Jules Lund: From ‘little shithead’ to following Stynes’ footsteps
TV presenter Jules Lund freely admits he was a little “shithead” as a teen, and life could easily have steered off track. Now he’s championing young leaders to “pay it forward” for AFL legend Jim Stynes.
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Jules Lund freely admits he was a little “shithead” as a teenager, and life could easily have steered off track.
A “ratty teen”, Lund said it was meeting AFL legend Jim Stynes, who took him under his wing, that helped turn him into the TV presenter and business owner he is today.
Now he’s paying it forward, championing social enterprise Happow, which he believes could have assisted him in his wayward days, if he was willing to listen.
“The best way to describe it was ratty behaviour — destructive attention seeking behaviour that can easily spiral,” Lund said of his teen years.
“I don’t expand on it for my mum’s sake.”
Meeting Stynes through the Reach program, the footy champ encouraged and pushed him into presenting work — now Lund aims to do for others what the Brownlow medallist did for him.
“You have to pay it forward, you absolutely have to, so many of the good things in my life are because of that,” he said.
Happow — a name mash of happy and power — was set up by Melbourne couple Gianna and Brendan Lucas as a free site to arm school and uni students with life skills around money management, relationships and health.
The site brings in experts to run masterclasses and take part in podcasts on topics young people email in and want to learn more about.
“I still benefit from (those lessons,)” said Lund.
“My best mate and I go running and talk about all the things we had to learn ourselves — nutrition and how sugar is addictive, the money thing is really critical, the fact we all don’t understand how tax works, empathy and mental health, meditation.”
And learning how to fail.
“Right now I’m teaching my daughters to juggle — and you can’t learn unless you give yourself permission to drop the balls.”
Check out Happow at happow.com
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