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Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Dane Swan: Australian Football Star & Entrepreneur

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"The reason why there are so few professional athletes, is they're people who can endure so much pain." Founded back in 1858 in Melbourne Australia, today there are roughly 2 million active participants playing "Footy", with sold out stadiums hosting the professional leagues, and millions of viewers worldwide. Dane Swan is one of the greatest Australian Rules Footballers in the modern era, and on the show we talk about his rise to the top, training, producing, responding to injury, and elongating your career. In the early stages of his career, Dane said, “we eat, we drink, we party hard – we're pigs.” Of course, the fans and picked up on this, commercialized it, and the lads were dubbed "the rat pack". Toward the back half of his career, he's become more focused and entrepreneurial, writing a book about his journey, starting an event business in the US called the Dane Swan Tour, created a clothing line called Ratbagg, owns a bar and tattoo shop, and makes regular TV appearances and speaking engagements. Hosted by professional athlete and entrepreneur, Suiting Up Podcast is a show that explores the psychology, playbook of tools, and strategies of the most influential people in sports, entrepreneurship, and entertainment. Thanks to Away Travel and Mattress Firm for sponsoring this week's episode. To get $20 off your first Away Travel suitcase, click HERE. Also, Head to mattressfirm.com/podcast to get the play-by-play on how you can monumentally improve your sleep—today, tonight and tomorrow.

Transcript

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0:00.0

As you would know, it's that adrenaline once you get out there. Yeah, it's amazing what

0:07.4

how a sore shoulder goes away or a sore, you know, a broken finger goes away or, you know,

0:12.2

whatever it is, it just disappears for a couple

0:15.2

hours then obviously that maybe the old painkiller or something wears off or the

0:19.7

cortisone jab wells off and you and you're a bit sore that knife but they can do nothing during a week and you get jabbed up and you go again.

0:29.1

Australian Rules football. These players are bad-ass.

0:33.0

And this week I hosted one of the greatest midfielders in the modern era, Dane Swan.

0:37.0

We talked about what it takes to be great on the pitch.

0:39.0

Dane's troubles off of it and what he's doing with his career beyond sport.

0:43.6

He's an author, TV personality, has an event business and clothing line.

0:47.5

We met in Philadelphia before a 76er's game wrapped backstage, then kicked it

0:51.0

court side for the game on Australian Night in Philly.

0:53.8

Shout out LTT for setting this up.

0:56.0

Welcome to an all new episode of Suiting Up podcast.

0:58.0

This is a show where I dive into the stories of someone today's lead in athletes,

1:00.6

entrepreneurs and entertainers, and I'm your host Paul Rabel.

1:03.8

Enjoy my conversation with Ozzy Rules Footballer, Dane Swan.

1:08.8

Dane. Dane. Stoke to sit down with you.

1:17.0

Yeah, thanks, mate.

1:18.0

It's good to be.

1:19.0

We were in Philadelphia.

1:21.0

How often do you travel back and forth between Australia and the States?

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