Working For A Dream

There's a lot you can accomplish when you invest your time, education, and resources in the right place. It requires discipline. It requires focus. It requires making the right relationships. All of this takes time.

Ahmed Seirafi is a Commercial Real Estate Developer and founder of Ahmed Builds Better helping bring passive and active real estate dreams to life for many investors and shareholders.

Today, Patrick and Ahmed jump in and start lining out the game with industrial construction, from sourcing locations to securing financing. Ahmed shares how he approaches each opportunity without putting his family and investors in jeopardy when sourcing properties. Ahmed is very candid about his mentality as it pertains to growing a team, overleveraging, and the best way to scale aggressively, and carefully. He shares how he started his CRE investment firm out of college with his father diving headfirst into building offices, warehouse buildings for clients, high schools, colleges, universities, and theaters. Ahmed shares the smart way to create opportunities through investing in Real Estate actively and passively. He shares how he's teaching others how to develop commercial properties. Bring your notepads. You're in for a great education today.

What You'll Learn:

• How Kent Clothier helped Ahmed change the game in his business
• Why Ahmed doesn't want to build a team after 20+ years in business
• The easiest part of sourcing opportunities and landing contracts
• Why it's important to scale smartly and with intention
• Patrick taps into Ahmed's expertise and shares how much land you need to have in an industrial zone to efficiently build a 100,000 square foot building
• The cost per square foot of building a 100,000 sq foot building
• The variables you can expect as it pertains to financing
• How to obtain 90% of the financing
• The amount you have to come up with out of pocket to build
• Why getting with an architect is crucial to building from the ground up
• Why we need 1 million housing units per year
• How many housing units we're behind right now in the United States and how it's impacting the Real Estate Industry
• The many factors you have to consider before you purchase a commercial property
• How to buy right, design, entitlements, budgeting, and taking it through completion

• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"If everything goes to robots and computers in the next 20 years, people will always need a place to live. They will downsize from homes to apartments. They'll go from going to the grocery stores, to ordering from home from a warehouse."

-Ahmed Seirafi

Connect With Ahmed:

Ahmed Builds Better

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

At 24, most people are busy finishing up college, getting drunk in bars every night, starting a family, a first job, or a combination of everything just mentioned. Less than 1% of the world's population is self-employed and the thought of putting in the hours and hard work necessary to create a business, organize it successfully, and keep it operating easily is not something that appeals to most people.

Ronnie, Randy, and Stefan are part of the 1% and they are equal partners of Al Toque Peruvian Kitchen serving up dishes infused with love, connection, and flavor with fun, entertainment, and various locations as the backdrop.

Patrick, Ronnie, Randy, and Stefan open up the episode amped up. Patrick starts the episode by sharing what he was doing at 24 and shares something he wished he would've done then. Randy, Ronnie, and Stefan talk about attending college, working out, and each working jobs while pursuing a dream and idea Ronnie had at the age of 16. They share some of the side hustles and businesses they started to make money and take turns sharing what motivates each of them as they pursue their dreams. Family is a big focal point for these young entrepreneurs and they share their vision from their first food truck (which they purchased through Trailer King Builders) to the empire they're intending to build.

What You'll Learn:

• How many entries were submitted to the Closer Contest
• What age Patrick was when he got into entrepreneurship
• The very first location where Randy, Ronnie, and Stefan served up their Peruvian dishes.
• Why the beginning was not about making money, but more importantly family, connections, being yourself, and enjoying good company
• Why the young entrepreneurs decided to start doing 2 farmer's markets a week
• An invitation that would lead the trio to open up shop with a microbrewery as a backdrop
• The first pop up location that put them on the map
• Why making excuses were not an option
• Their daily schedules 6 days a week and how they each uniquely contribute to the business
• The importance of sticking the tough times out
• Where the inspiration for Al Toque Peruvian Kitchen originated
• What Al Toque means and represents
• Dealing with haters, envy, and people trying to hold them down
• Their family backgrounds that reveal who and who was not from entrepreneurial families
• How guerilla marketing made all the difference to helping Randy, Ronnie, and Stefan in getting the Peruvian Kitchen off the ground
• The Top 2 social media platforms perfect for promoting food concepts and restaurants
• Why La Pollada was a pivotal moment for them in 2021
• Some of the fun things they do to liven up the experience of Al Toque Peruvian Kitchen
• Where they're currently located

• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"We made mistakes and grew, but we didn't make excuses."

-Al Toque Peruvian Kitchen Partners

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

We're all born at a specified time in history into specific families, in certain countries, and raised in various circumstances that are intended to shape our future through experiences and lessons we learn in life.

Today, Patrick takes some time to pull back the curtain on his start as an entrepreneur, some of the challenges he encountered and what led him to become named the highly coveted winner's spot of the Closer Contest hosted by Ryan Stewman and his movement, Apex.

Patrick talks about a revelation he had while in Arizona on one of the toughest hikes you can make. He talks how their company provides livings for 60+ families with Trailer King Builders, and he breaks down and shares some numbers. He shares how he has envisioned he will continue helping people and the importance of giving back in all areas of your life from your faith, your fitness, your finances, and your family. This is a raw and real episode you'll not want to miss.

What You'll Learn:

• How many entries were submitted to the Closer Contest
• The Location where the event was held
• Some of the influential business leaders Patrick got to share the stage with
• What was discussed
• The process for preparing for Stage speaking
• Why flying private is in the near future for anyone who wants to avoid the mask mandates by commercial airlines
• How easy it is for you to fly private (Patrick talks numbers)
• A little backstory on how Patrick exploded Trailer King Builders from doing $900,000 a year in sales to $12 million + in 3 years
• The importance of core values
• Why paying it forward is so important right now in business
• What happened when Patrick decided to bet on himself
• How to take control over a situation devoid of synergy and win big
• The significance of Apex and how it changed Patrick's life in less than 3 years

• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"We sell, but we do it with integrity."

- Patrick Bolanos

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Marriage is not an easy proposition for many people. Those who are married today know there is a 50/50 chance they won't make it based on statistics, but today's guest sheds light on something that actually saved her marriage of 13 years and she explains step by step of how she was able to regain control in her own life, identify the troublespots in her marriage, and ignite passion that was always present, but somehow diminished by the day to day monotony of doing menial tasks.

Kirstin Smith is founder of Kirstin Smith Coaching and is the Best-selling author of "Confessions of an Unhappy Housewife." She is a business partner to her husband, Jeff, and mother of their 4 children ranging in ages from 2 to 9 years old.

Today, Patrick and Kirstin have a very candid conversation about marriage, the challenges most couples face, and the triggers that tend to destroy most marriages. They discuss the importance of clear, concise communication, and identifying your individual love language and how to leverage it for a successful marriage. Kirstin shares about how she felt jealousy and resentment from her husband coming back from networking events asking her the one question that took her some time to answer…………"What is your mission?" Kirstin shares a lot about her thought processes, her education in research and how she's used it to help her make the best decision when it comes to the best steps to take when considering oneself as well as the family unit. Kirstin shares how she used to keep her to-do list and use it as a weapon against her husband and the revelation that stopped her cold in her tracks. If you're married, you don't want to miss this episode. Kirstin and Patrick go wide and deep in this discussion that will probably save the other 50% of marriages currently failing at this very moment.

What You'll Learn:

• Where Kirstin was born and raised
• How many tornadoes came ripping through Houston after Hurricane Harvey
• The power of a support system and how to tackle everything on your list every single day
• What it's like being a mother of 4 children and supporting an entrepreneur
• Kirstin's original plan of pursuing her Ph.D and why she never finished it
• How many languages Kirstin speaks
• The devastating effects of analysis paralysis
• How Kirstin overcompensated for not bringing physical checks into the household
• Why communication is so important in a marriage
• The 5 love languages and how to decipher what yours are
• Patrick discusses one thing he did to change the outcome of what happened at home
• How getting your personal house in order first is the secret to filling your cup
• Why Kirstin and her husband pulled their children out of public school
• How Kirstin is helping other women find freedom, autonomy, and true partnership in their marriages
• The name of her #1 Best-selling book
• How to connect with Kirstin

• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"I felt a lot of guilt and shame about not producing the way my husband was producing. I didn't have a paycheck that I could deposit in our bank account. Was there value attached to the work I was doing? Yes. But it was not lost on me that I was not the one depositing the checks. I needed to be productive. I needed to show my worth. I need to show my value. I really got bogged down in the menial tasks that go along with being a Mom; bogged down with the laundry, the dishes, running the kids everywhere, being supportive of my entrepreneurial husband while he's building a business. I just felt like my cup was always empty and didn't know how to fill it. I thought it was my husband's job to fill it at the end of every day. I thought it was his job to make me happy, but it was my job to make myself happy."

• Kirstin Smith

How To Connect with Kirstin:

Kirstin Smith

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Book: Confessions of an Unhappy Housewife

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Danny Galvez is an Emcee/Hype-man for Apex who works with entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors from all walks of life. He is the Founder of Voice Your Life Media which helps those same business owners and authors create their podcasts and narrate their audiobooks for the world to hear.

Patrick and Danny had the pleasure of recording this episode in a brand new mobile podcast studio at the Trailer King Builders headquarters and they don't waste any time as they dive in as Danny shares his upbringing, some crippling experiences that helped him find his motivation and drive to constantly gas pedal his way to one focus…………creating a legacy for his family. Patrick and Danny discuss a pivotal moment in Patrick's life that led to defeat in one moment to the one opportunity he needed to change the trajectory of his life. Danny talks about the importance of being willing to say what you want out loud and then working towards it in faith.

What You'll Learn:

• One question Danny is bold enough to ask
• Knowing the true value of your worth and where to leverage and outline the true value of what it's going to cost to make that investment
• A different perspective on how you should view your employees and the impact you truly have on their lives
• Why it's important to narrate your own audiobook
• How Danny started narrating audiobooks and the genres he auditioned for and landed opportunities
• The origins of Danny's family history and how far back he was able to trace it.
• One thing Danny loves to do more than ANYTHING in the world.
• The $8 book that led to an opportunity that changed his life.
• The path that has led him to emcee, entertain, and introduce some of the most influential thought leaders in business
• An earth-shattering question he was asked at dinner one night and his honest answer
• The biggest motivating factor tied to his drive that came from a negative experience in childhood

• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"Even if it's not spoken, it's going to show up in your life. You have to be willing to say what you want. If you like it, don't love it, it might bring you to tears. It might make you angry, but you have to be willing to say what it is that you want."

• Danny Galvez

How To Get Involved:

Connect With Danny

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

School will only get you so far in life. There are learning moments in life that can only be understood by experiencing them through sacrifice, hard work, failures, and successes. If you want to accomplish anything quickly, it's important to get into rooms with people who know more than you. It's necessary to drop your ego at the door and put yourself in the mindset of being coachable and willing to absorb the lessons learned by those who have come before you.

Today's show is a short one, but it covers the power of a mastermind. It's not simply a place where you can go to absorb information and spend a day or two. It's a place where, if you implement what you learn immediately, can and will change the course of your life faster than the blink of an eye.

In this episode, Patrick will share his journey into joining masterminds and how he was able to collapse time simply by being in the room with the right people and implementing the right processes and systems to help him move the needle in his life while affecting the lives of many others.

What You'll Learn:

• What happened to Patrick in 2017
• Two groups he's a part of that really transformed his life personally and professionally
• Why Patrick decided to join a mastermind group.
• What he learned
• How fast he implemented what he learned
• The importance of taking advantage of being able to pay to be in certain rooms
• Why you're wasting time trying to do everything yourself
• ONE HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT specifically for Food Truck Owners- Listen to hear it!
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"Everything changed when I began to get around other people that are winning. And the only place you can go to be around winners is to pay to be in that room and join masterminds."

• Patrick Bolanos

How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries.

After college, Patrick's career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you're selling and why it's important to believe in it.

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group. With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life.

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what's now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You're in for a real-life education.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Our educational system is only designed to prep you for one thing in life; programming. From the moment we enter school, we are programmed to make good grades, go to college, get a good job, get married, work 40 years, retire and live happily ever after. There are some people who don't quite make it that far and break the glass on the conventions of life. Today's guest is one of those people. Ramon Casaus started professional life in college, got a job, only to find that like many people, he wasn't living in alignment with his life. In 2015, Ramon got his license. This changed the trajectory of his life which opened options, secured him financially, and helped him launch into building newfound freedom and the balance found in working for himself. Not long after, Ramon became an investor and serial entrepreneur investing in various businesses across various industries.

In this episode, Patrick and Ramon discuss the power of reaching optimal levels and going in search of what's next. Ramon talks about certain characteristics that only exist in overachievers. He talks about how he found his drive and motivation by being tired of being broke. He shares how as he began to grow, he realized he was needing to grow his circle of friends and some of the new challenges he faced at each level of success. Patrick and Ramon share a common bond in having completed #75Hard and the effects it's had on their individual lives. Ramon is a best-selling author and host of the Battle-Tested Business Podcast.

What You'll Learn:

• How many months in a row Ramon was told "no" before his father came to him with help
• Ramon discusses why he didn't want to receive help from family
• Why changing routines helped transform Ramon into the person he needed to become to get to the next level in his life and business
• The importance of finding good operators, and why it's necessary to provide training and resources to help them succeed
• Some of the Cannabis projects Ramon is currently pursuing
• Why connecting and networking with those who are successful at what you want to do is important to do starting today
• How removing emotion helped Ramon to find impenetrable focus in each endeavor he's engaged in
• Why Patrick wears the same thing every single day
• The two important things you can do to master your time management challenges
• A hack to help you save time by limiting your drive time to physical locations
• Taking responsibility of being accountable to where your focus needs to go
• The importance of having really good mentors at each level you achieve in life and business
• People's perception of those who work out and are in great shape
• The title of Ramon's #1 Best-Selling book
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"You have to remove what society's expectations on when you should sleep, when you should work, when you shouldn't, what gets discussed at the dinner table. That's whatever you want to do. I don't care what my neighbor does. I'll drive home and get right back on my computer. I have a lot of work-life balance. You have to remove the external noise on how you run your life and run it however it works for you."

• Ramon Casaus

How To Get Involved:

Book: No Permission Needed

Battle Tested Business Podcast

How to Get Involved:

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

You can hear the thrumming of the earth beneath your feet. Passion, purpose, and intention are the fire starters of most dreams made into reality. It sounds like the beginning of a movie, doesn't it? For some, like our guest today, it's real life.

Ben Humble, Serial Entrepreneur has had every business imaginable from a janitorial services company where he worked tirelessly to clean up shit to becoming one of the largest privately owned mortgage companies in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. He's amassed an impressive real estate portfolio and lives his life where mobility is a non-negotiable.

Today, Patrick and Ben dive deep into discussing the importance of family, what it means to be a real man, core values laid out for his family, and rules for living a 4-hour workweek lifestyle. Ben is very passionate and candid about how he has set up his life since coming to the United States from Romania, living very frugal, despite having the means to buy whatever his heart desires. There are huge overtones of how to set up your marriage, your family, and your business to thrive equally, against the constraints often put upon us by society. Ben shares what it was like being the eldest of 9 children and shares his positive disposition and how it's helped him thrive in an uncommon world.

What You'll Learn:

• The circumstances that brought Ben and his family of 10 from Romania.
• Ben's Dad's mindset that took him to a refugee camp where he launched into his life
• Patrick shares a little about the civil war in Nicaragua and how his father's MBA was equivalent in the States to a minimum wage job
• One thing that Ben and his wife decided to do over a 10-year period that changed the trajectory of their lives
• What it means to be a real man in a family
• How Ben stays focused in the midst of adverse situations
• Ben made $1M by 30 years of age scrubbing toilets
• The musical project Ben is focused on right now and what he intends to do with it
• What Ben did when he and his wife overshot their goal of $1M by $150,000
• Why Non-negotiables are the secret to keeping your focus
• The power of saying "No" to that which does not belong in your life
• Why Ben doesn't watch the news, look at stats, and how it's helped him maintain his focus
• Ben's number one rule about how to determine whether he wants to do something
• The importance of evangelizing about your life
• And much more!

Favorite Quote:

"You just gotta figure out a plan. When you start living according to your plan, you start to change the things you value. When your value system changes in relation to time, money, family, and freedom, you'll know what to focus on."

• Ben Humble

How To Get Involved:

Ben Humble

How to Get Involved:

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

We enter this world into families and circumstances where we have experiences that shape our lives. Nothing is perfect, but the process of it creates a multitude of opportunities and if you're willing to work hard and stay consistent, you'll be destined for success.

Jad Boudiab started his journey at a young age. His mother won a visa lottery in Lebanon when she was living in a mountainside village.

At 11 years, old Jad was dropped into Ohio Public Schools not knowing English, nor having any friends and was born into the American Dream of opportunities only most dream of living.

Jad is a serial entrepreneur who focuses his efforts in Real Estate, is a property management, and co-owner of a Mortgage Company.

Today, Patrick and Jad take a deep dive into their experiences of coming to the United States and why it's important to know how others live around the world. It'll make you appreciate and see the opportunities more in the US that are often taken for granted. Jad shares about how he hustled as a child fixing bikes just to make some extra money, and how he took that hustle with him into college DJing parties and printing T-shirts. Patrick shares his admiration for Jad being a well-rounded young Real Estate investor at the age of 26, and Jad gladly shares how anyone can begin the journey without really having any capital. This episode will have you smiling as you hear the gratitude, accountability, and an overtone of service and commitment without the bravado. This is a must-listen.

What You'll Learn:

• How Jad made his way into the United States from Lebanon
• A story about a home he purchased where a man was squatting and using a wood-burning fireplace to stay warm
• How many doors Jad has in his portfolio at the young age of 26
• Some of the states where Jad has real estate holdings
• Why Jad decided to get into property management and long-term investments
• Some of the side-hustles Jad did while he was in college
• The importance of having great mentors and how it can transform your life
• Why going the agency route in real estate as a young person with no money is the most important key to getting started
• Jad's perspective on being exposed to how other people live in other countries and why it's the source of his drive in appreciating everything he has
• 3 Key principles and core values Jad attributes to his success

Favorite Quote:

"Once I saw that I'm capable of creating and building, I felt like it was my duty to go out and do that. I'd be doing some disservice to my family and future and this world in general if I don't go out and build something good for me and for other people."

-Jad Boudiab

Connect with Jad:

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B2BCapital

How To Get Involved:

Visit the Website to learn more about Mehdi, his work, and his book. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

How To Get Involved:

Visit the Website to learn more about Mehdi, his work, and his book. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.