Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with Patrick Sweeney, WSJ best-selling author, five-time CEO, fear expert, and Unicorn creator. Patrick’s journey is anything but ordinary—he went from an Olympic-level athlete to founding multiple companies and Investing in 60+ startups.

Today, Patrick helps founders break through fear and make billion-dollar decisions with unshakable confidence. He is the creator of the BOODA Loop, a framework that applies neuroscience to improve founder mindset, performance, and decision-making under pressure.

Patrick teaches founders how to think like a Unicorn founder, avoid belief traps that derail startups before they scale, and build resilience in high-stakes environments. From his car outside the Winter Olympic Games in Milan, Italy, we get into an inspiring and high-energy conversation about fear, focus, leadership, and elite performance.

🎙️ Enjoy this powerful and motivating interview.

More Patrick Sweeney:

https://www.thefounderscreed.com 

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Joe Dimino Podcaster/Artist

Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.