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THE APPETIZER

Welcome to 2025 people. A fun note and recommendation I have that I will expand on in a later newsletter is something I started in 2024 that I am doubling down on for 2025. I call it: #PattysProphecies. 

What is it?

I make a list of predictions for macro & micro events I anticipate to happen for the upcoming year. It can range from world events, professional life and personal developments. Think of it like your personal PolyMarket to help train yourself to start listening to your gut and enhancing or adjusting your internal voice and believability. 

To be accountable for it, here's a preview of some of my predictions. (LINK) 

Anyone want to make a bet? Happy 2025 ya’ll. 

Now….. Sit back, relax, and remember to please enjoy my sauce. 👨‍🍳🥫

- Patrick Frank

PAT’S SNAPPLE CAP

The first official change up of 2025! The Snapple cap will not just be a casual fact for the week. Instead I will be dishing you out some of the coolest tools, insightful articles, threads, and unique finds you will want to consider creating your own recipe for. 

• Definitive list of the best Ai. tools and what to use them for: (LINK) 

• The official top 1,000 best restaurants around the world for 2025: (LINK) 

• A tool that instantly builds your idea into a digital product: (LINK)

• AZ16’s annual prediction forecast for 2025: (LINK) 

• How to make $100K+/Month making emojis: (LINK)

THE MAIN COURSE

HOW TO CLONE YOURSELF.

Not really.. But close. 

If I told you I had 8 arms & hands, you would probably consider putting me in a mental institution, let alone most likely unsubscribe from this newsletter. Well….. I have 8 arms & hands. BUT before you do either of those options above, know that only 2 of them are mine. 

Ok - You still with me? Good. Listen up. This is going to be the most helpful edition of the SAUCE you have ever read. Bookmark it, save it, print it out, or you can just keep reading and download the FREE E-book at the end of the newsletter. 

Enter: My #1 Life Hack: VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS

3 years ago, I met someone who changed my life. Her name, to keep her anonymous, is Janya.

Janya  is a 27 year old woman from the Philippines that today, I could not live my life without. She is my personal chief of staff or if we are being honest… my Chief of Everything. And the TLDR of today’s newsletter is that I am going to teach you how you….can and should…..find your very own Janya. 

If you are like me 3 years ago, you have probably seen or heard others talking about their virtual admins/assistants. How amazing they are, how life changing it can be to find a good one…..and you might have even thought to yourself: “Hey maybe I should look into that!?” 

Well if you are still telling that to yourself, let me be the first one to tell you, not acting on it has been the single greatest mistake you have made in your professional life…. And probably your personal as well…. well for some of you maybe not.

Anyway to avoid talking about our messy personal lives… I’m taking a hard left turn to:

STORY TIME!

Janya and I met through a pairing service that connects professionals, founders or anyone who needs more time in their life to: experienced, eager, and awesome virtual assistants from all around the world.

We paid this pairing service $1,8000/mo to find us the perfect fit of a VA for our company PatientPartner. After a fairly simple process, we found Janya  who was set to start the next week.

Monday comes and Janya kicks off the day checking in via slack: “If there is anything you need from me just let me know!” and me being me, busy and distracted, forget to respond.

End of day comes, and again: Janya: “If there is anything you need from me just let me know!” This continued for: TWO. MONTHS. STRAIGHT.

Before you go hating me for wasting money. Keep reading.

Then, one morning, I logged in as I always do and there was a new message: 

Janya: “Hey Patrick, I saw in the main company slack channel you guys were trying to put together a presentation for a new client. I did some research on them, and I did my best to put together what I thought you were looking for. I hope you enjoy it!” 

……. Enjoy it? It was exactly what we needed and exactly what I had prepared to drain my entire weekend working on. Magically done. Ready to go. A true chef’s kiss. 🤌

My response? 

Patrick: “Um…..hi Janya, can we officially meet again? I think we might be onto something special here.” 

TLDR: There WAS something special there and in 2023 we had the opportunity to meet in person for the first time in Bali and already have plans to head out to the Philippines to meet the rest of the team! 

Fast forwarding to today:

• We now have 5 virtual assistants located all around the world. 

• We save on average 250 hours of work each week. 

• Which means we save over $27,000 each week. (If you took our gross hourly wages and applied the same amount of hours. Thank you GPT for doing this equation) 

• All while spending under $8,000/mo on payroll…… 

To put that in perspective for those of you out there who are as bad at math as I am: This is less than a single entry level analyst employee role in the United States. 

 🍒 The cherry on top? 🍒 

Any of the incredible individuals on our squad could eat that analyst's breakfast when it comes to output, dedication, and pure awesomeness… And it wouldn’t even be close. 

When initiatives/projects come up and seem to some like they would be impossible… There is never a time I am afraid to step up to the challenge because I know I got Janya and my VA Super Team to back me up. 🤜💥 🤛

Now what? 

Well, if you still aren’t convinced, sorry not sorry…. Continue your routine, continue being a slave to endless tasks, and watch your time evaporate before you take your two week vacation. 

But if you are curious I got just what you need. 

Instead of writing the longest newsletter of all time I figured I would make everyone’s life easier and just hand you the secret sauce of how to find your own Janya in my very first E-Book!

With some hard work, some fun reminiscing on the hell and back we have been through together, my VA team and I are excited to share the most definitive guide ever assembled to building your own VA Super Team with the same success we have had.

Which is why EVERY Secret Sauce reader is getting a FREE COPY of my: 

HOW TO CREATE YOUR VA SUPERTEAM EBOOK 

It’s jam packed with every single possible thing you need to not only find the perfect fit for your life/company/team but also where to find them, what to look for in a all-star candidate, how to train them, how to track performance, and how to retain and grow your offshore virtual assistant team. 

Your life will never be the same. I promise. 

**And to my team of incredible VA’s who helped put this together and so much more. Thank you to each and every one of you. My life would not be the same without you guys. *

THE SAUCE

Patty’s Picks (LINK TO THE OFFICIAL LIST)

What you have all been waiting for: 

Ever dreamed of a Michelin level dinner at a diner price point? Well, good news. No need to wake up, just head on over to Juan Jasper. One of San Diego’s best kept secrets. 

Juan Jasper Wine Bar 

⭐️ Official Patty’s Picks Rating: 9.0

Why?

• When I say Michelin level, that's not figurative speech. Mark (Main Chef Chief Of Command) is about as decorated of a chef as you can get in San Diego and somehow continues to fly completely under the radar. By his eccentric personality you would never guess it but when it comes to dining with Mark, you are the celebrity, however, he is definitely center stage. In his small University Heights wine counter on the corner, Mark delivers excellence with a menu that changes EVERY DAY. Mark makes what Mark wants and you will like it. (That’s a Patty Guarantee.)  But just when you thought the food was perfect, the wine is it’s twin. Hanging on the wall behind you, you can grab wine from whichever of Mark’s longtime fans have sent him to sell. Wine you cannot simply get at a store, nor will you ever see on a menu. The best part, all of this can be yours for a night out for 2 for under $100. (Depending on how much you end up drinking) 

Patty’s Go To: 

The only dishes that are a constant are 100% a non-negotiable on the table must haves: The burger. It’s not what you think. Just get it. The spicy caesar and the Steak Tartare. If you have to drop 1 to get something of the daily highlights, drop the tartare. 

Patty Hack: ☝️

If you go in there and try and order a California Burrito or Carne Asada Fries…. They will simply ask you to leave. Candidly, you just ain’t in the right place and don’t embarrass me and yourself like that. 

DOMAIN DADDY

The Domain (OFFICIAL DOMAIN DADDY LIST)

 www.foundertok.com

The Idea

After we met with AZ16 one of the partners left us with something that resonated with my co-founder and I throughout our entire fundraising journey for PatientPartner….. “You know, we have to be professional to founders and start-ups of all sizes because we have a reputation to uphold… Because you know, founders talk, and we want to make sure our door is always open to opportunities we may have missed at the start.” In the car home after they passed on us the idea of FounderTok was born. The reality is VC’s are not beheld to anyone. Many look like life rafts of cash or a beautiful rose and promise the world in how they can help you and your company grow to a fabulous exit. The reality is, most of them are full of shit. That life raft - Has leaks. That rose - Has massive thorns. They only care about their reputation so as long as you are a hot commodity. If you aren’t kick rocks. Well it’s time us founders stood up for each other and shared the REAL insights on the funding process and rated them on our experiences. The good, bad and ugly. If VC’s had a yelp I’m pretty sure the avg. rating would be below a 2.0. If you have been through the fundraising process, you know what I am talking about. If you are about to… You need FounderTok. 

Want this business/domain? Hit me up and let’s talk. [email protected]

PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE

Training:

Want the best personal training that actually gets you results? Hire Tony. He will train you from anywhere and guarantee you the body you are looking for.

Recovery:

Looking to get your body in the best shape for your “New Year, New You?” Get your contrast therapy on with the only private inferred sauna and cold plunge in San Diego. 

Finances:

Guess what it's the new year which means…. Tax Season is already upon us. Finances a mess? Stressed about filing? Looking for someone to handle all your problems? I got a guy. Shoot me a note and I can make an intro!

Reach Out! 

As always I love meeting awesome people doing awesome things. If that sounds like you, book a time for us to chat! Can’t wait to meet yah! 

That’s a wrap everyone. See you in 2 weeks, and as always. Hope You Enjoyed My Sauce. 

- Patrick Frank

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