🎙️ Episode 55: THE HARRY DEAKES COMEBACK – PART 1 From the edge… to a second chance

🎙️ THE HARRY DEAKES COMEBACK – PART 1

From the edge… to a second chance

There are episodes you record…
 And then there are episodes that stay with you.

This is one of them.

This isn’t about fame.
 This isn’t about headlines.

This is about a 24-year-old bloke who went toe-to-toe with the black dog…
 and somehow found his way back.

Not perfectly.
 Not overnight.
 But day by day.

Step by step.

⚠️ THE REALITY FOR YOUNG BLOKES RIGHT NOW

What Harry opens up about in this episode…
 is something happening all around us.

The party cycle.
 The pressure.
 The expectation to keep showing up like everything’s fine… when it’s not.

And how easy it is to get caught in it.

What starts as a good time…
 can slowly turn into something else.

Something heavier.
 Something harder to escape.

And the scariest part?

👉 Most people don’t even see it happening.

💔 WHEN IT ALL STARTS TO FALL APART

This is where the story gets real.

Because Harry doesn’t hold back.

He talks about the dark periods…
 the struggles…
 the moments where things could’ve gone very differently.

And this is the part so many people will relate to—

👉 Fighting battles in silence
 👉 Feeling stuck
 👉 Wondering how the hell you got there

It’s raw.
 It’s honest.
 And it’s exactly what more people need to hear.

❤️ THE DIFFERENCE – FAMILY

But here’s what stood out more than anything…

Family.

When things got tough…
 when most people would’ve walked away…

His family stepped in.

They backed him.
 They supported him.
 They held him together when he couldn’t do it himself.

And that’s something not everyone has.

Which is why this story matters.

Because for every Harry…
 there’s someone out there going through the same thing… alone.

⚡ THIS IS WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS

This episode isn’t about having all the answers.

It’s about starting the conversation.

It’s about letting people know—

👉 You’re not alone
 👉 You’re not broken
 👉 And things can turn

Not instantly.
 Not easily.

But they can.

🔥 PART 2 – COMING SOON

If Part 1 is the fall…

Part 2 is the rebuild.

We’re talking recovery.
 Mindset.
 Family support.
 Stepping into purpose.

And how Harry turned his life around and launched his own business—

👉 East West Electrical

A business built on resilience, discipline, and doing things the right way.

No shortcuts.

Just real growth.

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This is one every young Aussie needs to hear.

Raw.
 Unfiltered.
 Real.

Because sometimes…

Hearing someone else’s story
 is the thing that helps you stay one more day.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_06 1:11

Hello, you agents. Today's episode is one that sits close to me, real close. Because this one isn't about fame, it isn't about headlines, and it sure the hell isn't about pretending life's always sweet. It's about a 24-year-old bloke, a young Aussie, who went toe-to-toe with a black dog for years. And somehow, step by step, breath by breath, found a way back. Not perfectly, not overnight, not with some magic fix, but with grip, with pain, with family, with mates, and with a tribe that simply refused to let him disappear. I've known Harry a long time for his old man Kenny, one of the great men, and his mum Jamie, who is as strong and loving as they come. And if you know this family, you know exactly what I'm talking about. They're tight, real tight. They show up, and when one of their own is hurting, they just don't turn away and hope it gets better. They hold the line. But today, this is Harry's story. From being a little pest with more spirit than sense, to a young fella trying to find his feet, to a teenager caught in that dangerous cycle so many young blokes know too well, work hard, play hard, drink too hard, take too much, feel like shit, and do it all again. Until one day the wheels start wobbling. And for Harry, they did. What followed was years of internal battles, the sort most people never see. But kindly, you don't want to leave the house, you don't want to face the people. You push away the very ones you love most. You feel ashamed, you feel confused. And even when you've got good people around you, you still sit there asking yourself, Why am I feeling like this? That's what makes this episode important. Because there'll be young folks listening right now who know that feeling. There'll be mum and dads listening who have watched their sons disappear in front of them. There'll be mates listening who want to help but don't know what to say. And there'll be families out there hanging on, hoping that one day they'll hear the words that tell them their boy is coming back. For Harry, that moment came. And it didn't arrive with fireworks, it didn't come with some big dramatic speech. It came quietly. One simple line. You wanna go into town. And for the people that knew him, that meant everything. Because that was the moment you knew there was life in him again. There was spark, there was fight, there was hope. Now this young bloke has done what a lot of people twice his age still haven't done. He's a qualified Sparky. He's built his own business. He's leading a team. He's building something real with East West Electrical. But more important than any of that, he's still here. And on this podcast, that matters more than anything. This is part one of a conversation about depression, drugs, pressure, loss, mateship, family, and the long road back. It's bloody raw, it's honest, and it's one I reckon a lot of people need to hear. So Harry, mate, welcome to Who is Your Hero? Thanks for having me, mate. Thanks for uh coming on, mate. It takes a little bit of guts, and uh we're talking during the week, and one of the reasons you know I got 700,000 people downloading this at the moment, but one of the reasons you said was as long as one person listens, eh?

SPEAKER_04 5:29

Well, it's all it takes. One person, one person, and it makes it all worth it.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

I'm gonna start with a fire few questions at you, mate. We'll see how we go, we'll see how long it takes. It might be two parts, it might be one part. But um, my first question is, and I probably know a little bit about this anyway, because you I came up a fair bit of time when you're a little tagger, but what were you how would you describe yourself as a kid growing up?

SPEAKER_04 5:53

Oh mate, it's bloody energetic. You know, I was always doing something, I love my sports, footy was a big part of my life. Um, but probably one of the big things for me was family, you know? Having family around me, that's that was my thing, that's what made me happy. And um, yeah, but sport, sport was a big thing as well.

SPEAKER_06 6:14

Yeah, I noticed that. It was always um, you know, and your dad's like it, but your mum's always constantly grabbing friends and family and hanging around good people. And uh yeah, I had it up to Healy Beach. Probably, I don't know, how old were you when you first come up? Probably six or seven miles. Yeah, it would have been something like that. Hang on. I mean fifty fifteen years, so ten, about ten, nine or ten. And you know, you're a little shit, to be quite honest. And but that was unexpected. I was a pest. Pest, no. Well, see what you were, you're good because I've always said in life, you gotta be born with spirit. And uh you can't put spirit into young kids, and you had a lot of spirit uh with those pool bras, even even remembering back playing the pool volleyball where if you were losing, you'd even smack me in the bloody nose. I mean, that was besty. And uh I tried to smack you back, and you weren't a kid that cried either. You just smacked back up. Alright, let's move on and fast track and what did life look like before uh things started to change? What what sort of age do you reckon things started to change for you emotionally, mentally? Like was it early teens or twenties or when?

SPEAKER_04 7:32

Probably I'd say probably more the early teens, you know. Once you start getting out of school, you know, started that apprenticeship, and then you know, you're working and your mates are still at school, just pissing around, and you're w getting up at five every morning. You think, fuck, what's really going on? And then the weekend had come, and you know, you'd go to a festival or you'd go get on the piss, and then you'd be ruined Sunday. Monday you're feeling sorry for yourself, and then you've sort of come good by Thursday, but then you'd do it all over again, and it was sort of that vicious cycle that I slowly got out of, I guess. But uh yeah, early teens I'd say.

SPEAKER_06 8:07

Well, I know I know myself, and um, you know, you know me pretty well. I'm pretty loose character o over the years. I've been uh flattened out by injury, of course, but you know, I used uh drugs and drugs and alcohol a lot to um I don't know whether it was to to fit in or uh to to last longer or to uh hide something. I haven't quite worked it out. But all these drugs, you know, if there's young people listening today that get, you know, that it beers alright here and there with your family, but then you you sort of mate takes recreational drugs or your peers do, so you say, Oh, I'll have one crack at it and you feel good. What do you reckon for young listeners at the moment? I mean, I know what I'd say to them now, like, but what what would you say?

SPEAKER_04 8:51

Well, I j I know myself, everyone's different. I know people that can go out and you know do that sort of stuff and it'd be fine with them, and that's all well and good, everyone's life's different, no two people are the same. But I think just be careful. You know, you're only young, you've got a lot left to live, you don't want to go ruining it too early. Just um just think twice. A big thing was me growing up is I I never really thought twice. If I was doing something, I would just do it.

SPEAKER_06 9:19

And that's Yeah, but you you're you're you're a hundred percent um sort of person, Harry. You're a bit like myself because I've got a um personality that's um I'll go hard or go home.

SPEAKER_04 9:29

Yeah, pretty much. If you're gonna do something, do it right.

SPEAKER_06 9:32

Yeah, and that I think that's uh that's uh why uh I mean there's a lot of people taking drugs at the moment to cover up what what everyone's going through and I think and the and the problem with it is this day and age it's just so socially acceptable.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

It is, and that's that's yeah, we we we really hit it.

SPEAKER_06 9:50

If you talking about my era, we really hit what we were doing, but you guys are just out there when you go into town and uh Early Beach. If any of my listeners have been there or listening from there, it's just absolute chaos on a weekend, and that's backpackers, that's locals, that's guys my age, the whole joint's loose, and no, no, that's every night of a buddy's third to Sunday. Yeah, yeah, and uh and it's not your age, it's it's my age too, and it's not all alcohol, it's uh you know, everyone in is pretty cooked, and I'm using Early's example because I I know it I spent a bit of time there. So when did you really notice? I mean, you know, you talked about young, but when did you really notice something wasn't right up top?

SPEAKER_04 10:34

I can remember it pretty pretty clear as day, the day where I was like, fuck, this is a shocking feeling. Like, what is this? And um it was I went to a music festival in Cairns. Uh all of us, five boys, went up there. We were, I think, 16 at the time. Yeah, 16 on our learners, so we drove up there, a bunch of us boys, and um I remember coming back on the Sunday, I was sweet. Come around to go to school on Monday, and I was like just crying, like for no reason. I just thought, what the hell is this? Tried to go to school that day, ended up getting a bus. I got off the bus to go into school, and I got straight back on the public bus and went home. And I was just in all sorts. I remember laying on the couch and just crying to mum, like, what is wrong with me? And then I sort of told her what I got up to there, and yeah, it made me really, really open my eyes and go, shit, like this is what drugs can do.

SPEAKER_06 11:31

What age what age was that?

SPEAKER_04 11:32

Yeah, I think 16, probably coming on 17.

SPEAKER_06 11:35

So this was going to high school, not trade school.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Yeah, no, I would have just been, yeah, no, this is going to high school. So it was probably six months after that I left school.

SPEAKER_05 11:47

This episode of Who Is Your Hero is proudly brought to you by East West Electrical, based in Airley Beach, with Sundays and run by a bloke you've just heard from, Harry Deeks.

SPEAKER_06 12:00

Now, this isn't just another business plug. It's the young man who's been through the fire, but come out the other side and is now building something real. East West Electrical is all about honest, reliable electrical work done properly the first time. No shortcuts, no mucking around, just good, solid workmanship you can trust. Whether it's residential, commercial, or getting your next project wired upright, Harry and the team have got you covered. And when you support East West Electrical, you're not only getting a quality sparky, you're backing a local bloke who turned his life around, and he's now giving back to hard work and purpose. So if you're up around LEB THE WIT SUNDAYE, look up East West Electrical. And make sure you tell him by the center. East West Electrical. Built on resilience, backed by family, powered by purpose. Wow, that's bloody early. And and did that hit you suddenly, obviously, you said, or was something that was building up over time and it was just that particular day that you got, oh holy hell.

SPEAKER_04 13:22

No, yeah, well, I think in that in that like in that instance, it was just because of my reckless behaviour on that weekend and probably the Yeah, the naughty stuff we got up to, I guess you would say. Um but it taught me a lesson. It definitely taught me a lesson that weekend, that was for sure.

SPEAKER_06 13:45

So you didn't actually do anything wrong?

SPEAKER_04 13:48

No, I did nothing wrong. I did nothing different.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

Uh you you were you were almost got home and started picking on yourself, maybe. Would that be a good way to do it?

SPEAKER_04 13:57

Yeah, it was and a a lot of the things was. I remember as a young fella, as a young kid, we'd go, dad would take us up to the footy and we'd take a mate or something, and then I'd have that strong connection or like just that we've had you know, we've had a good time, and then you know, now it's time to go home, and we're all splitting up and we're not all together anymore. It's like um I get a bit upset. I was getting a bit upset about it, I'd go, oh this is shit, like now this is over, what have I got look what have I got to look forward to?

SPEAKER_06 14:27

Yeah, it's that excessive personality, and um you really feel the good times. Um and I've had them in my life, and I I think it's like, you know, I'll relate it to winning a grand final later in life. You'd go on, you'd win the grand final, you'd um Mad Monday would happen, then you'd bloody um spend the whole week, then you go on a footy trip, and that was loose as, and then you get home, and then you'd have to wait four months to the start of the season again, and it was shit. And I and yeah, I mean, and that happened to me from 18 or 19, so I could take mine right back to then and mine just escalated through I don't know what it was, it was more like I was just more hard on myself than others, or just love time.

SPEAKER_04 15:15

That's something now I'm sort of I've I've picked up on is I I I re I talk to myself really poorly. Not not in a bad way that I didn't think it was bad, but like just stop being so hard on yourself. If I if I do something wrong, I've I'm the one who'll tell myself you're fucked up and I won't let myself forget it. And it's only come to now. It's like stop being so hard on yourself, shit happens, life goes on, just roll with the punches, keep going.

SPEAKER_06 15:41

Yeah, that's a bloody, that's a bloody good message. And um, you know, I started the podcast in laying us up in hospital, but I put four four pillars together, which I start working on now, and for anyone listening or young fellas, or even for yourself, the first one is you've got to be healthy, and um if you're not healthy, you're not worthy. And I think one of the big things we're talking about right now, uh, to any young fellow or young young girl, anyone for that matter, out there, is you've got to be really worthy in yourself and actually remind yourself that you do more good than bad. And when you do something bad, it's not actually that bad. The only people I've ever heard in my life is myself. Um, you'd be the same, Harry. You haven't done too much damage to other people, and you beat yourself up and to that extent, you say, Well, you're only fucking human. And it's a massive point which which can get in your head and and change it. Then it leads me to another question here. What did what did depression actually feel like to you day to day as it as it sunk in and and and got on?

SPEAKER_04 16:50

Well, it just worsens day by day. The more you let that black dog in, the worse it gets. And that's something over time you learn how to deal with a bit better. But for anyone that doesn't have that support or people around them pushing them and just keep nagging it away to come on, mate, what are you doing? Come on, let's go, let's go do something. And the thing for me with the depression is I'm a very outgoing sort of person, I think. I'm always doing something, I'm a hundred miles an hour, but when I was in that state, you couldn't tell me. I wouldn't leave the house, I wouldn't, I wouldn't socialise. Like that was to me, socialising was the biggest chore ever. Like it was just near impossible.

SPEAKER_06 17:35

And you'd say you're gonna go to things and commit, and then five minutes before it you say I'm not gone.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

Yeah, pull out freaking out too much and just go, no, it's too hard. Yeah, and look at it. But the biggest the biggest thing is, like now, now it's like you you start realizing these little things, and the more you let it get to you, the worse it gets, all that sort of stuff. But the first step in getting through it is doing something about it and just pushing yourself.

SPEAKER_06 18:02

Yeah, and I need to reiterate with you because um I suffered it fairly late in life, but people were trying to get me moving, you know, my mum and dad included, and mates, and the more noise I got, and this is I'm just saying this for people that are supporting people with some form of depression at the moment, not for those that have got it, but be a good listener. Um and don't be a pusher, because the more you push and all that, and I did say to your father, and I'm not ashamed to say this, when I'd come up and you're down to your house, we'd go into town and he'd just say, I'm just gonna drop in and see Harry, if he wants to come with us. I say, Fucking don't. Do you know what I mean? Just just leave him be. Where as your mother would go in, and I can say this too, she'd go in and sit with you, give you a cuddle, or your ma and they'd listen to you.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

Yeah, but you know, I think uh the worst thing is about it, you know what I'm like with me family. Like, family to me means a lot. And in though in those dark days, I pushed them away. Pushed them away, and I do, and they were my biggest supporters. Like, yeah, I had I had a few good mates there that would, you know, drop in without saying anything because they knew they knew if they'd text me, I would say, don't fucking bother. But they would just drop in and they were also the ones that got me through it. But you know, to push family away when they're the ones that are fucking there in day in, day out trying to help you. It's it's something that chemical imbalancement or whatever it is, it's um it's a to be honest.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

Yeah, this episode of Who Is Your Heroes proudly brought to you by East West Electrical, based in Airleigh Beach, with Sundays and run by a bloke you've just heard from, Harry Deeks.

SPEAKER_06 19:42

Now, this isn't just another business plug. It's the young man who's been through the fire, but come out the other side and is now building something real. East West Electrical is all about honest, reliable electrical work done properly the first time. No shortcuts, no mucking around, just good, solid workmanship you can trust. Whether it's residential, commercial, or getting your next project wired upright, Harry and the team have got you covered. And when you support East West Electrical, you're not only getting a quality sparky, you're backing a local bloke who turned his life around, and is now giving back to hard work and purpose. So if you're up around LEB THE WIT SUNDAD, look up East West Electrical and make sure you tell him to buy the center. East West Electrical, built on resilience, backed by family, powered by purpose. Pretty tough question, this next one, and I I know the answer. And uh it's what the hardest uh moments you went through, and I suppose you really hit the deck when your pa died.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

Yeah, I I think when Parsey died, um it sort of sat me. It's sort of sat me for six, but it sort of took me I grieved for a very long time, and it sorta I'd think I was good and I'd tell myself I was good, but then I'd do something and it would just all come back to me, and then I'd be back to square one and Yeah, it's um yeah, it's tough, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:36

Did that commitment you made to your what we'll call her Marzi for now, or your your grandma, that you made your commitment to Adrian that you're gonna look after your ma? Is that is that those words? I mean you told me that. Well um those words have got you got you through a little bit?

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Oh a hundred percent. Uh when Pa passed away I moved in with Ma in To the little duplex she had there. I lived with her for about a year. And she loved it. That that sort of, you know, me bringing me mates over and us telling her our stories and just she she was pretty much one of the boys there for a year, and she still was, you know, when when we moved out here onto the property, she moved in with me. It was like reverse roll, so so she lived with me for a year out here, and then I moved away, and yeah. But the bond that me and Ma have got it's almost like she looks at me like I'm parring away, and I yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_06 22:32

Like, yeah, that's uh that's uh uh really sweet that because anyone that's um and there would be a lot of people listening to this podcast that knows Ma Fahl, Marzy Aka, Aka Marzy. She's a uh she's a bloody legend, and um she's probably 72 going on 18, eh?

SPEAKER_04 22:54

Oh yeah, she still looks 18 too, so.

SPEAKER_06 22:57

Oh, you're a suck old. So what would I mean it's all the same sort of questions, and I'm just trying to get as much out of you to to help others, but what uh you just mentioned one of the hardest moments you went through was pushing away those that loved you. I mean, you can't get much harder than that, and I get it. What what were some of the other moments you you went through like in this? Can you can you reflect like trigger points or anything like that? Or what was going inside your head at that time? Did you contemplate uh end of life?

SPEAKER_04 23:34

Oh, it's when when you when that black dog's vineyard's it's um one of the things you think about nearly every day. And I've always been that like a family, they're always like, you know, they'll always put in little points to you, don't ever do that, you know. We'd you know, you can't ever do that to us, we'd be so fucked without you, all that sort of stuff. And you in your head you're going, yeah, I f I know that, like, but you don't know what it's like. But at the same time, always told myself, it's a cowardly thing to do. It's not it's it's a selfish act. If you speak up, speak up, because I'd much rather hear your problems than your poor family dealing with for the rest of their lives.

SPEAKER_06 24:14

Yeah, at a uh funeral, and one of the themes I've been um going on with at the moment in the last month is that uh and it it all stemmed from I did the uh MC at Danny's sixtieth and I I got to speak on behalf of Danny. And uh it's nothing better than telling your mate or your friend or your father or the mother that you love 'em when they're in the room, not when you're at a eulogy. That uh that's pretty important to me. It's it's pretty important to all of us, and I see the bond with the Dekes family over the years and and in in and somewhat jealous with the um the family sort of ties. Your your mum and your dad are set up, and now you've got the house on the hill and the Sunday afternoon barbecues, and your your sister and your brother come with their partners and you're up there and then all the mates and all the neighbours turn up as i it's very very simple flippin' shit, but I'll tell you what, it's it's warm and cozy and you feel wanted and you feel worthy, eh?

SPEAKER_04 25:19

Well that's right. That's the main thing is you know, lots of people don't have that um support network and people that, you know, have got their back. And I I honestly used to tell me old girl all the time, Mum, like, I don't get it. Like, I've got everything. Not everything, but I you know what I'm saying? Like, I've got the family. I've I've got nothing to be sad about or anxious about. Why am I feeling like this? And then I used to say, Well, I don't know how other people do it when they don't have that backing and like love and support. Like, it would be so easy to just say, right, arm down. Wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_06 25:55

Oh man, so many people haven't got that um that family network to lean on. And I've I've I've done another podcast with Dane Miller, who's a a mate of mine in Pottsville, and he got himself off the ice at 30, and I mean he was dealing big time and he's just his mother opened up his house to him in the Northern Rivers and flew him out of Melbourne and got into some safe and didn't pick on him, didn't it? But listen, and this guy's just kicking damn ass. But then you go back to these other people you see on the street, and the homeless uh all crack it on the ice and they got nobody, man, and I get I hear what you're saying. I had the I had the whole world around me too. It didn't help when I hit the deck.

SPEAKER_04 26:38

No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

And you know, a lot of people will listen, and um I think one of the educations about this subject before I go on to the next one is we're all pretty good at giving someone a cuddle, but we're not that good at saying the right thing. And I think we need to be educated in in you know, this thing for what I'm doing here, I don't have any government funding, I don't have anything, and it's just a yarn and it's it's gone off its tits this because it's just having a conversation and it's working. It's it's about telling someone that might be listening who's got nobody, your nobody around him your story, but then they say, Well, well, fuck, hang on, I've just gotta speak to one person, I'll be right. And you know, there there'll be one person out there that that will that will listen.

SPEAKER_04 27:23

And it's I suppose it's hard. It's hard to make that first, you know, not it's it's hard. Like, it's easy to say it ain't weak to speak, it's just speak up. But when you're in that mind frame, you don't want to speak up. You don't know how to speak up, and that's that's the problem.

SPEAKER_06 27:41

And and the other thing about it is if you're in that position, you feel ashamed to speak up.

SPEAKER_04 27:48

Well, you do, you you're embarrassed. Like, me not going to work, like I just started my own business and I went for four months just after I started the business, you know, had everything going, it was set to be a good year, and then I just something flipped and you know, it just all went back to shit. Is that when you had uh sunny coast, though? No, just after I got uh when I moved to the sunny coast, uh after I got was down there for three months going flat bicky, just doing insurance work, like and I think another thing that triggered me was I was burning myself to the ground. I'm I'm mad ADHD, mad ADHD. Shock, and I burn myself to the ground, like go hard and just working tits off, and then I'd still enjoy myself, but it caught up on me and I'd burn myself out, and then my body would just go right. Fucking that's it.

SPEAKER_06 28:47

Yeah, and yeah, I mean you've got to stop and take a deep breath, and um, you know, sometimes less is best when you're sick. We always talk about we service our car every 10,000 kilometres or put new tires on it when they're bold or fill it with oil when the oil's low or put some water in it, but we don't do that to our bodies. Right. And if we take a little bit of time, and I'm not saying be clean, I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I told every person listen to this podcast, get off the smoke, get off the drugs, and get off the beer. I would be a hypocrite because all those things are nice in moderation, but just take a bit of care of yourself when you're feeling a bit down, feeling a bit tired, and there's there's nothing wrong with not going to work one day and having a me day or a dooner day, what I call it that. Uh let's move on to some some more positive stuff. We've found out where you're at and you're and you're sitting there talking to me, but I gotta ask you. You know, your your brothers, your sisters, your grandmother, your mother, your father, uh some of your mates, um what role did your family play through all this?

SPEAKER_03 29:55

Oh, massive role. Massive role. Very, very big role. Um Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:05

And um Yeah, like I said, without them, I I couldn't imagine myself still being here. Plus plus the sort of mates that I've got as well. Just them always the constant messages, the that sort of stuff. Just knowing they got your back and they want to see you back on your feet. Yeah, it gives you it gives you something.

SPEAKER_06 30:25

It was a pretty um it was a pretty awesome night. I don't know what even I was up there for. Was it Christmas? No, I don't know, but we're sitting there at your mum and dad's and you're gonna be, Do you want to go into town? Spark that sparked it all. Yeah, and I've sort of gone, Oh fuck, and you know me, I'm never not gonna knock back going into town. In fact, they call me a town rat, but um, not anymore. And then I said to your mum and your dad, I said, Harry wants to go into town. I said, I'm going with him. Let's get some gear on. And then when we got to uh Magnum's that night, um all your mates were I think we were they were playing pool.

unknown 31:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Was it from my rate? Just to you walked in the door and they're sort sort of just giving you a cuddle and a a high five and Yeah, it was um pretty amazing. And then, you know, that led to a pretty a pretty big week. You know, you were back on the piss and doing I I still remember I still remember your mum and dad and ma going, oh no, he's gonna he's gone loose, he's gonna sink again and all that. But you know, why you never you um never really looked back from that day, did you?

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Did you have any little small smileys or what? Well, you know, you still have your your down days or whatever, fucking not so much anymore, but it's just all about how you deal with, you know, don't just fucking lay in bed and feel sorry for yourself. The the bet the first thing and the hardest thing to do every day is get up out of bed and just do something. For me now it's work and like building this business, and that's what's driving me at the moment big time. Do you have any trouble getting out of bed now? No, not at all. I'm excited for it.

SPEAKER_06 32:12

Do you make your bed when you get out of bed every morning?

SPEAKER_04 32:15

Yeah, me or the messes, one of the two.

SPEAKER_06 32:17

Alright, legends, let's take a deep breath. And that's where we'll land this plane on part one of the Harry Diggs comeback. Because what you've just heard, that's not a highlight reel. That's not a polished version of life. That's the reality for a lot of young Aussies right now. The party cycle, the pressure, the quiet battles no one sees, and how easy it is to slip into something that feels impossible to get out of. But here's what stood out more than anything for me in Harry's story. He didn't do this alone. When the wheels got wobbly and started falling off, when things got dark, when most people would have turned away, his family stepped in. His mum, his old man, and his people. They didn't just support him, they held him together. And that's the part we don't talk enough about. Because for every Harry in this world, there's someone out there who doesn't have that support. Someone fighting the same battle, but alone. So if you're listening to this right now, check on your mates, back to your family, and if you're the one struggling, please just stay one more day. Because things can turn, not overnight, not perfectly, but step by step, and Harry is living proof of that. This episode isn't about being perfect, it's about finding your way back. And if this story hit you, if it made you feel something, please share it, talk about it, get it into the ears of someone that needs it. Because these are the conversations that save lives. Harry didn't have to do this, and it took great courage for him to turn up. He said to me, as long as it saves one person, we've achieved something, buzzed. Hey. And if you want to support what we're building here at Whoas Your Hero, this is independent. No backing, no government funding, just real stories. If you believe in it, you can support the tribe through the GoFundMe link in the bio. Or jump on Patreon and follow the journey. Links also in bio website. Every little bit helps keep these stories alive. But for now, remember this. You don't need to have it all figured out, you just need to keep showing up. Now, legend if you think part one was powerful. Part two is where it's really gonna shift. Because this is where we move from the darkness into the rebuild. We're talking the recovery, the mindset shift, the role his family played in putting the pieces back together, stepping into the family business that he built himself and what it actually takes to rebuild your life when you've been to the edge. No shortcuts, no magic fits, just discipline, support, and a decision to change. Harry doesn't come back as the same bloke. He comes back stronger, smarter, and more aware of what actually matters. If part one was the fall, part two is the rise, and trust me, this is the part every young bloke needs to hear. Part two coming soon. Follow the page, follow the socials, stay close because this story's just getting started. Look after yourself, legends. Tell someone you're loving today not to wait for the eulogy, and hero up. This is Buzz over and out.