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Sam Patterson

Sam Patterson

MMA fighter

Jul 30, 2026

28:25
And when you're in the cage, is there something that pulls you out of your game plan or is it just his movement just forces you to kind of step into what he wants? How does that happen?
28:34
Yeah, I think a lot of times when you watch him, people don't realize how fast he is or what he does until you're in there with him.
28:40
But I've actually trained with him before, so I know exactly what he's going to do.
28:44
We actually trained together prior to the fight.
28:46
So stepping in there, he knew what I wanted to do and I knew what he wanted to do before we even got in the cage.
28:50
And that's what made it like turning two magnets the wrong way around and they just bounce off each other.
28:55
That's what it was like.

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35:24
When your dream is to be in the UFC and you get the call and you have that first, and it was a first round TKO, what is your mindset right after it? Is it like, oh, fuck, everything's over? Or do you get your confidence quickly? Or what's the thoughts after it?
7:47
So diving into the specific conversations then, what areas do you think advisors should be covering with clients and their families, whether that's income continuity, access to money, wills, so on and so forth? So
8:00
I think of this as trying to split it into two buckets.
8:03
You've got the first bucket, which is the immediate.
8:05
So if one of the, I'm pointing, but if you start with two clients and one of them has passed away, how does the surviving spouse or client keep the lights on where are direct debits paid from is it in sole names in single names because ideally don't want all the money coming from a single bank account because then you might have to wait for probate so actually looking at the immediate need how do you keep the lights on how do you keep fees being school fees for grandkids being paid mortgages being paid whatever situation they're in It gets even more basic than that.
8:37
So where is the will actually stored? What is your Facebook password? Where are your account details? What lawyers and solicitors do you use? Again, these are all things that go beyond traditional financial planning, but it's so, so valuable because they're some of the questions that we get asked clients when someone passes away.
8:55
And then that's the first bucket is really the immediate aftermath and preparing people for that.
9:00
The second bucket is actually what's the longer term thing? What's the client built and what does actually, what do they think is going to happen with it? So that's sitting down with clients and looking at the world and going, this is what your will actually says.
11:07
which is quite a tricky bit because the financial planning process, and just one last question really from me, how do you suggest that advisors can balance all those technical bits with the very human skills of having compassion and also the clarity? How do they balance those human skills with the technical stuff?
5:37
In the aftermath of that, did you make, obviously, the move up in weight divisions, did you make any other fundamental changes or did it just make you double down?
5:45
I would say double down, yeah.
5:46
You see other people moving up in weight division and not going very well.
5:50
And I feel like they're moving up in weight divisions looking at it as an excuse why they lost.
5:56
If you look at me, I'm not the smallest guy at welterweight.
5:59
It was a clear, everyone I talked to, everyone around says, how did you ever make lightweight? So it wasn't like I lost, it wasn't an excuse why I lost.
6:08
I went straight back to the drawing board and fixed skills and I always tried to improve as if that's the reason I lost.
8:08
For British fight fans, what are we supposed to do? Everyone's messaging me going, who are we supporting here? This is weird.

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