced lawns

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Gornall runs a great business that isn't aimed at high end, high priced customers, but efficiency is key to his successful lawncare business.

Jarryd Bywaters journey into lawncare

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jarryd Bywaters is a legend, he is very intelligent, has an interesting career journey and is running a successful business while working with asperge...

Kial's acreage mowing and gardening

30 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Kial Kilgallon on the journey from start up to his focus on high end acreage mowing. Kial has a clear focus, and a plan to ensure his business p...

Jim's Dan Cahill works harder than you

23 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Cahill started his own mowing franchise with a fire lit to succeed, and he has built his business quickly and now teaches others how to do this to...

Growing Green Landscapes podcast

16 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I started podcasting just as Jeremiah Jennings started the Growing Green Landscapes Podcast. Jeremiah is a young entrepreneur running a successful law...

Pellenc battery tools and battery v petrol discussion

09 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join me as I talk to Pellenc Australia about their battery range and we compare the battery v petrol market with hand held tools and their mower range...

Ryan Walker from Walker Mowers

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I had the opportunity to interview Ryan Walker recently and we had a fun time talking about the heritage of Walker Manufacturing and Walker Mowers, an...

Can contractors use robotic mowers? with Husqvarna

26 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I've been working on this episode for a long time and I'm happy to say its an interesting and insightful look at how we can utilise robotic lawn mower...

Jesse Winter is another school age entrepreneur

19 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mean Green the first commercial battery mower

12 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Mean Green mower company has built a solid commercial quality zero turn mower or two, but not everyone is going to see the value. I've had a demo,...

Employees and team building with Mitchell Tasker

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mitchell and Hannah Tasker have grown from the start to build a mowing team and add a road building team and a tree climbing team and now they have a ...

Lenny Lawler and Australian Lawn Fanatics

28 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lenny is in QLD and he is the creator of Australian Lawn Fanatics, a hugely successful facebook group for Lawn inspiration in Australia. Lenny also ru...

James Miotto school kid and killing it

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Miotto is 15 years old and mowing on weekends with his Dad. They are making plans to grow the business and take it full time soon. James and I c...

Leroy the Celebrity Naked Gardener

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leroy has astounded us with fun antics and his celebrity from naked gardening to working on Movie sets and he has been a true blue, down to earth sing...

Jim Penman the face and the founder of Jim's Mowing

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Enjioy the story telling from Jim Penman as we talk about his starting point and how he came to build a franchise opportunity so many Lawn contractors...

School kid turned entrepreneur James Nankervis

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Nankervis started his business in high school and has learnt a number of valuable lessons along the way.

South Oz legend Jared Sommer

24 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jarred has a business in Adelaide that highlights the limits within regional areas and how we can still find our worth. He is an LMCA admin who loves ...

Leif talks tools and productivity

17 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leif Wikman works in Albury Wadonga on the border of NSW and Vic. His business model has proved that standing out from the competition and creating qu...

BJ from TBL

10 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

BJ Wallace transitioned to lawncare and faced some serious challenges, but his story will inspire you as he overcame the challenges and continues to b...

Anthony Moore and LMCA

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Moore is Admin for LMCA but he also operates a thriving lawncare business in Sydney. Sit back and enjoy his story. I promise there's some nugg...

Corey Rogers Lawncare experiences

26 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today I interviewed Corey Rogers from Northern NSW. He has been building a successful lawncare business for 8 years and has learnt some hard lessons a...

Luke Smith from Silverstone

19 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Smith from Silverstone Gardening shares helpful insights into employing staff and operating a business   http://silverstonegardening.com.au

Ben from CatchPro

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In today's episode we talk with Ben Van Der Giesen from CatchPro. Ben is from Brisbane Australia and has a successful lawncare business and catcher ma...

Intro to Aussie LawnStars

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the intro episode. The teaser to let you know what is to come. Lawn Care in Australia is a big industry and we focus on the Australian market,...