Answering the Call with Entrepreneur Ryan Blair
LIFE IS LIVED FORWARDS BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARDS.
“Legends are made of vulnerable men and women.”
If there’s one person who knows what it means to find beauty in the breakdown, it's Flourish or Folds’ latest guest, Ryan Blair. After all, he literally wrote a NY Times #1 best seller on it aptly titled "Nothing To Lose and Everything To Gain: How I Went From Gang Member To Multimillionaire Entrepreneur".
After being raised in a chaotic home fraught with violence & drugs, Ryan became intimately acquainted with struggle, challenge, & complexity at a tender age. As many of us do, he endeavored to establish his identity in achieving status, financial excellence, & personal power. He has achieved those things, ultimately selling his first company for millions & bringing in $1 billion in revenue for another. As an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, & expert contributor for networks & publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg, FoxNews, MSNBC, and more, Ryan has 'made it'.
But the core of his mission, his vision, and his message lies not within what he has accomplished in spite of the 'beautiful mess' of his upbringing, but because of it.
Our traumas, struggles, and challenges are not things to be hidden & hushed, but exalted and honored. A warrior’s scars are not proof of failure, but evidence of experience, wisdom, and strength. And make no mistake, you (like Ryan) are a warrior🛡️⚔️ - Take a listen below ⇣
On the episode, we talk about:
How Ryan’s rough upbringing brought about the drive for his life’s dream (3:27)
Why teaching others through your own experience is so important (6:58)
How to find beauty and the plan in the mess (10:39)
Why learning how to sing helps you find your voice (15:11)
How to accept a new mentor into your life (19:42)
How to exercise comfortability while things are uncomfortable (24:23)
The importance of celebrating the battles we’ve won (29:18)
How vulnerability is essential to greatness (36:43)
The importance sharing your journey (43:26)
About Ryan Blair
Rayn Blair is the #1 New York Times Best Selling Author and Serial Entrepreneur.
As a Former CEO of ViSalus, he sold the company in a $792.4-million-dollar transaction and was named Ernst & Young’s 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Ryan has devoted the rest of his life and career to help people breakthrough in their mind, body, and soul, through a proprietary curriculum that he offer’s through his new company called Altercall.
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