Julian Pace - A man on a mission to create a happier world

So Julian Pace is the founder and CEO of Happiness Co., a Perth-based social enterprise dedicated to improving mental health, well-being, and human connection.

Julian has transformed adversity into a mission to help others build rapport, build happier, more fulfilling lives, and we're going to spend a lot of time on that today.

Don't try and link your self-esteem and self-worth to trying to be an A-grade student.

Link your self-esteem and self-worth to try and be an A-grade person.

He would say that to me all the time.

So being an entrepreneur or being someone successful in your career, same concept.

Don't spend all your time trying to just be excellent at what you do.

Make sure you're trying to be amazing at who you are.

And that should be the prerequisite of being excellent.

And I think about some of these sayings that is like...

Don't aim to be a remarkable person.

Aim to be a reliable one.

I always speak about this on stage because I think it's probably the most important thing I've ever learned.

You can be really good at what you do and still really bad at who you are.

I was really good at football and still really shit at who I was.

And you can do that in your whole career.

I didn't wake up every single day thinking about other people's suffering and want to try and take that away.

To me, that just drives me now, man.

I hate seeing people suffer.

I hate seeing people sad.

I hate seeing people going through a tough time because I just know how sad and lonely that feels for you.

So that's what drives me now.

I didn't have that when I was young.

So I don't think if he didn't die, I'd be even closer to half the man I am today.

So Julian Pace is the founder and CEO of Happiness Co., a Perth-based social enterprise dedicated to improving mental health, well-being, and human connection.

Julian has transformed adversity into a mission to help others build rapport, build happier, more fulfilling lives, and we're going to spend a lot of time on that today.

Don't try and link your self-esteem and self-worth to trying to be an A-grade student.

Link your self-esteem and self-worth to try and be an A-grade person.

He would say that to me all the time.

So being an entrepreneur or being someone successful in your career, same concept.

Don't spend all your time trying to just be excellent at what you do.

Make sure you're trying to be amazing at who you are.

And that should be the prerequisite of being excellent.

And I think about some of these sayings that is like...

Don't aim to be a remarkable person.

Aim to be a reliable one.

I always speak about this on stage because I think it's probably the most important thing I've ever learned.

You can be really good at what you do and still really bad at who you are.

I was really good at football and still really shit at who I was.

And you can do that in your whole career.

I didn't wake up every single day thinking about other people's suffering and want to try and take that away.

To me, that just drives me now, man.

I hate seeing people suffer.

I hate seeing people sad.

I hate seeing people going through a tough time because I just know how sad and lonely that feels for you.

So that's what drives me now.

I didn't have that when I was young.

So I don't think if he didn't die, I'd be even closer to half the man I am today.