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JR Ridinger

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702 total appearances

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

Welcome to the friendly skies. I was like, I don't wanna fly with Eastern. I don't even like Eastern Airlines. I would say anything I could not to get the job. Sure enough, I got the job. Crazy enough, I got a letter four weeks later. You've been hired. You got to go to Atlanta. You got to go through training. And here's this guy I just met six months before who I'd fallen in love with already.

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

Welcome to the friendly skies. I was like, I don't wanna fly with Eastern. I don't even like Eastern Airlines. I would say anything I could not to get the job. Sure enough, I got the job. Crazy enough, I got a letter four weeks later. You've been hired. You got to go to Atlanta. You got to go through training. And here's this guy I just met six months before who I'd fallen in love with already.

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

Welcome to the friendly skies. I was like, I don't wanna fly with Eastern. I don't even like Eastern Airlines. I would say anything I could not to get the job. Sure enough, I got the job. Crazy enough, I got a letter four weeks later. You've been hired. You got to go to Atlanta. You got to go through training. And here's this guy I just met six months before who I'd fallen in love with already.

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

He was telling me about one day people are going to buy everything they want from their water bottles to their vitamins, to their shoes, to their clothes online. Wow. And people thought we were crazy. And so, including my father. That was crazy. And it was crazy. That's, you know, 1989, 1990. And he said, I went to the training and I told my dad, I don't want to do this.

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

He was telling me about one day people are going to buy everything they want from their water bottles to their vitamins, to their shoes, to their clothes online. Wow. And people thought we were crazy. And so, including my father. That was crazy. And it was crazy. That's, you know, 1989, 1990. And he said, I went to the training and I told my dad, I don't want to do this.

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

He was telling me about one day people are going to buy everything they want from their water bottles to their vitamins, to their shoes, to their clothes online. Wow. And people thought we were crazy. And so, including my father. That was crazy. And it was crazy. That's, you know, 1989, 1990. And he said, I went to the training and I told my dad, I don't want to do this.

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

And I told my mom, you got to help me get out of this. And Jer called me. And he, you know, just my boyfriend at the time, he said, if you don't come home and tell your dad that you don't want to be an Eastern Airline flight attendant, you're going to become a version of yourself that you never meant to be. Wow. That was a big moment in my life.

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

And I told my mom, you got to help me get out of this. And Jer called me. And he, you know, just my boyfriend at the time, he said, if you don't come home and tell your dad that you don't want to be an Eastern Airline flight attendant, you're going to become a version of yourself that you never meant to be. Wow. That was a big moment in my life.

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

And I told my mom, you got to help me get out of this. And Jer called me. And he, you know, just my boyfriend at the time, he said, if you don't come home and tell your dad that you don't want to be an Eastern Airline flight attendant, you're going to become a version of yourself that you never meant to be. Wow. That was a big moment in my life.

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

And I didn't understand it then until after I lost air.

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

And I didn't understand it then until after I lost air.

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

And I didn't understand it then until after I lost air.

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

So often in my life, I've met people who say, well, I became a doctor because that's what my dad expected. Or I became a teacher because that's what my mom expected. Or I just became a homemaker because that's what my husband expected. And you often meet people, and I'm sure you have too, that become somebody that they never meant to be.

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

So often in my life, I've met people who say, well, I became a doctor because that's what my dad expected. Or I became a teacher because that's what my mom expected. Or I just became a homemaker because that's what my husband expected. And you often meet people, and I'm sure you have too, that become somebody that they never meant to be.

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

So often in my life, I've met people who say, well, I became a doctor because that's what my dad expected. Or I became a teacher because that's what my mom expected. Or I just became a homemaker because that's what my husband expected. And you often meet people, and I'm sure you have too, that become somebody that they never meant to be.

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

And if I had to came home and fired Eastern Airlines and told my dad I was leaving and I was gonna do this thing called the internet, I would have been somebody I wasn't supposed to be.

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

And if I had to came home and fired Eastern Airlines and told my dad I was leaving and I was gonna do this thing called the internet, I would have been somebody I wasn't supposed to be.

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

And if I had to came home and fired Eastern Airlines and told my dad I was leaving and I was gonna do this thing called the internet, I would have been somebody I wasn't supposed to be.

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

We didn't have any money.

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

We didn't have any money.