Get from Rock Bottom to Rock Star

2016/12/05 5:45 AM

Ryan and I dive into how he went from Rock Bottom to Rock Star and how you can do it too… It just takes dedication and single focus…… and of course, your desire to succeed.

Ryan shares the difference between goals and desire and how that motivates him.

Ryan studies people he admires and then learns and emulates what works…. and ditches the rest.

We also discuss how people make the mistake of hiring someone to SOLVE your problems…..Ryan says you say you can fix the problems yourself by becoming the solution……. I love this.

We talk a bit about failure and what that means……Ryan says in the book that if you have not failed then you are probably doing something wrong. You need to fail to learn what it takes to succeed. Don’t be scared…… just take a step in the direction you need to go and be willing to take the risk of falling on your face……it’s just learning and life.

Going from Rock Bottom to Rock Star depends on your desire to succeed

At the age of 21, Ryan had already founded his first business, 24/7 Tech, and has since created and sold numerous other companies for hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of his career. In 2012, Blair was named one of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurs of the Year in the “category for consumer products.”

In August 2011, he published the New York Times Best Seller, Nothing To Lose and Everything To Gain: How I Went From Gang Member To Multimillionaire Entrepreneur , an uncensored personal account of overcoming a life of adversity and a road map for entrepreneurial success through the process of reinvention, while simultaneously facing the biggest professional challenge of his career: rescuing his company, ViSalus which btw does like 1 billion in sales now.

Ryan’s brand new book Rock Bottom to Rock Star: Lessons from the Business School of Hard Knocks….. is about learning to take those moments at the bottom, when you’re beaten down, exhausted, embarrassed, and cornered, and using them to propel yourself forward.

This book explores how he rose to the top and shares his personal formula for going from rock bottom to rock star” to be the absolute best at what you do.

Ryan regularly appears as a business expert in national television networks, Bloomberg, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox, and Fox News. He has also been featured in major publications such as Fortune Magazine, BusinessWeek, Forbes Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and People Magazine.