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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Same as a basketball team, but you know, each player has a team behind him generally, especially the better players to your point, they have specialists that come in and work with them. And the mental performance of it is not necessarily that they, the, you know, it's not a psychiatric thing necessarily. It's how do I deal with my life?
And that's where it gets in the way, whether it's marriage or friends or in-laws or kids, other team players. You know, how do you handle some of the things that go on? And that's a mental thing. It's not a physical or technical thing.
Yeah, it's an important aspect of it all. I'll give you a quick story that was in only because I was kind of connected to it. She worked with a player who was a fourth line player. He was better than the fourth line. He believed himself better to be than the fourth line. But he could never cut a spot on the second line or the first line. And so she started working with him.
And she's seeing what he's operating on top of his resentment for the coaches. And he doesn't feel like he's being seen and da-da-da. And she said to him, she said, I'm going to give you a little different view of the world. She says, why don't you consider being the captain of your fourth line? And why don't you focus on being the best fourth line in the whole league?
And so she started working with him to be the leader on that fourth line, not the whole team, be the captain of your fourth line and be the best line on the ice, drive your guys to do that. Well, interesting. I knew that backstory, you know, a few months in where I'm happy to watch a hockey game, which I rarely do, but the announcer said,
when that line came on and he talked about that particular player, he goes, definitely the best fourth line in the league. Every time they come out, they make something happen, blah, blah, blah. By the end of the season, he was playing second line. And so that was not a shift in his abilities. It wasn't a shift in what he did technically and how he stick handled or how even many goals he scored.
It was a shift of how he viewed his world. He upped his game and how he occurred. And ultimately the coaching staff couldn't help but bring him up in terms of playing time and who he was on the team.
Well, I don't want to say obviously. To me, coaches are a big – They have a big impact on the whole team, their strategy, how they treat the players, how they can read players. So I have a trainer that comes into my home and works out with me two or three days a week. Here's the thing about it. I've worked out most of my life.
I know how to lift a weight, but my own self-talk, my own body says, no, you can't do this. My coach who I've been, my trainer who I've been working with for several years knows my body better than me because I bitch about it. I go, there's not a chance. I can't, I'm not doing 10 of those. And he goes, He says, you'll do 10, no problem. He says, I'm expecting you'll probably do 12.
He's generally right. My point is, there's a good coach that knows the team. And when I've worked with a couple of NHL coaches, he said, because I was doing some technical stuff with a player, and he said, we'll see if this works. He goes, if it improves him a half a stride, I'll know it. That's a coach. That's like, if you, if you improve him a half a stride, I'll know it and you're in.
And like, if you can do that, if you can repeat that, we're all over it. So that's a coach, you know, they know their players, they know what it takes.
I don't know that I, you know, that's a good question, Tommy. I think that, you know, personally, I didn't have what I would call, I did have what I would refer to as a mentor early on in my own, like when I was from 18 to, let's say, 25. And a guy I hung out with a lot. Now, he passed away of cancer back in those years.
But that's not to say I had great relationships with individuals that were very insightful and we were, you know, we could have lots of conversation. I would consider them a mentor, but they weren't, you know, we didn't recognize, I didn't recognize them as a mentor in the capacity as an official mentor. You're my mentor.
You know, what we did was we got together and broke bread and maybe had a beer and we chatted business. That's how I operate it. I'm not saying that's the right way, by the way. I actually am a mentor to a couple of different people.
So let's unpack that a little bit if you're okay with it. I think that first and foremost, to this day, I live well below my means. That's just how I was raised. It's what I believe. I live below my means. We invest. We do all the things that we do. Our focus is on lifestyle and our health. And our health, by the way, when I talk about health,
you know we use a context of seven areas of life you know physical mental emotional spiritual vocational familial are you healthy in all those areas of your life because you can be very healthy physically but emotionally you could be a train wreck you know mentally the same way so there's a fundamental back to worrying about what people will think that's a unique quality that you seem to have and i believe that you're pretty intense
And hence you drive success. Now you can still have success to different degrees, not being as intense, but of all of the very, very successful guys that I've met the most on the outside successful in terms of what they've done with their businesses and their net worth have been the most intense individuals. Their whole mantra is your opinion of me is none of my business.
You know, it's like, I don't care. I'm moving on. So having said that, A friend of mine, and I'm going to give this example and then see how you relate to it. So a friend of mine comes out and he says to me, and we live in the country, and he one day is over and he says, I'm going to buy a, gosh, what do they call them? I'll call it an earth mover for lack of better words right now.
And big piece of equipment. And I said, really? I go, what for? And he goes, well, I use it to do this and that. And I go, okay. I said, what do they cost to rent? He says, probably a couple of grand a week. And I go, gosh, what are they to buy? He says, 200. And I said to him, I said, wow, you can, you can do a lot of rent. You can rent that thing a lot and not spend 200 grand.
Why would you spend 200 grand? And I'm thinking of it as a business thing, you know, like, why would you? And he said, well, you know, my neighbor's got one and, you know, he kind of got his helicopter and we were joking about a little bit. And I finally, I said to him, I go, Answer this question for me. If nobody knew you owned it, but you, would you still buy it? Anyway. Yeah, no.
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