Justin Stoddart
I'm your host Justin Stoddart and I'm fortunate today to have with me someone who I admire in business in life, he's become a very dear friend of mine. Before I introduce him, let me just remind you the purpose of this show, is to help you think bigger. As you do everything else follows suit. If you look at any of the great masterminds, any of the great leaders of all time, they say, it always begins with your thoughts. Thoughts are things. The purpose of this show is to is to hit that first domino so that you end up having a life of great, great impact. Today's show is going to be a really special one, as I mentioned that this is an individual who inspires me both in business and he's become a very dear friend of mine. His name is Patrick Woods. Patrick, before I give you the full before I give people the full bio on you, I want to thank you for taking time out of your very busy schedule to come be with us today.
Patrick Woods
Yes, we've been trying to do this for a little while now.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah, yeah, you're, you know, you're doing some really impressive things. For those that don't know you. And I know there's a big part of my audience that does and loves you as well. But you're your owner of the Patrick Woods Real Estate Group, out of Sacramento area, for those that aren't familiar with the kind of small areas outside of Sacramento. He's a KW maps coach and coaches about 20 people at any given time. Really over the course of your career, we discovered that you've logged between 5000 and 6000 coaching calls, which is amazing. Yeah, yeah. You're owner of a KW franchise. Is it Elk Grove that you own? Is that right?
Patrick Woods
Yes, it's the Elk Grove market center. We have about 170 Associates, and I've owned it for a little over two years now.
Justin Stoddart
Awesome, man. So, so cool. And then you travel, speak, teach and train all around the country. And most importantly, which should have been at the top of the list, you're an amazing husband and father and proud dog owner I should say.
Patrick Woods
Well ask my wife is she says amazing, but yes, I am a husband.
Justin Stoddart
Depends on the day, right? Sometimes we get the amazing vote. Sometimes it's
Patrick Woods
...the opposite. You just never know. I definitely do my best. So
Justin Stoddart
Well, I'm really excited to get into this topic because how long ago was it that you decided that you were going to run the Boston Marathon?
Unknown Speaker
It's actually the Boston Marathon.
Justin Stoddart
Oh, it's Boston. I've been I've been calling it New York. Okay, so Boston Marathon.
Unknown Speaker
Yeah. Boston Marathon. Yeah. Jenny Wolek, who you had on last week? Right? Yeah, yeah, she's doing the New York Marathon, I believe.
Justin Stoddart
Okay, that's where I got it in my head.
Patrick Woods
Absolutely. So sorry. No, so it's funny. I went on this vacation a little over a year ago. And it was one of those kind of bucket list vacations and we were sounds It sounds so pretentious when I say it. We were literally on a yacht in the Mediterranean, and it was somebody else's birthday and they said, Hey, you pay for the airfare will take care of the rest. And we're like, yeah, we're in Italy. And I was like, This is amazing. And then I started seeing pictures of myself while I was on this trip. Out on the top of a yacht in the hot tub, all this kind of stuff and I see pictures myself. I go, I look like that. That was kind of the moment where I said something needs to change. And I'm like you, I think a lot of us had moments like that where it's like, okay, it's, it's gotten to a point where drastic measures are needed. And so actually, while I was on the yacht, I text message Chris Voght, who's actually now our team leader in Elk Grove Market Center, and he's done the Boston Marathon, probably somewhere between 12 and 13 times. He's done Ironman competitions, all this kind of stuff and he coaches a lot of people. So I text him on on the boat and I said, Man, I need help with you, coach. And so essentially, that's what's happening is he's coaching me, and we go out and grab lunch. You go, so what's the game plan? What's the game plan with this whole running thing? I said, Well, I need to get in better shape. So So okay, what if there was a bucket list type thing? Well, if there was a bucket list type thing it would be to run the Boston Marathon, which is just insane because I know you have to qualify and all this kind of stuff. And that's kind of how it happened. And so there's way more to it. But that's kind of long. The short it was it was purely just how do I get in better shape. And if I were to really dive into this running thing, what would be kind of bucket list piece and that was where Boston came in.
Justin Stoddart
And it's interesting that you guys had that aha, probably a week ago. And I think it's interesting when we get the outside perspective, whether it be through the help of a camera, whether the help of a loved one I realized like, I thought it looked very different than when I look in the mirror, I see something very different. Then you see pictures. It's like that's, that's not me. And I think you've done a lot of training with Tony Robbins and realize that our standards are what we're willing to put up with. Right? And when you see yourself either via camera or you just have some situation in life that makes you realize like, hey, that's, I'm not living in accordance with my standards. That's not how I see myself and I'm aware that now, I look different, or I feel different, or I'm acting different. Then, then the person who I know I'm meant to be who I am in my best self. So just recently, I actually gave up two days ago, three days ago, all sugar and all bread, which are my two favorite things. So I can, like relate a little bit of having this experience of like, that's not me, and I need to make a drastic change here. So let's continue on here with your story. So you decided you're gonna run it, you've got a coach, which is also very telling, because even coaches need coaches, right?
Patrick Woods
Yeah. So I got him as a coach, and I got a nutritional coach that helps me my diet and all that fun stuff. And there's so many things that you learned during this process. So originally, when I signed up for this, the goal was to run a half marathon, my second half marathon. And kind of the the whole thought process was I'd love to get to a place where I could run a half marathon, the way that most people would approach a five or 10 k versus a Hey, it's tomorrow. Let's go do it. And so that was kind of where I wanted to get from a fitness standpoint. And yes, you literally I was on that, that trip along with... Wow, you're looking pretty thick. And I thought he was talking about my guns and he was more talking about my tummy. So I realized that after the fact.
Justin Stoddart
So, you have this coach now and you're moving towards your goal, keep going.
Patrick Woods
So, I started running and then we start out with, okay, just jog, walk two miles. I was like, come on, I can do better than that. And of course, I go out and I start running and like, maybe I do need to jog, walk two miles just to get going. And next thing you know, he's got me trained up or I'm running eight miles just as one of my long runs and all this kind of stuff. And in that process actually end up getting shin splints really bad and to the point where I got stress fractures and I had to take six weeks off right before the half marathon. And so the doctor said, you gotta take six weeks off, you know, running maybe three weeks into you can start doing elliptical, which of ...