Daniel Allen is a carpenter by Trade as well as cofounder of social enterprise workwear brand TradeMutt and blue collar counselling service TIACS.
Dan met his business partner Ed Ross on a Brisbane building site in 2014. Ed became Dan’s apprentice and the pair became best mates. After Dan tragically lost a close mate to suicide in 2015, the two tradies identified two glaring problems – 1. The tone of the mental health conversation was too serious 2. Ordinary Australians don’t know where to go to first seek support.
In 2018, the boys launched TradeMutt – A social enterprise workwear company by tradies for tradies. Their funky workwear was designed to take a more fun, light hearted and colourful approach to normalising mental health conversations on a daily basis.
In June 2020, the pair launched TIACS – a free, early intervention mental health support service providing ongoing counselling services for the entire blue collar sector. To date, TIACS has supported over 12k individuals at a return to the Australian community of $2m in free services, receiving numerous national accolades along the way.
Dan is passionate about using business to create solutions for social issues but when he is not doing this, he is creating problems for the people he plays against in social sport.
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