Never Ready, Just Start
He recalls priceless advice before island build.
Jul 5, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Architect Paul joins the Better Builder podcast for our second outdoor episode of the season, sitting down on location to discuss…
Paul FrancisGuest
Brad VisserHost
And did you kind of like from day dot when you were stepping out of that lift, did you kind of know like I'm going to have to like have my own gig one day if i well

i just said i can't i can't live like that you know this this this can't be a long-term thing yeah it's

like looking at a whole lot of sheep you know yeah i don't have this laugh because i know how like megan's worked in your practice and it's like you have a lot of fun there and i can't imagine you can't imagine you're like real stiff like everyone's all quiet

yeah yeah oh there's some personalities there of course but um yeah it's uh i i don't know and i had some friends good friends and they were accounting backgrounds and they they worked in a accounting firm and uh he gave it six weeks i think it was he gave the first three weeks he he did it and then he had a bit of a break for a week or two and then he went back and the reason he went back on the second break was to make sure he never forgot what it was like so he never went back so Yes, the guys I was hanging out with, they had the same

It's just like, what are these people doing? You catch up, eh? You're like, what is this? Yeah,

Yeah, I kind of had that same thing, eh, when I first stepped into The Office because there was like this TV show actually called The Office, which is like the UK one, right? Yeah, yeah.

You could hear the printer in the background and the phone ringing and everyone's just all, you know, like bored, you know.

And the first time I ever walked into an office, it was a real estate office really at Collier's.

And did you kind of like from day dot when you were stepping out of that lift, did you kind of know like I'm going to have to like have my own gig one day if i well

i just said i can't i can't live like that you know this this this can't be a long-term thing yeah it's

like looking at a whole lot of sheep you know yeah i don't have this laugh because i know how like megan's worked in your practice and it's like you have a lot of fun there and i can't imagine you can't imagine you're like real stiff like everyone's all quiet

yeah yeah oh there's some personalities there of course but um yeah it's uh i i don't know and i had some friends good friends and they were accounting backgrounds and they they worked in a accounting firm and uh he gave it six weeks i think it was he gave the first three weeks he he did it and then he had a bit of a break for a week or two and then he went back and the reason he went back on the second break was to make sure he never forgot what it was like so he never went back so Yes, the guys I was hanging out with, they had the same

It's just like, what are these people doing? You catch up, eh? You're like, what is this? Yeah,

Yeah, I kind of had that same thing, eh, when I first stepped into The Office because there was like this TV show actually called The Office, which is like the UK one, right? Yeah, yeah.

You could hear the printer in the background and the phone ringing and everyone's just all, you know, like bored, you know.

And the first time I ever walked into an office, it was a real estate office really at Collier's.
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