Transforming Swimmers: Frank Sole on Technique & Training

**Episode Overview:**
In this episode, host Mike Roth welcomes Frank Sole, a seasoned swim coach with over 25 years of experience, to discuss his journey, coaching philosophies, and experiences living in The Villages, Florida. 

**Episode Highlights:**

1. **Introduction:** 
   - Mike introduces the podcast and appeals for listener support through donations or Amazon affiliate purchases.

2. **Guest Introduction:**
   - Frank Sole joins the conversation, sharing his extensive background in swimming and coaching, including his role as head coach for the Villages Athletic Swim Team (VAST).

3. **Coaching Philosophy:**
   - Frank delves into his coaching methods, emphasizing the importance of technique over brute strength in swimming.
   - He shares insights on common mistakes swimmers make and the importance of maintaining proper technique.

4. **Personal Journey:**
   - Frank discusses his move to The Villages, prompted by a friend's recommendation and a subsequent exploratory trip.
   - He recounts his experience of finding a home and integrating into the community.

5. **Publishing Journey:**
   - Discussion about Frank's self-published book, "The 5B Method to a Successful Triathlon Swim," outlining his methodology for swim success.
   - Future book projects, including a self-help book with chapters starting with the letter 'S'.

6. **Community Engagement:**
   - Frank's involvement with the local high school swim team and his efforts to develop their programs.
   - Insights into Frank’s daily routines, passions, and motivations.

7. **Health Segment:**
   - A break to feature a health tip from Dr. Curtis on the potential benefits and limitations of multivitamins in Alzheimer's prevention.

8. **Wrap-up:**
   - Mike and Frank discuss the benefits of living in The Villages, fostering a positive mindset, and staying engaged and active in the community.
   - Contact information for listeners interested in reaching out to Frank Sole.

**Closing Remarks:**
- Mike announces the next episode's release schedule and thanks supporters and listeners.
- Mentions ways to become a major supporter and how to contact the show with suggestions for future guests.

Overall, this episode provides an inspiring look into Frank Sole’s life, his dedication to coaching, and the enriching experiences available in The Villages, Florida.

Transcript

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[00:02:04] This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in The Villages, Florida. I'm here today with Frank Sole Thanks for joining us, Frank

[00:02:11] Frank Sole: Mike, good to be here with you.

[00:02:11] Mike Roth: Frank. Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about your background regarding swimming and swim coaching?

[00:02:18] Mike. 

[00:02:18] Frank Sole: I've been at it for 25 years. I'm a USA T triathlon coach, level two. I'm technician coach, and I'm very big on the technical and technique aspect of swimming.

[00:02:29] And been at that for a long time. I've coached everything from high school. to the national level, to club teams on the Jersey shore. And presently I am the head coach for the VAST swim team here at The Villages.

[00:02:42] Mike Roth: Okay, so you used the buzzword that people outside The Villages won't understand.

[00:02:47] What does VAST mean?

[00:02:48] Frank Sole: The Villages Athletic Swim Team.

[00:02:51] Mike Roth: Okay. And you say you're a swim technician. Why don't you explain for our listeners what that really means?

[00:02:59] Frank Sole: I'm really big on technique that's in plain English is, I'm really big on technique when I'm working with athletes and I work with athletes all over the country. I have a couple pro athletes, triathletes I'm working with presently, but it's how you get faster in the water is, it's all about technique, right?

[00:03:14] Golf, tennis, pickleball Any sport that is technically driven has to be coached from that perspective. So I work very deliberately with my athletes and their technical proficiencies, because that's how you become efficient, right? You're it's the law of physics. You can't out muscle the water.

[00:03:32] You're going to lose every single time. You must maintain the integrity of the vessel. The technique has to be clean. And that's what I work with.

[00:03:41] Mike Roth: What's the biggest mistake that swimmers make?

[00:03:44] Frank Sole: The biggest mistake I see swimmers make especially adult swimmers is they're trying to Out swim and muscle themselves through the water versus using their body and technique Swimming from the hip versus the arms trying to avoid shoulder problems So the biggest mistake I see is just trying to muscle the water

[00:04:04] Mike Roth: Muscle the water. Yeah, what do you mean by

[00:04:06] Frank Sole: muscle the water by meaning that you're trying to move copious amounts of water while your body is still retaining the shape of a tugboat.

[00:04:15] I always like to tell the story, a tugboat that wants to be a speedboat, you could put a big engine on

[00:04:20] Mike Roth: it, but

[00:04:21] Frank Sole: still a tugboat.

[00:04:22] So the laws of physics apply here. If I can maintain the integrity of my vessel, stay long and hydrodynamic, Apply the right amount of propulsion, breathe, stay relaxed. simply will say, this is what you'll be able to do and do it well.

[00:04:36] Mike Roth: So it seems like you're saying going slower is really going to get you to go faster.

[00:04:41] Frank Sole: Absolutely, I use a Navy SEAL term, slow is smooth becomes fast. The SEALs say that my athletes here all the time, slow is smooth becomes fast. So master it from the slow perspective,

[00:04:53] Mike Roth: The

[00:04:53] Frank Sole: will be a byproduct of the good technique. The rest is, as I say, it just happens organically.

[00:04:59] All of a sudden you become faster.

[00:05:01] Mike Roth: Okay. Frank, what brought you to The Villages?

[00:05:04] Frank Sole: It's that's a great question. I was on deck in Arizona. Probably about a year ago, just got out of the water and there were three or four of us standing around. And a gentleman who I swim with regularly said his parents just moved to The Villages in Florida. And I said, Oh, The Villages.

[00:05:20] What's the name of the town?

[00:05:21] He goes, Dude, that is the name of the, it's called The Villages. I forgot about it about five nights later I'm sitting on the couch with my wife

[00:05:28] Mike Roth: watching a little

[00:05:29] Frank Sole: tv and I always have my computer doing some work

[00:05:31] Mike Roth: Yeah. And I

[00:05:32] Frank Sole: Let me type in let me go to youtube and type in The Villages and I go.

[00:05:35] Oh my god I mean look at all these golf carts and downtown and music and

[00:05:41] Mike Roth: I

[00:05:41] Frank Sole: say for about 30 minutes I just started to tool around and look and then I went to the real estate section,

[00:05:47] Mike Roth: slid

[00:05:48] Frank Sole: computer over to my wife which caught her attention and I said, take a look at this. We were coming down to Florida the very next month.

[00:05:56] We were going to Disney World to celebrate our, I hope I say this right, our 44th wedding anniversary. My wife will correct me if I'm wrong. And I said we're Why don't we go to Disney and enjoy ourselves and then Let's go drive up to those Villages and check it out and spend three days and we did

[00:06:12] I remember the day before we were going back to arizona Sitting at the starbucks In lake Sumter about 6 30 in the morning and i'm saying yeah, this has a really cool feel for me And I think our house was pretty much on the market before we even got back.

[00:06:29] My wife was on the phone with the realtor and getting the ball rolling. We were short lived for Arizona and we packed up and here we are.

[00:06:36] Mike Roth: Did you buy your house in The Villages on the first trip?

[00:06:39] Frank Sole: We did. Let's, let me be honest. No we spent a lot of time with a whole bunch of different realtors and we went from the north end to the south end. And We came back when we moved here. We rented for a few months and then made the decision what village we wanted to Call home

[00:06:57] Mike Roth: Yeah, that's the best way. I hear too many people say they took the trolley tour and they bought a house at the end of the trolley tour. 

[00:07:04] Frank Sole: Experiences over the years have taught us not to do it that way. So we were, again, we were very fortunate with the realtor we had. She was phenomenal and 

[00:07:13] counseled us in the right direction. And plus experiences tell us this is the way we wanted to do it and no regrets.

[00:07:19] We enjoy where we live and and we love the area. 

[00:07:22] Mike Roth: Good. You're the head swim coach for the VAST. How did you wind up getting that job?

[00:07:28] Frank Sole: Once we made, once I started doing some research on The Villages , I said, I wonder if they have a master's swim program. So I'm a research nut. I typed it in and sure enough they did have a program.

[00:07:40] I reached out immediately to the president at that time

[00:07:44] Who was pretty much ending his presidency. And I said, Hey, look, I'm a. US Master swim coach, a triathlon coach. I had all my credentials. I'm just looking to get involved with swim team. And within an hour he came back and said, Hey, we're looking for a head coach.

[00:08:00] So we scheduled why we're down here. some dinner with that president, the new president. And as they say, rest of this history, I here to retire, but I am now the head coach of the the master program here. We have about 90, 95 swimmers on the team, ranging age from 55 all the way up in their mid eighties.

[00:08:22] Mike Roth: And what kind of. What resources did you bring to the program in the way of coaching and philosophy?

[00:08:29] Frank Sole: Yeah, I've been at it for 25 years and again, my technical background being a technique coach and I directed, there's a lot people who are swim coaches, but I directed to go into it really become a really heavy on the technique aspect of it. I wrote a book on the topic for triathletes, 

[00:08:44] a few years ago I and it's still selling.

[00:08:46] And

[00:08:46] Mike Roth: What's the, tell our listeners what the name of the book is,

[00:08:50] Frank Sole: The name of the book is The 5B Method to a Successful Triathlon Swim. A long title, of course, but there were five B's that I used in regards to as a foundation to learn how to swim. Balance, buoyancy, breathing, biomechanics. And belief is a really a big one because I get a lot of adult swimmers saying I don't know if I can learn to swim in my shoulder and my knee and I haven't been in the water in a long time and my job is also to be Not only their swim coach, but their biggest cheerleader Build confidence for them because once I can get them to do some of those more technical aspects of floating and breathing the rest becomes history They're all of a sudden they're off and doing laps.

[00:09:30] Are they going to swim the english channel? Probably not But can they go to a pool here in The Villages or home when they go back home

[00:09:37] Mike Roth: to the snowbirds? Sure.

[00:09:38] Frank Sole: And get a good workout and something you can do as we said A bunch of our athletes are well over 75 into their 80s. You can still work out virtually every day doing

[00:09:47] Mike Roth: that. Yeah, swimming is. One of the best exercises. Yeah, good. Frank, let's take a break here and listen to a Alzheimer's tip from Dr. Curtis.

[00:09:56] Dr. Curtis 

[00:09:57] Frank Sole: should people who want to reduce their risk of Alzheimer's and improve their brain health take something like Centrum Silver, which is advertised as a brain supplement? 

[00:10:08] Well, another great question, Mike. So in a study published last year, they actually showed that people that took a multivitamin such as Centrum silver actually did slightly better on memory tests and this was a double blind placebo controlled study Sponsored by the alzheimer's association.

[00:10:28] However, the alzheimer's association has come out and said we still don't have enough information to recommend a daily multivitamin. There was a study that showed no effect of a daily multivitamin a few years back that was also a double blind placebo controlled study. So we do have conflicting evidence on whether or not you should take a daily multivitamin.

[00:10:49] So the question is, take a multivitamin if you have an unhealthy diet. If you have a healthy diet, get your vitamins from Natural foods. Couldn't have said it better 

[00:10:57] myself. 

[00:10:57] Much, Dr. Curtis. Thank you for having me, Mike. Good. 

[00:11:00] With over 20 years of experience studying brain health, Dr. Curtis's goal is to educate the Village's community on how to live a longer, healthier life.

[00:11:07] To learn more, visit his website, craigcurtismd. com or call 352 500 5252 to attend a free seminar. 

[00:11:16] Mike Roth: Frank, we were talking before the break about your book, The 5B Method to Successful Triathlon Swimming. If someone was interested in getting a copy of that book, how would they do it?

[00:11:26] Frank Sole: Simply go to amazon, and type in the title and it will come up and

[00:11:31] Mike Roth: How long ago did you publish the book?

[00:11:32] Frank Sole: Probably about two and a half three years ago and 

[00:11:35] Mike Roth: and

[00:11:36] Frank Sole: For what it's worth. My wife called me into her office this morning and she 

[00:11:41] said your book sold this month and sometimes it'll dribble in a few dollars here a few dollars there And i'm going Hold on, how many books did I have to sell to make as much as we did this month?

[00:11:52] And to me, it's humbling and it's an honor that people are reading my book to get help. And I do get emails from people, hey, I bought your book. I've got some follow up questions and I'm more than happy to support them in any way I can

[00:12:05] Mike Roth: So how many copies of the book have been sold so far roughly? I

[00:12:09] Frank Sole: really no clue. 

[00:12:10] Mike Roth: Yeah. So was the book self published or is it

[00:12:12] Frank Sole: Self published. Yeah.

[00:12:13] Mike Roth: Okay, that's a good success story. Yeah, we have a couple of really nice writers clubs here in The Villages

[00:12:18] Frank Sole: I'm a part of one of them and though I will tell you self publishing was a great experience Hindsight, I made a whole lot of mistakes But that's what how that's how you learn make mistakes and just don't hesitate I would tell somebody you want to get in the water get in the water.

[00:12:33] Don't worry about it Just get in the water

[00:12:35] Mike Roth: And if you could

[00:12:35] Frank Sole: swim a half a lap That's better than what you did yesterday and we could start to build you so I'm hopefully I'm a product of my own advice that I give is that I'm not afraid to jump in feet first and make mistakes, look foolish and learn from those mistakes and move forward again.

[00:12:51] Mike Roth: Good. So did you convert the book to an audiobook yet?

[00:12:53] Frank Sole: Not yet. . And that's something that it needs to be done. 

[00:12:56] Yes, indeed quite aware of that. And you're maybe the fourth or fifth person who suggested that to me. So I need to take that under advisement. Of course.

[00:13:04] Mike Roth: Books that are written without pictures in them and without large tables Convert very well, especially if it's a single person speaking Oh If you have six, seven, or eight characters, they can convert very well too, but they're much more expensive to convert.

[00:13:21] Instead of using one actor, you gotta use three or four.

[00:13:25] Frank Sole: I got 

[00:13:26] Mike Roth: The easiest way to convert your book, since it's a first person memoir, let's just use an AI voice on it.

[00:13:31] We can knock it out for 400 bucks. It's a done deal.

[00:13:35] So how did you start this Career as a swim coach. And how'd you get there?

[00:13:41] Frank Sole: I, in my early career, many years ago, I was director of engineering at a hospital. And,

[00:13:47] Mike Roth: engineering at Riverview

[00:13:48] Frank Sole: At Riverview Medical Center in New Jersey. And life has a funny way of throwing curve balls.

[00:13:54] And this was a good curve ball. And the medical center merged with a big health facility. And it was going to be clear that I was going to be on the outside looking in. There were other highly qualified candidates who were going to oversee the three hospital system. And I left and I would like to say for a couple years I meandered around from job to job and then really realized that I should have become a teacher early and ignored it.

[00:14:22] So I became a teacher

[00:14:23] Mike Roth: And I

[00:14:24] Frank Sole: taught for a few years, coached high school swimming taught at Red Bank Catholic for a couple years. And the rest is history is, I'd say I started getting into swimming. I started to volunteer at a local Y and just fell in love with the process, so I went after my passion.

[00:14:39] Mike Roth: Frank, can you tell our listeners why you decided to write a book?

[00:14:42] 

[00:14:42] Frank Sole: A whole lot of years ago,

[00:14:44] I enjoyed writing and walked away from it. enjoyed writing poetry.

[00:14:49] My father enjoyed writing. I found some of his writings. I just started writing one time and then I said, let me write a book about this, about the topic. I just believe that there's a lot of great information out there swimmers.

[00:15:01] What 

[00:15:01] ,I wanted to do is break it down to the most basic, 

[00:15:04] easiest way to get somebody from point A to point B. successfully.

[00:15:09] Many people don't have time to read about the history of swimming. They don't necessarily want to know the necessary, the physical aspects of it. They just want to get into water.

[00:15:18] And how do I become better at this? Because I would hear that over and over again. So I just simply. Took that and put it to paper and I enjoyed the process. It was probably the most Satisfying thing i've ever accomplished in my life. Yes with my wife getting married and my children But writing that book and holding the finished product at the end of it when it came in through the mail Was absolutely, exhilarating in so many respects.

[00:15:45] Mike Roth: many pages are there in the book? Oh

[00:15:47] Frank Sole: it's about 75 80 page book.

[00:15:49] Mike Roth: It's, oh, that's good.

[00:15:49] Frank Sole: Yeah Enough where again, I wanted to make sure that each chapter of the five B's Was deliberately bringing up the points that I needed to make without You know a sense of laguerre just throwing up over myself but it was a very natural book for me to write because of my passion For the sport and for swimming and for the Ability to help people succeed in that arena.

[00:16:14] Mike Roth: Frank are you working on another book?

[00:16:16] Frank Sole: I am i'm working on a book right now and it's really it's a book

[00:16:21] It's a hard one to explain. It's more of a self help book

[00:16:24] a lot things that i've experienced over the years Ironically enough every chapter of the book right now starts with the letter S self help scared and I write a brief piece on it with a couple questions for the individual.

[00:16:40] Mike Roth: And

[00:16:40] Frank Sole: I've shared it with some people and they said you've got, you're onto something here.

[00:16:44] Mike Roth: And

[00:16:44] Frank Sole: I probably right now have over, quite honestly, over 200 chapters for this 

[00:16:50] Mike Roth: book. 

[00:16:51] Frank Sole: Not that I'm going to use all of them, but

[00:16:53] H1 again starts with the letter S and it came to me one time when somebody told me, a mentor told me, he said, Frank, it's time to draw a line in the sand.

[00:17:04] Mike Roth: I said, 

[00:17:04] Frank Sole: What does that mean? A line in the sand can mean a couple things, right? Either it's

[00:17:07] Mike Roth: Either it's time

[00:17:08] Frank Sole: to stay back. I have to draw this line. I can no longer live my life this

[00:17:13] Mike Roth: way. Or. I can

[00:17:14] Frank Sole: no longer live my life this way. And it's time now to take that step forward

[00:17:19] to change right

[00:17:20] Mike Roth: change is very difficult for most human

[00:17:22] Frank Sole: It certainly is.

[00:17:23] And that is the whole premise of the book. And I'm writing it from the perspective like Marcus Aurelius wrote meditations. It's just me sharing my thoughts. And at some point if one or two people pick this book up and get some value out

[00:17:38] Mike Roth: of it

[00:17:38] could 

[00:17:39] Frank Sole: a happy man

[00:17:39] Mike Roth: So this is going to be a self help

[00:17:41] Frank Sole: it's going to be a self help book

[00:17:43] Mike Roth: with 200 S word chapters. It sounds like it'll be a long book. 

[00:17:47] Frank Sole: It's going to be narrowed down of course, but I

[00:17:50] do plan on starting a podcast around it So once a week I would get on and talk about scarcity. i've heard so many people recently say I don't have the resources for this. I don't have the resources for that. I don't have the time for this I don't have the money

[00:18:03] for And that's a scarcity mindset.

[00:18:05] So the other mindset would be a growth mindset would say, despite the fact that I don't have the money for this, I'm going to find a way to make it happen.

[00:18:12] Mike Roth: I've always had a abundance mentality and said, there's always a way whether it was buying my first car, just found a way to come up with the money to do it, and worked for several startup companies and.

[00:18:26] No one had heard of their products before, and I had an abundance mentality, and gee, it was a very good mentality to start with that there's always the resources out there. It was my job to find them and apply them, and.

[00:18:41] Frank Sole: you. And I wish, Mike, I could say the same. This was something that came to me later in

[00:18:46] life.

[00:18:47] I did have, on, a rather negative perspective of life.

[00:18:51] Almost a victim mentality. I'm not embarrassed to say that. But at a certain point I had to draw my line in the sand and say

[00:18:58] if I do not change Nothing's going to change and I remember specifically one afternoon Just hanging around on the couch about 2 30 in the afternoon.

[00:19:07] it what you want a divine voice or just that good old kick in the butt.

[00:19:12] And I literally said, it's time. I got to get off this couch. I have to do something. And I have not been the same person ever since. Since then, I have changed in so many different ways. And each and every day, I challenged myself. I journal every day. I have certain amount of things I need to get done every day.

[00:19:28] I read 10 pages out of a book every day. I do my meditation every day. But those were the things that were necessary. So

[00:19:34] It was necessary for you to get to the level that you needed to get to. 

[00:19:37] Mike Roth: Tell us about what your passions are since moving here to The Villages

[00:19:42] 

[00:19:42] Frank Sole: passions again I'm involved with the VAST program as I mentioned to you and I'm now also involved with the the high school swim program here The Villages and going to be developing their club swim program and youth program. So that's passion for me. I love to see. Young people excel. And I feel like right now this point in my life, it's something I need to do. it's again, it's of me. I don't have, I haven't gone work in 25 years.

[00:20:09] I go coach and I sit and zoom calls and I'm writing my emails to athletes or writing a blog. It's something that or working on my book early morning I challenge myself every I get up and I got to write a certain amount of words every single

[00:20:24] day. 

[00:20:24] Mike Roth: You sound like you were a very motivated guy.

[00:20:27] Frank Sole: Michael you know what it is. It's more

[00:20:29] I am motivated, but are days where motivation I can't depend on my motivation I have to go back to my self discipline saying I don't want to write this. I don't to read this I don't want to go swim today Despite that just say my little voice says just shut up and go do right?

[00:20:44] I even have a I have a Chapter in the book shut up and go do right? comes off harsh sometimes as if anybody knows our listening audience knows who david goggins is a ex navy seal who is a no nonsense Does not hold back on his language and or on the message It's like you look yourself in the mirror and just call yourself out and saying I to change this Whatever that this may be for you. and i've learned to take on that perspective

[00:21:11] I can you a portion of what living in his Villages been for me. I played

[00:21:17] pickleball the other day is now becoming a passion of mine with a woman Karen never met her before down in between games And she said to me,

[00:21:25] I'm living best life right now told me a little bit about her background working and you know Just the demands of family and working and I could say you my wife Laura and I 45 years We're living our best life right now.

[00:21:38] Mike Roth: And that's the message that I think has to get out about The Villages. That people are living their best lives. Okay? And it may not be true for everyone, but there are a lot of people that I come into contact with in various areas that's exactly the truth.

[00:21:53] Frank Sole: and you brought something just a moment ago, right? If taking on a growth mindset, a positive mindset, I don't care where you live.

[00:22:00] You can find something wrong, negative that doesn't sit well with you. I choose to look at all the positive things. It's a day, but raining. It's still a beautiful day.

[00:22:11] Mike Roth: It's not snowing. It's fast.

[00:22:14] Frank Sole: So when tell people is, yeah, there are some things but I choose to stay focused on the positive aspects of what this life in The Villages is all about.

[00:22:23] And as I said, I drove my golf cart all the way down from the north end of the village to be here. And I'm at a bombing, 20 - 21 miles an hour.

[00:22:33] And I'm just

[00:22:33] at him going. Oh my god, this place is so It is it's spotless. A gum wrapper on the ground.

[00:22:39] I just choose any more to look at what's going.

[00:22:42] Not what's not going well. 

[00:22:44] Mike Roth: And that, to me, we talked about drawing a line in the sand.

[00:22:47] Okay. That was one of the things that in early 2017, I drew a line in the sand. I said to my wife, we're not going to spend another winter in Cincinnati. It's over. Don't know where we're going to go yet. There you go. Boom. I was mentally out of there.

[00:23:03] go. 

[00:23:03] Frank Sole: That's the line in the sand. And

[00:23:05] in my book,

[00:23:06] The reference to the line of the sand is made

[00:23:09] often.

[00:23:09] We draw lines in the sand virtually every day. We have to make

[00:23:12] decisions.

[00:23:13] out do mile walk that I promised myself I would do, or do I do the walk?

[00:23:19] Do I the pages like I promised myself I would do? Or I don't read the 10 pages. where the discipline comes in. Motivation is one I get and go, Oh my God, I got this day. I'm going crush it. How about the days you don't feel motivated? That's where discipline comes in. And you have go back to what I like use.

[00:23:36] The word, one of the Stoics use prudence, the ability to discipline and govern oneself by the use of reason. the reason why I need to do this. Here's the reason why I need to do that. Here's the why I should not do this anymore. I do lean on stoicism a lot because I believe in the virtues of prudence justice, fortitude, temperance, courage, wisdom.

[00:23:59] I literally will recite them virtually every morning myself as I sit out in the love eye, and how I start my day.

[00:24:05] Mike Roth: , I started using customer relationship management software that had a calendar. And I use one today too.

[00:24:12] It, forces me to do the things that I know I should do. And I can schedule things a year or more in advance and feel just fine about them. . And those are days which, I'm not going to get out and swim or walk a mile.

[00:24:26] But you know about it in advance.

[00:24:29] Frank Sole: And that's okay. It's okay. You gotta give yourself a little bit of

[00:24:31] flexibility move in and out of it. But for the most part we all know when we're. When we to make sure we get done what we need to do. And I understand that with all that it's interesting just follow on living here in The Villages. My wife and I are busier now than we've ever been in our lives. With activities, the Enrichment Academy I'm taking multiple courses one time, because just a lifetime learner.

[00:24:55] So the more I learned, can stimulate the brain. I'm keeping those neurons flowing. That's what it's all about. me, this has been a transition and I know speak for my wife This has been a transition for both of us of the most positive and successful decision we ever made in regards where we've Look, everywhere you move, it's a decision at that time, but time for to get out of Arizona.

[00:25:18] Mike Roth: Sure. Sure.

[00:25:19] Frank Sole: we were there for 18 years, and I was ready to move out of there 17 years ago,

[00:25:23] 

[00:25:23] Mike Roth: Coming up at the Enrichment Academy, since you brought it out in the fall, I'm going to be teaching a two session AI course on what AI is, how to use it, and we'll talk about At least five of the 168 different AIs that are out there and how you use them to make your life better.

[00:25:43] Frank Sole: Pretty cool.

[00:25:43] Mike Roth: Good. Now Frank, if someone wanted to get ahold of you after hearing this podcast, how would they do that?

[00:25:50] Frank Sole: You can literally, reach out through the VAST website, You go right to the website. 

[00:25:55] VAST swimming.

[00:25:56] Mike Roth: VAST. Yep. Swimming. Yep. Dot com. Yeah.

[00:25:59] Frank Sole: You type that and you can take you right there. And I do not have a website anymore.

[00:26:04] I've gotten to point where I don't need a website. Actually, don't want a website. I was getting too many inquiries and I'm to the now where I've chosen

[00:26:12] specificity on who I work with and when I work with

[00:26:14] them.

[00:26:14] Doesn't mean that I'm not interested in talking to people and helping them. You can go to my Instagram account, which is a TRISole.

[00:26:21] T R I O L E ,

[00:26:22] And can always me through that website there or that Instagram account, 

[00:26:26] Mike Roth: Frank thanks for joining us today on Open Forum in The Villages, Florida.

[00:26:30] And I really appreciate you being on.

[00:26:32] Frank Sole: Mike, it was real, it was fun, and I enjoyed every bit of this conversation. Thank you very much. Good. Appreciate it. 

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