266: Koby Stevens (Part B)
4/22/202644 min
A story of dreams, nightmares, anguish and redemption...
Koby Stevens played 91 AFL games spanning the West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs and St Kilda... his career came to a premature end after a 15th concussion.
The way he details the moment his childhood dreams were ripped from him, and the fear of an invisible injury for a professional athlete is admirable, inspiring and bloody scary, all in one.
His drive to re-find his own purpose, uncover his brain injury, commit to his rehabilitation and recovery is as moving as anything we have heard on the show. Not to mention his passion of story telling and film making...
This story will change and save lives. You don't always need a Premiership or a Gold Medal to show how powerful you are.
Thanks Kobe.
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[upbeat music] A listener production.
Mark Howard· Host0:04
[gentle music] You are listening to episode 266 of The Howey Games Part B, featuring former footballer, now documentary maker, Coby Stevens. So i- it's a two-year period. I'm fascinated by your filmmaking journey- Yeah ... and what you've learnt, tying in with the concussion. When do you think, "Oh, actually, I'm gonna start making some form of documentary out of this"? And now when we're talking documentary- Yeah ... um, this is not a little operation shot on an iPhone.
Koby Stevens· Guest0:38
No.
Mark Howard· Host0:38
Like, the stuff you've sent me is fricking mind-blowing.
Koby Stevens· Guest0:41
Yeah.
Mark Howard· Host0:41
So ju- just... Okay, how much so far have you spent? [laughs] Give me a rough estimate.
Koby Stevens· Guest0:46
Oh.
Mark Howard· Host0:46
So just to give people an idea of what's happening here.
Koby Stevens· Guest0:48
[sighs] Eric'd kill me if I- So Eric being Eric Banner. Yeah. He- He's like your executive producer? Yeah.
Mark Howard· Host0:54
This is, it's a big budget operation you're putting together to ostensibly talk about a concussion journey and the solutions- Yeah ... along the way, which is really positive.
Koby Stevens· Guest1:03
Yeah.
Mark Howard· Host1:04
So when do you think, "Right, I'm gonna start documenting this- Yeah ... and I'm gonna, I'm gonna..." What was your idea? If I said to you- It's really...
Koby Stevens· Guest1:10
Yeah ...
Mark Howard· Host1:10
in 50 words, w- what's this, why are you gonna do this, and what's it gonna be about?
Koby Stevens· Guest1:13
It's hard for me to sit here and talk about, 'cause we've been at it for five years- Yeah ... and a lot of people [laughs] are like, you know, "Where is this thing coming?" And- It'll get there, mate. Yeah, it's more the, been the financial issues, like, and it's such a crazy industry to be raising money and doing that, and we're, we're not far now. We signed a deal to get it all