Patrick Taylor

Life on Purpose with the Texas Yeti

Society EN ↓ 6 episodes

Real, relevant, occasionally wild conversations about reinvention, intentional living, and building a new chapter after 50. From oilfields and wilderness to life in Poland — evidence that there is life after life. Your next chapter is waiting. I’ve got the map. This channel is where I share the real field notes — the hard decisions, the unexpected turns, the moments of clarity, and what actually worked when I closed one chapter and started the next. No guru systems, no 10-step formulas, no hype. Just straight talk from a guy who’s done it multiple times. If you're in between who you were and w...

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Patrick Taylor

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Stop Waiting for Permission — What the Oilfields Taught Me About Proving Yourself 09.05.2026 9:38

Has someone ever told you that you weren't qualified? Or maybe you told yourself you weren't ready — so you waited, and the dream slipped right through your fingers. This is the story of how a kid with no degree, no connections, and no roadmap talked his way into an international career that took him around the world — and what that taught me about the one thing that separates the people who live...

Moving to Poland - Not the Adventure I Expected. 05.05.2026 9:36

I'd lived in a dozen countries. Passport thick as a phonebook. Spoke enough of whatever language to get by and make people laugh. I thought Poland would be easy. I was wrong in ways I couldn't have imagined. This is the story of moving to a country I knew almost nothing about, for a woman I met online during a pandemic, and discovering that nothing — not the oilfields, not the boardroom, not a win...

I Was Living the Dream. I Left Anyway – Here’s Why. 03.05.2026 6:54

I was almost 60 when I decided to become a mountain man. Not just hiking and camping — the real thing... packers, mules, whitewater adventure, and backcountry living. By every measure my friends could see, I had it made. So why did I leave? This is the story of the day my best friend Dave tried to talk me out of walking away from paradise — and the conversation that changed how I think about happi...

I Lost Everything I Built. Here's What I Did Next. 03.05.2026 9:24

Some men go into the wilderness to find themselves. I went to rescue myself. After building a family, a business, and an identity the world said looked like success — I lost all three. What followed wasn't depression or defeat. It was disorientation. The specific, quiet vertigo of not knowing who you are when everything you built yourself around is gone. Sound familiar? It should. It's what retire...

5 Lives in 50 Years: What I Learned About Reinvention 03.05.2026 8:29

I’ve reinvented my life five times... three of them after 50. From Marine to international oilfield engineer to tech executive to mountain man in the Idaho wilderness, and now building a new life as an expat in Poland. None of it looked like the polished motivational stories you usually see. This channel is about the real stuff — the hard decisions, the unexpected turns, and what actually works wh...

Down to My Last 4 Strips of Bacon – What I Learned When I Didn't Quit 03.05.2026 7:41

In November 2019 I was living in the back of my truck in Idaho. Snow on the ground, ice in the Salmon River, and only four strips of bacon and three eggs until payday. I was 64 years old. Former tech exec... former President of Intel Board of Advisors... and homeless (by choice). And I was exactly where I was supposed to be. This is a story about what success actually looks like before it arrives...