Captions (clockwise); Travers in his garage with his gold plated Harley Davidson, Ferrari and Lamborghini; Life size marble statue of three naked ladies next to the pool; Travers in his newly renovated office; A lover of beautiful art and decor; The 27 tonne marble statue of King Neptune overlooks the pool.
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youngest ever U19’s North Melbourne captain. I skipped school a lot. My parents didn’t push the academic side of his eight favourite movies hang on because at the age of 16 I felt my life was the back wall: Wolf of Wall Street, Fifty going to be football. I’d drop my friends Shades of Grey, The Godfather, Ironman, off at nightclubs but I didn’t go in, I Scarface, The Dark Knight Rises, Rocky didn’t drink. I was totally focused. I’ve IV, The Great Gatsby. always had intense focus. There were some girls when I was a teenager, but I oday, the real life was focused on football.” entertainment is listening Bryn, Travers’ General Manager to Candyman’s story… jumps in, “it was only the other day “I came from humble I re-read what one of his coaches beginnings. My parents both worked wrote about him.” ‘Focused’ and ‘goal hard, they had an amazing work ethic, orientated’ kept cropping up. “You see, my mother was a full-time mum and when you push past your comfort zone, she worked hard, often until 3am. and break into ground you didn’t think She was a strong woman, she was was possible, that becomes addictive,” the strongest example in my life, I says Travers. If someone says to me, ‘No, have huge admiration for her. My it can’t be done’, I see it as a challenge. I grandmother was another strong will find a way to make it happen.” woman; she was nicknamed “I had no plan B when I broke my ‘The General’! back playing football. Some modelling “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in agencies had been trying to woo me, a my mouth. I was taught to appreciate model scout from the USA discovered all that you have and work hard for what me in Sydney and shortly after I signed you want. It was important to me to with Elite Model Management in Miami raise my own children the same Beach, Florida, so when I couldn’t way, they don’t expect things play anymore, I packed my to be handed to them. My bags and left home and My first son works in the business what I turned to.” b that’s jo g in ll while attending University “My first modelling e d o m i v e full time, he’s learning L job was in Mexico City for r fo was the business from the Levi jeans. It was surreal. in t o jeans sh ground up.” My friends back home in y Mexico Cit “I was a hyperactive Melbourne were laughing child, I slept one hour a night their heads off – until they until I was five, hinting maybe saw I was making a success of it had something to do with not it. I modelled the Versace snakeskin wanting to miss out. Football became line in the Super Studios in Milan. That my life. I loved it. From when I turned was cool; music blaring, so animated, nine years old, my parents would strap very flamboyant. Very me. I earned an AFL football in my hands when I good money – between $2,000 and slept every night. I dreamt of becoming $35,000 a day. Meeting Gianni Versace a footballer. It happened, I was drafted was amazing. He oozes style his to North Melbourne and became the knowledge about fashion and passion
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Captions clockwise: Travers underwear modelling: Modelling in Venezuela, Paris, Miami and Fort Lorderdale.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CANDYMAN
Captions left to right: Early days modelling in New Zealand; Modelling in Miami; Free Choice Conference 2016
4AM-5AM: up, cardio for 1 hour. WORK: Free Choice head office, Coomera. Mid-afternoon: Gym. “I’ve found as I’m getting older my body gets a bit tired, so I short-circuit it and make it come alive again by going to the gym at this time.” HOME: Works in office upstairs, often until midnight. Older kids come in for chats. Then? “I go to bed and that’s another hurdle. When you’ve got one girl, that’s one thing. When there’s multiple, there’s so much going on in my mind. In bed, there’s four girls as an average. I often don’t get much sleep. What I’m like in business, life or sport, I’m like that in bed. They love my imagination and my creativity. You need that when you’ve got multiple girls. I think I come up with a new position every week. Bedroom time isn’t for me; it’s to stimulate the girls. To be good in bed it’s not about you.” THE BEDROOM: Large L-shaped custom-made bed (three king size beds joined) with smoke machines underneath. Mirrored ceilings. A gold pole, scattered Versace cushions on the floor. Makeup booth along one wall with Hollywood spotlights and four mirrors for the girls. Secret to making women happy? “Never bore them.”
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invest and it’s a good, solid, profitable business. That’s how we ensure the future of Australian farming.” A co-op remains answerable to the consumer, to sell their goods, and to their farmers. Three or four times a year, the Norco CEO, Chairman and senior management head off on the road and tour around ten or eleven regional towns in Queensland and New South Wales. They give a full presentation, go through financials, all with total transparency. “When I first started, supplier meetings were pretty tough,” he says. “By nature, farmers are hard working, honest, black and white, rational, good people to work for. Their tough because they have to be tough.
“Now, we’ve seen a huge turn out. They’re all very proud. The turnout has tripled from the old days and the mood has shifted. They’re proud of what their co-operative is doing. When you’ve been through tough times, you appreciate when things get better. What happened last year down South is an ongoing warning – you don’t go off track. It’s easy to go broke and it’s always someone else’s fault. To succeed, you’ve got to stay focused and not to get distracted.”
CHINA: A GROWING MARKET
“We didn’t want to put all our eggs in one basket, we looked at selling in fresh milk into China, which is a growing
market. Over two years, we developed a process of parallel testing. We’re now doing the biggest body out of Australia and New Zealand, to that market. It’s a great story; 120-year-old farmer owned co-op, from a clean and green market, bringing fresh milk to China. We’ve been exporting ice cream to Japan and the U.S. for several years.”
NEXT UP? CAFÉ COFFEE
One of the key areas Norco is moving into in 2017 is the thriving café coffee culture which many Gold Coasters love. “The quality of Norco means milk taste better. Café coffee houses are currently always putting the emphasis on the coffee beans but the milk is also crucially important.”
SUPPORTING LOCAL TV presenter Natalie Gruzlewski proudly supports local farmers
NORCO’S KEY BUSINESS ■ Major supermarkets. ■ The route business – 84 distributors looking after smaller accounts. There are 31 rural stores from Bundaberg (QLD) to Hunter Valley (NSW). Norco is looking to expand down to Melbourne.
Working on the television show The Farmer Wants A Wife I was lucky enough to travel the country visiting many farms. I met some incredibly hard working Aussie farmers, who gave me a huge appreciation and a greater understanding about where our food comes from. All Aussies should support ‘local’. They’re the heart and soul of our country. It gives me peace of mind that the produce I’m buying hasn’t been grown or processed overseas, so for the sake of our families and our future generations, please support our local farmers like the Norco Farmers Co-oprative.
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