Episode 32 Part 1: Les Walker , The man who keeps showing up.

Episode 32: Les Walker — The Man that Keeps Turning Up.This one isn’t the polished version of life. No media-trained answers. No LinkedIn award speeches. We go straight to the bone — the truth, the setbacks, the scars, the reasons people keep getting up when life keeps belting them.Les is on the line with me — and whatever you think of him, no one can say he doesn’t turn up. Rain. Floods. Online abuse. Community barbies. Footy. Fundraisers. He still turns up.Today we don’t talk to the politician — we talk to the son, the mate, the man behind the headlines. We go back to the boy before the titles. He walks us through growing up here, early jobs at the meatworks and the railway, an apprenticeship that took him to the Burdekin Dam and Hayman Island, security at the casino, five years as a prison officer, youth work at Cleveland, small business… then council, deputy mayor, state member.We talk about that feeling when school ends and there’s no structure anymore. We talk about parents, mentors, and the advice to rise above when the rock-throwers come. We talk about learning by making mistakes, fear of failure, and why anyone can lead if they’ve got people around them and the tools to learn.I’m on home dialysis as we record — and we keep it real.If you want the person, not the profile — Episode 32 is here.Who Is Your Hero. Keep turning up.”Support the show