JR Ridinger
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234 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
JR Ridinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's like some people may choose dying over public speaking. Right. They're that scared. And I was like, don't make me do this. I'm not really good at it. I've never spoken before. He said, you are the greatest female speaker I've ever heard. Wow. I was like, how is that possible? How's this guy? I'm not going to do well. I can tell you right now. He's like, you are incredible.
You just don't know it yet. One of the finest female speakers I've ever listened to. I got to San Antonio shaking, shivering, got up there in front of like 10 people. I said, hi, my name is Lauren Ashley at the time. Yeah. I fainted in front of everybody. Yeah.
flat out knocked out on the ground woke up and there's people fanning me you know all those 10 people in jr looked at me said get up they turned the ac off in here anyone would have fainted you were incredible i said i didn't say anything i just said i'm lauren ashley And he goes, and you said it great. And tomorrow you'll be even better when we get to Houston. Wow.
He didn't get in the car and say, you know what? Stick to driving. You're right. He didn't get in the car and say, you know what? I still need somebody to help get us there. I'll do the meeting. He said, you're going to do it again. And that type of belief changed my life.
He's the one that's already seen it.
I think what happened was, is that that little bit of belief, I was so used to, like many people, hearing your dad say, you're not capable. You can't do it. Why don't you just do, you know, be a flight attendant? Not that that's not an important job. It just wasn't the job I wanted. Mm-hmm. You know, most often we don't believe in ourselves.
And I think what happens is, is that a lot of that comes from home. And, you know, we raise our kids differently. We've raised our kids to believe that anything's possible, but not everybody's had that benefit. I didn't. And so for to have this man come out of nowhere and say that I was possible, it was like, is he crazy or am I? And I started to believe him just enough to try again.
And the more I tried, even if I was terrible until I got to be great.
And I did a lot better.
I got past Lauren Ashley. I didn't fall to the ground. I was shaking the whole time, but I did it again. And guess what? I did it probably for three or four years before I felt like I was really great. Wow. But that's the thing.
It's like people don't believe in themselves enough to go for it, to try it, because we get so beat down by society and people and we worry about what the bandwagon thinks rather than the one person who's looking in the mirror says, I can do it.
You know, it's a game changer. That belief level changed my life.
And I am, you know, I used to think when JR passed away, I used to get so many thousands of letters from people say, oh, JR changed the way I thought. And, you know, or I joined your company. And even though I never stayed with it, he made an impact on my future and my life. And I realized at that time, he also made an impact on mine.
And I never stopped to think about it because as we're living, we take advantage of everything else around us. The ones that we love and the ones that love us. And we're like, oh, of course my wife's amazing. Of course my husband's amazing. Instead of saying, thank you for changing my life.
Thank you, Gary.
And by the way- He was a showman too. I mean, he was crazy.
Powered by people. It's the only thing I know that can change the world is people. And I think you understand that, like JR understood it. And I think it's so important. I think we can't do it on our own. No, we definitely can't. We just can't. But we can do whatever we can to make a difference. And I think that is what you and what JR have dedicated their lives to.
And I think we need more of that. It's a problem.
Yeah, well, we had our big date was Wendy's back then. You know, Wendy's was our big date on Wednesdays.
And the Wendy's Super Bar, that was our big date. And, you know, he wrote me. It's true. It was like $4.99. It was all-you-can-eat tacos at Wendy's, okay? It's true. Some people definitely will remember that. I'm definitely dating myself. And I think, you know, when I think about J.R.
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