‘My son asked ‘Dad isn’t it enough?’

BIG Brother star and YouTube celebrity Daniel Hayes paid a high price to succeed in the real estate industry.

The number one performer in the number one office in the Ray White real estate group a decade ago owned a $1.5m home, and a number of investment properties.

His kids went to private schools and he had a Porsche, a Range Rover and a $100,000 boat in his driveway.

However, making the deals to secure the wealth meant he was never at home with his wife and children and his son Harry forced him to confront the choices he was making.

“My wife and I were fighting again and he said: ‘Dad, isn’t it enough?’,” Hayes said.

“’Why can’t you just be home?’ And what he meant was; look at everything we have, private schools, we had everything materially, but they never had their dad.”

The success cost him two marriages and then the death of his younger brother James to a heroin overdose had a “massive” effect forcing him to reassess his life.

“It just puts things in perspective that we’re here for a blink,” Hayes said. “Some people just make you think that real estate is life,

“It’s a drug, doing a deal selling at an auction under the hammer and the crowd cheer you and the vendor is crying and you are king for a day, you’re a god.

“It only lasts a very short time but your kids and your wife are supposed to be there for your lifetime,” he said.

“Unfortunately ego has an unquenchable thirst. It’ll take everything from you. Everything”.

Now the managing director of his own agency

Hayeswinckle in Geelong, Melbourne, he employs 50 staff in six offices but works just 10 hours a week.

His main focus is motorcycle touring for his YouTube channel Million Dollar Bogan which has over 100,000 subscribers.

He will spend seven months this year touring outback Australia, the UK, Los Angeles and South America on his bike.