Patrick McAndrew
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86 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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So much of business is about your own internal game. The actual dynamics of business are not that difficult. There are problems which need to be solved. But what's the challenge there? Well, the inherent challenge is capacity to sustain change and the capacity to be malleable and adaptive. That's what our unique capacity as human beings are, is this capacity to mutate.
I think at that point it was, it depends. If it was like a beginning of secondary school, I think I wanted to be an actor. If it was the middle of the time in secondary school, I wanted to be, I wanted to have a talk show. I wanted to host a talk show.
Well, I always was very taken by the US and this New York in particular, where I lived for five years, and it was sort of hung over my head that if you do well enough on these exams, Patrick, my mom would say, I'll take you on a trip to New York. But that trip to New York never manifested.
The first time I came to the States, I think I was maybe 19 and we came on a family trip and we went to Keirwater Beach for Christmas. And as you can imagine, The United States was New York in my mind. Like that was the country that there was no sense or curiosity about the others. And I remember driving from Tampa to Clearwater and I had never seen things like strip malls.
And they're the most foreign alien looking thing ever, like seeing Dunkin Donuts and Wendy's and Burger King, but all in these streets. just sort of these parallel units alongside a road. I don't really think this doesn't look like the impression that I had of this country at all.
So I had to start to come to terms to realize that there are different parts of this country and they all hold different characters.
Indeed. Yeah.
I think there's always just been a tendency just to follow curiosities. So when I was in college, I studied law, but I had a radio show. I also worked in a regional radio station as a sound engineer. So I would be there during the live shows and I would be turning on the ads and fading in the music and all that stuff and meeting the guests and There was something there.
There was something about conversing and meeting people. I grew up in a home where there was constantly people coming through, whether it was people traveling from around the world coming to stay with us or eccentric characters. And my mom had come across or she had an employment agency for a large number of years.
The nurses that would be coming into Ireland, they would stay with us for a few days before they would go to the nursing home or the hospital where they were going to work. So We would sort of like take care of them because they would be homesick and get them settled. She also had a jewelry business where she made bespoke engagement rings for couples.
So there was a room in the house where they would come in and they would be presented. They would come in to design the engagement ring they wanted. And then my mom would take the design and go to Antwerp and get it made. And then they would come back and she would have a bottle of champagne and we would see the joy and we would... maybe have a meal with them and talk with them.
You know, that sort of nature, that very convivial nature was very normal in my household growing up. So there was always different cultures, different characters. And growing up as a young kid, I grew up in London before I moved to Ireland and For a number of years and during that time in London, I actually lived in a gallery.
So my parents had rented the flat that they had in London and then took out a lease on this gallery to manage the expenses of it all. They built drywall and they built rooms within the gallery, which were never there. It was just a big open space and they built like a little apartment and a home at the back. And when I would leave my bedroom, I would walk out onto the gallery.
So when I would come home from school, I would enter in through a gallery to get to my room. And when I was there and my mom was, she didn't really have many staff.
So if there was a lot of people coming through as a five-year-old or a six-year-old, it was my role to guide them around and show them the pieces of glass and the pieces of art and keep them entertained for a few minutes until my mom could speak to them. All of that, I think, the way of observing and engaging with people has sort of been inherent to my lived experience.
We also had the most traveled man in the world stay with us for a few days. I don't know if he still holds that title, but he did at that time. He had been traveling for 24 years, and Ireland was the last country on his world tour. So I came home from school one day and my mum was at the kitchen table chatting with this guy and she said, this is Mike Patrick. I think I was telling you about him.
He's the most travelled man in the world. I heard him on the radio three days ago. I sent a text into the station and said, if you're coming to Galway and you need somewhere to stay, just let me know. And he called her up on the phone. He said, hey, is this Julia? And she said, yeah. He said, it's Mike. I've just arrived into Galway bus station.
Is that offer still standing to stay with you for a few days? And she said, absolutely. So we got to hang out with him for three or four days and He had been in Somalia. He had been in Mogadishu. He was one of the first tourists there in a very long time. He was in the town across, not very far away from, in Iraq, where Osama bin Laden had been captured. He traveled through Afghanistan.
He had been all over, you know, places that you rarely hear about. He was a quirky character for sure, but it was interesting conversations with him.
Well, it started out with speed reading. So I was teaching speed reading memorization workshops online. Around the country, I was going into schools and colleges and companies like Bessemer Trust, Northern Trust, quite a few hedge funds and investment banks, helping these people improve how they processed and retained information.
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