"It was a lot of pressure on me, with a four-month-old baby, to make the decision to start the business. "I maxed out two overdrafts, traded in my car for a van and financed the tools that I needed - basically just scraped by on the bones of my bum.
"I was lucky Winz helped me out with the enterprise allowance, which they say was something pretty rare to get - I'm pretty rapt about that."
Over the winter of a recession, his sales skills came to the fore.
"I just go door knocking, with a few posts on Facebook. I have about 75 clients at the moment and the majority are from door knocking. I could sell ice to an Eskimo, I've been told."
Sometimes he brings along daughter Ava.
"She's pretty good bait."
His desire to succeed has extended to his hobby of boxing - he had his debut as a middleweight boxer last month.
"I have a lot of drive to get ahead in life. As Bill Gates said, I'm going to be a millionaire by the time I'm 30, and he was a billionaire by the time he was 31. I tell myself I'm going to be retired by the time I'm 25.
"Bo's Mow's will be something I will build up to the point where I'm selling franchises myself."
He plans to sell franchises for about $20,000 all inclusive, with weekly royalty fees of about $75."
His sales skills should again prove effective.
"I'm such a nice guy I spelled my own name wrong so people could read it easier."
