David and Chris – veterans' care providers

- So we've got a veteran, Arthur. He's in his eighties, he has cancer. The first time I met him, I asked him why he had no teeth. He told me, he said his dentures, his mouth is shrunk and he can't wear them anymore and he hasn't eaten solid food in two years. So, we arranged for funding for his dentures for $800. I got a phone call from Arthur which I could barely understand as he was talking to me while eating a burger for the first time with his teeth while also crying and then I started crying and to be honest, it was a profound experience that you don't expect. Hi, my name is David. I run a home services company providing support services to vulnerable Australians. As veterans, we're aware that veterans need help. We're aware that once you lose the support of being in the defence force and you're out for a few years, it can get difficult.

- So, coming out of defence, a 15 year career in the army, being a veteran, having a young family and recognising that there are a whole bunch of other veteran families, they really needed supporting their home and it became obvious to me that this would be a great sector to be able to start a small business and to be able to deliver those services back into the veteran community from which I came.

- Veterans are 25 year old women who you walk past in the supermarket, they are 70 year old men who you sit next to on the bus.

- You get a sense of empowerment. You get a sense of purpose and meaning and value for providing services to veterans and to vulnerable Australians.

- The fulfilment of changing someone's life for the better even if it is through something so easy as providing meal preparation, providing some cleaning or gardening for them, what you actually do is you change their lives. So, when you do a job and you do it for money and you do it because it's enjoyable and because you're good at it, it's more than a bonus to walk away from it and realise that you've done something incredibly fulfilling. In fact, that's the moment you stop working together.