Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

JR Ridinger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
702 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

I couldn't just take a second and say, hey, babe, have scrambled. And so I named the book Scrambled or Sunny Side Up because after life, you lose the love of your life. Life gets scrambled, but you can turn it sunny side up again.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

It's not.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

It's not.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

It's not.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

I didn't know that either. The funny thing is there's like, I'm like, all I was focused on was because it releases, you know, Valentine's week of 2025, I mean, 2024, 2025, we're in 2024. So that's how I'm lost, 2025. And I didn't know that there was these other lists besides New York bestsellers, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles. And we hit them all that same day. And I was just- Pre-orders, right?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

I didn't know that either. The funny thing is there's like, I'm like, all I was focused on was because it releases, you know, Valentine's week of 2025, I mean, 2024, 2025, we're in 2024. So that's how I'm lost, 2025. And I didn't know that there was these other lists besides New York bestsellers, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles. And we hit them all that same day. And I was just- Pre-orders, right?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

I didn't know that either. The funny thing is there's like, I'm like, all I was focused on was because it releases, you know, Valentine's week of 2025, I mean, 2024, 2025, we're in 2024. So that's how I'm lost, 2025. And I didn't know that there was these other lists besides New York bestsellers, Amazon, Barnes and Nobles. And we hit them all that same day. And I was just- Pre-orders, right?

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so, of course, our company is a great platform for that type of stuff because, you know, everybody wanted to buy the book. And we sold so many books outside the community, which is so amazing. But it's a beautiful story of of lessons that I've learned that I didn't know while I was while J.R. was here.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so, of course, our company is a great platform for that type of stuff because, you know, everybody wanted to buy the book. And we sold so many books outside the community, which is so amazing. But it's a beautiful story of of lessons that I've learned that I didn't know while I was while J.R. was here.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so, of course, our company is a great platform for that type of stuff because, you know, everybody wanted to buy the book. And we sold so many books outside the community, which is so amazing. But it's a beautiful story of of lessons that I've learned that I didn't know while I was while J.R. was here.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so it opens up with, you know, he wrote me 5,000 love letters in 36 years.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so it opens up with, you know, he wrote me 5,000 love letters in 36 years.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And so it opens up with, you know, he wrote me 5,000 love letters in 36 years.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And hand wrote long ones. And I was the one that was like, thank you, baby. I love you. You know, I didn't leave the long love letter. I wasn't good at the long love letters. And I told him all the time how much I loved him. But the book opens with a love letter from me that I should have given to him. And it ends with a love letter. I wish I'd left him before he left. So it's a lot of healing.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And hand wrote long ones. And I was the one that was like, thank you, baby. I love you. You know, I didn't leave the long love letter. I wasn't good at the long love letters. And I told him all the time how much I loved him. But the book opens with a love letter from me that I should have given to him. And it ends with a love letter. I wish I'd left him before he left. So it's a lot of healing.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

And hand wrote long ones. And I was the one that was like, thank you, baby. I love you. You know, I didn't leave the long love letter. I wasn't good at the long love letters. And I told him all the time how much I loved him. But the book opens with a love letter from me that I should have given to him. And it ends with a love letter. I wish I'd left him before he left. So it's a lot of healing.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

There's a different Lauren from chapter one to the end.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

There's a different Lauren from chapter one to the end.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

There's a different Lauren from chapter one to the end.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
117. Loren Ridinger: Turning Pain into Purpose โ€“ How Grief Became My Greatest Strength

You can see that transition of that Lauren to the Lauren that you say he's saying, go be your best version of you.