#209 – Patrick Eley: Comedy, Jiu-jitsu, Investing & Timeless Lessons From Elite Performers

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Lawrence Dunning

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Eley is a stand-up comedian known for his deadpan style that draws from his eclectic and unconventional life experiences. Originally trained as a chiropractor, he retired to pursue comedy full-time, while also training Jiu-Jitsu with Team Diaz.

0.00: Patrick's career pivot from Chiropractor to Comic

7.00: How we are entering into another golden era for comedy

13.00: Mentors for comedy, financial planning

18.00: Time away from jiujitsu and working out

27.00: Past experiences, changing careers & the sunk cost fallacy

39.00: Healing from Surgery and alternative medicine

46.00: Importance of motion and movement

53.00: BPC-157 for recovering from injuries, and the cost of alternative medicine

1.03.00: Protecting yourself from fame and success

1.12.00: Patrick's thoughts on the market

1.17.00: Aligning our investments with our knowledge and personality

1.23.00: Simplicity in Investing

https://www.patrickeleycomedy.com/

Patrick on IG: @patrickeley209

Available on all platforms: The Patrick Eley Podcast

Until next time, love and good vibes.

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0:00.0	stupidly simple compared to listening to Huberbin podcast or these sports science guys, but
0:06.6	keeping motion in your body, including in injured areas, seems really important and really
0:13.6	beneficial. When say you've got a knee that just does not work, not using it to what it
0:20.3	will allow you to do tends to really advance,
0:23.7	and I'm kind of mixing in some science here, but it tends to really advance degenerative
0:27.5	processes like arthritis and loss of hydration in the joint. And so continuing to do something
0:33.3	with your body and then figuring out how much time you need to recover.
0:49.6	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:53.6	Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lauren Steining.
0:58.8	Russ.
1:00.2	I'll see you as always.
1:02.4	You too.
1:03.4	Thanks for having me.
1:05.1	Well, Patrick, it's so cool.
1:06.3	We were talking about comedy and how you switch.
1:09.0	When I met you, you were a professional chiropractor in Chicago, and it's amazing. I can only imagine all the school loans and
1:16.4	everything you got to get that degree, but you didn't feel like it was aligned, and now you're
1:21.2	a professional comic, and you're on the cusp, you know, you're right there. And it's just
1:25.8	so awesome to see that, see that journey.
1:28.2	Because it's, I find it's so inspiring to see people make a huge change because the opposite is
1:33.3	you're doing something and you're kind of stuck with golden handcuffs. You feel like you can't
1:37.2	afford to leave. And that's a really sad life. Yeah, it really is. And I remember when I felt like I was cuffed, I had this long list of things
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