This Is What Happens When a Finance Guy Gets Sucked Into the Pickleball Community with Ben Paquette

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What do you get when you mix a high-stress finance job, a family health scare, and a few curious visits to the local gym? If you're Ben Paquette, you get a full-on life remix served underhand. In this episode, we sit down with the man who first taught us how to dink without overthinking: pickleball coach Ben Paquette. What started as a few casual games turned into a complete career pivot. Now he’s teaching pickleball, traveling for professional pickleball tournaments, and building a thriving pickleball community in Dallas—all while keeping that signature chill-coach energy. We talk about: The wake-up call that made Ben trade spreadsheets for spin serves Why the pickleball mindset might be…