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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to CEO Secrets. I am thrilled to introduce our returning guest for today, a multi-awarded New York City real estate broker, transformational coach, and founder of the Patrick Lilly Team. Let's welcome Patrick Lilly Patrick Lilly has been in the real estate industry for more than 34 years. He has sold over a thousand properties worth more than $1.35 billion in his career. He also received the Keller Williams Pinnacle Award, a distinction presented to the top 20 exceptional agents across all North American firms. Patrick received his life coaching credentials in 2007, allowing him to conduct transformational seminars on discovering one's essence and purpose in life all over the world. Let us hear today from Patrick as he shares his insights on how New York's real estate market is doing a year after the pandemic started and what transformational coaching is all about. Top Takeaways: 1. What has it been like in New York over the past year (00:44) 2. From a pricing standpoint, has New York remained stagnant since 2015? (3:01) 3. Is it a good idea to invest in Trump properties right now? (11:15) 4. Why New York doesn't have an MLS (16:25) 5. How has Compass affected the brokerage world in New York? (18:35) 6. What's the difference between brokerages and teams (25:14) 7. What Patrick likes about the brokerage model (27:27) 8. How hard is it to get started in the real estate industry in New York (29:02) 9. What does transformational coaching mean (35:37) 10. The best real estate book by far (39:09) To get in touch with Patrick, visit patricklillyteam.com Episode Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/CEOSecrets-EP63

I’ve done a lot of podcasts in my time but this one might be the craziest I’ve ever been a part of. Thanks to my dear friend Patrick Ripoll, this is one of those birthday gifts that I’ll cherish forever. What Patrick did was invent 43 movie and music-related games for my 43rd birthday and we turned them into 43 segments. Not to mention the 10 hours of editing Patrick did to put this  madness together. For about the first 90 minutes, the volume levels fluctuate a bit due to recording online but don’t fret. Then for the next 90 minutes, we got together in person for the first time in a long time so it sounds even better. There’s no need to list the games here we played in the show notes since half the fun is seeing what comes next. Needless to say, if you’re a fan of Popcorn Supper or old-school Director’s Club or the yearly tradition of doing something unconventional this time of year to celebrate the fact that I’m still here on this planet, you do not want to skip over this. Also stay tuned to Voices & Visions for an interview with an actress that is truly special in so many ways as well as Patrick’s next three stints hosting this here show while I take a brief summer hiatus. Thanks to Patrick for his hard work and to all of you for continuing to listen and supporting this weird, wild show - Jim Be sure to check out episodes of Patrick's podcast too: http://www.nowplayingnetwork.net/tracksofthedamned

Trisha’s guest today is Patrick Wathen, Senior VP at Equity, a full-service commercial real estate firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with various offices nationwide and transacting in even more markets. We learn about how Equity got started, its path into the healthcare real estate asset class, and some of the philosophy behind Patrick’s leadership style.   In this episode, we talk about…   [02:20] Equity’s background and its path into the healthcare real estate asset class [04:40] The difference in investing in healthcare real estate vs other asset classes [07:27] Working with tenants who are private practice physicians [12:33] How Equity operates with its multi-office setup [15:58] What Equity looks for in a healthcare property to invest in [18:33] Working with Trisha and why Patrick had been looking for a site in Arizona [24:59] How the pandemic has impacted Equity’s vision for the next five years [29:54] Patrick’s first job [32:25] What Patrick would be doing for a living if he were not in the healthcare real estate industry [35:16] What Patrick is reading right now for news, information, and inspiration [37:38] One thing that Patrick does every day for healthy self-care [39:20] Are leaders born or trained?   Links to resources:   Patrick Wathen: Equity | LinkedIn The Better Angels of Our Nature (book) Doing Business by the Good Book (book) The Pioneers (book)     Subscribe, rate and review: www.providerspropertiesandperformance.com   Schedule a healthcare real estate investment strategy consultation: https://docproperties.com/free-consultation-trisha-talbot/   About Trisha: WEBSITE: www.docproperties.com LINKED IN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishatalbot/ Email inquiries to: info@docproperties.com

In this episode of the podcast, we're speaking with Patrick Flesner Capital Investor with 15 years of experience in private equity. He has just launched his new book Fast Scaling.    Here are the highlights from this episode: {3:52} Patrick's journey to being a successful business owner and author {8:28} Patrick's progression into studying Law {9:51} The process Patrick took to write his book  {14:01} What Patrick wants to be remembered for {16:51} The biggest learnings from Fast Scaling for entrepreneurs {20:54} Refocusing our businesses to be customer-centric {23:15} Chasing the vision not the money   Connect with Patrick on Linkedin Connect with Dawn:  Instagram @dawnmcgruer and @businessconsort Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dawnamcgruer Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/businessconsort/ Web: www.dawnmcgruer.com

***Pre-order my new book Cleaning up Your Mental Mess here: https://www.cleaningupyourmentalmess.com/ Register for my 2020 Virtual Mental Health Solutions Summit: https://www.drleafconference.com Sign up to join my free text program and receive mental health care tips. Just text DRLEAF to 1 (833) 285 3747 SHOW DESCRIPTION: Life is full of chances to grow, learn and achieve new things, but we often miss out on these opportunities because we don’t know where to look or where to start. In this podcast I speak with startup entrepreneur, CEO, author and creator of the popular YouTube channel Valuetainment Patrick Bet-David about the importance of constantly learning, why tenacity, creativity and self-confidence are integral to success, how to identify and overcome self-sabotaging behavior, using peer pressure to your advantage, why we need to be careful of too much success, and more! Read the show blog here: https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/patrick-bet-david For more info on Patrick and to get his book visit: https://www.patrickbetdavid.com/ SPECIAL OFFERS FROM OUR SPONSORS: NOOM (A great way to develop healthier habits, reduce your risk of chronic health problems, reverse disease, and foster a healthier relationship with yourself and others!): For your special offer see: https://noom.com/drleaf Liquid I.V Electrolytes (The quickest and easiest way to stay hydrated, which is an important part of any mental self-care regimen): Get 25% off with code DRLEAF at checkout: https://liquid-iv.com. PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS: 3:11 What Patrick learned as a child living in a refugee camp 10:30 Why tenacity is so important 13:09 The power of self-confidence 19:48 Why we ALL need to learn the art of selling 24:45 How fear can prevent us from achieving our dreams 28:00 How to master the art of business strategy 34:45 The danger of complacency 42:00 The relationship between accountability and success 46:27 Why not all peer pressure is bad 49:50 How success can become your biggest enemy 54:04 The mindsets of the most successful and interesting people 58:50 How to overcome challenges and obstacles in life ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: -Get my new brain detox app SWITCH on sale now! Get 50% off a 3 month subscription. Just visit: https://theswitch.app -Visit my website at https://drleaf.com for more free resources -Instagram: @drcarolineleaf: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolineleaf/ -Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf: https://www.facebook.com/drleaf -Twitter: @drcarolineleaf: https://twitter.com/DrCarolineLeaf -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/drcarolineleaf If you enjoyed this episode please leave a 5 review on iTunes, Google Play, or wherever you are listening! And don't forget to subscribe and share this podcast with friends and family! I love seeing your posts on social media! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode of Art Grind, hosts Dina Brodsky, Marshall Jones, and producer Tun Myaing interview writer and entrepreneur Patrick McGinnis in New York City. Best known for coining the term “FOMO” (Fear Of Missing Out), McGinnis seems like an unusual guest: what could someone from the world of finance speak about on an art podcast? As an art collector, writer, and brother of a musician, it turns out that McGinnis has a lot to talk about. McGinnis not only shares pragmatic advice useful for any creative, but is a bold storyteller who respects art and culture. From travelling in South America to renegade drawing exhibitions to Harvard Business School, this episode proves, and McGinnis would insist, that there’s no room for FOMO in a creative life. Show Notes 0:33: Podcast introduction with post-quarantine update10:39: What Patrick learned during Covid-19, inspired by Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl15:00: Podcast begins15:53: How Patrick coined “FOMO” 19:42: Patrick’s background33:42: How Patrick almost got killed in Colombia 55:30: Re-creating yourself to create your own system1:01:00: Artist versus brand1:10:10: The Drawing Room 1:17:57: “Go sit in Washington Square Park”1:21:30: The challenge of time1:24:42: “FOBO:” Fear of a Better Option 1:32:40: How Patrick views creative industries1:35:22: Freelancing versus owning your art and Art Thinking by Amy Whitaker 1:39:06: Mike McGinnis 1:40:40: Indistractible: How to Control Your Attention & Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal1:41:25: Nas Daily1:51:30: Art’s role in Patrick’s life1:57:02: End credits Learn more about Patrick McGinnis by visiting his website: https://patrickmcginnis.com/Follow Patrick on Instagram: @patrickjmcginnisFollow Patrick on Twitter: @pjmcginnisListen to Patrick’s podcast, FOMO Sapiens, here: https://fomosapiens.com/ Support the show (https://paypal.me/artgrindpodcast?locale.x=en_US)

Patrick J. Adams stars as an original Mercury 7 astronaut, John Glenn, in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff. In this episode, we cover a lot of ground including: Training and physical fitness for the part What Patrick learned about military culture in this role Patrick’s acting background and much, much more!

Patrick Butler is CEO of Information Security Specialists Loop Secure. He has had a long and successful 13 year career with the company, having started out as an account manager in sales, and working his way up to the C-suite. You could say he knew the business like the back of his hand...until COVID hit suddenly and forced rapid change.  Patrick joins me on the Future-Proof Selling Podcast to share the Loop Secure journey of how they reacted to the pandemic, and the steps they took to transform their business in a very short space of time.  What did they do to pandemic-proof their business and outshine competitors? Key Points of This Discussion Patrick’s Company Loop Secure  What Patrick and his company did to survive the shock of COVID Steps to pandemic-proof and remote work-proof a business When pivoting, who should be involved in the decision-making process? The impressive reactions of Loop Secure team members Webinars as a means of communicating new offerings The situation for Loop Secure now, six months on The importance of alignment between all divisions Click through to learn more about Loop Secure, and you can also find Patrick on LinkedIn.

Since early childhood, internationally renowned astronomical and mathematical researcher, Patrick Geryl, has been fascinated with the stars: over the years he has studied hundreds of publications and books on cosmology, quantum physics and astronomy. Patrick's first book on astronomy, "A new Space-Time Dimension", published in 1979, bravely launched an attack on Einstein's world famous relativity theory. As part of his calculations, Patrick also predicted several spectacular and controversial theories connected to the structure of the universe including; galaxies in the infrared spectrum and the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Originally ridiculed by more 'knowledgeable' and 'qualified' cosmologists, astronomers and scientists, it has only been in the last ten years, with the launch of the Hubble and IRAS orbiting telescopes, that Patrick's predictions have been confirmed as correct. Patrick received huge coverage in the Belgium press and television for his predictions and discoveries, and this media coverage is now extending worldwide. During this time, Patrick was also researching the nutritional aspects of diets and their implications on our state of health. Several of his 5 books on this subject have become best sellers, including his brilliant and controversial book "Vitality for Life" predicting that AIDS can be cured by a change in diet. Patrick himself converted to a fruit and vegetables diet believing this would give him a much longer life.Ironically, his astronomical discoveries about the Mayan and Egyptian 'End of Times' in 2012 shocked him so deeply that it threw all his plans of a long life into total disarray and sent him on a quest: a quest for the lost city of Atlantis and a quest for the true history of modern man. Through his astronomical knowledge, Patrick discovered evidence leading to the existence of a highly-developed civilization that was destroyed by a not so distant polar reversal. The surviving descendants of this civilization, the Mayans and Ancient Egyptians, each predicted a similar disaster for the year 2012. Realizing the urgency of this warning, Patrick set aside all other research and started intensive investigation and analysis on decoding the ancient messages encoded into the very fabric of the ancient cultures. Patrick's research has resulted in three books so far. The first book, "The Orion Prophecy", was published in 1998 in Belgium and Holland, and in the USA at the end of 2001. Translations followed in Polish, Spanish, Bulgarian and Portuguese, with the book becoming a bestseller in Poland. The second book, "The World Cataclysm in 2012" was published in 2005 in the USA, again becoming a bestseller in Poland, with the third book in the series, "How to survive 2012" published at the end of 2006. Patrick Geryl is no Doomsday prophet; he didn't predict the approaching 2012 catastrophic pole shift: the ancient Atlanteans, Egyptians and Mayans have all done that: Patrick is a serious logical, methodical and systematic researcher. What Patrick has done is decoded the key that explains how and why these ancient civilizations knew the current world was going to end on Dec 20 2012. His astonishing discoveries will quite literally shake the earth to its core.

Too many nonprofits overlook the opportunities for planned giving. While planned giving may not be the most typical type of gift, it can be a powerful driver of growth for nonprofit organizations and can be a way of deepening donor relationships. To talk about the modern landscape of planned giving, today's guest is Patrick Schmitt. Patrick is the co-founder and co-CEO of FreeWill, a company that specializes in modernizing how organizations can take advantage of planned giving. Listen in to hear what Patrick has to say about how the thinking around planned giving is changing, how organizations can incorporate planned giving into their strategy, and how to steward donors through the planned giving process.   Topics Discussed in This Episode: Patrick's background and experience Why planned giving allows “average” donors to give much more than they otherwise could Why right now is the time to focus on planned giving What Patrick has seen change in the way people are thinking about planned giving in the last year or so How organizations can start incorporating planned giving into their fundraising strategy Ways to talk to and steward donors Giving donors choices Common questions that donors tend to have Getting people started with planned giving   Resources: Patrick Schmitt Free Will   Quotes:  “We made it so easy for people to give 10 dollars, and yet in some cases, quite hard for them to give a hundred thousand dollars or a million dollars in the same way.” “It behooves you to start much earlier than people do traditionally, to secure planned giving donors.” “In some ways, we always talk about how fundraising is a highly specialized skill, and it is, but also, humans are humans.”

Episode LinkPreviewOn Spokes, we want to inform our audience and teach them about the different areas of filmmaking. Today, we go into the Grip and Electric Department. For that, we talk with grip and co-owner of Ohio Cinemotion, Patrick Ryan. Patrick has worked on many films and TV shows, including The Fate of the Furious, White Boy Rick, True Detective, and the upcoming remake of West Side Story. We talk about his experiences on-set, as well as what it takes to become a grip, the technical side of things, and information about his camera motion company.Talking Points-How Patrick spent his time in quarantine and how it relates to his work as a grip-Why exercise can be essential for a grip-How Patrick got his start in the industry and how he knew that he would want to work in the grip department-Commercial or Narrative-The team aspect of filmmaking-What’s a typical day on-set for a grip: working with directors, DPs, set-ups, etc.-The impact of virtual sets in the film industry (i.e. The Mandalorian)-Some of Patrick’s favorite filming experiences-The differences between smaller and larger sets-What Patrick has learned from being on-set-Information about his camera motion company, Ohio CinemotionSocial MediaFacebook: Ohio CinemotionIG: ohiocinemotionLink: ohiocinemotion.comIMDb: Patrick James Ryan

In this episode, Elora Fergus Podcast host Ryan Joyce chats with the owner of the Fergus FreshCo, Patrick Anderson. We chat about the toilet paper shortage, possible changes to the grocery industry, has shopping habits returned and much more. Listen Now!   On this episode with Patrick Anderson from Fergus Frescho   Patrick talks about the local toilet paper shortage Has shopping habits returned in Centre Wellington? What impacts might we see on the store and it's layout Will Fergus Frescho return to 24 hours? The things you need to know about purchasing alcohol What Patrick is most looking forward to after COVID impacts Has Patrick worn a kilt, eaten haggis or played the bagpipe?

Today we have another special guest on the show. This is Patrick Duggan from HI-C Battery. If you need a battery expert, then this is the guy that you need to go to. Welcome to The Bolton Ebikes Podcast.  On today’s episode, you’ll get answers to questions and topics like:  What HI-C Battery is and what it has to do with ebikes? What Patrick suggests when you want to upgrade your battery, even if it might be on an older ebike.  Why Patrick doesn’t have “range anxiety” on his ebike.  How many volts can be built into a battery for an ebike.   What you can do if you need a battery rebuilt (the right way). More information on what classifies a light electric vehicle. What new technologies Patrick predicts will be coming out in the near future and why you need to be on top of this news.  What energy density he predicts by 2025. The 1 thing Patrick says will increase the range.  Patrick’s recommendation for charging your battery. Why it’s very important to not go for the best deal for a battery online. Thank you so much for listening to the show. Remember when you're riding your ebike, don't crash and have fun!  Links for HI-C Battery Website: https://www.hicbattery.com/ Contact Patrick via email: hicbattery@gmail.com Links from Bolton Ebikes Get a Bolton Ebike: https://www.boltonebikes.com Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/boltonebikes?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://instagram.com/boltonebikes Join The Bolton Ebikes Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/868947773245145/ I want to hear your stories about electric bikes. Want to be on the show? Submit your information and stories about your ebike adventures to the team at info@boltonebikes.com  Enter to win an electric bike & subscribe for updates here: https://ebikepodcast.com

Dealing with the news of being HIV positive is hard for every individual, and it is even harder to live with HIV when you don’t fully and honestly disclose your status so that you can find support and encouragement from the people around you – both HIV positive and negative.In today’s episode, I talk with Patrick about the benefits you have when you publicly admit that you are HIV positive, and about some of the places where you can find the support you need.Patrick Reyntiens received his HIV diagnosis in the 1980s and he rapidly became public with his status. Since then, he is educating people in schools or other organizations about HIV and the obstacles, oppositions, and trials of all kinds of struggles that accompany it, showing them how to live without secrets, discrimination or stigmatization.So, listen to Episode 14 of Positively Alive, to learn about Patrick’s views on HIV as a long-term survivor of AIDS.Questions I ask:Could you please tell us a little bit about your story and how you were able to deal with this devastating news at the time? (03:13)I can imagine that back in the '80s you have probably lost a lot of friends and people that you knew, from HIV and Aids. How did you deal with that fear yourself? (04:46)You said that you organize weekends, two times a year. What exactly happens during those weekends? (08:58)How has the response been to these weekends, from the people that attend? (10:36)What made you decide to go public so quickly and what were the initial reactions of the people around you? (18:17)What is your message to a person who gets diagnosed with HIV today, on how to best approach this new reality and then, how to continue living with HIV in the future? (30:04)In This Episode, You Will Learn:The importance of making contacts and connecting with people living with HIV. (06:13)The difference between taking your treatment in the ‘80s versus now. (11:59)What Patrick means when he says, “We should aim at normalizing HIV, but not at trivializing it.” (16:15)Patrick’s message for people who are thinking of getting public with their status. (21:06)The differences and the similarities between stigma in homosexual and heterosexual communities. (24:05)About Belgium’s largest Sexual Health Organization called, “Sensoa”. (27:06)Connect with Patrick:TwitterLinkedInSensoa See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

While it may only take a great idea to start a business, it takes a heck of a lot of hard work to build a successful one. Five years ago Patrick Coddou was unhappily working at his corporate job when he had an idea, spurred by personal passion and necessity. That idea eventually got off the ground with two successful Kickstarters, and recently landed Patrick and his wife and co-founder, Jessica, on Shark Tank, where they got backing from Robert Herjavec. This idea, which has now grown into a multi-million dollar company, is Supply, a men's shaving and grooming company. Today Patrick joins us to give an inside look at what makes Supply successful today, and the challenges he faces as he continues to grow his business. Enjoy! Episode Highlights 5:39 Introducing Patrick and how he started Supply. 7:21 The pivotal role of Kickstarter in Supply’s launch and success. 9:19 Where the idea for Supply came from and the challenge of creating good products. 13:53 Why Patrick wants to grow as quickly as possible with as little outside funding as possible, and the metrics he looks at to track his success. 18:59 What Patrick plans to focus on in 2020 as he further diversifies his marketing channels. 22:26 As Supply is starting to expand internationally, here are some of the considerations and challenges Patrick is facing. 25:48 Why Supply is so appealing in the international market, and how Patrick uses customer service to clarify his value proposition and support customers. 29:57 The post-purchase survey questions that help with Supply’s customer retention and satisfaction. 34:39 Things Patrick’s done in the last year that have had the biggest impact on his personal and professional life. 38:48 The truth about entrepreneurial life that Patrick wants everyone to know. Links And Resources Supply Supply on Shark Tank Patrick@getsupply.com Patrick on Twitter: @SoundsLikeCanoe Profit Summit @a_brawn on Twitter @andrewfoxwell on Twitter Brand Growth Experts Foxwell Digital Review or subscribe on iTunes

Session 101 Dr. Patrick Myers joins us to talk about what he looks for as a fellowship program director, what makes a good neonatologist, and his own unique journey to this specialty. Out of training for about eight years now, Patrick also shares what they’re looking for in candidates if this is something you’re interested in. Meanwhile, be sure to check out all our other episodes on Meded Media. [01:30] Interest in Neonatology and Real-Life Experience Patrick realized he wanted to be in Neonatology until after his entire residency class matched into Neonatology. He spent a year being a peds hospitalist as he experienced a ton of deliveries. He thinks the fellowship match is helpful in terms of streamlining and getting everybody a chance to get their application out to several people.  A big downside is if you decide you want to do something else when you're already two years in.  For residents taking an extra year to figure things out to become a better applicant, Patrick thinks doing a chief or hospitalist year is great. Being to able to work with other people in an actual, real setting allows you to understand your work skills. In fact, Patrick considers having this kind of real-life experience as a gold mine.  This shows programs that these people really love the field and they're going to have so many more skills than people who just went straight through. Patrick started medical school when he was 29 years old. He was a Theater major. He just got married at that time and had to work. Desire is another thing he looks for in applicants. [05:55] Traits that Lead to Becoming a Great Neonatologist The ability to solve problems is very important so you really have to love problem-solving. Especially in Neonatology, there is a variety of illnesses so you always have to be solving problems.  Other essential traits include exceptional communication skills and empathy. Moreover, you'd be working with a lot of other specialties. You should know how to negotiate and pull divergent views together and still come up with a really good plan. [07:45] Common Cases in Neonatology Except for rheumatology, all of medicine is in neonatology. In NICU, the kids are sick and a lot of them are ventilated and unstable.  What differentiates it from PICU or Neuro ICU or medical or surgical ICU is that a lot of their really sick kids stay for a long time. It's not unusual for kids to stay at their unit for 100-200 days. Some of their kids have even stayed with them since birth to a year. The hardest thing to manage is children with underdeveloped lungs so there's that balancing act. Either help the lungs and keep the kid alive, but mechanical ventilation for 10 to 100 days is actually bad for you.  [10:10] Letters of Recommendation To figure out whether an applicant for residency is a good communicator, Patrick explains they try to 2-3 very open-ended questions to let people be comfortable and talk. He personally evaluates how people treat his support staff. These are his section administrators, the people touring you, the fellows. Patrick also highly values letters of recommendation from fellowship directors you have a personal relationship. He further shares this tip to ask a director if they could write you a really good or superior letter of recommendation. If you get any hint of body language that it isn't an equivocal, enthusiastic yes, then do not take that letter. There's medical literature on interviews that talk about a lot of the code phrases in letters of recommendation. It tells you of phrases that program directors look for. Already two years as a program director, Patrick admits it took him a while to write good letters. Because you want these people to go out, be successful, and get a really good fellowship.  But sometimes when you're selling somebody the way you want them to, you actually aren't. You could say one thing but others may read it in a different way. So it takes a bit of skill to get this down. Nevertheless, the letter of recommendation is just a tiny piece of the application so you can make it up in so many different ways. [14:24] What They're Looking for in Applicants: There are about a hundred NICU fellowships and what he does is different than other directors do. But first things first, know your audience. You don't want to apply to a hundred programs. Around 10-15 that fit you would already be good. It has to fit you and your goal. Patrick comes from an academic program and his goal is to generate leaders in the field of neonatology over the next 5, 10, or 20 years. So he's looking for that capability to be a very good clinician. This is hard to prove but essentially, just do well on all your rotations in residency. Patrick actually looks all the way back to your medical school rotations. He also looks for that potential in research. Although not mandatory, you should at least be able to spark their interest. He's looking for someone who is able to demonstrate interest, curiosity, and the desire to solve problems. Some people could come in with really good publications and that's an easy one to show them you're interested. But that's rare. So you have to be able to show them at least some interest.  [17:10] Writing Personal Statements The personal statement is also very crucial. Patrick says that out of the 100+ applications and personal statements they've read, 95 said they love neonatology because they love babies and this baby and this family changed their life. But he admits his brain just hurts reading them because everybody says the same thing. Tell them a unique story and what fires you up. Tell a story of something you've done and done well.  For instance, you love dancing and been doing it since you were three. Then you've got great grades despite dancing 15 hours a week. You kept doing it in college and you're still going to do it now. But you've discovered your passion is being a doctor in neonatology. This shows the admissions committee your commitment, work ethic, and balanced life. The hardest applications for them to read are those that are trying to build their application. They've done a hundred things for one week each. There's so much stuff on the paper that they can actually tell what's meaningful and what's not. They simply want to know about you. But instead of them knowing you, they might just think you have a very busy CV. Instead of saying so much stuff, tell a story that demonstrates your longevity. Being a subspecialist, you're going to be doing this even when you're 65. Investment is what Patrick is looking for. [20:00] What the Residency Application Looks Like The application comes in different chunks. The personal statement is a letter that's 500-1000 words long. You can put anything you want in there. Patrick recommends you do research if you're interested in an academic place. Otherwise, if you apply and not say anything about research, people could get confused. You have to give 3-4 letters of reference. You can also get more than that. The important thing here is to get good people that are known in the community. More importantly, these are people who can enthusiastically talk about you. In one of those references, there's a summary letter of your pediatric program director with a very specific language that they will use. They will also look at all your medical school transcripts. Most medical schools make a summary statement about who you are. They will probably have a paragraph that would say what you did and what's unique about you during medical school. All in all, it ends up being around 40 pieces of paper on an average person. This would also include your hobbies, posters, presentations, papers you wrote, visa status, permanent address, languages spoken, etc. If you're looking for programs, look at their websites and reach out. Work those connections you have with the nurses. They should know stuff about the program directors and the programs. Patrick personally wants applicants to know his worst before they get to the program. Talk to the junior people. [25:00] Procedures in Neonatology: Should You Have a High Level of Dexterity? Patrick is 100% convinced that they can teach students every skill they need to have. You need to have some manual dexterity but you don't need to be able to play the classical piano for two hours. The level is relative. Moreover, the biggest thing in neonatology is intubations. In neonates, the airway is very different than even kids or adults. Some of their kids are very tiny, the smallest kid they've intubated is 275 grams. The airway changes all the time. That's one of the hallmarks of neonatology is you're constantly developing underneath. All that being said, you've got to have the skill level to intubate along that spectrum. They also put in test tubes. They catheterize the umbilical, arterial, and venous lines. This takes a little bit of time. Nevertheless, Patrick is never worried about people's ability to do procedures. [27:40] What Makes Neonatology Fellows Stand Out the Most Patrick explains there's a variety of ways for people to be successful. And the people who are successful as a fellow are sometimes different who become ultimately successful down the road.  The ability to be curious is another great trait. What's unique about Neonatology is you're going to be working relatively hard and putting in a fair amount of time, like a ton of weekends. The people who are successful are those that are willing to do the work, communicate well, and are good problem-solvers. [29:12] Audition Rotation Patrick explains you've got to get the program letter of agreement with regard to insurance, among other things. It's doable though. And it's useful. But this is not something Patrick would personally look for because especially for those coming from a small place, it's hard for them. Hence, an audition rotation doesn't help them too much. [30:15] Osteopath Applicants Patrick's doctor is always an osteopathic doctor. He applied 50-50 when he applied to medical school. What he really likes to see is the research aspect. However, he feels that a lot of the osteopathic residents that apply to him don't have the research chops or don't demonstrate their interest in research. This is unique to the top 15-20 programs in neonatology. They're all big centers and people are doing a fair amount of research. Hence, if you're an osteopath and interested in neonatology, you've got to be able to show to them that you're interested or have that experience. This can be a summer lab or finding somebody wherein you can do some type of research. Some interest or experience in bench research is also something that's desirable as this is rare in pediatrics. This is so hard to pull off, but if you do, this makes you incredibly desirable especially to the big programs. At the end of the day, Patrick really just looks at your ability to be a leader in the long run and curiosity. [32:42] Easy No-Go's An easy no-go for applicants would be felony conviction. This would be logistically challenging for him in terms of the level of additional work he would have to do in order to get the person approved. Some programs have a hard cut-off for board scores. They don't have it though at Patrick's program. Instead, he looks for long-term potential. Moreover, when you fail your boards, this can be problematic. This is hard for any program director to swallow. It's not just about being mean.  If you fail peds boards, they would then have to set a chunk of time out of your second and third year of fellowship so that you can pass your peds board. And if you fail peds board enough, then you're not boards-eligible for neonatology.  And if you fail neo boards, even though you're working somewhere else, they're still your responsibility so they have to find ways to remediate you with the American Board of Pediatrics or the ACGME. Whatever you do, figure out what you need to do to pass those exams or it will just hurt. And it will keep hurting forever. Or this will have negative consequences on the people hiring you. [36:00] Measuring the Metrics of Medicine: Getting Accreditation Patrick adds that if enough people fail your peds board, the ACGME becomes extremely interested in your program. They're interested in hard metrics.  If enough people fail, they're going to lose their accreditation. They could either get on probation or they could get citations. Each of those things has adverse effects on the program. And they can't recruit as well obviously. It then potentially becomes a bigger problem. [36:55] Day-to-Day Life of Neonatologists Patrick recommends that if you're interviewing, really find out what the day-to-day life is. There is a fair amount of heterogeneity among the programs. You have to do a minimum of 12 months of clinical service. You typically show up between 6 or 7. Do rounds and sign out and manage the unit and the myriad of problems that show up. You'd be teaching residents and then signing out again. There would be calls and weekend calls but these vary a lot. You've got to have a research project in some way, shape, or form. And there are a couple of ways to meet that. You could get a master's degree. You can do a QI project or administrative stuff. You also have to do a followup clinic. Every major center that does neonatology has a follow-up clinic. They measure the developmental outcomes of their kids that are really tiny and high-risk. At the end of the day, what Patrick is worried about is the output. So he really doesn't care how you do it. That said, he makes sure you have the help you need and he can step in when necessary. You will be taking care of babies a lot and you'd be in the hospital a lot. But the rest of your life will vary depending on the program and what your research interests are. [39:50] Final Words of Wisdom Know what you're getting into. What Patrick sees a lot is that people get attracted to the field by a dynamic mentor or a dynamic faculty member. And people don't think about the lifestyle very much. Think about what you're going to be doing as a resident, as a fellow, or as an attending for the next thirty years. What you could be doing as a resident is way different than what you're going to be doing as an attending. So try to cultivate those relationships with attendings in the middle of the night. Ask them what life is like raising kids or how it feels when you're taking calls at 65 years old. If you don't like doing night calls and being in the hospital for a good chunk of your life, it probably isn't for you. If this is something you’re interested in, Patrick drops some resources you could look into. Check out ONTPD and TECAN for more NICU-related resources. Links: Meded Media ONTPD TECAN

The spectacular Game 7s in the NBA playoffs. The Twins' less-than-stellar weekend series against the Detroit Tigers. What Patrick likes and dislikes about softball. As is usually the case with our guy, there are few subjects on which he doesn't have an opinion and this week's episode of Unchained is no exception. Patrick explains why getting excited about a baseball team a month-plus into the season can be a mistake and ends with an appearance from Positive Pat in which PP gives us the lowdown on Patrick's upcoming trip to Montreal.

On today’s episode of Just the Tips, Dean and I get started on the right foot when he serenades me about how excited he is to be my co-host. And then, we have an absolutely amazing guest in Patrick McKenna. Patrick is the Founder and CEO of Strike Social, a global, technology-enabled digital advertising company. He has more than 30 years of experience in business development and technology consulting for major corporations. He literally helped build Microsoft into the juggernaut it is today, and with his new company, Strike Social, he’s worked with little mom-and-pop shops like Honda, Mattel and Lionsgate. How sales influenced Patrick’s approach to entrepreneurship Patrick told us that when he was in college, he was pre-law. And then junior year came around and he realized he didn’t want to be a lawyer anymore. So instead he dipped his toe into business, and got started selling phone service to businesses door to door. And as brutal a job as that was, it taught him a really valuable skill early on: You have to do your research. In order to sell, he had to understand what a business did, what their day-to-day looked like, etc. And that skill of learning about customers and what problems they have that need solving has served Patrick well as he’s advanced through his career. How to build a business out of an idea Patrick built an entire, successful division of Microsoft before going on to found Strike Social, one of the fastest growing companies in the country. So I asked him how his work at Microsoft helped him get to where he is today, and he said that what’s really helped him is that he can sell. And that doesn’t just mean selling to a customer, it also means selling something internally as well. And then by taking the feedback from those pitches and really learning to build something, Patrick has done something that not many entrepreneurs can claim as their own. How did Patrick build a company so quickly? One of the key tips Patrick picked up at Microsoft is the need to do high-quality market analysis. Before you even enter a market, you need to know who your competitors are, what their strengths are and what their weaknesses are. And you have to be able to build a case for why it would be a good idea to enter that market, and why you will be successful. And so the “homework” that Microsoft required him to do has ensured that when he started Strike Social, he did the homework, too. And that has allowed Strike Social to grow rapidly. What is Strike Social? When he was at Microsoft, Patrick was part of a leading-edge technology team, and that’s no different with Strike Social. The company works with huge businesses to grow their digital advertising using artificial intelligence. And Patrick was very candid about the company’s early days, which had the company hitting the ground running because of the sales team they had in place, but also hitting speed bumps because they didn’t have a strong technical team in place. If you’re just starting a business and wondering how the best get it done, you need to listen to this week’s Just the Tips. Outline of This Episode [3:24] How Patrick got into business [6:00] What Patrick learned from selling door to door [11:09] Patrick’s history with Microsoft [13:15] How to build a business out of an idea [16:53] Strike Social [19:19] How Strike Social hit the ground running [22:27] How to hire a CTO [26:44] Dean’s partnership issues [31:45] Advice for starting a business Music for “Just The Tips” is titled, “Happy Happy Game Show” by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Resources Mentioned Strike Social Connect With James and Dean James P. Friel: CEO Quickstart Program: https://jamespfriel.clickfunnels.com/about-ceo-quickstart-program?utm_campaign=learnmore&utm_medium=aep&utm_source=homepage Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/hustledetox/ Site: www.jamespfriel.com Dean Holland: Blog: www.DeanHolland.com FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/DeanHollandHQ Billion Dollar Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BillionDollarProject/

Patrick Donohoe is one of Caleb’s mentors and recently wrote the book Heads I Win, Tails You Lose. Together they chat about the principles of wealth maximization and the hierarchy of wealth. This is an insightful episode you’re certain to gain a lot of insight and knowledge from.   Links and Resources from this Episode https://www.amazon.com/Heads-Win-Tails-You-Lose/dp/1544510845 https://paradigmlife.net   Get Your Free Copy of The AND Asset https://www.andasset.com/book   Show Notes How Caleb was inspired by Patrick’s videos - 2:01 Patrick’s big “WHY” for writing his book - 4:23 Unpacking the principle of investing in yourself - 11:33 The hierarchy of wealth and how it applies to your life - 21:24 Why investing is gambling - 26:59 Focusing on the things you have control over - 28:55 How to apply the principles of “wealth maximization” - 35:39 What Patrick would pass on to others - 41:06   Review, Subscribe and Share If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here   Make sure you’re subscribed to the podcast so you get the latest episodes. Subscribe with Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify Subscribe with Stitcher

It’s easy to spot weak company culture, isn’t it? We’ve all witnessed the politics, egos, and backstabbing. That kind of toxic environment makes it hard to do good work and retain good people. But it’s not so easy to pinpoint what makes a thriving company culture. What steps can we take to cultivate it with our current employees? How can we recruit and hire people who “get it?” To answer those questions, Donald Miller sits down with renowned business consultant Patrick Lencioni this week on the Building a StoryBrand podcast. Patrick shares the three characteristics of a great team member, plus practical ways you can help your team develop those traits. Your business can’t reach its potential if your people don’t reach theirs. What Patrick shares here will help you create a positive, authentic company culture that drives your overall business growth. http://buildingastorybrand.com/84

113 Communicating with Impact - Patrick Donadio URL: http://www.julieannsullivan.com/patrick-donadio/   Summary What are the most important skills you can develop to help you succeed in business and in life? While many skills are vital for success, today’s guest will help you see the importance of one skill that makes everything else easier: communication. Patrick Donadio is not only an expert communicator, he is also a kind and generous person who loves to help others become more successful. On today’s episode, he will show you why it’s important to develop superhuman communication skills. You’ll learn the benefits of developing these skills, the science behind good communication, and practical steps to start becoming a better communicator. This is one skill you can’t live without, so prepare to learn and begin making a bigger impact today. Patrick’s bio: Since 1986, Patrick J. Donadio, MBA, has carefully taken his decades of experience and crafted a results-based process for “Communicating with IMPACT.” He has guided C-suite executives, leaders and their organizations with powerful presentations and one-on-one business communications coaching to help them improve communications, presentations, increase profits, deepen relationships, enhance credibility and boost performance—in less time.Patrick has empowered audiences nationally and internationally and has appeared on the same programs with such renowned speakers as: Earvin “Magic” Johnson, LA Lakers point guard; Joan Lunden, former “Good Morning America” host; and comedian Jeff Foxworthy, just to name a few.As an educator, he has taught communications at the University of Notre Dame, The Weatherhead School of Management, The Ohio State University, and The John Glenn College of Public Affairs.   You’ll discover: Why Patrick believes everyone can develop superhuman communication skills. The benefits of developing better communication skills. What Patrick learned about communication from his Italian grandparents who didn’t speak much English. The importance of understanding the science behind good communication. Steps to start becoming a better communicator.   6 principles to help you communication with IMPACT: I – IntentionM – MessageP – PersonA – ActivateC – ClarifyT – Transform   Interview Links & Other Resources PatrickDonadio.com Communicating with Impact by Patrick Donadio Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn Follow Patrick on Twitter Mere Mortals Unite on C-Suite Radio iTunes - Subscribe, Rate and Review

‘Certain blocks [in Harlem], you may wanna watch that twist… But the truth is, I don’t have to un-code anymore. We know there’s still hate out and about and all around, but I don’t feel that fear anymore.’ Today’s guest is prepared to get you out of that shame spiral and help you see life through a lens of possibilities and positivity, sharing his journey as a successful gay black man in the public eye. Patrick Riley is an independent personality and writer in the New York City area. He made his name as a field producer for Oprah from 1998 through 2012, and he continues to do freelance assignments for OWN, as well as independent projects in the areas of pop culture, entertainment and human interest. Patrick learned the fundamentals of working both sides of the camera while studying mass communication at Morehouse College, and worked in local media outlets before moving to the national stage. He has had the opportunity to produce stories on a number of American icons, including Diana Ross, President Bill Clinton, Beyoncé, Mary Tyler Moore, and Master P. Patrick has received recognition for his work from the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Atlanta Association of Media Women. He chairs the National Association of Black Journalists’ Arts & Entertainment Task Force and was recently named Volunteer of the Year by the New York Association of Black Journalists. Today Patrick shares his inspiring story of coming out to a resistant family, the challenges he faced around money, and the choices that contributed to his success. Get inspired to stop your ‘outdated inner recordings’ and foster success in the LGBTQ community at large! Topics Covered How Patrick got involved in field producing • Studied mass communication at Morehouse College • Initial interest in news reporting • Realized passion for pop culture, entertainment and human interest early on How Patrick came out ‘in layers’ • Grew up in Bible belt, youngest son of Air Force Chief Master Sergeant • Came out to close friends first • Shared with conservative family in mid-20’s • Family had no interest in ‘what love looked like on me’ Patrick’s family’s mixed reaction to sharing his story on national television • Producing segment for Oprah called ‘When I Knew I Was Gay’ in 2005 • Reluctantly agreed to share his own testimonial • Family and friends did not respond • Brother honest in his shame • Nephew proud, ‘sign of the future’ The challenges Patrick faced as a successful gay black man • Communicating with loved ones about life (small doses of honesty) • Making decisions around family members asking to borrow money • Overspending to fill emotional void (retail therapy, travel) Patrick’s advice for the LGBTQ community in America today • Trust that consciousness of society is ‘on our side’ • Count your blessings (i.e.: progress re: marriage equality) • Stop your ‘outdated inner recordings’ • Consider mentoring with organizations like Live Out Loud • Pursue activism within your industry • Support LGBTQ up-and-comers in your field Patrick’s guidance around avoiding the mistakes he made early on • Save your money (the ride doesn’t last forever) • Avoid the ‘disease to please’ • Choose reciprocity when plutonic friends expect your perpetual availability What Patrick ‘got right’ (contributors to his success) • Keep your eye on the prize • Stay ambitious and focused • Appraise your situation, be strategic in taking risks Patrick’s take on fostering success in the LGBTQ community at large • Facilitate compassion among allies • Be clear with resistant loved ones when you can • Stronger individuals = stronger community • Contribute time, resources to LGBTQ causes Patrick’s blog, A Day ‘In the Life of Riley’ • Platform to digest life, career • Partnerships with brands (A-listers, underserved, divas) • Attracts on-camera work, event hosting

Patrick Guest is an Australian children's author, Olympic physiotherapist, and father of three. He is most noted for his children's books That's What Wings Are For - dedicated to children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and their parents, and The Ricker Racker Club, written for his boys when their baby sister joined the family. Find out more about Patrick's work at PatrickGuest.com.au. What you'll learn: 1. What Patrick's first career was, and why he gave it up for writing.2. The true story that inspired Patrick to write That's What Wings Are For.3. How The Ricker Racker Club is being used to touch and inspire school children in Melbourne, Australia. 4. What success means to him. FULL TRANSCRIPT Elizabeth: Welcome to Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris, the show that connects authors, songwriters and poets with a global audience. So I can continue to bring you high-calibre guests, I invite you to go to iTunes, click Subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends. I’m delighted to introduce children’s author Patrick Guest (PG) – father of three, Olympic physiotherapist, children’s author. Patrick Guest – born into an ever loving, ever growing family, 7 siblings, in the beachside suburb of Seaford, Melbourne, Australia. Patrick was blessed with all the things that make a childhood magical – plenty of family, friends and freedom to explore this wonderful world. An assortment of careers along the way – cobbler, elephant washer, failed accountant, anatomy demonstrator at Monash Uni, national team physio for Mozambique. Little wonder he’s been dubbed the Forrest Gump of Frankston. Adventures and stories seem to follow him around and now he’s writing them down. 5 books, (signed with a little hair) in the past 2 years, many more in the pipeline. Patrick Guest, welcome to Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris. Patrick: Great to be here, Elizabeth. Elizabeth: Great to have you here, Patrick, on this lovely sunny day in Melbourne, believe it or not, we’ve got the sun. Patrick, we recently discovered we attended the same secondary college.  Patrick: We did. Elizabeth: I had to smile when I read you initially became an accountant. Please tell my listeners about that transgression - and how you escaped. Patrick: Ah, the transgression. Let’s start with that. Look. Fear, insecurity, there was a recession kicking in. But really I think, as a 17-year-old, having to work out what subjects to choose, I didn’t know how to make that decision at 17. Elizabeth: So you did Economics … is that right? Patrick: Economics, Accounting, Legal Studies, Maths. I was really probably inspired at that time by my favourite TV show, Family Ties – Michael J. Fox. Elizabeth: Wasn’t he great? He’s great. Still. Patrick: At the time, I think back now – what a dork he was – it probably says a lot about what a dork I was and still am. I thought he was cool. Elizabeth: He was funny, and you’re funny. Patrick: He was cool, and I thought “Who do I want to be like?”, and I thought “Michael J. Fox”. I went down the corporate path, which was a terrible decision. I don’t regret it – I made some friends for life, and I realized early on that money doesn’t make you happy. Elizabeth: It’s such an important lesson at that age, isn’t it, cause many people learn that quite late, if at all. Patrick: Yeah, so that’s something that has stayed with me, and I’m really grateful. Elizabeth: Was there a pivotal moment when you realized “This accounting thing is just not me”? Was there an incident? Patrick: There was. Elizabeth: Can you share that, or is that private? Patrick: No, no, let’s share this. It’s all about sharing in this session. So I’m walking down Flinders St Station, and I’m walking down in my suit and tie, down the ramp… Elizabeth: How old were you at the time? Patrick: It would have been in my first year out of graduation, maybe 22 or something. 21, 22. Walking down the ramp, with cattle class, just walking down, we were all off to work. Against the flow, this lady came through the crowd and just gently put her hand on me and said, “Smile!” Elizabeth: (Laughter) I promise you it wasn’t me. Patrick: She just said “Smile” and I’m walking down – I must have looked so miserable. Elizabeth: Was she an angel or a real person? Patrick: I don’t know. But I hear where you’re coming from there, because from that moment – and I blame Banjo Patterson – and maybe my dad for putting me onto Banjo. Elizabeth: Why? It’s good to blame other people, isn’t it? Patrick: My favourite Australian poem would be The Great Clancy of the Great Overflow… Elizabeth: Oh wonderful. Patrick: …And where Banjo writes: And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me   As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste, With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,    For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.   So that poem was just ringing in my ears as I was off to the office sitting there, and from that moment I had come to the end of my fancy – I had a lot to change with Clancy. But I doubt he’d suit the office, Clancy of the Overflow. And for someone who had had that instilled in him, the spirit of adventure at a very young age, and parents – wonderful parents that had fostered that– and here I am in this shoebox, little partitioned office thing, and it just wasn’t for me. Elizabeth: Soul-destroying. Patrick: Soul-destroying. For some people it isn’t, and some of my best friends have continued along that path, and it’s a great path for them, but for me it wasn’t. Elizabeth: We need everybody, don’t we, the array of professions and tradespeople, everybody to do their bit. But you had much more important things in store, Patrick. Which brings me to – our school was really quite traditional in lots of ways, being a Catholic coed college, with all the gender bias that goes with that. And I remember going back to Economics, and I remember being one of the few girls in Chemistry and Economics, because it was always the boys who were going to be the accountants, and the girls were going to be teachers or nurses. And in fact I did go on to be a nurse, but I was very happy to do that. So to me in our school, there was a real gender bias. And you address this in your fantastic book, The Ricker Racker Club. Can you tell us more about this great book please? Patrick: The Ricker Racker Club is based on a real club, invented by real people: my two boys, Noah and Reuben. So Noah and Reuben were roughly 4 and 3 at the time when the Ricker Racker Club was formed. And there was one hard and fast rule: No Girls. (Laughter) There were a few other rules: do something incredibly brave, do something incredibly kind, but the real rock-solid rule was No Girls. And then what happened… Elizabeth: I’m sure that’s changed now. Patrick: …They had themselves a sister, little Gracie. Gracie was born, and really the story of The Ricker Racker Club is what happened next after Gracie. Now Gracie is perfectly named. She is pure grace, she is pure joy. She does have an intellectual disability, and her capacity for joy is extraordinary. And she would – as happens in the book – walk up to the wolf next door and give the wolf a big hug. Her courage, her kindness, her unique joy, won the boys over very quickly. They won us all over, and the story sprung from there. Really, it’s a celebration of the joys of being a kid, and the innocence of these rules. They’re not coming from a nasty place, these rules – just boys being boys. But then, just the power of kindness, if there’s one thing that runs through all my books, it’s the power of kindness… Elizabeth: Yes, definitely. Patrick: …to change hearts. So that’s how that happened. And really The Ricker Racker Club is about a father saying to his two sons, “Be good to your sister.” Elizabeth: And you do it so well, Patrick. Patrick: And so it’s done really well. Elizabeth: When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Patrick: From the moment I could write. So I started very young. I do remember a series, ‘Powerful Patrick’. And I must have been about 5 or 6. I was doing the pictures back then and I was stapling them together, making these little books. And I’m sure Mum and Dad delighted in them. But I’m not sure anyone else did. Elizabeth: Have you still got them? Patrick: I haven’t been able to find them. Elizabeth: Oh no. Patrick: I hope I can find them one day. Mum was always a little bit of a hoarder, so it’ll be somewhere in the house. They’re still in the same place I grew up in, so they’ll be somewhere in that house. So I’ve been a natural storyteller my whole life. The vehicle for that telling a story was just verbal stories and emails and love letters to Lisa my wife … I’ve always found a way to put things on paper. But certainly through the barren accounting years, then really trying to work out where my lane was that had been lying dormant, and then the birth of Noah – my first son, Noah – came a flood of stories and the desire to get these things down on paper. The rest is history. Elizabeth: What was it particularly about that event - the birth of Noah – that opened the floodgates, so to speak? Patrick: Well the birth itself…even before the birth I was starting to work on a book. But it’s, I think it’s just this natural, just as we have a desire to breathe, have food and water, a desire to be heard and understood, and then as a parent, it’s just this innate desire to share stories and to bond through stories. Elizabeth: Legacy. Patrick: Legacy. What my dad did was the same with me. My grandfather – I vividly remember my grandfather declaring over me that “You’re going to be an author one day.” Elizabeth: Oh wow. Did he write? Patrick: My grandfather, no. It was more my grandmother – she was a gifted storyteller. She kissed the Blarney Stone a few times, Ma, and... So it’s flowed through, that Blarney Stone – the kissing of the Blarney Stone gift has been passed through, through Grandmother to my dad. Elizabeth: We have a similar heritage then. Patrick There you go. And I can see it in my kids as well. Noah and Reuben, they love telling stories and they love hearing stories. So it’s been passed on for sure. Elizabeth: That’s fantastic. Can you advise all the aspiring writers out there how to get started, and more importantly, how to keep going? Patrick: How to get started… I can only speak, maybe quote Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” So I can only speak from the authority of my own experience. I don’t have a technique or a tactic or a ritual that I go through. I pray. I pray, and one thing that I’ll say to people when asked this question – again I don’t want to get too preachy here – but if you want to get creative, it helps to get in touch with your Creator. That’s all I can say. That might be a bit controversial but for some ears, but that’s what works for me. I don’t get on my knees and say “God, give me another book!” Elizabeth: “Give me a bestseller or a …” Patrick: “Give me a bestseller!” What I actually do is I surrender my agenda. Elizabeth: So ego is left aside. Patrick: Ego is left aside, and any preconceived ideas are left aside. So I’m not sitting there going “Give me inspiration”. I’m giving myself out, and saying “Take away”. Elizabeth: Use me, as a conduit. Patrick: “Use me”, and if that’s to be the best barista in Mornington, or go back to my cobbling beginnings, or elephant-washing beginnings, so be it. So most of – no, really all of – my flashes of inspiration you could say… There’s that great poem by Rumi, Listening, where he says, “When that voice speaks, may I sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears.” So when I’m hearing that voice, that is always followed by a period of prayerfulness or meditation which just opens up that creativity. Sounds easy. I know when I hear that voice, and I sell my tongue, I know that there’s a double emotion. Joy, and dread. Because I know that I’m in for some hard work. Elizabeth: ‘Cause writing can be hard work, can’t it. And the discipline that’s required – and you know you may not particularly feel like writing that day – but you have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Patrick: Yes, so back to the question, which was “How do we keep going?” How do we start? For me, I don’t really start until I’ve heard the voice, I’ve heard that voice, I’ve heard that spark of inspiration. How do I keep going? I know that I won’t have peace until it’s done. So I’m listening to that voice but I also know that it’s a collaboration after that. So I’m seeking opportunities to get it on paper or get it onto the computer. And they are taken in the busyness of my life with 3 young kids and a fulltime job as a physio. I have to be creative just to find that time. So often it’s my wonderful patients – patient patients – lying on the physio plinth – and I’ll just seek an opportunity to say, “Now that you’ve got all those needles all over you, there’s no way to run out of here. Would you mind listening to my latest? What do you think of it?” Elizabeth: Do they come back for another appointment after that, Patrick? Patrick: Normally they do. I don’t think I’ve managed to scare anyone off yet. Elizabeth: I might need to book for a session. Do I have to have a needle? Patrick: Not always, but it does – has that influence on my clinical judgment. Might be, if I’m honest. But I call it ‘bibliotherapy’. That works well, so I’m looking for opportunity. Sometimes I’ll pull the car over and send myself a text message for a sentence. Or middle of the night, off to the computer, or scribbling in bed on a bit of paper. I don’t have a routine about how to get these things down. Elizabeth: 2 a.m. is a common time for me to receive a sentence too. Patrick: In the shower can be a good place – you can scratch it into the wall, into the mist, write it down, whatever it is. But I’m in the posture of seeking the opportunity to find that time to write that down once I’ve heard that voice. Elizabeth: Can we talk about your work – who you work with, the wonderful men and women that you care for? Can we talk about that? Patrick: Yes, so 2 days a week, I work at the medical centre at Victoria Barracks, which is a service based in Melbourne. They are wonderful, so when I first started working for the military, I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder about war and the work of the military. Elizabeth: In what way? Patrick: I’d been a bit of a hippie, a bit of a peace lover, a bit biased against the war machine, or whether it’s a valuable service that the Army and Navy and Air Force offer. And then you get to meet these people and hear their stories. Elizabeth: Amazing. Patrick: Amazing, the sacrifice made. I see the plague of PTSD is becoming more public or known as an extension of the epidemic of general mental health problems in the world. As a physio you get a front row seat really, and you get the rare – it’s a real privilege to offer probably two of the greatest needs of the human being: to be heard and understood, and to be touched. Elizabeth: Yes. Beautiful. Patrick: To be touched. There aren’t many mainstream medical professionals that offer both. So as a physio you’re in a really good place and space to offer that service and in that way to gather stories. So in that way it does feed into the other half of my career, which is becoming more than half really, the writing side of things, and the gathering of stories from the confessional plinth is part of that, and the sharing of stories is part of that. Elizabeth: They’re exceptionally lucky to have you. Patrick: Goes both ways. Elizabeth: You’ve had wonderful success with your book sales. What does success mean to you? Patrick: About three bucks fifty? (Laughter) So I remember when my amazing editor and publisher Margrete Lamond sat me down – we met face to face for the first time – she’s based in New South Wales – one of her first pieces of advice was “Don’t give up your day job!” Elizabeth: I’ve had the same advice before. Patrick: So in terms of success it’s been humbling and mind-blowing to think that That’s What Wings Are For – my first book – has cracked the magical 10,000 books sold in Australia within 6 months. Elizabeth: Wow. Congratulations. That’s wonderful. Patrick: So now we’re into our second year of sales. I’m not sure where we’re up to now, but has been picked up internationally and translated internationally to Chinese and Korean and several other languages. What does it mean to me? It means that – it gives me a voice, a chance to talk to your lovely self, and to visit schools. I love that side of being a writer. Most writers are more comfortable in a darkened room tapping away. To my surprise, I was a very reluctant public speaker but I absolutely love going out to the schools. On Wednesday, I had a full school assembly, hundreds of kids there, and the audience and ability to speak and share… Elizabeth: ‘Cause you make that fun, don’t you. We’re just going back to The Ricker Racker Club for a moment, and can we know how you make that fun for the kids? ‘Cause the parents listening there would be really interested – we know we’re there to do hard work but school can be fun as well. So how do you make it fun for them, Patrick? Patrick: Well, The Ricker Racker Club – I invite everyone to join this very exclusive club, The Ricker Racker Club, IF they pass the test. So I read the story, but along the way we pause and issue challenges to the members of the audience to come up on behalf of the whole school, see if they can pass this test. So we follow the story. And one of the characters is Max, and in the first week he sticks his head into the fox’s hole. So I make up a little fox’s hole, and find a willing kid to stick his head into this fox’s hole. The whole school are counting 20 seconds and I bring out this little stuffed fox. So the poor kid doesn’t know I’m tiptoeing up behind him and “Raaaahhh!” Elizabeth: (Laughter) Do you get a lot of screams? Patrick: We get a few of those, and then the villain of the book is this wolf next door, which is based on a great German Shepherd that lived next door to me, and I have the scar to prove, the moment the basketball flew over the fence. I rescued the basketball – and Chance (the dog’s name was Chance) – got me. And so the wolf next door – it would normally have a wolf suit – and it’s normally the PE teacher who dresses up as a wolf. Elizabeth: Would you go to our school? They’d love you. Patrick: I’d love to. Elizabeth: Ours is a service school, so you’ll like it. Ours is a service school, so we have a lot of service families that go to... Nice connection for you. Patrick: I’d love to come out. Absolutely. So the kids build up and up and at the end, “Who wants to join this club?” “Yeah!” “Who wants to learn the secret password?” “Yeah!” So I force it down a little and say, “Unfortunately you haven’t done quite enough yet.” Elizabeth: (Laughter) Oh my, the kids will go “Oh what?” Patrick: So it’s a case of “Do not put up your hand, do not raise your hand, unless you are extremely brave.” All the hands go up. “I mean it, I’m warning you now – extremely brave.” Elizabeth: What age group are we looking at, with the hands going up? Patrick: Prep, all the way to 6. Elizabeth: The whole school, wow. Patrick: At this point, some of the Grade 6s I can tell – folded their arms; it’s a bit babyish for them. So picture it: I do target them a bit at this point. So I’ll normally look for the guy who’s lost interest – the kid can be too cool for school here. And I’ll grab this fellow and bring him up. “So on behalf of the school, let’s talk about Courage. Courage comes in many forms. You’ve already demonstrated Courage by standing up in front of the whole school. But Courage comes in many forms. The courage to make a mistake when you know it’s going to get you in trouble. You’re scared of something. And then there’s taste buds. So we go back to Week 3, if you were listening, what did Zack do in Week 3?” And he’ll say “I’m sorry, I can’t remember.” Again in a loud voice, “What did Zack do in Week 3?” And you get the book out again: Zack drank a tomato sauce milkshake. At this point I’m standing behind him with milk, and then I bring out the tomato sauce. And what’s he do now? At this point he’s shaking his head ‘no’. And the school have already started the chant without encouragement: “Drink! Drink! Drink! Drink!” So I make this milkshake, this foaming tomato sauce milkshake… Elizabeth: Oh no. Patrick: And I pause again and say “Unfortunately my friend, Zack did that for one person. You’re doing it for 700 people right now. That’s not enough. So I look around – I shop for the largest Brussel sprout I can find. And I bring out this Brussel sprout, drop it into the tomato sauce milkshake, and present it to this fellow. Elizabeth: Poor kid. Patrick: The poor kid. Originally, I used this – it occurred to me that this is peer group pressure of the highest order. So I now use this as an opportunity for this poor unfortunate kid to – they’re saying no at this point – I really esteem that courage. I say “Look, you have done something extraordinarily brave. Everyone here at some point is going to face a baying crowd of people saying ‘Drink! Drink!’ or whatever. Elizabeth: That’s so clever, Patrick. Patrick: And to say no in the face of that, is true Courage. So I give him a round of applause and he sits down. “Now who wants to be a legend?” (Laughter) So someone else comes up. Or I’ll turn it into the “What would the kind person do now?” Or even better. “Maybe there’s a teacher in the audience…” Elizabeth: So what I’ll do is I’ll leave it there, because if the school listens to that one they won’t book you. I will leave them in suspense. When I first read That’s What Wings Are For, I was sitting in a coffee shop, with tears rolling down my cheeks. The other patrons respectfully averted their eyes. And you know you’ve found a great book when so much emotion is ... Can you please tell us about your inspiration for That’s What Wings Are For? Patrick: So That’s What Wings Are For … Maybe I can mention one of my favourite poems of all time, which is The Hound of Heaven. The Hound of Heaven, for those who don’t know, written more than a hundred years ago by a homeless opium addict in London, Francis Thompson. So he was asking the big question: how could a loving God allow such suffering in the world, and particularly in his own life? And the penny starts to drop about halfway through. He says maybe, just maybe, You allow us in Your love to burn and burn until we become charcoal, and You pick us up and You create Your masterpiece. So That’s What Wings Are For – I’m not calling it a masterpiece – it certainly came from a burning charcoal in process. And that process was the great sadness in my life. My son Noah has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is a devastating condition that involves the wasting of muscles. And the heart’s a muscle, and it’s a devastating disease. So in light of that I was asked to write a book about a certain blue dragon Bluey, who is the mascot for all the families affected by this devastating disease. So I was working on another book at the time, and I was asked to write this book. And I jumped at the chance, but I also knew there was a heavy responsibility writing that. So really you can look globally at that and look at the whole community impacted by that, but really it was a love letter from a father to a son. Elizabeth: Beautiful. Patrick: And that’s how it was written, and that is something I do say when I go out to the schools. You’ve heard Ricker Racker – it’s quite a boisterous, joyous occasion. When I go out to talk about That’s What Wings Are For, I basically start off in a fun way, and then I bring it back sharply and I say, I bring out Bluey, the actual mascot, a blue plush teddy, and I say “I actually met Bluey on the worst day of my life.” And to have a school go from being quite boisterous, and the teachers go “Shh! Shh! Shh!” to your pin drop in one sentence… Elizabeth: Wow, that’s powerful. Patrick: They get it. They get it. From the preppies all the way up to the Grade 6s, they get it, and there’s a real reverence suddenly about the book and why it was written. And then I explain what’s happened from there and we go from there. I still struggle to read it without crying, but they are tears of – what will I say - I heard this line yesterday – “what we sow with tears, we reap with shouts of joy”. And there’s something joyous – it’s bigger than me, this thing. It’s bigger than me. Elizabeth: What you’ve created is magnificent. Patrick: Thank you. Elizabeth: You’re welcome. You mentioned in an interview that 80% of That’s What Wings Are For was written over breakfast with your family, and then one sentence that brought tears to your eyes took you 3 months to write. Can you please share that sentence with my listeners and what it was that finally led you to discover the sentence that made you cry? Patrick: What it was was my incredible ego. I just – it went to my head. The idea of being a published author and all this went absolutely to my head. Elizabeth: Well you are only human after all. (Laughter) Patrick: Well, I’m sitting back there, I’m imagining red carpets, imagining walking up the stairs. It was shocking! And here I am, I’ve written a book for my sick kid, and my ego’s having a field day. At this point I hadn’t even had the manuscript finished… Elizabeth: You were strutting around… Patrick: It was appalling. I’m embarrassed about it, at the way I was carrying on in my head anyway. So we needed – Bluey needed a reason to be doing what he did ultimately, which is find a reason for his wings. And I was trying all these sentences about sending him off to Margrete, and very gently and respectfully she would be saying “That is rubbish.” (Laughter) Elizabeth: Thanks Margrete. She just knew there was more to you – she knows how deep you are. Patrick: She knew how to push the buttons and what’s right. And equally my wife Lisa as well. And more so my wife Lisa, she has a great ability to tell me when I’m writing something that’s rubbish - and good as well. Elizabeth: Good. Patrick: So the to-ing and fro-ing went on for months. And then I had this moment of “You complete goose! What are you doing?” And certainly at that moment I decided that every cent from this book would be given to charity, which it always should have been anyway, and I made that decision, and entered some prayer and reflection, and within really minutes of making that decision – within minutes – I was given this sentence. And I have to set the context of that time. And at the time we had a crudely termed … we called it a ‘year of adventure’ – you could call it a bucket list, and we were doing all sorts of things around the world. So the sentence – Bluey was coming back from the Royal Children’s Hospital. It was broadened to be a magical building filled with magical creatures with all sorts of ailments. So at that moment when Bluey looks out, and when I’m reading the story to the school, I’ll have people close their eyes and put their hands on their hearts, and feel. Elizabeth: Which I’m going to do now. Patrick: And if you keep feeling, you’ll feel something. You may not feel it straightaway, but if you keep trying, you’ll get there. You’ll feel something warm and fuzzy. And that feeling has a name; it has lots of names. Kindness, and hope, and love, and what happens – and at this moment, Bluey looks across, and I share this sentence: “Bluey saw the boy’s soft, floppy legs, and at that moment, something happened in Bluey’s heart. He stopped for that moment thinking so much about his own situation, and he looked inward. He looked out, and saw this boy sharing a similar path. That word ‘empathy’. That changed everything for Bluey; it helped him work out what his wings were for.” So we go on from there. Elizabeth: Beautiful. That compassion for another person. The author-illustrator relationship is such a pivotal one. Can you describe what is important to you in such a relationship? Patrick: Respect, and trust, and space. So ‘let there be space in your togetherness’. Certainly for the first two books – the first one, Daniella Germain, extraordinary talent. And then the same with Nathanial Eckstrom, rising superstar of the illustration world. So first book, I had no contact at all with Daniella until after all the illustrations were done. Had no input into the illustrations at all. So in terms of relationship, it’s one of trust. Slightly different with the second book – some feedback. Poor Nathanial, I saw his amazing illustrations, but – and it was amazing that he managed to draw my 3 kids without having seen a photo of them, quite accurately – except for Gracie wears glasses. And I just politely asked whether he might pop glasses on Poppy (Gracie is named Poppy in the book). So he went back and put glasses on. Then I had a look at that and thought, “No. Makes her look too old now. Can you take the glasses off?” So that was a bit of a diva moment for me, I suppose. But other than that it really is letting go and not being too precious and trusting in the selection of the illustrator – that’s up to the publisher – and I trust Margrete to make that decision, and she hasn’t failed me yet. I know how she is with me with the words, and she’s that way again with the illustrator. Elizabeth: What a wonderful person to find! Patrick: She is great, she’s fantastic. Elizabeth: What are you working on at the moment? Patrick: Well, the undercurrent to all the picture books that have been picked up in the last couple of years has been a novel for children called The Last Secret of Ernie Pigwinkle, and I’ve been working on the story for more than 10 years. And it comes and goes, and then another idea overrides that. But I keep coming back to The Last Secret of Ernie Pigwinkle. That is lying dormant again, but I know I will go back to that, so there’s always that in the background. That story is the story of an old man who loves to tell stories. And he has this great secret. Great secret, that he's burning with this secret, to share it with his grandson Arthur. Long story short, he gets invited to the World Storytelling Competition in Marrakesh, Morocco, up against the greats of storytelling. Professor Chinwag from China, Lord Blabbermouth from England. I won’t give too much away, but he makes it to the final and he tells this great secret, but the secret is revealed slowly as the story goes along. Elizabeth: Suspense right through… Patrick: Right through. It has been a lot of hard work, also joy, and I have a sense that one day it will happen. I’ve also recently finished another picture book manuscript that is very, very dear to my heart, called Tiny Dancer. Elizabeth: The Elton John song. Patrick: The Elton John song, so hopefully Sir Elton will approve, and that’s really dear to my heart, and I’m in an acquisitions meeting on that one. And we’re in the process of illustrating and that process does involve some word changes. My next release which will be next year, I thought that was going to be a book called The Second Sky. It sounds like – based on this week’s emails – it sounds like it will be called Rabby the Brave. Elizabeth: You’re just prolific – you’re pounding on aren’t you, one after the other. Patrick: Look, it’s been a blessed couple of years. There’s been a very rich vein of inspiration and creativity that’s happening at the moment. Really grateful. Elizabeth: We’re very, very pleased too, I must say. Can’t wait to read them. What do you like to do in your spare time to unwind from all this work you’re doing – the physio work with the military, your family, and all this wonderful writing you’re doing? What do you do to unwind? Patrick: I’m clinging to my childhood in terms of chasing a bouncy ball around. I still play basketball. There’s a competition going on in Victoria Barracks actually, so at the ripe old age of 45, I’m taking on the burly soldiers, I’m taking on the burly soldiers in this basketball competition. Elizabeth: Well you have to keep up on being brave. (Laughter) Patrick: I love it. I must say I’m shamelessly, every goal I score – there aren’t many of them – I’m celebrating them like they could be my last. So there’s the fist pump and the whooping after every goal I score. And would you believe I’m still sort of – don’t let Lisa know but I’m still playing football. Full contact. There’s a wonderful competition – Reclink, midweek, battlers’ competition. You may have heard of the Choir of Hard Knocks – Reclink was spawned from it and there’s a football league for battlers, whether it be homeless refugees or people battling addiction. So we’ve set up a team in Frankston, and I’ve been the … Elizabeth: You are brave. (Laughter) Patrick: Madness, absolute madness. And so I’ve been the physio, the chaplain, the halfback flank and the water boy, whatever goes on, whatever’s needed for that team. And there’s just something primal about playing Australian Rules football that I just can’t let go of. And if I ever get the chance, I’ll go out surfing as well. Elizabeth: Isn’t it great to tap into that raw energy and just let yourself go? Patrick: It is. With surfing, it’s one of the few pastimes or sports where you spend 95% of the time staring at the horizon. So you get a chance to unwind – then it goes from the serenity to scrambling for your life. It’s great. Elizabeth: It’s a bit of a metaphor, isn’t it? Patrick: It’s great. Yes, so those are the 3 main things. Elizabeth: Do you want to remain in the children’s book genre? Patrick: Absolutely. Maybe one day a book for grownups, but certainly at the moment I’m loving – when you write a picture book, you are writing for grownups – you’re writing for two generations. Elizabeth: It’s that connection, I think, with parent-child. It’s so special. And you both learn so much when you’re reading together. Patrick: Absolutely. And I’ve been trying to make the transition from picture books into early readers, and I’ve found that quite hard. I might have to leapfrog that and go into older early readers. Because to go from a picture book to an early reader is – you got to dumb it down. You really have to dumb it down. That’s a crude way of saying it, but you do. There are certain concepts you have to avoid, and using poetry or metaphors is a bit more tricky. So maybe that’s not for me, that niche. So certainly The Last Secret of Ernie Pigwinkle is for an older reader, an older young reader. And then the picture books as well. I might stick to those, to genres within the broader children’s book genre for now. We’ll see what happens after. Elizabeth: You’re so insightful. Because you haven’t actually studied Creative Writing or completed a formal uni degree in writing, and yet your knowledge is so vast. Is you’re your intuition at play again, do you think? Patrick: Not sure. I think it’s a blessing. Don’t want to use the word ‘gift’, but I think it’s nothing to be proud of if it’s a gift. Elizabeth: I really have to disagree, because so many people are given, receive gifts, it’s then what you do with that gift. And so many people do not do anything with what they’ve been blessed with. I do think you can claim that proudly and whoop, like on a footy field. (Laughter) Patrick: Maybe. I do love whooping when there’s a sense of victory, a sense of accomplishment – once you finish that manuscript, submit to send, and you know it’s off, and have such a beautiful relationship with Margrete. I should mention Alyson O’Brien, who is also with Little Hare – I’m increasingly involved with her. I know that they will read it and give it the full attention and get back to me quite quickly, so that agonizing wait has been reduced to, in some cases, a few hours now, which is great. Elizabeth: It’s cause you’re so clever, and they know it. Do you have a website or blog, Patrick, that my listeners can go to find out more about your wonderful work? Patrick: Yes, there’s a shiny new website, “Patrick Guest dot com dot au”. I know nothing about the technical side of websites, and a great friend of mine, Jeffrey County, has helped set that up, and it’s sparkling. Elizabeth: Aren’t tech people great? I’m not one of those. Patrick: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. There’s no way I could do that. So that’s up and running now, so there’s opportunity to email me and contact me through that. Happy to do that. Elizabeth: Patrick, this is a signature question that I ask all my guests. What do you wish for, for the world, and most importantly, for yourself? Patrick: That’s a big one. Look, the first thing that springs to mind is a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Elizabeth: I’m with you. Patrick: That would be the first thing. But if I thought more about it, more broadly… Maybe I could go back to Ernie Pigwinkle, The Last Secret of Ernie Pigwinkle. So I’ll give away a little bit, so we get to the end of the story. We’re at the World Storytelling Championships, so Ernie, this old man from Ballarat, has made the final and won, thanks to his grandson. So the secret starts off as “Do you know why dogs wag their tails?” We move on from there to “Why dogs and cats fight – the origins of war”. Then he finishes with a little song, a little poem he says to the world: It’s a war that’s continued to this very day. It’s a shame that Dog and Cat couldn’t think of a way To listen and learn and be understood, And love one another as all of us could. You don’t have to carry on like a dog or a cat. You’re not a baboon or as blind as a bat. There’s a heart in your chest and a brain in your head. So before you lose faith, hold on instead. Hold on to your faith in the goodness of others. Never give up on your sisters and brothers. You’ll see for yourself, as sure as the sun, That there’s something worth loving in everyone. He says that. Elizabeth: I need a box of tissues. [Laughter] Oh Patrick, my goodness, that’s so beautiful. Thank you for sharing that. Patrick: That’s the world premiere of The Last Secret of Ernie Pigwinkle and… Elizabeth: What a coup on Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris. Wow, Patrick! Superb. Patrick Guest, thank you so much for joining me on “Writers Tete-a-Tete with Elizabeth Harris”. We look forward to more of your stunning work. I totally agree with you: hugging is what wings are for. Thanks for tuning in everyone, and may your wishes come true. [END OF TRANSCRIPT]

In episode 63, Patrick Bet David CEO of the PHP Agency, author and creator of the Youtube Channel Valuetainment drops a ton of knowledge on how to operate at a level 9 productivity for 16 hours per day, why it is critical to do your own self discovery to clarify your vision and reach high levels of success and what it takes to disrupt an industry. Patrick is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching thought provoking perspectives on entrepreneurship and disrupting the traditional approach to a career. Patrick’s popularity surged and created a buzz in the hearts of entrepreneurs all over the world when The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 Seconds, a video he created, accumulated over 25 million views online. This and sores of other videos comprise his library of edifying, educational and inspirational content about entrepreneurship. What Patrick’s online audience and fans most appreciate about Patrick is that he isn’t just a YouTube personality regurgitating content they learned in books, instead he’s an active CEO dealing with day to day challenges ranging from hiring, firing, negotiating with investors, compliance, marketing, expansion and many other facets of running a business. This also led to the interest from one of the largest online entrepreneurial magazines, Entrepreneur.com being interested in featuring his content on their site and Entrepreneur Network, their online YouTube channel. Patrick has also hosted a series of one-on-one interviews with some of the world’s most interesting people, including Billionaire and Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak NBA Hall of Famer James Worthy, Author of 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene, Indy-500 Winner Al Unser Jr., among many others. To further encourage individuals to seek mentorship and counsel from some of the greatest minds out there, three years ago, Patrick launched the Entrepreneur’s Book Club, which has

Patrick McGinnis is a venture capitalist, private equity investor, and author of The 10% Entrepreneur.   WATCH THE FREE FULL EPISODE: http://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/patrick-mcginnis-the-10-percent-entrepreneur/ In his book Patrick shows how, by investing just 10% of your time and resources, you can become an entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck. After a decade on Wall Street he founded Dirigo Advisors to provide strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs, and fast growing businesses. In this capacity, he has worked in a range of settings, from building startups from the ground up in Silicon Valley to acting as an expert consultant to the World Bank in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. As a 10% Entrepreneur, he has built a diverse portfolio of investments outside of his day job. This portfolio encompasses fast growing new ventures in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, including ipsy, the world’s largest online beauty community; Bluesmart, the inventor of the world’s first smart, connected carry-on suitcase; and Afiniti, a big data company that is reinventing the call center industry. He has also been a partner in several real estate investments and is a seed investor in the upcoming London stage adaptation of The Last King of Scotland. Patrick is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Georgetown University and also writes for Fortune, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Boston Magazine, and Forbes. Chapters: 00:00 Trailer 01:39 Brian’s thoughts on the episode. 04:42 Brian’s Introduction. 05:16 Brexit challenge to attracting global talent for start-ups. 08:30 What has made becoming entrepreneurial much more accessible. 10:21 How the FoMO acronym came about and went viral. 14:48 What FoMO means for the ordinary person. 16:03 Has Patrick learnt anything from FoMO, FoBO and FoDA? 16:44 How FoMO makes Tim Ferris anxious. 17:07 FoMO is the Wildebeest of Venture Capital. 17:59 The value in going to Harvard Business School. 21:13 Financial crash of 2008. 24:43 The massive collapse of AIG totally destroyed his illusion. 27:01 Patrick’s dilemma of what to do next. 29:12 Brian’s financial crash story. 30:32 Patrick’s journey from being in limbo, to the 10% concept. 36:51 Angel advisors. 38:05 How the 10% can equate to half a day advising start-up companies. 39:20 Can anyone become a 10% entrepreneur? 40:37 How the 10% offer works in practice. 43:44 The five different types of entrepreneurs. 43:58 The role of an angel. 45:33 The advisor. 46:52 The founder. 47:09 The aficionado. 48:18 The 110% entrepreneur. 49:07 Is it all just about the money? 53:10 What job satisfaction statistics illustrate. 55:09 Where entrepreneurs go wrong over giving equity. 58:33 Working out the percentage value of advice you offer or of being on the board. 1:00:48 The story of Zipcar. 1:03:49 Facebook illustration of how partnerships can go wrong. 1:05:35 Glamorisation and de-emphasis of the reality of entrepreneurship. 1:08:34 Learn about the business first before fully committing finance. 1:11:30 Ipsy investment. 1:14:22 Patrick’s emotional moments with Ipsy. 1:17:51 Bluesmart investment. 1:19:07 Crowdfunding advice. 1:20:33 What Patrick learned from an advisory role which went wrong. 1:22:21 Reputation risk. 1:23:57 How should people get started in 10% investing? 1:29:48 Screwing up and redeeming himself in a presentation to a book publisher. 1:36:14 What Patrick has learned from having a published book. 1:39:07 Success secrets. 1:39:55 Brian’s personal support for Patrick’s 10% entrepreneur idea. 1:41:38 Phone call to the 20 year old Patrick. 1:42:21 Best advice ever received. 1:43:38 Advice to the 20 year old who wants to be like Patrick. 1:45:15 Brian’s summing up.    Patrick McGinnis' website: http://patrickmcginnis.com/   FULL SHOW NOTES: http://londonrealacademy.com/episodes/patrick-mcginnis-the-10-percent-entrepreneur/