Patrick Schwarzenegger on The White Lotus, Hollywood Pressures & Finding His Own Path
Real Pod
Dear Media
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Patrick Schwarzenegger is on Real Pod! The actor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist—who just landed a role in The White Lotus Season 3—gets real about his career, personal growth, and navigating life in Hollywood with a famous last name. Patrick opens up about his approach to goal setting (inspired by his dad, Arnold Schwarzenegger!), the moment he stopped caring about proving himself to others, and the reality of building a career in acting. He also shares how he and fiancée Abby Champion have made their long-distance relationship work, what it was like keeping White Lotus a secret, and the wild story of how he found out he booked the role. Plus, we dive into his philosophy on success, why he ditched social media validation, and how he’s forging his own path on his own terms. This episode is packed with insights, laughs, and major motivation. Tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back. |
| 0:11.4 | Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight. |
| 0:15.9 | Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. |
| 0:19.1 | Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered, |
| 0:22.0 | and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content |
| 0:27.5 | that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just |
| 0:31.8 | unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real. |
| 0:44.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RealPod. I am just so freaking excited about today's episode. |
| 0:51.8 | This has been five years in the making. And let me tell |
| 0:55.3 | you what I mean by that. Patrick Schwarzenegger and I both went to USC. We crossed paths maybe once |
| 1:01.6 | or twice and had some mutual friends because Max is a bit older than me. So he knew Pat. |
| 1:07.1 | And soon after Patrick graduated, I was inspired by his social media. He had been posting motivational |
| 1:12.5 | content and just seemed really driven and ambitious. And I loved that. When I just started my show |
| 1:18.6 | RealPod, five years ago, maybe I think more than that. I think it was 2019, which is wild to say. |
| 1:25.0 | I shot Patrick a cold DM on Instagram asking him to come on the show. |
| 1:30.1 | And although it is now five years later and it's finally happening, I think everything happens |
| 1:34.6 | for a reason. I think it goes to show that the journey can be long. And sometimes we might want |
| 1:40.4 | something to happen for us in life, in work, business, or a personal life now. |
| 1:46.3 | But maybe we know it's going to end up better waiting for the true timing of the universe |
| 1:50.7 | when something is meant to be. And that's how this feels. I feel like RealPod is in a place |
| 1:55.3 | where it and I was ready to host this interview. And I think Patrick is it a place where he's |
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