Patrick Francie
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118 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Patrick Francie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not a correction. The only way I would reword that is that I think it's simple. I don't know that it's easy. The first time especially, it is simple. but it's not necessarily easy because you got to go through all the things you got to go through. So I don't try and paint any, you know, rose colored glasses, pictures.
So you got to work and you got to be a little bit courageous and, and you got to put time into it. Right.
Yeah. It is. And there's another side to that too, which is, you know, I use the term courageous, you know, you could use the term big balls, it all matters, right? The point is, is that you're willing to take it on and go through it. And you don't need to have all the answers.
There's a good friend of mine who, like you, and I'm going to call you young only because listen, at my age, anybody under 50 is young. So
uh you know i refer to them as kids that's just that's how i'm wired but a good friend of mine who like you is very successful at a young age and he just turned 40 or 41 and you know he probably got a net worth of 50 or 60 million dollars but he has a very fundamental philosophy and that is he's the guy that'll jump out of the airplane without a parachute
And the reason he'll do it is he's 100% confident that he'll get that parachute built before he hits the ground. So when he starts on a project, he sees the vision. The vision is, I'm going to jump out of that airplane. I'm going to have a soft landing. It's going to be the ride of my life. and I know I can do this and I don't need all the details.
I'm willing to do that, take that dive and build it as I go. And he's built that way because he has that level and that degree of confidence in himself. So when he takes on a project, He looks at the end and he goes, okay, I'm just going to take the next step and then decide what needs to be done next.
Then I'm going to take the next step and decide what needs to be done next, given the circumstances that occur. That's how he builds things out. And that way he doesn't get too deep. He doesn't build a baby grand piano when all he needed was a player piano. If you get that analogy, he doesn't overbuild things.
Yeah. And you got to do your own work. I mean, it's no different than you building your business. So recently there's a group in Canada called McKay CEO forums. Now McKay is CEO peer to peer forums. So they put a maximum of 14 CEOs in a room that do a minimum of five million top line, five, you know, it's really five million to five billion.
And, you know, once, well, six times a year, these CEOs get together peer to peer. I facilitate them. It's considered a chair. And, you know, there would be a room full of Tommy's in there and not non-competing businesses, by the way. But what you just shared, Tommy, as much as that is a normal conversation for you and I to have,
depending on who your listener is, you are just speaking Greek or some other language. Right. And so the reason I share that is because putting yourself in a group of like-minded individuals, wherever you are on your journey, is critical to upping your game, to learning what you don't know, to gaining the insights into what's possible.
And so as you go through your willingness, what makes you great is your willingness to research, to do what it takes to learn what you need to learn, to grind it out, and that's what sets you apart. And what you just described is your willingness to take that level of education of yourself on, and then making sure that you're reaching out, having conversations with people.
Even when, and I'm sure you're the same as I am. If you're, you know, if you happen to be chairing a meeting, you know, and there people are, you know, having conversation, I can't tell you how many times in a given meeting is I'll say, guys, we, you know, ideas are the last things that we need right now.
Well, as you know, I think the term mindset gets overused, but I don't know that anybody's come up with a better word at this point. But ultimately, I'm going to use the example. So my wife, Stephanie, her background was in the world of ice hockey and skating. And so she was the first female NHL skating coach. And so you think about that for a second. You've got
players that are of a quality that they're at an NHL level, what was she going to do? Technically, she could support them a little bit, but what she discovered early on in her career back in the 90s was that
It was less about what was happening technically, but as she was having conversations with these young men, they have all the same problems that everyday people have, you know, relationships, family stuff, money issues. And if she could listen and hear them and talk them and, you know, have conversation with them and help them break through some of the challenges that they were facing, guess what?
They became better players. And the next thing you know, she was being talked about as this really amazing NHL skating coach and she went on to work with St. Louis Blues and Florida Panthers and then many NHL players. The point of that is only to say that They're already at an NHL level. They're already, you know, somewhere in the, you know, front four lines.
And so technically as skaters, what can you really do? And although that was the point of entry, it was what she was having the conversations with them on the ice while she was working with them. And so that was, you know, that point of entry for her. And she left that gig, you know, in that position. role who she saw as a business in that, but she went on to work.
She works now with a, you know, figure skating couples. She, as a matter of fact, works with the USA, uh, Olympic team in, in figure skating. Uh, it's one of her clients. She has 14 or 16 different countries that she represents through her business. I am, or, or her and her partners out of Montreal.
But the point of it is, is that aside from what happens technically and physically nutritionally, you know, in the world of figure skating, there's choreography. So there's a whole team of people behind these individuals that you see. On the ice surface, although there's only two of them, there's all team of people behind them.
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